“You know you're in a bad movie when the Catholic clergy is being played by Jews.” KnowsCatholicJewClergyBad MoviesBeing Played Author:Cheech Marin
“Whenever the clergy were at the elbow of the civil arm, no matter whether they were Catholic or Protestant, persecution was the result.” MatterResultsAtheismArmsCatholicPositive AtheismPersecutionProtestantsElbowsClergy Author:William Edward Hartpole Lecky
“The Catholic clergy seldom bother to make their arguments plausible; it is plain that they have little respect for human intelligence, and indeed little belief in its existence.” HumansLittlesBeliefExistenceArgumentCatholicBotherSuperstitionsClergyPlausibleHuman Intelligence Author:H. L. Mencken
“I was the biggest George Harrison fanatic in the world. He was raised Catholic; my parents are both ex-clergy, so I was raised Catholic, and I admired how he used his faith.” WorldUsedParentCatholicRaisedExesFanaticsClergy Author:John Fugelsang
“It is impossible to approve in Catholic publications of a style inspired by unsound novelty which seems to deride the piety of the faithful and dwells on the introduction of a new order of Christian life, on new directions of the Church, on new aspirations of the modern soul, on a new vocation of the clergy, on a new Christian civilisation.” SoulSeemsChristianOrderChurchImpossibleModernStyleCatholicInspiredChristian LifeFaithfulAspirationCatholicismVocationIntroductionNoveltyPietyCivilisationPublicationClergyNew DirectionsCatholic Faith Author:Pope Pius X
“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.”” YearsDoneLastsChurchArgumentCatholicCatholicismFrustratingMajestyCatholic ChurchCardinalsClergyAnecdotesEminenceRoman CatholicBonaparte Author:Ross Douthat
“Let us pray for all good and faithful priests who dedicate themselves to their people with generosity and unknown sacrifices.” PeoplePrayerSacrificePrayingCatholicGoodGenerosityFaithfulPriestsPriesthoodClergyClergymen Author:Pope Francis