#vatican

The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#heart #italy #vatican

I think if the Vatican is smart, someday they'll collect my work. ↗

— Andres Serrano

#i #i think #smart #someday #think

The Vatican won't prosecute pedophile priests but I decide I'm not ready for motherhood and it's condemnation for me? These are the same people that won't support national condom distribution that PREVENTS teenage pregnancy. ↗

— Sonya Renee Taylor

#catholic #feminism #feminist #motherhood #organized-religion

The Vatican takes your breath away. ↗

— Joe Elliott

#breath #takes #vatican #your

That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle that the Vatican has overlooked. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#couples #day #live #married #married couples

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

It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope. ↗

— Robert Hughes

#gossip #inside #vatican