Jacob J. Lew Quotes

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

The Vatican is the last absolute monarchy on earth.

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

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

I didn't really start writing about the church in earnest until the mid-2000s, so I wasn't present for or a participant in a lot of the John Paul II-era debates about papal authority.

I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third.

The Pope is not a political figure.

I was raised Catholic at a time when Vatican II was just taking hold.

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.

The most harmful thing in Christianity … is the leadership of one man in the Church—for instance, the pope, and his supposed infallibility. It is precisely in the dogma of his infallibility that the greatest mistake is contained, for the pope is a sinful man

If the pope were the head of the Christian Church, then the Church were a monster with two heads, seeing that St. Paul says that Christ is her head. The pope may well be, and is, the head of the false Church.

The Romanists have affirmed and maintained that the temporal power has no jurisdiction over them, but, on the contrary, that the spiritual power is above the temporal.

All priests whatsoever made and ordained by any authority derived or pretended to be derived from the see of Rome shall, before the tenth day of December, depart out of the kingdom of Ireland.

Germany has an established and well-furnished Catholicism, often with employed Catholics who handle the church like a labor union. For them, the church is simply the employer.

My pope is Benedict.

I think that the Pope has trust in every bishop that is appointed.

Everywhere in the world there are ignorance and prejudice, but the greatest complex of these, with the most extensive prestige and the most intimate entanglement with traditional institutions, is the Roman Catholic Church.

To be honest, I don't really care about any pope. It's not something I think about much, to be quite honest with you.

But to be the Vicar of Christ, to claim to exercise his prerogatives on earth, does involve a claim to his attributes, and therefore our opposition to Popery is opposition to a man claiming to be God.

Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.

Becoming Catholic involves entering into a relationship with the Catholic Church.

The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.

The Vatican has to strike a difficult balance between running a country and running a religious institution.

As for your pope of whom you speak, he must be mad to speak of giving away countries that do not belong to him.