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for the French clergy,
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He [Pope Benedict XVI] spoke of the distilled message of John Paul's reign: Be not afraid
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The Vatican takes your breath away.
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The church is something beautiful
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Sebastian it is. You can tell me what a patron saint is later, since I have no knowledge of such things. Sebastian Kane.
"Sebastian Kane Cannon. You're going to marry me and use my last name, right?"
"Is that supposed to be a proposal?
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I'm proud to be a Cardinal.
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All is lost. Monks, monks, monks!
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When the Good Lord begins to doubt the world, he remembers that he created Provence.
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Jerome has merited hell rather than heaven for it-so little would I dare to recognize or call him a saint.
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Benedictine spirituality is a consistent one: live life normally, live life thouhtfully, live life profouncly, live life well. Never neglect and never exaggerate. It is a lesson that a world full of cults and fads and workaholics and short courses in difficult subjects needs dearly to learn.
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Does the Pope shit in the woods?
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The Pope! How many divisions has he got?
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I find myself having these conversations where I go ... You know, the guy, in that place. The guy in the place with the thing, you know. And it becomes this game of charades. And then finally, we realize that I mean the Pope.
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How does St. Joseph exercise his role as protector? Discreetly, humbly and silently, but with an unfailing presence and utter fidelity, even when he finds it hard to understand.
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Saint Bo, a man christened with the miraculous ability to gentle horses, nervous women, and one year olds.
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Beware of bad Catholics.
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When I travel, I like to take advantage of room service. I'm really into eggs Benedict in the morning.
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The Catholic Church is like a thick steak, a glass of red wine, and a good cigar.
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We have been mentored from the very beginning by Catholic folks who are invigorating the best of the monastic spirit.
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And I myself a Catholic will be,
So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee.
Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow
On us, the Poets militant below.
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Benedictine spirituality, after all,
is life lived to the hilt.
It is a life of concentration
on life's ordinary dimensions.
It is an attempt to do
the ordinary things of life
extraordinarily well.
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Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, once a distant outpost of the pagan world, has become, through the preaching of the Gospel, a beloved and gifted portion of Christ's vineyard.
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Since God has been pleased to give us the Papacy, let us enjoy it.
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He said to the cardinal, I'm a peasant, not instructed in the ways of heaven. But I have never broken my word. And you, a Cardinal of the Catholic Church, with all your holy garments and crosses of Jesus, lied to me like a heathen Moor. Your sacred office alone will not save your life.
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Such a pity that he [GK Chesterton] became a Catholic.
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Buechner is a worthy member of the great prose stylists: Pascal, Newman, and Merton, who have harnessed their art to a passionate religious faith.
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I don't live in the papal residence. I live in a simple apartment behind the Vatican gas station.
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The pope dies, you get another pope.
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St. Thomas is really a great man quite apart from his saintliness.
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A deadly sins addendum is long overdue. Life has changed since Pope Gregory the Great scribbled his initial list in the sixth century.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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Rarely has a new player on the world stage captured so much attention so quickly - young and old, faithful and cynical - as has Pope Francis.
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Let us not forget: we are a pilgrim church, subject to misunderstanding, to persecution, but a church that walks serene, because it bears the force of love.
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O my God, how happy should I be to hear from Thy lips those words which Thou didst once address to Saint Thomas of Aquin: Thou hast spoken well of Me, Pierre!
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Cardinal Raymond Burke is a 66-year-old guy who lives in Rome, dresses like Queen Elizabeth, and talks like someone who majored in misogyny at some bogus, backwoods, Bible-banging tent school.
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How can Benedict Arnold be reliable in what he says?
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Dominic spelled it.
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Day offers two equally necessary sacraments - the benediction of morning and the absolution of dusk. In the morning coffee blesses and in the evening wine absolves.
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Martin Luther dreamed up Protestantism while sitting on the toilet at Wittenburg monastery, and we know what a big movement that became.
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The rabbit of Easter. He bring of the chocolate.
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In times gone by there lived a Count of Ponthieu, who loved chivalry and the pleasures of the world beyond measure, and moreover was a stout knight and a gallant gentleman
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What a terrible thing it would be to be the Pope! What unthinkable responsibilities to fall on your shoulders at an advanced age! No privacy. No seclusion. No sin.
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In the Catholic Worker we must try to have the voluntary poverty of St. Francis, the charity of St. Vincent de Paul, the intellectual approach of St. Dominic, the easy conversations about things that matter of St. Philip Neri, the manual labor of St. Benedict.
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Every moment brings us some benediction. Even the rough hand of trial holds in its clasp for us some treasure of love.
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To ... to ... What the heck to call a duke who 'comes a monk?"

"Brother?" Colin ventured.

Will shook his head. "A bit too familiar. How 'bout BrotherYourGrace?"

"Got it," Colin exclaimed. "Your Celibacy. Get it? Your Celibacy.
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Patron Saint of Failures St Birgitta of Sweden.
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Pope Francis might turn out to be one of the most popular figures in the world today.
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The Bog Kingdom. Bidding him enter! Ah, enter! There, all wishes are fulfilled. The more forbidden, the more delicious.
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Everywhere in the world there are ignorance and prejudice, but the greatest complex of these, with the most extensive prestige and the most intimate entanglement with traditional institutions, is the Roman Catholic Church.
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If (Declan) Kidney had gone for religion instead of teaching, he would have been Pope.
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Over the trackless past, somewhere, Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, Only regained by faith and prayer, Only recalled by prayer and plaint, Each lost day has its patron saint!
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Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
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Julian of Norwich,
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You say you're going to be the pope, become the pope.
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CARDINAL PANDULPH You hold too heinous a respect of grief. CONSTANCE He talks to me that never had a son.
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The emperor is in the Church, not about the Church.
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Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church
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Hey, Heaven? Dean Di Laurentis here. Thanks for letting me visit.
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I don't think we're going to see Pope Benedict write an encyclical about Harry Potter any time in the near future, but his first encyclical was on the theme of love." When
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In all "benedictions", be they expressing plea or thanksgiving, we affirm that God is the "source" of every bounty we enjoy and of every favour we seek.
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My dear pope, I will kiss your feet and acknowledge you as supreme bishop if you will worship my Christ and grant that through His death and resurrection, not through keeping your traditions, we have forgiveness of sins and life eternal.
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The sovereigns of the earth do not always grant audience readily; on the contrary, the King of Heaven, hidden under the eucharistic veils, is ready to receive anyone ...
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Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude also be; even as, wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church.
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Do you know what the title was of the Pope, which ought to be used? Servant of the servants of God. It's a little different from the stars. Stars are beautiful to look at. I like to look at them in the summer when the sky is clear. But the Pope must be, must be the servant of the servants of God.
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he's braw and pulchritudinous,
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Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.
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If you give me you, Lucien, then I promise. I'll give you me.
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Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity
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What did Dom Perignon say to fellow monks after he invented champagne? ... Come quickly, I am tasting the stars.
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Be a gift and a benediction.
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What baron or squire Or knight of the shire Lives half so well as a holy friar.
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May the Lord fill you with His blessings and with hatred of the Pope.
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A voluminous, prosaick, and drivelling Monk.
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Catholicism has you tracked and trailed for life
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She was a Roman Cardinal, chaste, but for the perfect choirboy.
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The Catholic Church has a dignity far surpassing that of every merely human society, for it was founded by Christ the Lord. It is altogether fitting, therefore, that the language it uses should be noble, majestic, and non-vernacular.
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In the Catholic Worker we mustrong>ststrong> try to have the voluntary poverty of St. Francis, the charity of St. Vincent de Paul, the intellectual approach of St. Dominic, the easy conversations about things that matter of St. Philip Neri, the manual labor of St. Benedict.
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And, like Christmas, Armand has brought gifts. But he is no fat, sweet Santa Claus who rewards the nice; he is the Lord of Misrule, the Abbot of Unreason in charge of scandalous fun.
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To the wickedness of the Papacy humanity owes much. The goodness of the Papacy owes a terrible debt to humanity.
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Cardinal Campeggio has implored Katherine to bow to the king's will, accept that her marriage is invalid and retire to a convent. Certainly, she says sweetly, she will become a nun: if the king will become a monk.
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There is no doubt that, if ever my heart were to call my master Chance by another name, I should make an excellent Catholic.
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Is the Pope Catholic. No I'm serious. I really need to know.
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I was educated by monks - I thank them dearly for the education they gave me, but I am no longer a Catholic.
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God is decreeing to begin some newand great period in his Church, even to the reforming of Reformation itself. What does he then but reveal Himself to his servants, and as his manner is, first to his Englishmen?
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Biographical Notes II. Evil and Redemption III. The Question of Baptism IV. Faith and Philosophy V. The Church, Mystical and Social VI. Syncretism and Catholicity
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The Catholic Church [with Pope John Paul II] has lost its shepherd. The world has lost a champion of human freedom.
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The Catholic Church has a tough new policy on child molestors: three strikes and you're a cardinal.
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A thousand years may elapse before there shall appear another man with a power of versification equal to that of Pope.
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What could be more natural for me than to look upon the Abbot as representing the highest human ideal worth striving for, just as the position of the humble village priest had appeared to my father in his own boyhood days?
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Clericalism: the habitual confusion between that which is of Caesar, and that of God.
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Between the Pope and air conditioning, I'd choose air conditioning.
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It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope.
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Kind words are benedictions. The are not only instruments of power, but of benevolence and courtesy; blessings both to the speaker and hearer of them.
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Does the Pope love Jesus?
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( ... ) after an early dinner at The Egg and We, a recently inaugurated and not very successful little restaurant which Pnin frequented from sheer sympathy with failure ( ... )
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"Benedetto" means the "blessed one" and I feel that I have truly been blessed.
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Saint Christopher, who said, Where can I get a Frank Sinatra medal? Never got a dinner!
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So far as English versification is concerned, Pope was the world, and all the world was Pope.
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His name is Rufus II-but the II is silent.
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To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines,
Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.