#vatican

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

— Andres Serrano

#i #i think #smart #someday #think

Dr. Jacobus, I am walking out your doors right now. I need clothes. I am going to Vatican City. One does not go to Vatican City with ones ass hanging out. Do I make myself clear? ↗

— Dan Brown

#robert-langdon #vatican-city #humor

If you hack the Vatican server, have you tampered in God's domain? ↗

— Aaron Allston

#god #hack #server #tampered #vatican

The Vatican takes your breath away. ↗

— Joe Elliott

#breath #takes #vatican #your

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

Before Vatican II, in theology, as in other areas, the discipline was fixed. After the council there has been a revolution - a chaotic revolution - with free discussion on everything. There is now no common theology or philosophy as there was before. ↗

— Godfried Danneels

#areas #been #before #chaotic #common

Vatican II declares the Church... as necessary for salvation. ↗

— Francis Arinze

#declares #ii #necessary #salvation #vatican