Pope Quotes

Pope John Paul II is the great. Only two other popes had that title. Does that suggest there is going to be a move for canonization?

In life, as in death, Pope John Paul II was one of the most visible people on Earth.

The pope has been called many things, historic figure, spiritual leader, moral force. But a growing chorus of voices has begun to refer to him as John Paul II the Great, in other words, as a saint.

Those who saw Pope John Paul II either in person or through the mass media glimpsed a man who millions of Catholics believe may be one of the greatest popes in the history of the church.

Public opinion aside, it will be up to the future pope to continue John Paul II's journey to sainthood. Many of the late pope's followers believe he is already there.

I had the good fortune of living in Rome for seven years, from 1994 to 2001. So, I kind of saw firsthand the impact that Pope John Paul II had on people.

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.

He [Pope Fransis] insists very clearly that only a union between man and woman, open to new life, by principle, can be called a marriage.

My message to the Pope would be, don't take sides on the science. Don't make the same mistake as seven out of 10 judges in the trial of Galileo, when they invited him to retract his views.

According to new statistics, Pope Francis is the most talked about person on the Internet. And not only that, he has the most viewed profile on Christian Mingle.

Today, Angelina Jolie met with Pope Francis at the Vatican. Long story short: She adopted him.

I like Australia less and less. The hateful newness, the democratic conceit, every man a little pope of perfection.

There are only three great powers in the universe: God in heaven, the pope in the Vatican and Dadá in the great box.

Reason, it is true, is DICTATOR in the Society of Mankind; from her there ought to lie no Appeal; But here we want a Pope in our Philosophy, to be the infallible Judge of what is or is not Reason.

Climaxing a movement for calendar reform which had been developing for at least a century, in 1582 Pope Gregory ordained that October 4 was to be followed by October 15.

No man may be so cursed by priest or pope but what the Eternal Love may still return while any thread of green lives on in hope.

The Pope also said that while he's in town he would like to go see 'The Book of Mormon.'

Pope Francis is going to go to Washington, D.C., to address Congress. He believes the New England Patriots have been deflating his giant hat.

[Pope Francis ] is taken a selfie!He's a tremendous breath of fresh air.

I'm so, so thrilled that [Pope Francis] is there at this crucial moment in the history of our world.

The pope dies, you get another pope.

When has the pope ever questioned the faith of another private citizen?

Pope is questioning my faith. I was very surprised to see it. But I am a Christian, and I'm proud of it.

I think anarchy is natural to the Catholic. The Church is pretty anarchistic, you know. Who pays attention to the Pope or the Cardinals?

But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to tell him the plain truths contained in these pages.

I do believe in the infallibility of the Pope, because I think we have to believe in something.

I think [Karl] Marx, Pope John XXIII or Rosa Luxemburg [had achieved the mode of existence].But it would be useless to look at a list of illustrious names.

If (Declan) Kidney had gone for religion instead of teaching, he would have been Pope.

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

[Jesus Christ to Pope Francis] is the Lord with whom he speaks for hours every day in prayer. The Risen One who reached out, touched his life, and called him into mission.

The emphasis on the "peripheries" is also a distinctively "Franciscan" way of expressing the pope's respect for untutored popular piety - a respect, I might add, that was shared by St. John Paul II.

The most important appointment Pope Francis has made is the appointment of the Australian cardinal, George Pell, as the Vatican's financial overseer.

The pope [Francis] knows that the marriage culture is in crisis throughout the world, and so is the family.

"You don't believe what you read in the papers about anything else; why do you believe it about the pope?" That's where I'd start.

[Pope Francis] has felt the mercy of God in his own life and wants to share that experience with others.

[Pope Francis] is 78 years old and knows that his will be a short pontificate.

I hope ["reanimated the papacy"] means that the new interest in the pope evokes a new interest in the Church's teaching, of which the pope is the custodian.

[Pope] Francis ought to be taken at his word when he says, as he has often done, that he is a son of the Church who believes and teaches what the Catholic Church believes and teaches.

There's an obvious investment in some media circles in the "narrative" of "the pope who's finally going to get with it."

[Pope] Francis communicates the pastoral embrace of the Church, the breadth and inclusiveness of Catholicism symbolized by the Bernini colonnade around St. Peter's Square, in a powerful way.

We will live to see the day that St. Patrick's Cathedral is a child-care center and the pope is no longer a disgrace to the skirt that he has on.

One time when I was visiting The Vatican I got the Pope really drunk, and then while he was sleeping I put his hand in the holy water.

So far as English versification is concerned, Pope was the world, and all the world was Pope.

We're all God's children. We are all special people, and the Pope is no different.

Liberals can always be trusted to see God in Mumia Abu-Jamal and the devil in the Pope.

If you think you don't have any time for prayer, and can't find any time, then ask God to forgive you... The Pope isn't too busy for his daily rosary; if you're busier than the Pope, you're too busy.

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.

You could say that to the pope. I want to talk to you about Jesus. He'd be like, easy, freak.

[Pope Francis] has reminded us that the way we live our lives is the most important expression of our Catholic identity.

I'm a huge admirer of Pope Francis and everything he stands for. I think he's an incredibly connected spiritual and authentic being.