- Cardinal Aguirre: I don't understand. Who is the pope now?
- Cardinal Angelo Voiello: Shut up and pray, idiot.
- Bauer: Voiello, I need you to explain something to me. Why would some Catholics try to kill others Catholics?
- Cardinal Angelo Voiello: Because fanaticism and obtuseness are one and the same thing.
- Sir John Brannox: 'There is no place for you here,' they told us with their silence. 'Then where is our place?' we implored them with our silence. We never received that reply. But now we know, yes. We know our place. Our place is here. Our place is the Church. Cardinal Biffi said it first and in an astonishingly simple way. We are all miserable wretches whom God brought together to form a glorious Church. Yes, we are all miserable wretches. Yes, we are all the same. And yes, we are the forgotten ones. But no longer. From this day forth, we shall no longer be forgotten. I assure you, they will remember us, because we are the Church.
- Lenny Belardo: You know what is so beautiful about questions? It's that we don't have the answers. In the end, only God has the answers. They're his secret. God's secret that only he knows. That is the mystery in which we believe. And that is the mystery that guides our conscience.
- Lenny Belardo: There is a lifetime of happiness in the sphere of gentleness, kindness, lovingness. We must learn to be in the world, and the Church must contemplate the idea of opening up to the love that is possible in order to fight against the love that is abhorrent.