Angelo Scola Quotes

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.

It is particularly moving, and I can say this also as a Protestant Christian, that a German - one of us - has been made Pope.

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

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

Anyone who wants to be pope doesn't care much for themselves, God doesn't bless them. I didn't want to be 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.

The Catholic Church [with Pope John Paul II] has lost its shepherd. The world has lost a champion of human freedom.

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 like to be Pope if I could.

Pope John Paul II not only was a powerful spiritual leader for Catholics but also a world leader of extraordinary consequence during the last quarter-century.

The pope dies, you get another pope.

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 don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.

Pope John Paul, a man of peace and compassion, was one of the most revered leaders of our time.

I never heard of these bulls and encyclicals and books.

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 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.

Send the Pope into permanent retirement and to turn the Vatican into a museum.

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.

The Pope is the man, and the Pope can do whatever the Pope wants to do.

My pope is Benedict.

The new Pope, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, is now Pope Francis the 1st. Francis was not his first choice for a name. But the Vatican wisely talked him out of Pope Boo Boo.

I found myself immediately attracted to Pope John Paul II when, upon his election to the Papacy, his published speeches invariably called attention to the need for recognizing the dignity of the human being as a child of God.

It is with extreme sadness that we hear of the passing of the leader of the world's Catholics, His Holiness Pope John Paul II, who commanded the three paths of religious learning, philosophical thought and poetical and artistic creativity.