“Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.” JesusVirtuePossibilityPoliticianPromiseResponsibleErrorsPeterPopeThrift Author:Pope Francis
“In the agreement to rescue Rome [i.e., the Roman Catholic Church's hierarchy] from the predicament of losing its world control to Protestantism, and to preserve the spiritual and temporal supremacy which the popes [had] 'usurped' during the Middle Ages, Rome now 'sold' the [Roman Catholic] Church to the Society of Jesus [i.e., the Jesuits]; in essence the popes surrendered themselves into their hands.” WorldHandsAgeSpiritualJesusChurchMiddleLosingEssenceCatholicPreservesAgreementRomeRescuePopeHierarchyMiddle AgesCatholic ChurchSupremacyPredicamentsProtestantismRoman CatholicJesuitRoman Catholic Church Author:John Daniel
“It is in the name of Jesus, himself become God, that fanaticism ignominiously condemned to the stake men like Giodano Bruno, Vanini, Étienne Dolet, John Huss, Savanarola, and numerous other heroic victims; that the Inquisition ordered Galileo to belie his conscience; that thousands and thousands of unfortunates accused of witchcraft were burnt alive in popular ceremonies; it was with the express benediction of Pope Gregory XIII that the butchery of St. Bartholomew drenched Paris in blood.” MenEvilJesusNamesReligiousAliveBloodConscienceVictimParisStakesHeroicPopeAccusedCeremonyFanaticismWitchcraftInquisitionBenedictionButchery Author:Camille Flammarion
“To claim that science and religion pose different questions to the world is not to suggest that if the bones of Jesus were discovered in Palestine, the pope should get himself down to the dole queue as fast as possible. It is rather to claim that while faith, rather like love, must involve factual knowledge, it is not reducible to it.” IfsWorldShouldDifferentJesusClaimsBonesPopePalestineScience And ReligionLike LoveFactualQueues Author:Terry Eagleton