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| The Words of Pope St Pius X |
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| "The Church is by its very nature an unequal society: it comprises two categories of person, the pastors and the flocks. The hierarchy alone moves and controls ... The duty of the multitude is to suffer itself to be governed and to carry out in a submissive spirit the orders of those in control." "Liberal catholics are wolves in sheep's clothing: and therefore the true priest is bound to unmask them ... Men will accuse you of clericalism, and you will be called papists, retrogrades, intransigents ... Be proud of it!" -on the Modernists, "enemies of the Church they are indeed: to say they are her worst enemies is not far from the truth ... their blows are the more sure because they know where to strike her." "God has been driven out of public life by the separation of Church and state; he has been driven out of science now that doubt has been raised to a system ... He has even been driven out |
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| of the family which is no longer considered sacred in its origins and is shorn of the grace of the sacraments." "When we speak of the Vicar of Christ, we must not quibble, we must obey: we must not ... evaluate his judgments, criticize his directions, lest we do injury to Jesus Christ himself. Society is sick ... the one hope, the one remedy, is the Pope." |
"Truly we are passing through disastrous times, when we may well make our own the lamentation of the Prophet: 'There is no truth, and there is no mercy, and there is no knowledge of God in the land' (Hosea 4:1). Yet in the midst of the tide of evil, the Virgin Most Merciful rises before our eyes like a rainbow, as the arbiter of peace between God and man." "God could have given us the Redeemer of the human race, and the Founder of the Faiths in another way than through the Virgin, but since Divine Providence has been pleased that we should have the Man-God through Mary, who concieved Him by the Holy Spirit and bore him in her womb, it only remains for us to recieve Christ from the hands of Mary." "My hope is in Christ, who strengthens the weakest by His Divine help. I can do all in Him who strengthens me. His power is infinite, and if I lean on him, it will be mine. His wisdom is infinite, and if I look to Him for counsel, I shall not be deceived. His Goodness is infinite, and if my trust is stayed in Him, I shall not be abandoned." |
| "Let the storm rage and the sky darken - not for that shall we be dismayed. If we trust as we should in Mary, we shall recognize in her, the Virgin Most Powerful 'who with virginal foot did crush the head of the serpent'." "Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to Heaven." |
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| Music is "Long live the Pope" |