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Pope Leo XIII: “The best and most efficacious example for the children is the lives of their parents. Parents must realize that they can provide for their [children’s] education properly and well only by exercising great vigilance... they must avoid [schools]… where errors concerning religion are deliberately interspersed with the teaching, or where impiety reigns…” (Caritatis #5, March 19, 1894)
Jude 1:7 -“As Sodom and Gomorrha, and the neighbouring cities, in like manner, having given themselves to fornication, and going after strange flesh, were made an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.”
St. Isaac Jogues (Missionary to the North American pagans, 1642): “Indeed, under the influence of that terrific hate of the savages, I suffered beyond telling from the cold, from the contempt of the basest of them, from the furious ill temper of the women… Great hunger, also, I had to endure. Since nearly all the venison, and on the hunt they eat scarcely anything else, was offered in sacrifice to the demons, I spent many days without eating… I suffered greatly from the cold, in the midst of the deep snows, with nothing to wear but a short and threadbare cloak… Though they had plenty of deerskins, many of which they were not using, they would give me none. Sometimes, on an extremely bitter night, shivering from the cold, I would take one of the skins secretly; as soon as they discovered it, they would rise up and take it away from me. That shows how terribly much they hated me… My skin was split open with the cold, all over my body, and caused me intense pain.” (Saint Among Savages, pp. 267-268)
St. Francis Xavier (1545): “When all are baptized I order the temples of their false gods to be destroyed and all the idols to be broken in pieces. I can give you no idea of the joy I feel in seeing this done, witnessing the destruction of the idols by the people who lately adored them…When I have done all this in one place, I pass to another… In this way I go all around the country, bringing the natives into the fold of Jesus Christ, and the joy I feel in this is far too great to be expressed…”
St. Gregory Nazianzen, Oration 7.22: “O you sons of men... how long will you be hard-hearted and gross in mind? Why do ye love vanity... supposing life here to be a great thing and these few days many, and shrinking from this separation, welcome and pleasant as it is, as if it were really grievous and awful?”
Pope Leo XIII: “… no gift of God either to individuals or to nations is greater than to receive by His grace the Catholic faith, and having received it, to keep it with perseverance. This gift contains an abundance of other gifts…” (Quod Multum #2, Aug. 22, 1886)
St. Alphonsus (c. 1760): “Worldlings are blind to the things of God; they do not comprehend the happiness of eternal glory, in comparison with which the pleasures of this world are but wretchedness and misery. If they had just notions, and a lively sense of the glory of paradise, they would assuredly abandon their possessions, even kings would abdicate their crowns – and, quitting the world… they would retire into the cloister to secure their eternal salvation.”
“Do you see that by works a man is justified; and not by faith alone?” (James 2:24)
“To many this seems a hard saying: ‘Deny thyself, take up thy cross, and follow Jesus.’ (Matt. 16:24). But it will be much harder to hear that last word: ‘Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire’ (Matt. 25:41).” (Imitation of Christ, p. 119.)
St. Alphonsus Liguori (c. 1760): “How many are born among the pagans, among the Jews, among the Mohammedans and heretics, and all are lost.” (Sermons)
“I bring you good tidings of great joy, that shall be to all the people: For, this day, is born to you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord, in the city of David… And suddenly there was with the angel a great multitude of the heavenly army, praising God, and saying: Glory to God in the highest; and on earth peace to men of good will.” (Luke 2:10-14)
“For a Child is born to us, and a son is given to us, and the government is upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called, Wonderful, Counsellor, God the Mighty, the Father of the World to come, the Prince of Peace.” (Isaias 9:6)
“If the world hates you, know that it hated me before you. If you had been of the world, the world would love its own, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.” (John 15:18-19)
Pope Leo XII (1824): “It is impossible for the most true God, who is Truth itself, the best, the wisest Provider, and the Rewarder of good men, to approve all sects who profess false teachings which are often inconsistent with one another and contradictory, and to confer eternal rewards on their members… by divine faith we hold one Lord, one faith, one baptism… This is why we profess that there is no salvation outside the Church.” (Ubi Primum #14)
At the beginning of his missionary journey, 1634, St. Isaac “Jogues hardened himself against the long hours of crouching in the canoe, to the gnawings of hunger, to the monotonous sway of the boat, to the scorching heat of the sun, to the desolate loneliness, to the profound silences… in the nights he learned not to be disturbed by the fearsomeness of the terrible blackness, of the breathing forests, by the wail of the beast…” (Saint Among Savages, p. 68)
St. Fulgence (526): “Hold most firmly and never doubt in the least that not only all the pagans but also all the Jews and all the heretics and schismatics who end this present life outside the Catholic Church are about to go into the eternal fire that was prepared for the devil and his angels.”
[When St. Rene Goupil, St. Isaac Jogues and companions were captured by the Iroquois in NY on a missionary journey in 1642]: “The executioners chose Rene Goupil as the next victim. They sawed off the thumb of his right hand with an oyster shell. So much blood spurted out that they feared he would die [they wanted to torture him more or trade him]… Then they turned to Couture… They pricked him with awls and pointed stakes, carved off shreds of his flesh, burned him with firebrands and glowing irons, until he fell lifeless under their cruelties… One of them discovered [later] that two of Couture’s fingers had been left intact… Towering with rage… he began to saw off the index finger of his right hand with the ragged edge of a shell. He pressed down with all his might on the flesh and tore it, but he could not sever the tendons… Frenzied, he gripped the finger and twisted it until he tore it out, dragging with it a tendon as long as the palm.” (Saint Among Savages, pp. 219,221)
2 Cor. 4:3: “And if our gospel be also hid, it is hid to them that are lost, in whom the god of this world [that is, Satan] hath blinded the minds of unbelievers, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine unto them.”
Psalm 53:2- “God looks down from Heaven upon the sons of men to see if there are any who are wise, who seek after God.”
Pope Leo XIII (1885): “It is not lawful for the State, any more than for the individual, either to disregard all religious duties or to hold in equal favor different kinds of religion… This then is the teaching of the Catholic Church concerning the Constitution of the State.” (Immortale Dei # 34-36)
“And David said: The Lord who delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine [Goliath]. And Saul said to David: Go, and the Lord be with thee.” (1 Kings 17:37)
Pope Leo XII (1824): “It is impossible for the most true God, who is Truth itself, the best, the wisest Provider, and the Rewarder of good men, to approve all sects who profess false teachings which are often inconsistent with one another and contradictory, and to confer eternal rewards on their members… by divine faith we hold one Lord, one faith, one baptism… This is why we profess that there is no salvation outside the Church.” (Ubi Primum # 14)
“By the middle of the afternoon [the three Fatima children] were ravenously hungry, and went looking about the moor [the land] for something to eat. Francisco tried some of the acorns of an azinheira which were now green enough to be edible, and found them palatable. Jacinta decided that if they were so good it would be no sacrifice to eat them. Instead, she picked up some acorns of a different sort under a large oak and began to munch them. Yes, they were bitter, she admitted. But she would offer the bad taste for the conversion of sinners.” (Our Lady of Fatima, p. 58.)
Pope Leo XIII (1888): “Justice therefore forbids, and reason itself forbids, the State to be godless; or to adopt a line of action which would end in godlessness – namely, to treat the various religions (as they call them) alike, and to bestow upon them promiscuously equal rights and privileges. Since, then, the profession of one religion is necessary in the State, that religion must be professed which alone is true…” (Libertas # 21)
St. Alphonsus (c. 1760): “All the damned have been lost through not praying. If they had prayed, they would not have been lost. And this is, and will be, their greatest torment in hell, to think how easily they might have been saved, only by asking God for his grace; but that now it is too late– the time of prayer is over.”
Syllabus of Errors, # 77: “In this age of ours it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be the only religion of the state, to the exclusion of all other cults whatsoever.” – Condemned by Pope Pius IX, Dec. 8, 1864
St. Alphonsus (c. 1760): “… the princes and monarchs of the earth… nothing remains of them but a marble tomb… which now serves to teach us that all that is left of the great ones of this world is a little dust enclosed in a tomb. St. Bernard asks: ‘Tell me, where are the lovers of this world?’ and he replies, ‘Nothing remains of them but ashes and worms.’”
Pope Pius IX (1862): “… whoever eats of the Lamb and is not a member of the Church, has profaned.” (Amantissimus # 3)
“Blessed are they who wash their robes in the blood of the Lamb: that they may have a right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates of the city. Without are dogs, and sorcerers, and unchaste, and murderers, and every one that loves and makes a lie.” (Apoc. 22:14-15)
Pope Paul III (1547): “If anyone shall say that in the three sacraments, namely, baptism, confirmation, and orders, there is not imprinted on the soul a sign, that is, a certain spiritual and indelible mark, on account of which they cannot be repeated: let him be anathema.” (Council of Trent, Can. 9 on the Sacraments)
“[As a Jesuit Novice, 1625] the thoughts of [St.] Isaac Jogues visioned a future in which he might spend himself utterly in the service of God. He conceived the ambition of faring out into the far lands of the pagans and infidels as missionary. His imagination carried him off to the apostolate of India, where St. Francis Xavier had converted thousands; to China and Japan, where the Jesuits were combating the bonzes; to the Americas, where were whole continents yet unknown and millions of souls to save.” (Francis Talbot, Saint Among Savages)
Pope Pius IV (1565): “Also all other things taught, defined, and declared by the sacred canons and ecumenical Councils, and especially the sacred and holy Synod of Trent, I without hesitation accept and profess.” (Profession of Faith at The Council of Trent)
Pope St. Pius V, Regnans in Excelsis, Feb. 25, 1570: “He who reigns on high, to whom is given all power in heaven and earth, has committed one holy Catholic and apostolic Church, outside of which there is no salvation, to one alone upon earth, namely to Peter, the first of the apostles, and to Peter’s successor, the pope of Rome, to be by him governed in fullness of power.”
Pope St. Pius V, Regnans in Excelsis, Feb. 25, 1570: “… the number of the ungodly has so much grown in power that there is no place left in the world which they have not tried to corrupt with their most wicked doctrines.”
St. Alphonsus (c. 1760): “Worldly goods can never satisfy the cravings of the human soul... man can never enjoy happiness except in possession of the divinity. The experience of ages proves this truth; for if the goods of this life could content the heart of man, kings and princes, who abound in riches, honors, and carnal pleasures, should spend their days in pure unalloyed bliss and felicity. But history and experience attest that they are the most unhappy and discontented of men…”
Pope Paul III, Council of Trent, Sess. 6: “But although Christ died for all, yet not all receive the benefit of His death, but those only to whom the merit of His Passion is communicated.”
St. Alphonsus (c. 1760): “God, says St. Augustine, sits on high; you humble yourself, and He descends to you; you exalt yourself, and he flies from you… He regards the humble with an affectionate eye, but the proud he beholds only at a distance.”
St. Alphonsus Liguori (1787): “If ever a pope, as a private person, should fall into heresy, he would at once fall from the pontificate.”
“And I say to you, Ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and you shall find: knock, and it shall be opened. For everyone that asks, receives; and he that seeks, finds…” (Luke 11:9-10)
Pope St. Leo IX, April 13, 1053: “I believe that the one true Church is holy, Catholic and apostolic, in which is given one baptism and the true remission of all sins. I also believe in a true resurrection of this body, which I now bear, and in eternal life.” (Congratulamur Vehementer)
Pope St. Gregory the Great (c. 600), on the fewness of the saved: “The more the wicked abound, so much the more must we suffer with them in patience; for on the threshing floor few are the grains carried into the barns, but high are the piles of chaff burned with fire.”
Pope Pius XI (1925): “Not least among the blessings which have resulted from the public and legitimate honor paid to the Blessed Virgin and the saints is the perfect and perpetual immunity of the Church from error and heresy.” (Quas Primas # 22)
St. Alphonsus (c. 1760): “My brother, if you wish to live well, endeavor to live during the remainder of your life in the presence of death. ‘O death, thy judgment is good’ (Eccl. xli. 3). Oh, how truly does he judge of things, and how well does he regulate his actions, who judges and regulates them with death before his eyes! The remembrance of death makes us lose all affection for the things of this life.” (Preparation For Death, pp. 26-27)
Pope Pius XI (1928) on the unity of the Church: “… that unity can only arise from one teaching authority, one law of belief and one faith of Christians.” (Mortalium Animos #9)
St. Cyril of Jerusalem (350): “He that believes his body will remain for the resurrection is careful of his garment and does not soil it in fornication; but he that hath no faith in the resurrection gives himself to fornication, and abuses his own body as if it belonged to another. A great precept and teaching of the Holy Catholic Church, therefore, is belief in the resurrection of the dead…”
Pope Benedict XII (1336), ex cathedra: “… on the day of judgment all men with their bodies will make themselves ready to render an account of their own deeds before the tribunal of Christ, ‘so that everyone may receive the proper things of the body according as he has done whether it be good or evil.’” (Benedictus Deus, Denz. 531)
St. John Chrysostom (c. 386): “It is simply impossible to lead, without the aid of prayer, a virtuous life.”
Pope Leo XIII (1888): “He [Jesus] commanded all nations to hear the voice of the Church, as if it were His own, threatening those who would not hear it with everlasting perdition.” (Libertas #26)
St. Theresa of Avila (c. 1540): “While I was at prayer one day, I found myself in a moment, without knowing how, plunged apparently into Hell… The ground seemed to be saturated with water, mere mud, exceedingly foul… and covered with loathsome vermin… I cannot describe that inward fire or that despair, surpassing all torments and all pain… Our Lord at that time would not let me see any more of Hell.”
Pope Pius XI (1930): “… there can be no true marriage between baptized persons without it being by that very fact a sacrament.” (Casti Connubii #39)
“…the whole world is seated in wickedness.” (1 John 5:19)
1 John 5:11-12: “And this is the testimony, that God hath given to us eternal life. And this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son, hath life. He that hath not the Son, hath not life.”
[Concerning Francisco of Fatima - 1917]: “Most strangers bored Francisco. What silly questions!... ‘Do you want to be a carpenter?’ ‘No, ma’am.’ ‘A doctor, isn’t that it?’ ‘Oh, no!’ I know what you want to be – a priest!’ ‘No.’ ‘What! To say Mass? To hear confessions? To pray in the church? Isn’t that it?’ ‘No, senhora. I don’t want to be a padre.’ ‘Then what do you want to be?’ ‘I don’t want to be anything.’ ‘You don’t want to be anything?!’ ‘No. I want to die and go to heaven.’” (William Thomas Walsh, Our Lady of Fatima, p. 157.)
St. Francis De Sales: (1602): “… to say the Church errs is to say no less that God errs, or else that He is willing and desirous for us to err; which would be a great blasphemy.”
Clement of Rome (c. 150): “And know, brethren, that our stay in this world in the flesh is short and fleeting; but the promise of Christ is great and wonderful, and brings us rest in the kingdom which is to come and in life everlasting. If, then, we do the will of Christ, we shall obtain rest; but if not, if we neglect His commandments, nothing will rescue us from eternal punishment.”
St. Ambrose (389): “Even the heretics appear to have Christ, for none of them denies the name of Christ; yet, anyone who does not confess all that pertains to Christ does in fact deny Christ.”
St. John Vianney (c. 1845): “Drunkenness is a great sin. The conversion of the habitual drunkard is difficult… Probably because it is so widespread, there is too much tolerance for this evil.”
Pope Pius XII (1943): “… the New Testament took the place of the Old Law which had been abolished… Jesus made void the Law with its decrees… To such an extent, then… was there effected a transfer from the Law to the Gospel, from the Synagogue to the Church… that, as our Lord expired, the mystical veil which shut off the innermost part of the temple and its sacred secret was rent violently from top to bottom. On the Cross then the Old Law died…” (Mystici Corporis #’s 29-30)
St. Alphonsus (1760): “The Mother of God herself said to St. Matilda, that no one could better salute her than with the ‘Hail Mary.’ He who salutes Mary will also be saluted by her. St. Bernard heard himself once audibly saluted from a statue of the Virgin, which said to him, Hail Bernard.”
St. Augustine, 391: “When we shall have come into His (God’s sight), we shall behold the equity of God’s justice. Then no one will say:… ‘Why was this man led by God’s direction to be baptized, while that man, though he lived properly as a catechumen, was killed in a sudden disaster, and was not baptized?’ Look for rewards, and you will find nothing except punishments.”
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