#pope

When the late Pope John Paul II decided to place the woman so strangely known as “Mother” Teresa on the fast track for beatification, and thus to qualify her for eventual sainthood, the Vatican felt obliged to solicit my testimony and I thus spent several hours in a closed hearing room with a priest, a deacon, and a monsignor, no doubt making their day as I told off, as from a rosary, the frightful faults and crimes of the departed fanatic. In the course of this, I discovered that the pope during his tenure had surreptitiously abolished the famous office of “Devil’s Advocate,” in order to fast‐track still more of his many candidates for canonization. I can thus claim to be the only living person to have represented the Devil pro bono. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#beatification #canonisation #deacons #devil #devil-s-advocate

Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures. ↗

— Michael Novak

#awful #bishop #character #even #every

I was a really picky eater as a child. Because I was obsessed by Popeye, my mum and aunts would put my food in a can to represent spinach and we'd hum the Popeye tune and then I'd happily eat it. ↗

— Paul O'Grady

#because #child #eat #eater #food

It's become normal for me to walk on set as Popeye, Frankenstein or an Elf or even a chicken. ↗

— Paul O'Grady

#chicken #elf #even #frankenstein #me

Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice. ↗

— Olusegun Obasanjo

#country #dictatorship #fight #ii #injustice

Pope Benedict is an amazingly visionary person. What he has done is establish an evolutionary process that will help undo the Reformation. The Anglican Church has been hijacked by modernism, with synods trying to amend the faith and this process will allow traditional Anglicans to be themselves. ↗

— Peter Slipper

#amazingly #amend #anglican #been #church

It's just so hard sometimes to work out where people stand on these things. I mean, isn't the Pope a feminist? ↗

— Elizabeth Joan Smith

#hard #i #just #mean #out

I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third. ↗

— Muriel Spark

#first #i #maybe #pole #pope

Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one. ↗

— Pope John XXIII

#become #i #pope #proof

Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord. ↗