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“The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648, was a series of conflicts that became the last great struggle of religious wars in Europe. It was fought almost exclusively on German soil...but before the war ended, it involved most of the nations of Europe. The underlying cause of the war was the deep-seated hostility between the German Protestants and German Catholics - with the Jesuits and Cardinal Richelieu, who was the real ruler of France, fanning the fires to accomplish their ends.”

“Cardinal Dolan, of course, has a very, very hard job: trying to hold up Catholic family values in sexually liberal New York City. I'm not saying New York is the Gay Mecca. But it's at least Gay-rusalem.”

“The Catholic Church has a tough new policy on child molestors: three strikes and you're a cardinal.”

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Author:David Letterman

“I think anarchy is natural to the Catholic. The Church is pretty anarchistic, you know. Who pays attention to the Pope or the Cardinals?”

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Author:Dorothy Day

“To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.”

Source: An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine

“Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited.”

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Book:The Ambassador of Christ

Source: The Ambassador of Christ

“During a frustrating argument with a Roman Catholic cardinal, Napoleon Bonaparte supposedly burst out: “Your eminence, are you not aware that I have the power to destroy the Catholic Church?” The cardinal, the anecdote goes, responded ruefully: “Your majesty, we, the Catholic clergy, have done our best to destroy the church for the last 1,800 years. We have not succeeded, and neither will you.””

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Author:Ross Douthat

“We should ever conduct ourselves towards our enemy as if he were one day to be our friend.”

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Book:The Idea of a University

Source: The Idea of a University

“Following a meeting with Hitler, Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber, a man who had 'courageously criticized the Nazi attacks on the Catholic Church' - went away convinced that Hitler was deeply religious.”

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Author:Ian Kershaw

“And of course most non-Catholics imagine that the Church is immensely rich, and that all Catholic institutions make money hand over fist, and that all the money is stored away somewhere to buy gold and silver dishes for the Pope and cigars for the College of Cardinals.”

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Book:The Seven Storey Mountain

Source: The Seven Storey Mountain