Leon Bertoletti

I call it "cut and paste journalism." It's very convenient, very easy, very useful. And very dishonest.

— Leon Bertoletti

Theology is just like sex, the art of penetrating the mystery.

— Leon Bertoletti

I prefer news without interviews to interviews without news.

— Leon Bertoletti

The Anglican Church seems the Wonder Emporium of Mr Magorium.

— Leon Bertoletti

Believe it or not, after the Second Vatican Council anticlericalism is a Catholic virtue. In elaborating a theology of laity, as many call it, and speaking of a hierarchy of service rather than of domination in the Church, Vatican II implicitly endorsed opposition to clericalism, which is a policy of maintaining or increasing the power of a religious hierarchy. Clearly, this sort of anticlericalism has nothing to do with the other anticlericalism.

— Leon Bertoletti

Suffering from an evident complex of moral inferiority, a lot of journalists are interested in teaching the Pope how to do the Pope. Suffering from an evident complex of moral superiority, a lot of priests are interested in teaching journalists how to do journalism. But the worst of all are the journalist-priests.

— Leon Bertoletti

The United Nations General Assembly: The greatest show on Earth, starring Barack Obama, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Muammar Gaddafi.

— Leon Bertoletti

Speaking frankly, I find it difficult to accept lessons on press freedom from The Times, a newspaper owned by Rupert Murdoch.

— Leon Bertoletti