"Altars are profaned and broken, Christians tortured, women violated. ... Who will avenge these wrongs? On you, rests …"

"The church shall be catholic, chaste and free: catholic in faith and the communion of saints, chaste from all contagi…"

"Jesus had told his followers to love their enemies, not to exterminate them. He was a pacifist and had more in common…"

"It was at Clermont where, before a Council of several hundred prelates and thousands of clergy and laymen, he deliver…"

"Urban spoke with fervour and with all the art of a great orator. The response was immediate and tremendous. Cries of …"

"This same norm of Apostolic doctrine is firmly maintained by his (Peter's) successors, of him to whom the Lord entrus…"

"His own sanctity of life, severity of morals, and aversion to luxury made more resplendent his virtues and talents."

"God forgive you! What have you done?"

"A man of a spirit most pure and blameless. It was however remarked, half jestingly, that as he had come into the worl…"

"All the lands of the West have their eyes directed toward our humility; by them we are considered as a God upon earth."