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“In this Year of Faith, we pray to the Lord that the Church may always be a true family that brings God’s love to everyone.”

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Author:Pope Francis

“A Christian who withdraws into himself, hiding all that the Lord has given him, is not a Christian! I would ask the many young people present to be generous with their God-given talents for the good of others, the Church and our world.”

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Author:Pope Francis

“Only the [Catholic] Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly.”

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Author:Albert Einstein

“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

“The National Catholic Register's coverage of the Church universal, and the Church in our own country, is splendid.”

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Author:Timothy M. Dolan

“Every day Catholics prove that you can be a good Catholic and a good Democrat and have a different position from the Church on abortion.”

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Author:James Carville

“Nothing can ever pass away from the words of Christ, nor can anything be changed in the doctrine which the Catholic Church received from Christ to guard, protect, and preach.”

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Author:Pope Pius IX

“The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ.”

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Author:Pope John Paul II

“This Apostolic Church never turned from the way of truth nor held any kind of error. It is imperative that nothing of the truths which have been defined be lessened, nothing altered, nothing added, but that they be preserved intact in word and meaning. This is the true rule of faith.”

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Author:Pope Agatho

“What, then, shall a Catholic Christian do ... if some novel contagion attempt to infect no longer a small part of the Church alone but the whole Church alike? He shall then see to it that he cleave unto antiquity, which is now utterly incapable of being seduced by any craft or novelty.”

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Author:Vincent of Lerins

“New revelations regarding faith or morals ... have always been abhorred and challenged in the Church ... Hence, the Sovereign Pontiffs, the Councils, and the Fathers have been most careful to reject all novelties or new doctrines on matters of faith which differed from those already received.”

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Author:Alphonsus Liguori

“In the spiritual reality of the church, neither Marcel Lefebvre, nor his bishops and priests, nor the people who frequent the SSPX chapels suffered or suffer excommunication. I believe history will record that the intent to impose such an excommunication was invalid and illicit.”

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Author:Malachi Martin

“The Catholic Church is not dead, it is not even tired!”

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Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“BC is not going to replace the hierarchy, and BC is not going to lead some major reform in the Catholic Church - that's got to come out of the whole Catholic community.”

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Author:William P. Leahy

“I make a forceful and urgent call to the entire Catholic Church, and also to every Christian of other confessions, as well as to followers of every religion and to those brothers and sisters who do not believe: peace is a good which overcomes every barrier, because it belongs to all of humanity!”

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Author:Pope Francis

“The 'Church' is ... catholic because her communion embraces the whole human race.”

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Author:Pope Francis

“We do hereby command the Leaders of the Hebrew, Catholic and Protestant Churches to sanctify and have us crowned Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.”

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Author:Emperor Norton

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

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Author:Carl E. Olson

“Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.”

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Author:Bill Condon

“They're after one world religion and one world government. That's why they've attacked the Catholic Church so strongly, to ultimately take control over it by their doctrine.”

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Author:Hutton Gibson

“Well, I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it's between you and God, not you and the Church.”

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Author:Martin Sheen

“I had a born-again experience at the age of 33. As a result of that I found a church where I felt I was being fed properly. I don't say that as a reflection on Catholicism. But once I was born again, I got an evangelical spirit.”

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Author:Bill McCartney

“Yes, I think especially the Pentecostal churches, you know, that there's been such a growth in Pentecostalism. And it's a rejection of the much more dour and barren kind of Calvinist worship and also, the very formal Catholic forms of worship.”

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Author:Barbara Ehrenreich

“Let us remember Paul VI's words: "For the Catholic Church, no one is a stranger, no one is excluded, no one is far away" (Homily for the closing of the Second Vatican Council, 8 December 1965). Indeed, we are a single human family that is journeying on toward unity, making the most of solidarity and dialogue among peoples in the multiplicity of differences.”

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Author:Pope Francis

“In bringing the subject of religious oppression to a wider audience, I didn't just want to kick the Catholic Church but to poke a finger in the throat of theocracy and to let it be known that people shouldn't tolerate this anymore.”

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Author:Peter Mullan

“If one's careful study of the facts shows that the Catholic Church is correct about Jesus-his life, teachings, death, and Resurrection-then why not give the Church the benefit of the doubt and carefully study her reasons for rejecting contraception, homosexual acts, and women's ordination?”

“The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes.”

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Author:Shirley Williams