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The pope is a very... passionate man. He likes to get out with the people, and with that comes a large security risk.

But to be the Vicar of Christ, to claim to exercise his prerogatives on earth, does involve a claim to his attributes, and therefore our opposition to Popery is opposition to a man claiming to be God.

Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.

The new pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world - not his own light, but that of Christ.

The pope is an intelligent man and realizes that time marches on. He says the Church has a long way to go in developing a real strategy that integrates women - but clearly he is baffled as to how to do it.

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.

Anybody can be Pope; the proof of this is that I have become one.

Romanists tell us that the Pope is the vicar of Christ; that he is his successor as the universal head and ruler of the Church on earth. If this is so, he must be a Christ.

In the annals of history, few men have left a more positive imprint on the world than Pope John Paul II.

A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.