Pope famous quotes
05-22-2025
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The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.
-- Aga Khan IV -
I see the work the pope has to do. It is a huge responsibility. Nobody campaigns for it.
-- Angelo Scola -
I really want the pope to come into the pulpit and tell Filipinos to their faces what's wrong with them, because we refuse to listen to ourselves.
-- Carlos Celdran -
I do believe in the infallibility of the Pope, because I think we have to believe in something.
-- Elaine Stritch -
The appointing power of the Pope is treated as a public trust, and not as a personal perquisite.
-- Grover Cleveland -
The tribunal of God and of the pope is one and the same.
-- Ignaz von Dollinger -
Liberals can always be trusted to see God in Mumia Abu-Jamal and the devil in the Pope.
-- Ilana Mercer -
As for antichrist occupying the papal chair, it is evident that a pope living contrary to Christ, like any other perverted person, is called, by common consent, antichrist.
-- Jan Hus -
When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When "Somebody Up There" - a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator - so decrees.
-- Jessica Mitford -
Half Europe thought... that with the Pope the Papacy was dead.
-- Joseph Rickaby -
Mr. Churchill, Mr. Prime Minister, how many divisions did you say that the pope had?
-- Joseph Stalin -
A pope going through a faith crisis would be funny to see.
-- Kyle Dunnigan -
Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who is going to build.
-- Larry Ellison -
Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
-- Luigi Pirandello -
If you listen carefully to Rick Santorum, he sounds more like Stalin than Pope Innocent III,
-- Martin Bashir -
A simple layman armed with Scripture is greater than the mightiest pope without it
-- Martin Luther -
I have seen with my own eyes how the pope was carried on the shoulders of the princes, with all the pomp, being adored in the streets by the surrounding people.
-- Michael Servetus -
I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third.
-- Muriel Spark -
I don't know why I have these dreams. I've never wanted to be Pope. In fact, I have a greater affinity to Martin Luther.
-- Peter Ustinov -
God has set popes over kings and kingdoms.
-- Pope Boniface VIII -
It is necessary to salvation that all Christians be subject to the pope.
-- Pope Boniface VIII -
God chooses the Pope and God also made men and women different.
-- Pope Francis -
When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without the cross, we are not disciples of the Lord. We are worldly. We may be bishops, priests, cardinals, popes, all of this, but we are not disciples of the Lord.
-- Pope Francis -
Out of the Roman States there is no country where I am Pope except the United States.
-- Pope Gregory XVI -
Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.
-- Pope John XXIII -
If a future Pope teaches anything contrary to the Catholic Faith, do not follow him.
-- Pope Pius IX -
The Pope and God are the same, so he has all power in Heaven and earth.
-- Pope Pius V -
I'm sure Obama is an atheist, I'm sure Kennedy was an atheist, but I doubt if Pope Frank is.
-- Richard Dawkins -
I admire the Pope. I have a lot of respect for anyone who can tour without an album.
-- Rita Rudner -
One should indeed read Pope with his notes available, in the Twickenham edition possibly, to see what a vast amount he did understand about Homer.
-- Robert Fitzgerald -
No compassion will be tolerated for the Jews. We deny the Pope’s statement that there is but one human race. The Jews are parasites.
-- Robert Ley -
And as for the Pope, I refuse him, as Christ's enemy and Antichrist, with all his false doctrine.
-- Thomas Cranmer -
This requires a level of delusion/egomania usually reserved for popes and drag queens
-- Tina Fey -
Your liberators tell you that that your suppressors are Wilhelm, Nikolaus, Pope Gregory the Twenty Eighth, Morgan, Krupp or Ford. And your liberators are called Mussolini, Napoleon, Hitler and Stalin. I tell you: Only you yourself can be your liberator!
-- Wilhelm Reich -
Of God's love we can say two things: it is poured out universally for everyone from the Pope to the loneliest wino on the planet; and secondly, God's love doesn't seek value, it creates value. It is not because we have value that we are loved, but because we are loved that we have value. Our value is a gift, not an achievement.
-- William Sloane Coffin -
Between the Pope and air conditioning, I'd choose air conditioning.
-- Woody Allen -
It is fascinating to see how much Pope Francis relies on the work of the bishops in the Synods.
-- Christoph Schonborn -
I am very happy that he [Pope Fransis] did clarify this [marriage defenition], because the other situations can be partnership, can be relations, but certainly not marriage.
-- Christoph Schonborn -
I can say with total conviction that it was the Holy Spirit that chose, guided the election of Pope Francis.
-- Donald Wuerl -
You cannot expect a foreign country to be more Catholic than the pope for you.
-- Farah Diba -
If all the priests go we all want to be married and the pope goes all priests should be married than I say go for it.
-- Lino Rulli -
Pope Paul III was the greatest thief in the history of the church.
-- Peter O'Toole -
There's more likelihood of Ian Paisley being the next pope, than of me agreeing to a fix or a stitch-up.
-- Rhodri Morgan -
All is forgiven to kings and popes. History grants them immunity, even a full pardon, even when they admit their crimes and glory in them.
-- Robert Payne -
[Pope Francis] lashed out against what he called malevolent resistance to his reforms.
-- Sylvia Poggioli -
The Pope doesn't believe in God; Did you ever see a conjurer who believed in Magic ?
-- Coluche -
By the same token, the new and stringent Ultramontanism on the Catholic Left - in which even the mildest questions about how things are working in this pontificate are denounced as treasonous disloyalty - is an affront to the open conversation for which the pope [FRANCIS] has called.
-- George Weigel -
The most important appointment Pope Francis has made is the appointment of the Australian cardinal, George Pell, as the Vatican's financial overseer.
-- George Weigel -
Well beloved subjects, wee thought that the clergie of our realme had been our subjectes wholy, but now we have well perceived that they bee but halfe our subjectes, yea, and scarce our subjectes: for all the prelates at their consecration make an othe to the pope, clene contrary to the the that they make to us, so that they seme to be his subjectes, and not ours.
-- Henry VIII of England -
I would like to sing for the Pope. And the Queen, and at Simon Cowell's wedding.
-- Jackie Evancho -
The Pope is not putting himself out on a limb, he's putting himself up on the Cross, and that's what he's called to do.
-- Theodore Edgar McCarrick
