Viggo Mortensen Quotes

The pope dies, you get another pope.

I actually thought Pope Paul VI was the most tragic figure in the modern church, like Lyndon Johnson was a very tragic figure in politics in some ways.

My pope is Benedict.

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.

I would like to be Pope if I could.

What a terrible thing it would be to be the Pope! What unthinkable responsibilities to fall on your shoulders at an advanced age! No privacy. No seclusion. No sin.

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

My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven't elected a new one. There's no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don't miss it.

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

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

You say you're going to be the pope, become the pope.

I'm really encouraged by Pope Francis, because I think his attitude is totally laudable.

I see the work the pope has to do. It is a huge responsibility. Nobody campaigns for it.

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 have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that I can remember.

I'm going to become the Pope next year. Nothing is impossible.

The Romanists have, with great adroitness, drawn three walls round themselves, with which they have hitherto protected themselves, so that no one could reform them, whereby all Christendom has fallen terribly. Firstly, if pressed by the temporal power, they 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. Secondly, if it were proposed to admonish them with the Scriptures, they objected that no one may interpret the Scriptures but the Pope. Thirdly, if they are threatened with a council, they pretend that no one may call a council but the Pope.

Tell your bosses, the Pope is not afraid of concentration camps.

When the venerable pontiff's hour has come, a Roman of good age shall be elected, of whom it will be said that he dishonored his throne though he held it long, with virtuous acts.

But I make a distinction between the doctrines of the Church, which matter, and the structure invented by half a dozen Italians who got to be pope and which is of very little use to anybody.

The Cardinals have elected me, a simple and humble labourer in the vineyard of the Lord. The fact that the Lord knows how to work and to act even with inadequate instruments comforts me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers.

Since God has been pleased to give us the Papacy, let us enjoy it.

Out of the Roman States there is no country where I am Pope except the United States.

[Joseph Ratzinger] is a man who as the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith had everything in his hands. He conducted all the investigations, and went on, went on, went on, until he couldn't go any further in the execution.

The Holy Father held a special place in the hearts of more than 1 billion Catholics worldwide.