Nostradamus Quotes

The pope dies, you get another pope.

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

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.

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.

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.

Around the globe, millions more are mourning the death and celebrating the life of Pope John Paul II .Could any other world leader have drawn so many people to one place?

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

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.

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.

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.

Pope Benedict XVI's resignation is big on buzz but is not the stunning surprise claimed by many pundits. It is rather a further example of the German theology professor's style that informed his years as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, his term as pope, and the formation of his legacy to the church.

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.

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

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

Father Coughlin has succeeded in persuading his hearers, or at least a large proportion of them, not only that his money theories and remedies are supported by the papal encyclicals, but that his economic teachings in general are on a level with the infallible pronouncements of the Church.

There is this difference between the Church of Rome and the Church of England: the one professes to be infallible, the other to be never in the wrong.

The Roman Church has never erred, nor can it err until the end of time.

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 Vatican is the last absolute monarchy on earth.

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

If I go to Italy, I will certainly request to meet with Pope Francis, whom I admire very much.

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.