Catholicism Quote by Pope Pius IX

We declare, say , define, and pronounce that it is absolutely necessary for the salvation of every human creature to be subject to the…

— Pope Boniface VIII

“IF THE PONTIFF BELIEVES HIMSELF TO BE G-D, SO BE IT, BUT JUST AS I HAVE GIVEN I SHALL TAKETH AWAY. FOR IT WAS…

— Alejandro C. Estrada

“Throughout the history of our civilisation, two traditions, two opposed tendencies, have been in conflict: the Roman tradition and the popular tradition, the imperial…

— Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin

If anyone dared to assert that the Pontiff had erred in this or that canonisation, we shall say that he is, if not a…

— Pope Benedict XIV

“My people were extremely independent in both nature and outlook, this perhaps making a future clash between the Romans and us during a point…

— Michael G. Kramer

“He [Lucius Papirius Cursor] then gave the order to advance the standards and led out his troops, expostulating on the folly of a people…

— Livy

“Popes come and go, empires clash, new worlds arise, but Rome is eternally Rome, which is to say that its people were busy as…

— Sara Poole

“Enthusiasts for empire argued that Rome had a civilizing mission; that because her values and institutions were self-evidently superior to those of barbarians, she…

— Tom Holland

I'd also hope that my liberal friends, who find in this pope a critic of what they're pleased to call "culture-warrior" Catholics, will read…

— George Weigel

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

— Hubert H. Humphrey

“Even historians, who should know better, still seem addicted to the idea that nothing of any consequence occurred between the fall of the Roman…

— James Hannam

“All culture, whatever significance it may have, just as all education, civilization, development, is absolutely powerless to renew the inner man.”

— Herman Bavinck