Pope Quotes - Page 15

• George W. Bush, who said to Pope John Paul II, Give us a visit, and bring the missus. Never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  Giving, Dinner, John Paul Ii

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• Stan Musial, who said, Why didn't they make me the first Polish pope? I was such a good Cardinal. Never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  Dinner, Firsts, Cardinals

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• A reporter meets interesting people. If he endures, he will get to know princes and presidents, popes and paupers, prostitutes and panderers. And always, in the back of his head, there will be a dozen men and women he will never meet. And always, he will feel the poorer for it.

  Jim Bishop

  Men, People, Interesting

  "Fish Out Of Water: Number 3 in series". Book by MaryJanice Davidson, p. 10, February 6, 2014.

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• You could say that to the pope. I want to talk to you about Jesus. He'd be like, easy, freak.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Jesus, Want, Freak

  "Comic Jim Gaffigan On Stand-Up, Faith And Opening For The Pope". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 24, 2015.

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• Since the Icelandic volcano obviously needs a virgin sacrifice and the Catholic Church obviously needs new leadership the Pope must volunteer to jump in the volcano. Pontiff, don't think of it as endorsing paganism, think of it as supersizing Ash Wednesday.

  Bill Maher

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Volcanoes

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• There were always people like the pope. They serve a certain function, of course. They subsidize us. But, they don't create anything and they must never be allowed to stop the artist from creating.

  Andrew Schneider

  Artist, Creating, People

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• Kiss the feet of Popes provided their hands are tied.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Kissing, Hands, Feet

  "Memoirs of Napoleon" published by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, (1829-1831).

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• In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.

  Sam Kinison

  Gay, Space, Community

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• If I were a Catholic, I'd be asking what's going on here. I really would. "The pope also broke with his predecessors by suggesting that Catholic lawmakers are free to vote for same-sex marriage and civil unions."

  Rush Limbaugh

  Sex, Catholic, Asking

  "The Pope: Trump’s Not a Christian". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. February 18, 2016.

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• Is it logical to ask how far away are we from the pope explaining that abortion can be justified, "in certain circumstances, in certain regions," and if it might be related to the evils of American capitalism and our immigration policy?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Evil, Abortion, Immigration

  "The Pope: Trump’s Not a Christian". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. February 18, 2016.

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• I've been around so long, I can remember when it was a rhetorical question to ask, "Is the pope Catholic?" Now it's a legit question.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Long, Catholic, Remember

  "The Pope: Trump’s Not a Christian". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. February 18, 2016.

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• By the way, if socialism is so damn hot, why doesn't the pope ask all Mexicans to return home? If capitalism is such a bad thing, why doesn't the pope say to every Cuban living in America, "Get the hell back to Cuba"?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Home, America, Hot

  "The Pope: Trump’s Not a Christian". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. February 18, 2016.

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• I think it's Greek Orthodox - who totally believes in the pope, not anything about attacking the United States, which needs to be because we're not recognizing the dignity of all people.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Mandelstam's style is not singular. He could be stately and traditional, ribald and funny, hectic, elegiac. He could handle abstractions and ideas as well as Pope or Browning but then be so musical that other poems approach pure sound.

  Christian Wiman

  Ideas, Musical, Style

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Martha Pope herself is a legend within the institution, and he was enormously supportive. And me and the women candidates.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Supportive, Legends, Institutions

  Source: digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu

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• I always asked my mother, I said, 'Momma, how come is everything white?' I said, 'Why is Jesus white with blond hair and blue eyes? Why is the Lord's supper all white men? Angels are white, the Pope, Mary, and even the angels.' I said, 'Mother, when we die, do we go to Heaven?' She said, 'Naturally we go to Heaven.' I said, 'Well, what happened to all the black angels?'

  Muhammad Ali

  Mother, Jesus, Eye

  "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• Some people in the church, like Martin Luther King, Jr., came out against segregation. But if you look at the bulk of organized religion, you will discover that it endorsed slavery and quoted the Bible to approve it; the Pope even owned slaves.

  John Shelby Spong

  Kings, People, Church

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• John XXI was a very great pope and he's the one who actually corrected the liturgy. He did so because of his friend Jules Isaac, a French Jewish historian who was a friend of John Paul, of John 23rd, and he convinced him and he changed the liturgy, no more Jew, the perfidious Jew and so forth and now, and don't speak any more of the Jews killing Christ. Things have changed.

  Elie Wiesel

  Speak, Christ, Killing

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• The Pope going to Jerusalem, the Pope recognising the State of Islam, the Pope going to the wall organising a concert for the Holocaust in the Vatican, going to the synagogue in Vatican, and that happens in Protestant service as well. That doesn't mean that anti-Semitism disappear, but it is on certain level that Jews all the time, or with Christians, Catholics, Protestants, Jews, meeting all the time, studying together, signing petitions for all kinds of causes.

  Elie Wiesel

  Christian, Wall, Mean

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• I think what Pope Francis is saying is that nobody's perfect, you know? And so someone like Joe Biden, you know, where - you know, when he was running for president, people were - there were some bishops that were like don't let him have the Eucharist. And Pope Francis is saying that's not the point of this.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Running, Thinking, People

  "Comic Jim Gaffigan On Stand-Up, Faith And Opening For The Pope". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 24, 2015.

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• Charismatics have seen pictures of Pope Francis when he was Archbishop of Buenos Aires praying and asking Protestant pastors to pray for him. His friendship towards the charismatic renewal is there.

  Ralph Martin

  Buenos Aires, Asking, Praying

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• A spectre is haunting Europe-the spectre of Communism. All the Powers of old Europe have entered into holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies. Where is the Party in opposition that has not been decried as Communistic by its opponents in power? Where the Opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of Communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?

  Karl Marx

  Party, Europe, Police

  Karl Marx (2018). “The Communist Manifesto & Selected Writings: & Selected Writings”, p.9, Pan Macmillan

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• Pope John Paul would be more popular if he called himself Pope John Paul George and Ringo.

  Paul Krassner

  Would Be, John Paul, Ringo

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• [Without Pope John Paul II] there would be no end of Communism or at least much later, and the end would have been bloody.

  Lech Walesa

  Would Be, John Paul Ii, Communism

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• Pope Benedict XVI assumes leadership at a critical time in which the world's collective wisdom and leadership including that of the religious community is most important to face up to challenges of deepening poverty and under-development afflicting many people of the world.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Religious, People, Community

  "Benedict XVI: the Vatican's orthodox insider is new Pope" by Stephen Bates and John Hooper, www.theguardian.com. April 20, 2005.

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