Latin Catholic Priest

🇮🇹Thomas Aquinas

Religion

scholasticism

1225–1274

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

🇪🇸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."

🇮🇹Pope John XXIII

Religion

1881–1963

"One of my favorite phrases that brings me great comfort: We are not on earth as museum keepers, but to cultivate a flourishing garden of life and to prepare a glorious future. The Pope is dead. Long live the Pope!"

🇨🇦Émile Chartier

Philosophy

1876–1963

"Thought is saying no, and it is to itself that thought says no."

🇮🇹Pope John Paul I

Religion

1912–1978

"I come without five lire. I want to leave without five lire."

Desiderius Erasmus

Philosophy

Renaissance philosophy

1466–1536

"A speech comes alive only if it rises from the heart, not if it floats on the lips."

🇮🇹Pope John Paul II

Religion

1920–2005

"The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn."

Pope Leo XIII

Religion

1810–1903

"Keller, Joseph Edward. The Life and Acts of Pope Leo XIII, Benziger, 1882"

🇮🇹John Bosco

Religion

1815–1888

"I'll wait for all my young people in heaven."

🇬🇧John of Salisbury

Philosophy

1110–1180

"A translation of the first three books of John of Salisbury's Policraticus."

Anselm of Canterbury

Religion

1033–1109

"God often works more by the life of the illiterate seeking the things that are God's, than by the ability of the learned seeking the things that are their own."

🇪🇸Baltasar Gracián

Philosophy

1601–1658

"The Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia in the original Spanish, with an English translation in progress"

🇩🇪Karl Rahner

Religion

1904–1984

"The devout Christian of the future will either be a 'mystic', one who has 'experienced' something, or he will cease to be anything at all."