Religion
- H.E. Dr. Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, Archbishop of Chicago (1996)
- H.E. Dr. Terence Cardinal Cooke, former Archbishop of New York (1984, posthumously)
- Sister M. Isolina Ferré (August 11, 1999)
- Dr. Billy Graham (1983)
- Gordon B. Hinckley (June 23, 2004)
- Archbishop Iakovos of America (1980)
- Reinhold Niebuhr (1964)
- His Holiness Pope John XXIII (December 6, 1963, posthumously)
- His Holiness Pope John Paul II (June 4, 2004)
- Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (March 26, 1984)
- Reverend Gardner C. Taylor (August 9, 2000)
- Mother Teresa (1985)
- H.G. The Most Rev. Dr. Desmond Tutu, Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town (August 12, 2009)
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“All Protestantism, even the most cold and passive, is a sort of dissent. But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance; it is the dissidence of dissent, and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
“They live together without king, without government, and each is his own master.... Beyond the fact that they have no church, no religion and are not idolaters, what more can I say? They live according to nature, and may be called Epicureans rather than Stoics.”
—Amerigo Vespucci (1454–1512)
“Where beauty is worshipped for beauty’s sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from edifying commentary on the religion of beauty.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)