The perpetrators of the Inquisition - the torturers, informers, and those who commanded their actions - were ecclesiastics of one rank or another. They were men of God - popes, bishops, friars, and priests.
I've had to remove all mirrors from my home. I just can't seem to look at myself without having to buff the bishop, you know?
Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church
Catholics don't scream about Jesus, they scream about the bishop.
As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly.
When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without the cross, we are not disciples of the Lord. We are worldly. We may be bishops, priests, cardinals, popes, all of this, but we are not disciples of the Lord.
A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.
All liaisons between homosexuals are conducted as though they were between a chorus girl and a bishop. In some cases both parties think they are bishops.
At one congressional hearing, Bishop Francis Kalabat complained that administration officials are overlooking what's happening to his fellow Chaldean Christians.
And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
The bishops eat from my hand.
Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be.
Seek out your bishop. He will show you how to repent and will help you do it.
We want to create, never mind the leaders or the bishops or chief rabbis or imams, or Popes. We want to create a grassroots movement where people will become attuned to uncompassionate discourse in the same way as we are now attuned to sort of gender imbalance in our speech.
JFK used to say the bishops and the cardinals were all Republicans, but the nuns were Democrats! I sort of believe that too.
If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop.
The Lord did nothing either of himself or through his apostles without his Father, with whom he is united; so too, you should undertake nothing without the bishop and the presbyters priests.
The whole life with a wife is like an end game with two bishops of different colors.
I was at a benefit for some imprisoned students in the '60s at San Francisco State, and there were lots of poets reading for the benefit: one was Elizabeth Bishop.
Inherent in the ordination to be bishop is both the right and the obligation to be directed by inspiration.