Pope Quotes

The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ's name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.

If I'm not mistaken, Sigmund Freud said that in every idealisation there's an aggression. Depicting the Pope as a sort of Superman, a star, is offensive to me. The pope is a man who laughs, cries, sleeps calmly and has friends like everyone else. A normal person.

I'd like to be pope. That would be my number one choice. No - I don't know, I have no preference. I must say we have a cardinal that happens to be out of a place called New York who's very good.

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!