The Godmother Quotes

“The winner is the person who accepts who he or she is and gets on with his or her life; the loser is the person who spends his or her lifetime lamenting the unfairness of it all, does nothing, accomplishes nothing, and ends up embittered and, of course, with nothing.”
― Charles T. Murr, The Godmother: Madre Pascalina, a Feminine Tour de Force

“Social peace, world peace, is the extension of individual peace in our hearts.”
― Charles T. Murr, The Godmother: Madre Pascalina, a Feminine Tour de Force

“asked him why. His knee-jerk response was that, throughout history, religion was to blame for the greatest number of wars and deaths.” Mother Pascalina stared to laugh, “Ja, I’ve heard the same thing all my life. I heard it from the time I was a little girl.” “I asked this young man if he knew anything about twentieth century history, his own century. Then I gave him a few very conservative facts and figures: Hitler: 17 million victims; Stalin: 23 —though some have it at 40 million; Tito: 5 million; Mao: 79 million; Pol Pot: 1.5 million; Castro: 75,000, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. When I asked him what all of these progressivist dictators had in common, he just sat there looking at me. ‘They were all atheists, I said, ‘not a believer among them’.”
― Charles T. Murr, The Godmother: Madre Pascalina, a Feminine Tour de Force

“He apologized for having agreed to change the name of the orphanage from its original, Villa Pacelli, to Villa Francisco Javier Nuño. He explained that honoring the diocese’s first archbishop —a true hero of the Catholic Faith, who survived the bloody, Freemason, anti-Catholic persecution in Mexico, whose own father was executed by federal soldiers, hung from a tree for assisting at his son’s first Mass— meant so very much to the good men and women of Los Altos de Jalisco. He also explained that the humble archbishop, now gone to God, had meant a great deal to him as well.”
― Charles T. Murr, The Godmother: Madre Pascalina, a Feminine Tour de Force

“The Holy Father always said that this was the Left’s way of controlling the famous ‘dialogue’ they always want with the powers that be. And, as soon as they get a place at table, they begin their talks speaking a new language. Oh, they use the same old words, but they twist them; they give them different meanings. All”
― Charles T. Murr, The Godmother: Madre Pascalina, a Feminine Tour de Force

“We’ve talked about this before,” she said and proceeded to talk about it once more, “In Marxism, communism, socialism, and any other form of totalitarianism, nothing, but nothing, can be superior to the State. No human institution is above the State, no society is above the State, no individual is above the State, except, of course, the man and his men at the very top who claim to personify the State!”
― Charles T. Murr, The Godmother: Madre Pascalina, a Feminine Tour de Force

“The Left detests the nucleus of society and of civilization: the family. They detest the very idea of it. The family with its affection for each other, and its moral values, is beyond the Left’s control. Marx, remember, wanted the family unit —father, mother, children— obliterated.”
― Charles T. Murr, The Godmother: Madre Pascalina, a Feminine Tour de Force

“Now, if a woman can achieve what she wants to achieve and remain a woman, certainly there’s nothing wrong with that. But, when a woman is motivated by resentment, and hatred, and even envy; when she resents that she’s a woman, there you have a problem. Her real goal has changed. Whether she knows it or not —and I think, more often today, she does not— she is on the path to self-destruction.”
― Charles T. Murr, The Godmother: Madre Pascalina, a Feminine Tour de Force

“observers at his Council that he had no intention of condemning any errors the world was putting out at the time. Errors like modern-day atheism, materialism, socialism, communism, Marxism. Oh, no. His would not be a council to refute errors; his would not be like the other 20 Councils in the history of the Catholic Church. His would be a pastoral, not a doctrinal council.”
― Charles T. Murr, The Godmother: Madre Pascalina, a Feminine Tour de Force

“wanted a council that would bring a halt to the continuing modernist heresy; including a resounding condemnation of atheistic communism.”
― Charles T. Murr, The Godmother: Madre Pascalina, a Feminine Tour de Force