Weekend Words: Pope
Last Sunday, Pope Francis wound up his eight-day, three-country tour of Latin America —home to the world’s largest Catholic population — where he called unfettered capitalism “the dung of the devil.”
Last Sunday, Pope Francis wound up his eight-day, three-country tour of Latin America —home to the world’s largest Catholic population — where he called unfettered capitalism “the dung of the devil.”
My mother said to me, “If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the pope.” Instead, I was a painter and I became Picasso.
—Pablo Picasso
Why should we take sex advice from the pope. If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t.
—George Bernard Shaw
I am an atheist, and if an atheist and the pope think the same things there must be something true. It’s as simple as that.
—Oriana Fallaci
Go ahead on now,
You’re getting in the way of things, Lord.
And please take Saint Gandhi with you when you go.
And Saint Pope Pius,
And Saint Aimee McPherson,
And big black Saint Becton,
Of the Consecrated Dime.
And step on the gas, Christ!
Move!
Don’t be so slow about movin’!
The world is mine from now on —
And nobody’s gonna sell ME
To a king, or a general,
Or a millionaire.
—Langston Hughes, “Goodbye Christ”
In a private audience, Pope Paul told me he had read the novel [The Power and the Glory] and liked it. “Parts of your novels will always offend some Catholics, but you should not bother.”
—Graham Greene
It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.
—Pope John XXIII
The pope smokes dope,
God gave him the grass.
The pope smokes dope,
He likes to smoke in mass.
—David Peel
The Devil beget darkness; darkness beget ignorance; ignorance beget error and his brethren; error beget free-will and presumption; free-will beget works; works beget forgetfulness of God; forgetfulness beget transgression; transgression beget superstition; superstition beget satisfaction; satisfaction beget the mass-offering; the mass-offering beget the priest; the priest beget unbelief; unbelief beget hypocrisy; hypocrisy beget traffic in offerings for gain; traffic in offerings for gain beget Purgatory; Purgatory beget the annual solemn vigils; the annual vigils beget church-livings; church-livings beget avarice; avarice beget swelling superfluity; swelling superfluity beget fullness; fullness beget rage; rage beget license; license beget empire and domination; domination beget pomp; pomp beget ambition; ambition beget simony; simony beget the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity.
—Martin Luther
