Birthday Quote by Roger Mahony

The priest is the personification of falsehood.

— Giuseppe Garibaldi

Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent.

— Robert A. Heinlein

“The Roman Catholic Church has historically taught that, as an element of penance and evidence of true repentance, the Christian must confess all his…

— Archibald Alexander Hodge

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

— Oscar Wilde

“Every priest who hears confessions is, by definition, an accessory to ever crime he hears about and does not report to the authorities.”

— David Silverman

Imagine, to become a priest there are eight years of study and preparation, and then if after a while you can't do it, you…

— Pope Francis

There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants to reduce the priest to a mere functionary, a managing director, where administration…

— Arthur Middleton

“But I’m not guilty,” said K. “there’s been a mistake. How is it even possible for someone to be guilty? We’re all human beings…

— Franz Kafka

I was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.

— Billy Connolly

If the state - and within the state, the judiciary particularly - harasses and undermines the Church , in any society the state undoes itself.

— Russell Kirk

You know how the church has been hit so hard by the sexual misconduct by clergy, and what's that's done to Catholics, especially here…

— William P. Leahy

The Catholic priest, from the moment he becomes a priest, is a sworn officer of the pope.

— Otto von Bismarck