67 Quotes About Catholic-church

Galileo was challenged because he declared a theory to be a fact and argued with the Church about the genuine meaning of the Bible.

A Mason? Bejesus, no - I've been a Catholic all my life, I'll have you know!

No unclean thing shall enter into heaven.

Catholic Church is an institution I am bound to hold divine – but for unbelievers a proof of its divinity might be found in the fact that no merely human institution conducted with such knavish imbecility would have lasted a fortnight

A homogenous, hand-picked congregation where people are mutually conformable in all their minor social ways is agreeable. It makes parish life smoother. But to require such conformity is entirely un-Catholic; it is contrary not only to the spirit of the Catholic Church in general, but to the tradition of the Catholic Church in the United States.

Do you have or have had a Red Button at your back, within your parish, and you are trapped? Lay red buttons throughout. Then all will have no doubt. There are evildoers about.

Nasuprot tome poslušnost je tako ljupka! Sveti Augustin piše: "Gospodine, najbolji su tvoji sluge koji žele svoj život prilagoditi tvojim odgovorima, radije nego da prilagode tvoje odgovore svojim željama." Trebamo svoje živote uskladiti s Božjim naukom, a ne prilagođavati Božji nauk načinu na koji želimo živjeti.

... Pope John Paul I had died and been succeeded by John Paul II, the first non-Italian pope for four hundred and fifty years: a Pole, a poet, a philosopher, a linguist, an athlete, a man of destiny, dramatically chosen, instantly popular - but theologically conservative. A changing Church acclaims a Pope who evidently thinks that change has gone far enough. What will happen now? All bets are void, the future is uncertain, but it will be interesting to watch. Reader, farewell!

La Iglesia de Roma no perdió nunca la esperanza de una reconciliación con sus ovejas descarriadas. Esperaba el regreso del hijo pródigo y difícilmente podía buscar esa reconciliación lanzando un ataque propagandístico que ofendiera aún más a aquellos cuya lealtad se quiere recobrar.