The bishop who has answered me has been obliged to acknowledge the fact, that the Books that compose the New Testament, were voted by yeas and nays to be the word of God, as you now vote a law, by the Popish councils of Nicea and Laodocia, about 1,450 years ago.
Catholic Quotes
The Catholic Church alone is the body of Christ.
For since it is the will of Divine providence that we should have the God-Man through Mary, there is no other way for us to receive Christ except from her hands.
It must be held as a matter of faith that outside the Apostolic Roman Church no one can be saved.
But the Roman Catholic Church is the enemy of intellectual liberty. It is the enemy of investigation. It is the enemy of free schools. That church always has been, always will be, the enemy of freedom. It works in the dark. When in the minority it is humility itself – when in power it is […]
That church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves;.
The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
It may be said that Luther and Comte endeavored to reform the Catholic Church. Both were mistaken, because the only reformation of which that church is capable is destruction. It is a mass of superstition.
The Catholic faith, indeed, wishes that devils should be something, and should be able to injure by their works.
If all the bones of all the victims of the Catholic Church could be gathered together, a monument higher than all the pyramids would rise.
