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Concerning St. Isaac Jogues and the Missionaries to the North American savages, c. 1642: “The deadliest obstacles, the missionaries found, to their efforts to Christianize the Hurons were the multitudinous forms of superstition, sorcery and devil worship… Controlling, and an essential part of this system of preternatural influences were the sorcerers… All of the sorcerers claimed a preternatural origin and boasted of being in communication with the spirits. The missionaries discovered that many of their practices were trickery and charlatanism, but attributed others to the direct intervention of the devil. The cabins and huts where they held their séances were oftentimes violently shaken; they themselves would stuff live coals into their mouths without being burned or would thrust their arms into boiling water without being scalded. The rites and ceremonies they conducted were so indecent and revolting that they surpassed unaided human invention.” (Saint Among Savages, pp. 116-117)
St. John Chrysostom (c. 386): “The baptism of John had not the power to forgive; this being the gift of the baptism that was given later [the Sacrament of Baptism]; for it was in this later baptism that we were buried together with Christ, and our old man was at the same time crucified with Him; and before the Cross nowhere hath forgiveness appeared, for this is everywhere attributed to His Blood.”
St. Bernard (c. 1130): “And so they perish. In this wide and spacious sea so perish those unhappy ones, who, clutching hard at transitory things, lose what is enduring, of which had they taken hold they might have escaped [Hell] and saved their immortal souls.”
Pope Pius IX, First Vatican Council, Session 3, On God the Creator of all things, Can. 1: “If anyone shall have denied the one true God, Creator and Lord of visible and invisible things: let him be anathema.”
Pope St. Gregory VII: “… the way of a man is not in his own hand and the steps of a man are guided by the Lord [Prov. 20:24]…” (Dec. 7, 1074)
Pope Pius VII: (1800): “There has never been an enemy of the Christian religion who was not simultaneously at wicked war with the See of St. Peter…” (Diu satis #6)
St. John Chrysostom (c. 386): “For the present life is the time for doing good; after death there is but judgment and justice; for it is written: in hell who shall confess thee (Ps. 6:6).”
“Christian burial is refused to suicides (this prohibition is as old as the fourth century)…” (The Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. 3, p. 72)
“He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the just, both are abominable before God.” (Proverbs 17:15)
St. Bernard (c. 1130): “For Lucifer, who didst rise in the morning (Is. 14:12), aspired in his mind to be like the Most High… but being cast headlong down he was ruined… Then suddenly, I saw Satan like lightning falling from heaven (Luke 10:18).”
St. Teresa of Avila (c. 1582): “Would that I could persuade all men to be devoted to this glorious Saint [St. Joseph], for I know by long experience what blessings he can obtain for us from God. I have never known anyone who was truly devoted to him and honored him by particular services who did not advance greatly in virtue: for he helps in a special way those souls who commend themselves to him. . . I ask for the love of God that he who does not believe me will make the trial for himself—then he will find out by experience the great good that results from commending oneself to this glorious Patriarch and in being devoted to him.” (From her Autobiography, VI, 11-12)
“But the Lord is the true God: he is the living God, and the everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his threatening.” (Jeremias 10:10)
“In October, 1601 there occurred to St. Lawrence of Brindisi the most remarkable event of a truly remarkable career… The Christian army was greatly outnumbered by the Turks, having perhaps 18,000 to oppose more than 60,000 of the Turks… St. Lawrence spoke to the men. He said he would march at their head with the cross, to fight the enemies of the Cross [the Muslims]… St. Lawrence rode into the thick of the battle, holding the cross aloft. Cannonballs, bullets, arrows whizzed all around him. Scimitars flashed at him, yet he went through it all unscathed… The field commander, the Duc de Mercoeur, conceded that ‘the victory, which was truly miraculous, was, after God and the Blessed Virgin, due to the Capuchin [St. Lawrence]… The events of the battle… were witnessed by Catholic, Protestant and Turk. Some of the Protestant witnesses became Catholics because of St. Lawrence’s part in the battle; the Turks thought he was a magician.” (33 Doctors of the Church, p. 551)
Pope Benedict XIV, Nuper ad nos, March 16, 1743, Profession of Faith: “Likewise (I profess) that baptism is necessary for salvation, and hence, if there is imminent danger of death, it should be conferred at once and without delay, and that it is valid if conferred with the right matter and form and intention by anyone, and at any time.”
Proverbs 14:12- “Sometimes a way seems right to a man, but the end of it leads to death.”
Pope Leo XIII (1884): “… the Catholic religion, which, as it is the only one that is true, cannot, without great injustice, be regarded as merely equal to other religions.” (Encyclical, Humanum Genus)
“He who would gather virtue without humility, carries dust against the wind; and where he seems to possess something, from the same is he blinded and made worse.” (Pope St. Gregory the Great, c. 600)
St. Jerome (c. 380): “My words are spoken to the successor of the Fisherman, to the disciple of the Cross. As I follow no leader save Christ, so I communicate with none but Your Blessedness [Pope St. Damasus], that is, with the Chair of Peter. For this I know is the rock on which the Church is built. This is the house where alone the Paschal Lamb can rightly be eaten. This is the Ark of Noah, and he who is not found in it shall perish when the flood prevails.”
Pope St. Gregory the Great (c. 600): “Whosoever therefore lifts up his heart in pride, whosoever burns with the fever of avarice, whosoever soils himself with the defilement of lust, closes the gate of his heart against the entrance of Truth, and, lest the Lord gain entrance, he fastens the gates with the locks of evil habits.”
“The Christian religion was declared the religion of the Roman Empire by Theodosius in 392 A.D., and pagan worship was condemned as high treason.”
St. Louis De Montfort (c.1710): “True devotion to our Lady is holy; that is to say, it leads the soul to avoid sin and to imitate the virtues of the Blessed Virgin, particularly her profound humility, her lively faith, her blind obedience [to God], her continual prayer, her universal mortification, her divine purity, her ardent charity, her heroic patience, her angelical sweetness and her divine wisdom. These are the ten principal virtues of the most holy Virgin.” (True Devotion to Mary #108)
Pope St. Gregory VII: “For if we were prepared silently to fall in with the princes and powerful men of your land in reigning according to their own desire and trampling underfoot the righteousness of God, then we might assuredly have from them friendships, gifts, obeisances, praise, and magnificent expressions of esteem. Because this is in no way compatible with the place in which we are and with the office which we hold, there is nothing which, under his protection, might separate us from the charity of Christ; for it is safer for us to die than to forsake His law, or for the glory of the world to respect the persons of the ungodly...”
St. Bruno (c. 1070): “He hath a demon within him who persists in any grave sin.”
St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, Pt. III, Q. 47, A. 2, Reply to Obj. 2: “Christ likewise by His Passion fulfilled the ceremonial precepts of the [Old] Law, which are chiefly ordained for sacrifices and oblations, insofar as all the ancient sacrifices were figures of that true sacrifice which Christ by dying offered for us. Hence it is written (Col. 2:16-17): Let no man judge you in meat or drink, or in respect of a festival day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbaths, which are a shadow of things to come, but the body is Christ’s, for the reason that Christ is compared to them as a body is to a shadow.”
“Nicholas of Nice, speaking of the fire of Hell, says that nothing on earth could give an idea of it. He adds that if all the trees of the forests were cut down, piled into a vast heap and set on fire, this terrible pile would not be a spark of Hell.”
Pope Leo XIII (1885): “…Catholic faith cannot be reconciled with opinions verging on naturalism or rationalism, the essence of which is utterly to do away with Christian institutions and to install in society the supremacy of man to the exclusion of God.” (Immortale Dei #47)
St. Francis Xavier, Jan. 1548: “When I was at Malacca I established the custom that at the beginning of night the souls in Purgatory, and the souls of the living who are in a state of worldly sin, should be recommended to the prayers of the pious in all the streets. This practice not only encouraged the good, but threw terror into the wicked. The city appointed a man for the purpose… with a lantern in one hand and a bell in the other, and calling out from time to time in a loud voice… ‘Pray for the souls of the faithful Christians who are suffering in Purgatory’; and then, ‘Pray also for those who, lying under the burden of mortal sin, take no pains to be delivered from it.’”
Pope Pius XII (1943), June 29, 1943: “But let this be a general and unshaken truth, if they do not wish to wander from sound doctrine and the correct teaching of the Church: namely, every kind of mystic union, by which the faithful in Christ in any way pass beyond the order of created things and wrongly enter among the divine, so that even a single attribute of the eternal Godhead can be predicated of these as their own, is to be entirely rejected.” (Mystici Corporis Christi # 78)
St. Louis De Montfort (c. 1710): “By this practice [the True Devotion to Mary which he teaches], faithfully observed, you will give Jesus more glory in a month than by any other practice, however difficult, in many years…” (True Devotion to Mary #222)
Acts 14:22- “… through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.”
St. Alphonsus (c. 1760): “… rightly was devotion to Our Lady called by St. Ephrem the passport of escape from hell.” (The Glories of Mary, p. 258)
St. John Chrysostom: “For it is the special character of true faith, that it asks for no reasons for the precepts laid upon it, but simply obeys what is commanded.”
St. Patrick: (c. 470) on his missionary journeys: “I went to you and everywhere for your sake in many dangers, even to the farthest districts, beyond which there lived nobody and where nobody had ever come to baptize, to ordain clergy, or to confirm people.”
Pope Pius X (1905): “And so Our Predecessor, Benedict XIV, had just cause to write: ‘We declare that a great number of those who are condemned to eternal punishment suffer that everlasting calamity because of ignorance of those mysteries of faith which must be known and believed in order to be numbered among the elect.’” (Acerbo Nimis #2)
Padre Pio (1915): “This dreadful war [World War I] will indeed be a time of salutary purification for Italy and for God’s Church. It will reawaken in Italian hearts the faith that was hidden away, drowsy, as it were, and suffocated for lack of good will. It will bring forth most beautiful flowers in God’s Church in a soil that had become parched and dry…”
Second Council of Nicea, 787: “Anathema to those who apply the words of Holy Scripture which were spoken against idols, to the venerable images.”
“Wars,” remarked Jacinta of Fatima, “are nothing but punishments for the sins of the world.” (Our Lady of Fatima, p. 178.)
St. Aphraates (c. 345): “When our Lord gave the Sacrament of Baptism to His apostles, He said thus to them: Whosoever believes and is baptized shall live, and whosoever believes not shall be condemned.” (Demonstration 1: Of Faith, #17)
St. Benedict (c. 520): “The first degree of humility, then, is that a man always have the fear of God before his eyes, shunning all forgetfulness and that he be ever mindful of all that God has commanded, that he always considers in his mind how those who despise God will burn in hell for their sins, and that life everlasting is prepared for those who fear God.”
Pope Pius IX, Vatican I, 1870: “… no one can ‘assent to the preaching of the Gospel,’ as he must to attain salvation, without the illumination and inspiration of the Holy Spirit, who gives to all a sweetness in consenting to and believing the truth.”
“Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck: and a night and a day was I in the depth of the sea. In journeys often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own nation, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils of the city, in perils of the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils from false brethren.” (St. Paul, 2 Corinthians 11:25-26)
Pope St. Leo the Great: “… nor is it to be disputed that he who is loved by the assailants of the Faith must be a misbeliever.” (Letter 109, Nov. 25, 452)
St. Alphonsus Liguori (c. 1760): “Say also, every day, three ‘Our Fathers’ and three ‘Hail Marys’ in honor of the Most Holy Trinity, for the graces bestowed upon Mary. The Blessed Virgin once revealed that this devotion is very pleasing to her.”
Jude 1:3 “Dearly beloved… I was under a necessity to write to you, to beseech you to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints.”
St. Louis De Montfort (1710): “The word ‘Rosary’ means ‘Crown of Roses,’ that is to say that every time people say the Rosary devoutly they place a crown of one hundred and fifty-three white roses and sixteen red roses upon the heads of Jesus and Mary.” (The Secret of the Rosary, p. 26.)
Pope Julius III, Council of Trent (1551): “If anyone says that those words of the Savior: ‘Receive ye the Holy Ghost; whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them; and whose sins ye shall retain, they are retained’ (John 20:22ff.), are not to be understood of the power of remitting and retaining sins in the sacrament of penance, as the Catholic Church has always understood from the beginning… let him be anathema.” (Denz. 913)
St. Cyril (350): “If anyone harbors hypocrisy even in secret, God rejects that man as unfit for true service. But whoever is found worthy, to him He readily gives His grace. Holy things He does not give to dogs; but where He perceives a good conscience, there He gives the wondrous and salvific sea, at which demons tremble and which angels recognize.”
Pope St. Leo the Great (c. 450): “For whoever is led away from the path of the true faith, and changed to another, his whole journey is an apostasy; and the further he travels from the Catholic light, the nearer he comes to the darkness of death.”
St. Gregory Nazianzen: “… the wicked are very quick to gang up with the wicked… The proof is this: my closest friends who had recently shown me respect, now scorned me.”
Pope Leo XIII (1900): “But this supremacy of man, which openly rejects Christ, or at least ignores Him, is entirely founded upon selfishness, knowing neither charity nor self-devotion.” (Tametsi Futura #7)
To the person who was about to martyr him, St. Polycarp (A.D. 69-155) said: “You threaten fire that burns for a moment and is soon extinguished, for you know nothing of the judgment to come, and the fire of eternal punishment reserved for the wicked. But why do you delay? Bring what you wish.’” (Eusebius of Caesarea, Ecclesiastical History, Book 4, Chap. 15)
St. Robert Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice, Book 2, Chap. 30: “Melchior Cano teaches that heretics are neither parts nor members of the Church, and… he teaches that it’s inconceivable that someone is the head and pope who is not a member or a part…”
“Presently Francisco did begin to grasp what the Angel had meant by sacrifices. From that day forth he vied with the girls in giving up little pleasures and satisfactions for the sinners of the world. All three would spend hours at a time lying prostrate on the ground, repeating over and over again the prayer that the Angel had taught.” (Our Lady of Fatima, p. 41.)
Pope Leo XIII, Apostolicae Curae, 1896: “… by Our authority, of Our own inspiration and certain knowledge We pronounce and declare that ordinations enacted according to the Anglican rite have hitherto been and are invalid and entirely void…” (Denz. 1966)
In 1830 St. Catherine Laboure saw a vision of Our Lady. She saw beams of light from the jewels on Our Lady’s hands going down toward the earth, and she observed jewels without such beams. Wondering about this, she asked Our Lady, who answered: “These are the graces men fail to ask of me!”
“I reject the heretical invention of the evolution of dogmas, passing from one meaning to another, different from that which the Church first had.” (Pope Pius X, The Oath Against Modernism, A.D. 1910)
Pope St. Leo the Great: “The desire to hurt us is indeed ever active in the tempter, but he will be disarmed and powerless, if he find no vantage ground within us from which to attack us.” (Sermon 78)
St. Alphonsus (c. 1760): “See also the special love which God has shown you in bringing you into life in a Christian country, and in the bosom of the Catholic or true Church. How many are born among the pagans, among the Jews, among the Mohammedans and heretics, and all are lost.”
St. Patrick (450): “The miseries of Hell, as they truly are, no tongue can tell; no mind can conceive; for in their reality they are far more dreadful than they are thought to be.”
St. Aphraates (336): “And Jesus handed over the keys to Simon, and ascended and returned to Him who had sent Him.”
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