“What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope. It is not a reflection of all religious people.” PeopleThinkingWorldDoeMatterReligiousGayReflectionPopeBeing Gay Author:Lady Gaga
“It is with extreme sadness that we hear of the passing of the leader of the world's Catholics, His Holiness Pope John Paul II, who commanded the three paths of religious learning, philosophical thought and poetical and artistic creativity.” WorldThreeReligiousLeaderCreativityPathSadnessPhilosophicalCatholicExtremesPassingPassingsArtisticHolinessPopeJohn PaulJohn Paul IiArtistic CreativityPope John Paul Author:Mohammad Khatami
“We have lost a very important religious figure who dedicated his life to peace and justice for all. [on the death of Pope John Paul II” ImportantLostReligiousJusticeFiguresDedicatedPopePeace And JusticeJohn PaulJohn Paul IiJustice For AllPope John Paul Author:Mahmoud Abbas
“Loyal and substansial Catholic service on the battlefield undermined one of the most longstanding objections to emancipation: namely, that since Catholics owed religious allegiance to a foreign authority in the person of the Pope, their political and patriotic allegiance must necessarily be suspect.” PersonsPoliticalReligiousAuthorityCatholicSuspectsPatrioticLoyalPopeAllegianceBattlefieldsObjectionsEmancipationBritish History Author:Linda Colley
“The best attitude to receive the Pope's teachings is to understand that he is a religious leader and the essence of his message comes from the Gospel, not from one ideology or another.And so, if our economic systems are not oriented toward the human person but only concerned with profits, he wants to confront the system and change it. This, by the way, is common to all the popes, it comes directly from the so-called social teachings of the church.” IfsWayWantHumansPersonsSocialChurchReligiousCommonAttitudeLeaderEconomicTeachingMessagesConcernedEssenceProfitIdeologyPopeEconomic SystemsBest AttitudeReligious Leaders Author:Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo
“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
“I pray the Pope [Francis] can use his moral authority to inspire true religious freedom, and bring us closer to the day when freedom can finally take root on the island country; because only then will the people of Cuba prosper and have the opportunity to live out God's plan.” PeopleCountryUseOpportunityReligiousMoralPlansInspirePrayingAuthorityRootsIslandsPopeI PrayCubaReligious FreedomGod's PlanMoral Authority Author:Marco Rubio