Zitat des Tages über Papst / Pope:
How many Catholic schools do you think teach the students to question the authority of the Pope? Do you believe Christian schools teach students to question or challenge the authority of Jesus Christ? Do military schools teach the cadets to challenge the authority.
I hope that by going to visit the pope I have enabled everybody to see that the words Catholic and Protestant, as ordinarily used, are completely out of date. They are almost always used now purely for propaganda purposes. That is why so much trouble is caused by them.
We're all expendable. We think the world's going to stop when a pope dies, or a king. And then... life goes on.
Any time you've got both the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, you're not long for the White House.
Any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up.
Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
Under Pope Francis, we have seen a change at the Vatican that is reflective of the church I know and love. He approaches controversial doctrine or past wrongdoing with humility, understanding, and faith in the goodness of mankind. He has served as a voice for the voiceless and has been working to re-establish the church as a home for the homeless.
Neither was there any heresy, or diversity of opinion, or disputing about the matter, till the pope had gathered a council to confirm this transubstantiation: wherefore it is most likely that this opinion came up by them of latter days.
Pope Francis is not the first religious leader who has endorsed evolution and the Big Bang, but he is certainly one of the most influential.
He knows the tax code as thoroughly as the pope knows the Lord's Prayer.
Queen Victoria was loyal and true to the Pope; that is what I was told, and so is Edward the Seventh loyal and true, but he has got something contrary in his body.
The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.
The pope dies, you get another pope.
The church needs a pope who can call us to conversion and lead us to take seriously what Jesus did.
Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.
It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.
In the annals of history, few men have left a more positive imprint on the world than Pope John Paul II.
I've noticed that some Democrats, who seldom mention their faith or maybe never mention their faith, will seize on to a phrase that Pope Francis may have said, and they want to attach themselves to that agenda. Political opportunists is what they are.
'Trap Lord' is basically the writer of the hood. It's the kid that's from the hood, from the trap, who's going to preach to his friends and his homies. Because they're not going to sit in no church. So they listen to me instead of going to a church, because I understand them, and that's really what the 'Hood Pope' is.
After a Polish Pope, whose country was first to be invaded by the Germans in World War Two, we now have someone from the generation drafted at the close of the war.
The Pope? How many divisions has he got?
Romanists tell us that the Pope is the vicar of Christ; that he is his successor as the universal head and ruler of the Church on earth. If this is so, he must be a Christ.
No pope ever condemned slavery.
If the Pope plans to spend the majority of his time advocating for flawed climate change policies, then I will not attend.
When I was a child I wanted to be Pope. My greatest disappointment is missing out on that. I also wanted to be a tap dancer but I never fulfilled that ambition either.
The king is so subtle with his words that he would confound the apostolic religion itself. He will find the weak points of the pope's character and will trip him up to his destruction.
It's just so hard sometimes to work out where people stand on these things. I mean, isn't the Pope a feminist?
If the Pope urged the Western nations to rescue persecuted Christians in the Middle East, I would back him wholeheartedly.
The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.
I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third.
Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.
Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.
Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord.
I would say that every pope has had people within his administration who have had difficulties one way or another with his administration.
I met the Queen, the Pope, and we went all over Europe and Asia. I just wish I was older when I did all this. Then I could appreciate it more.
It rarely adds anything to say, 'In my opinion' - not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.
