Pontifex Maximus Quotes

“Surely it is not unreasonable to expect the head of the Catholic Church to act in a manner that is relevant to the teaching, morals and principles of the individual claimed as its founder?”
― Christopher Lascelles, Pontifex Maximus: A Short History of the Popes

“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.” Blaise Pascal”
― Christopher Lascelles, Pontifex Maximus: A Short History of the Popes

“The religion builders have so distorted and deformed the doctrines of Jesus, so muffled them in mysticisms, fancies, and falsehoods, have caricatured them into forms so inconceivable as to shock reasonable thinkers…Happy in the prospect of a restoration of primitive Christianity, I must leave to younger persons to encounter and lop off the false branches which have been engrafted onto it by the mythologists of the middle and modern ages.” Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States”
― Christopher Lascelles, Pontifex Maximus: A Short History of the Popes