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There was only one decline in church attendance, and that was in the late 1960s when the Vatican said it was not a sin to miss Mass. They said Catholics could act like Protestants, and so they did.

We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for freedom of expression.

The Catholic faith never changes. But the language and mode of manifesting this one faith can change according to peoples, times and places.

I hope that by going to visit the pope I have enabled everybody to see that the words Catholic and Protestant, as ordinarily used, are completely out of date. They are almost always used now purely for propaganda purposes. That is why so much trouble is caused by them.

Then suddenly the Roman liturgy disappeared as we knew it.

All you hear Catholics turning out these days are pop versions of the old Protestant anthems.

The Puritan has passed; the Catholic remains.

I was brought up Catholic and know the stench of the Catholic Church. I moved away from religion early, but the impression remains.

Every time the Catholic Church takes one step forward, it seems to take one giant step back.

It is uncomfortable to be reminded that the Catholic church only removed the reference to 'perfidious Jews' from the Good Friday liturgy in 1960.