Allowance Quote by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

“The seed of error that took root during the fourth and fifth centuries blossomed into the Roman Catholic Church—a perversion of biblical Christianity.”

— Anonymous

I understood that you would take the Human Race in the concrete, have exploded the absurd notion of Pope's Essay on Man, [Erasmus] Darwin,…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“doctrines like papal infallibility and the Catholic teaching on marriage and social morality are believed with a conviction that scandalizes those who do not…

— John A. Hardon

The dogma of the infallibility of the Bible is no more self-evident than is that of the infallibility of the popes.

— Thomas Huxley

“Even a man who makes the most modest pretensions to integrity must know that a theologian, a priest, a pope of today not only…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Those who are seeking the true religion will never find it outside the Catholic Church alone, because, in every other religion, if they trace…

— Alphonsus Liguori

“If someone who had given up his whole life to thinking about goodness and rightness and truth and still expected nuns to cook him…

— Scarlett Thomas

“The Catholics get rid of the difficulty by setting up an infallible Pope, and consenting formally to accept his verdicts, but the Protestants simply…

— H.L. Mencken

These enemies of divine revelation extol human progress to the skies, and with rash and sacrilegious daring would have it introduced into the Catholic…

— Pope Pius IX

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

As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction

— Dan Simmons

“The frequent claims that empty churches and low levels of religious activity in Europe today reflect a steep decline in piety are wrong—it was…

— Rodney Stark