Anecdotes Quote by Ross Douthat

“Legend has it that in an argument with a cardinal, Napoleon pointed out that he had the power to destroy the church. “Your majesty,”…

— Rod Dreher

“The Catholic chruch as threatened your life - do you not want revenge? Have you not sold your hatred to the Pretestant cause to…

— S.J. Parris

“I left that church with rich and royal hatred of the priest as a person, and a loathing for the church as an institution,…

— Eugene V. Debs

“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

“One day—when the emperor had come to call on his uncle the cardinal—our worthy priest happened to be waiting as his Majesty went by.…

— Victor Hugo

And if a man consider the original of this great Ecclesiastical Dominion, he will easily perceive, that the Papacy , is no other than…

— Thomas Hobbes

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

I don't have the power to issue papal decrees.

— Hamza Yusuf

“It is impossible to make peace with the Roman Catholic Church. It is one of the permanent enemies of all that is decent in…

— Harold Laski

Benedict XVI leaves no room for uncertainty or minimization. At this present time in which she feels humiliation, the Church learns from the Pope…

— Angelo Bagnasco

I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.

— Viggo Mortensen

Only the [Catholic] Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church…

— Albert Einstein