二十世纪中期，约瑟夫·斯大林曾轻蔑地询问教皇管辖几个师，而四十年后，教皇制度依然完好无损，而斯大林的帝国却已经分崩离析。
In the middle of the twentieth century, Josef Stalin scornfully asked how many divisions the Pope had, but four decades later, the Papacy was still intact while Stalin’s empire had collapsed.