Catholic Quotes

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.

I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.

Thousands of volumes could not contain the crimes of the Catholic Church. They could not contain even the names of her victims.

An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.

I wasn’t raised Catholic, but I used to go to Mass with my friends, and I viewed the whole business as a lot of very enthralling hocus-pocus. There’s a guy hanging upon the wall in the church, nailed to a cross and dripping blood, and everybody’s blaming themselves for that man’s torment, but I said […]

We declare say, define and pronounce that it is absolutely necessary for the salvation of every human creature to be subjected to the Roman Pontiff

The church proposes; she imposes nothing. (Karol Wojtyla)