Deceased Quote by Thomas Hobbes

“For, from the time that the Bishop of Rome had gotten to be acknowledged for bishop universal, by pretence of succession to St. Peter,…

— Thomas Hobbes

The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.

— Thomas Hobbes

“BECAUSE CATHOLICISM IS TRUE, The papacy was established by Christ, has endured, and retains the authority entrusted to it by Christ, even to this…

— Tim Staples

The Papacy was corrupt for whole centuries: especially from about 880 to 1050 and (with a short decent pontificate at rare intervals) 1290 to…

— Joseph McCabe

Half Europe thought... that with the Pope the Papacy was dead.

— Joseph Rickaby

Since God has been pleased to give us the Papacy, let us enjoy it.

— Pope Leo X

During a frustrating argument with a Roman Catholic cardinal, Napoleon Bonaparte supposedly burst out: Your eminence, are you not aware that I have the…

— Ross Douthat

“First, under “the gross darkness of popery,”

— Robert Tracy McKenzie

The papacy is an impossible job. So the best thing Catholics can do for the pope is to pray for him.

— George Weigel

Perhaps I had better inform my Protestant readers that the famous Dogma of Papal Infallibility is by far the most modest pretension of the…

— George Bernard Shaw

We elected a President, not a Pope.

— Barbra Streisand

“Another reason these opponents find it difficult to comprehend the Papacy is a perspective, inherited from the Protestant Reformation, that is essentially anti-sacramental, anti-mediational,…

— Stephen K. Ray