Pope Francis Quotes
Being prophets may sometimes imply making waves. I do not know how to put it.... Prophecy makes noise, uproar, some say ‘a mess.’ But in reality, the charisma of religious people is like yeast: prophecy announces the spirit of the Gospel.
Jorge Mario Bergoglio. Prophecy makes people face the prospect of change. As with new technology, it often brings creative destruction along with the changes.
Francis, Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, Interview with Antonio Spadaro, America Magazine, August 2013
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This quotation, 500 years later, would be used by American anti-Catholics to justify their antipathy to the Catholic Church. This was about a most undemocratic statement about the common man and his capabilities which was completely counter to the American view. The fact that it was 500 years past or that many American Catholics did not believe it or that even if they did, it was restricted to matters of theological faith, was not considered by the Know-Nothings and others.
According to Fallaci, he had a psychotic episode in the middle of the interview and kept repeating the statement over and over again. She urged him to sit and kept repeating to him, “Yes, you are a prophet” each time he uttered the phrase and after a few minutes the episode subsided.
This quotation is one of the great religious ecumenical statements of history. Mani’s religion became extinct. Zoroaster was the prophet who founded the religion of Persia that preceded Islam and still has some followers. Like Judaism and Christianity, it is allowed under Islam as Mohammad had a large part of the Middle East who followed that religion.
Bush made religion a driver of his Presidency and policies in a way far in excess of other American Presidents. See {633550}. There has always been some debate as to whether he actually believed that or he was just saying it to pander to the religious conservatives who formed an important component of his base.
Those who argue that the United States is a Christian country often point to this quotation to illustrate the fundamental religious purpose to the Massachusetts Colonies
The Ethical Culture Society was founded as what many people call a secular religion. See {619942}.
Pope Francis is the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State. Francis is the first pope to be a member of the Society of Jesus, the first from the Americas, the first from the Southern Hemisphere, and the first pope from outside Europe since Gregory III, a Syrian who reigned in the 8th century.
