George Carlin  - Quotes

 I HAVE JUST AS MUCH AUTHORITY AS THE POPE!... its just that fewer people believe that I do. 

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Frank Herbert  - Quotes

 In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other.

That was the end of holiness for both churches.
 

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Christopher Hitchens  - Quotes

 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 

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Pope Benedict XVI  - Quotes

 The State which would provide everything, absorbing everything into itself, would ultimately become a mere bureaucracy incapable of guaranteeing the very thing which the suffering person 

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Pope Benedict XVI  - Quotes

 Without God man neither knows which way to go, nor even understands who he is... One of the deepest forms of poverty a person can experience is isolation... Poverty is often produced by a rejection of God's love, by man's basic and tragic tendency to close in on himself, thinking himself to be self-sufficient or merely an insignificant and ephemeral fact, a  

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