Bishops Quote by Richard Dawkins

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so…

— Blaise Pascal

Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.

— John Ruskin

A bifurcation of loyalties that requires religious to put canon law above civil law and moral law puts us in a situation where the…

— Joan D. Chittister

Bishops need to resist the defensiveness that institutions often fall back on in crisis moments.

— Blase J. Cupich

The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents…

— Anonymous

There is a danger that threatens everyone in the church, all of us. The danger of worldliness. It leads us to vanity, arrogance and…

— Pope Francis

We cannot remain silent when someone of the Pope's stature and credibility confuses religious principles for science

— Paul Kurtz

The ecclesiastical writers, who, in the heat of religious faction, are apt to despise the profane virtues of sincerity and moderation.

— Edward Gibbon

I think that the Pope has trust in every bishop that is appointed.

— Blase J. Cupich

“This is the same cruel and paradoxically benevolent bullshit that has kept the Catholic Church going for so many centuries. It is also the…

— Hunter S. Thompson

The great danger of the new media is that it seems to relish the superficial. There has been an ethos within the Church for…

— Robert Barron

“We Catholics have not only to do our best to keep down our own warring passions and live decent lives, which will often be…

— Ronald A. Knox