Catholic Theologian

🇮🇹Thomas Aquinas

Religion

scholasticism

1225–1274

"One who liberates his country by killing a tyrant is to be praised and rewarded."

🇮🇹Pope Benedict XVI

Religion

1927–2022

"Unlimited trust should only be placed in the real Word of the Revelation that we encounter in the faith transmitted by the Church."

🇪🇸Ignatius of Loyola

Religion

1491–1556

"Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running with every horrible and disgusting poison."

🇵🇪Gustavo Gutiérrez

Religion

liberation theology

1928–2024

"Theology as critical reflection thus fulfills a liberating function for man and the Christian community, preserving them from fetishism and idolatry, as well as from a pernicious and belittling narcissism."

🇺🇸Larry Hogan

Politics

b. 1942

"According to a recent Gallup poll, nearly half of all Marylanders would leave the state if they could.  As a lifelong Marylander who loves this state – that just breaks my heart."

🇨🇦Jean Vanier

Philosophy

1928–2019

"I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes."

Anthony of Padua

Religion

1195–1231

"Sicut turris defendit castrum sic humilitas cordis defendit castitatem corporis a iaculis fornicationis."

🇩🇪Eugen Drewermann

Religion

b. 1940

"People are given a false alternative: the choice between an unenlightened belief and an enlightened unbelief. Most intellectuals seem to pay homage to the second variant."