Marcus Brigstocke Quotes

The Catholic Church is an innately conservative rock - they call themselves the 'rock of Peter' - and its resistance to change is, ironically, what has kept it constant throughout the ages.

It's hard for the Catholic Church to accept change. When the mass was no longer said in Latin, loyalists went into mourning for years.

The Catholic Church is one of the oldest, largest and richest institutions on earth, with a following 1.2 billion strong, and change does not come naturally.

In every society the permanent government is more change averse than the changing government.

We need a pope to oversee not simply a modernization of the church but its total transformation.

I left the Church of England because there was a huge bundle of straw. The ordination of women was the last straw, but it was only one of many. For years I had been disillusioned by the Church of England's compromising on everything. The Catholic Church doesn't care if something is unpopular.

No one likes change but babies in diapers.

Hey, I'm a Catholic deer hunter, I am happy to be clinging to my guns and my religion.

I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.

I read a lot on the subject and had many conversations, and I have come to the conclusion that the Catholic Church is a force for evil.

Latin Americans glorify their past so ceaselessly that they make it almost impossible to advocate change.

I have struggled for decades now with the fear of and resistance to change - mostly in the realms of technology, transportation, and the ways people choose to communicate. If I had a theme song, it would be that lovely song 'I'm Old-Fashioned,' as sung by Ella Fitzgerald.

The Roman Catholic Church isn't going to change its theologies.

It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law.

Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.

There is no possibility of change in Islamic principles, which have not changed in the last 1,400 years.

No Catholic is or can be a Red Republican or Socialist.

The only institution like the United States Navy is the Roman Catholic Church. You write something bad about them and they excommunicate you.

The most conservative man in the world is the British Trade Unionist when you want to change him.

I'm a traditionalist. I'm a Latin mass Catholic, and I hold to traditional views of responsibility.

I think that human nature is scared of change and justifies it in all sort of ways.

I realised how much the system did not want to change.

I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.

Cardinal Raymond Burke is a 66-year-old guy who lives in Rome, dresses like Queen Elizabeth, and talks like someone who majored in misogyny at some bogus, backwoods, Bible-banging tent school.

I believe history and tradition is something solid and something we can rest on. I am not crazy about putting new spices in chocolate.