“A Church without women is like the college of the Apostles without Mary... Our Lady is more important than the Apostles! She is more important! The Church is feminine. She is Church, she is bride, she is mother.” ImportantWould BeMotherChristChurchCollegeFeminineMarySpouseApostlesApostolic Author:Pope Francis
“Before everything else, fidelity to the Church: One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic. Jesus did not found several churches, but one single Church.” FoundJesusChurchHolyCatholicFidelityApostolic Author:Pope John XXIII
“Men had made, we believe, fundamental changes in the doctrines, purposes, and practices of the Pristine Gospel and Church. There had been an apostasy, or a falling away from the true character of Christ's teachings in the centuries which followed the Apostolic age.” MenBelieveMadeCharacterAgePurposeFallChristChurchPracticeTeachingCenturyFundamentalsDoctrinePristineTrue CharacterApostolicApostasy Author:Lowell L. Bennion
“The Holy Apostolic See and the Roman Pontiff have primacy in the entire world. The Roman Pontiff is the Successor of Blessed Peter, the Prince of the Apostles, true Vicar of Christ, Head of the whole Church, Father and Teacher of all Christians.” WorldWholeChristianFatherChristChurchTeacherHolyBlessedPeterApostlesSuccessorsApostolicPrimacyVicarsChurch Fathers Author:Pope Benedict XIV
“The apostolic church thought more about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ than about death and heaven. The early Christians were looking, not for a cleft in the ground called a grave but for a cleavage in the sky called Glory.” ChristianJesusHeavenChristChurchSkyGloryJesus ChristGravesApostolicCleavageApostolic Church Author:Alexander MacLaren
“Contemporary Christianity, diverse and complex as we find it, actually may show more unanimity than the Christian churches of the first and second centuries. For nearly all Christians since that time, Catholics, Protestants, or Orthodox, have shared three basic premises. First, they accept the canon of the New Testament; second, they confess the apostolic creed; and third, they affirm specific forms of church institution. But every one of these - the canon of Scripture, the creed, and the institutional structure - emerged in its present form only toward the end of the second century.” FirstsMayEndsShowsChristianFormReligionThreeChurchAcceptingChristianityCenturyThirdsCatholicInstitutionsStructureComplexesScriptureContemporaryOrthodoxCreedsDiverseTestamentPremisesNew TestamentProtestantsChristian ChurchCanonApostolicUnanimity Author:Elaine Pagels