TREASURY OF QUOTATIONS FOR TRADITIONAL CATHOLICS

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       They preach tolerance, but practice intimidation.

       A saint is a sinner who kept on trying.

       Graves mutationes in liturgia introducunt graves mutationes in
dogmata. [Serious changes in the liturgy usher in serious changes in
dogmata.]  --Acta Synodalia Sacrosancti Concilio Oecumenico Vaticano II, v.
I, p. 1, p. 371

       The first requirement of salvation is to keep the standard of the
True Faith.  --Pope St. Adrian II (867-872)

       These liberal theologians seized on the Council as a means of de-
catholicizing the Catholic Church while pretending only to de-romanize it.
--Bishop William Adrian, Nashville

        If anyone prays with heretics, he is a heretic.  --Pope St. Agatho
I (678-682), SCN XXI:635

       A hundred private prayers have not as much efficacy as a single
petition offered in the Divine Office.  --St. Alphonsus Liguori, Doctor of
the Church (1696-1787)

       The devil has always attempted, by means of the heretics, to deprive
the world of the Mass, making them precursors of the Anti-Christ, who,
before
anything else, will try to abolish and will actually abolish the Holy
Sacrament of the altar, as a punishment for the sins of men, according to
the
prediction of Daniel "And strength was given him against the continual
sacrifice" (Daniel 8:12D).  --St. Alphonsus Liguori, Doctor of the Church
(1696-1787)

       The Mass is the most beautiful and the best thing in the Church.  At
the Mass, Jesus Christ giveth Himself to us by means of the Most Holy
Sacraent of the altar, which is the end and the purpose of all the other
Sacraments.  --St. Alphonsus Liguori, Doctor of the Church (1696-1787)

       One single Mass gives more honor to God than all the penances of the
Saints, the labors of the Apostles, the sufferings of the martyrs, and even
the burning love of the Blessed Mother of God.  --St. Alphonsus Liguori
(1696-1787)

       Man cannot perform a more holy, a more grand, a more sublime action
than to celebrate a Mass, in regard to which the Council of Trent says:  "We
must needs confess that no other work can be performed ... so holy and
divine
as this tremendous Mystery itself.  God Himself cannot cause an action to be
performed that is holier and grander than the celebration of Mass.  --St.
Alphonsus Liguori (1696-1787), The Holy Mass

       When you are at Rome, do as the Romans do.  --St. Ambrose (334?-397)

       Sanctorum vita ceteris norma vivendi est [the life of the Saints is
the norm of living for others].  --St. Ambrose (334?-397), On St. Joseph

       Quia non solum episcopos ad tuendum gregem Dominus ordinavit, sed
etiam Angelos destinavit [Because the Lord has ordained not only bishops to
protect His flock, but also has appointed the Angels].  --St. Ambrose (334?-
397), Book 2 on Chapter 2 of St. Luke about the middle

       Apart from bad Latin and a lack of precision, the Curia can be
criticized for the cultural inadequacy implicit in recent papal documents,
which were for centuries distinguished by an irreproachable perfection.  --
Prof. Romano Amerio, Iota Unum:  A Study of Changes in the Catholic Church
in
the XXth Century (Sarto House, 1996, p. 146), on the decadence of the post-
conciliar Curia

       Men will surrender to the spirit of the age.  They will say that if
they had lived in our day, faith would be simple and easy.  But in their
day,
they will say, things are complex; the Church must be brought up to date and
made meaningful to the day's problems.  --St. Anthony (ca. 251-356)

       A Christian is part of a new and heavenly race of men, of a divine
trunk:  divinum genus.  He is a deified man, a son of God the Father,
incorporated into the Incarnate Word, animated by the Holy Ghost.  His life
must be that of a citizen of heaven:  "If God humiliated Himself to such an
extent as to make Himself man," says St. Augustine, "this was in order to
exalt men to such an extent as to make of them gods [Serm. 166]".  --Fr. J.
Arintero, O.P., La Vie Spirituelle, December 1919.

       O Lord, Thou knowest how busy I must be this day.  If I forget Thee,
do not Thou forget me; for Christ's sake.  Amen.  --Sir Jacob Astley

       St. Athanasius, to whom it was objected, "You have the bishops
against you," answered with Faith:  "that proves that they are all against
the Church."  --St. Athanasius (ca. 296-373)

       If the world goes against the truth, then Athanasius goes against
the world [Athanasius contra mundum].  --St. Athanasius (ca. 296-373) [tag
also attributed to the Roman Emperor Constantius in the year 355 when he
chided Pope Liberius for refusing to condemn St. Athanasius ("Who are you to
stand up for Athanasius against the world?")]

       God has promised to be like a wall of fire round those who rightly
believe in Him.  --St. Athanasius (ca. 296-373)

       Even if Catholics faithful to Tradition are reduced to a handful,
they are the ones who are the true Church of Jesus Christ.  (Patrologia
Graeca/Coll. Selecta SS. Eccl. Patrum, Caillau and Guillou, Vol. 32, pp.
411-412)

       An unjust law is no law at all.  --St. Augustine (354-430)

       And what more certain death for souls than the liberty of error.  --
St. Augustine (354-430) [condemning "religious liberty"]

       Persecutions serve to bring forth saints.  --St. Augustine (354-430)

       Wrong is wrong even if everybody is doing it, and right is right
even if nobody is doing it.  --St. Augustine (354-430)

       If there are some present who do not understand what is being said
or sung, they know at least that all is said and sung to the glory of God,
and that is sufficient for them to join in it devoutly.  --St. Augustine
(354-430)

       Pray as though everything depended on God and act as if everything
depended on you.  --St. Augustine (354-430)

       If it happens that the authority of Sacred Scripture is set in
opposition to clear and certain reasoning, this must mean that the person
who interprets Scripture does not understand it correctly.  It is not the
meaning of Scripture that is opposed to the truth, but the meaning that he
has wanted to give it.  --St. Augustine (354-430)

       In the Old Testament the New is concealed, in the New the Old is
revealed.  --St. Augustine (354-430)

       It is better that the truth be known than that scandal be covered
up.  --St. Augustine (354-430)

       There is a beauty of form, a dignity of language, a sublimity of
diction which are, so to speak, spontaneous, and are the natural outcome of
great thoughts, strong convictions, and glowing feelings.  The Fathers [of
the Church] often attain to this eloquence without intending to do so,
without self-complacency and all unconsciously.  --St. Augustine (354-430)

       Lay this body anywhere; let not the care of it in any way disturb
you.  This only I request of you, that you would remember me at the altar of
the Lord, wherever you.  --St. Augustine (354-430), Confessions IX [the last
request of his dying mother, St. Monica]

       The crown of victory is promised only to those who engage in the
struggle.  --St. Augustine (354-430), De Agone Christiano, 1:1

       Accordingly this seems to me to be one principal reason why the good
are chastised along with the wicked, when God is pleased to visit with
temporal punishments the profligate manners of a community. They are
punished together, not because they have spent an equally corrupt life, but
because the good as well as the wicked, though not equally with them, love
this present life; while they ought to hold it cheap, that the wicked, being
admonished and reformed by their example, might lay hold of life eternal.
And if they will not be the companions of the good in seeking life
everlasting, they should be loved as enemies, and be dealt with patiently.
For so long as they live, it remains uncertain whether they may not come to
a better mind.  --St. Augustine (354-430), De Civitate Dei I.9 [the "problem
of evil"]

       With regard to whatever is in the Septuagint that is not in the
Hebrew manuscripts, we can say that the one Spirit wished to speak to them
through the writers of the former rather than through the latter in order to
show that both the one and the other were inspired.  --St. Augustine (354-
430), De Civitate Dei XVIII:43

       Divine providence often allows even good men to be expelled from the
Christian community....  By their patient endurance of such injury and
disgrace for the peace of the Church..., they will give man a lesson in true
affliction, in the really genuine charity, which God's service calls for.
The object of such men is to return when the gale has blown itself out; but
if this is not possible because the storm continues, or is more likely to
break out more furiously than ever if they go back, they cling to their
determination ... and are prepared ... to defend to the death the faith
which they know is preached in the Catholic Church, and to support it by
their loyal testimony.  The Father sees these men in secret, and rewards
them in secret.  --St. Augustine (354-430), De Vera Religione, sec. 6

       A man cannot have salvation, except in the Catholic Church.  Outside
the Catholic Church he can have everything except salvation.  He can have
honor, he can have Sacraments, he can sing alleluia, he can answer amen, he
can possess the gospel, he can have and preach faith in the name of the
Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost; but never except in the
Catholic church will he be able to find salvation.  --St. Augustine (354-
430), Discourse to the People of the Church at Caesarea, ca. 418

       They do not realize that while remaining in communion with the
wicked, one really communicates with them only when one approves of their
perversity and that those who do not approve of them but are unable to
correct them, must, however, tolerate them, and not "root out the tares"
before harvest time, lest they should also "root out the corn," for it is
not with the acts of the wicked, but with the altar of Jesus Christ that
they are in communion....  Let us read all the heavenly words of the
scriptures, and we shall see that the holy servants and the faithful friends
of God have always found plenty of culprits to be tolerated among their
people.  However, they remained with them in the communion of the sacraments
of those times, and far from being sullied through that, they have earned
praise, endeavoring as the Apostle says "to keep unity of the Spirit in the
bond of peace" (Eph. 4:3).  --St. Augustine (354-430), Epistulae 43 [on the
Donatists]

       [Besides what] happens to be observed by the universal Church
wherever it exists,... there are other things that vary according to locale
and region....  All such things are a matter of freedom, and there is no
better practice for the serious and prudent Christian to follow with regard
to them than to act in the way he sees the Church acting wherever he happens
to be.  For whatever is not contrary to the faith or to good morals ought to
be considered as indifferent and should be observed for the sake of
fellowship with those among whom one is living.  --St. Augustine (354-430),
Epistulae, 54:1-2

       These [glossolalia] were miracles suited to the times....  Is it now
expected that they upon whom hands are laid, should speak with tongues?  Or
when we imposed our hand upon these children, did each of you wait to see
whether they would speak with tongues?  and when he saw that they did not
speak with tongues, were any of you so perverse of heart as to say "these
have not received the Holy Ghost"?  --St. Augustine (354-430), Ep. Joan.,
tr. vi.)

       With each year it seems that we get closer to an "American Church"
separate from Rome.  For millions of Catholics it already exists in fact,
though not yet officially (de facto but not de iure).  Even though the
entrenched bureaucracy will not admit it, the Church here is in bad shape.
There has been a loss of morale and elan.  But what should one expect when
most Catholic children do not know the basis of the faith, when heresy is
openly taught and defended in "Catholic" universities, when seminarians have
declined from 48,000 to about 5,000, and when only 14,000,000 out of 55
million Catholics go to Church regularly on Sunday?  It is not an
exaggeration to say that the Church here is in a crisis.  --Fr. Kenneth
Baker, Homiletic and Pastoral Review, November 1991

       For him there can be no theater.  The play which dominates his life
and enthralls his every morning is holy Mass.  --Hugo Ball, dramatist (ob.
1927)

       Simon and Peter do coexist in the same person, and Simon can
interfere, resist, and even reject the duties proper to Peter's Office and
even go so far as to act in contradiction with his pontifical functions.
This can be proved by referring to St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians
(2:14):  it was at Antioch that St. Paul publicly rebuked the Chief of the
Apostles (St. Peter) because the first Pope was, by his behavior, actually
repudiating that Doctrine of Faith which he had personally and solemnly
defined regarding the end or cessation of the Mosaic Law.  It is for this
reason that Cajetan points out that the famous axiom "Where the Pope is,
there is also the Church" holds true only when the Pope acts and behaves as
the Pope, because Peter "is subject to the duties of the Office"; otherwise,
"neither is the Church in him, nor is he in the Church" (Summa Theologica
IIa
IIae, Q. 39, Art. 1, ad 6).  --Barnabas, translated from Courrier de Rome,
April 1993

       The Bible teaches us how to go to heaven, not how the heavens go.
--Caesare Cardinal Baronio (Caesar Baronius), Vatican Librarian (ca. 1600,
quoted by Galileo)

       Our afflictions are well known without my telling; the sound of them
has gone forth over all Christendom.  The dogmas of the Fathers are
despised;
apostolic traditions are set at naught; the discoveries of innovators hold
sway in churches.  Men have learned to be speculatists instead of
theologians. The wisdom of the world has the place of honor, having
dispossessed the glorying of the cross.  The pastors are driven away.
grievous wolves are brought in instead, and plunder the flock of Christ.  --
St. Basil the Great (ca. 330-ca. 379), Epistulae [an orthodox Catholic
bishop
when the Church in the East was dominated by Arian bishops and priests; this
letter is to the bishops of the West, thanking the bishops for the letter
they had written to his friend St. Athanasius] (cf. Appendix V of Venerable
John Henry Cardinal Newman's Arians of the Fourth Century)

       Who has lost and who has won in the struggle -- the one who keeps
the
premises [buildings] or the one who keeps the Faith?  The Faith obviously.
That therefore the ordinances which have been preserved in the churches from
old time until now may not be lost in our days,... rouse yourselves,
brethren,... seeing them now seized upon by aliens. --St. Basil the Great
(ca. 330-ca. 379) (in 371)

       The heresy long ago disseminated by that enemy of truth, Arius, grew
to a shameless height and like a bitter root it is bearing its pernicious
fruit and already gaining the upper hand since the standard-bearers of the
true doctrine in the individual parishes have been driven from the churches
by defamation and insult and the authority they were vested with has been
handed over to such as captivate the hearts of the simple in mind.  --St.
Basil the Great (ca. 330-ca. 379) (in 371)

       The whole Church is in dissolution.  --St. Basil the Great (ca. 330-
ca. 379), Epistulae, to St. Athanasius (in 371/72)

       The danger is not confined to one Church....  This evil of heresy
spreads itself.  The doctrines of Godliness are overturned; the rules of the
Church are in confusion; the ambition of the unprincipled seizes upon places
of authority; and the chief seat is now openly proposed as a reward for
impiety; so that he whose blasphemies are the more shocking, is more
eligible
for the oversight of the people.  Priestly gravity has perished; there are
none left to feed the Lord's flock with knowledge; ambitious men are ever
spending, in purposes of self-indulgence and bribery, possessions which they
hold in trust for the poor.  The accurate observation of the canons are no
more; there is no restraint upon sin.  Unbelievers laugh at what they see,
and the weak are unsettled; faith is doubtful, ignorance is poured over
their
souls, because the adulterators of the word in wickedness imitate the truth.
Religious people keep silence, but every blaspheming tongue is let loose.
Sacred things are profaned; those of the laity who are sound in faith avoid
the places of worship, as schools of impiety, and raise their hands in
solitude with groans and tears to the Lord in heaven.  --St. Basil the Great
(ca. 330-ca. 379), Epistlae 92 (in ca. 372)

       The present time (has) a strong tendency towards the overthrow of
the
Church.  --St. Basil the Great (ca. 330-ca. 379), to the priests of Tarsus
(in 372)

       Has the Lord completely abandoned His Church?  Has the hour then
come
and is the fall beginning in this way so that now the man of sin is clearly
revealed, the son of perdition, who opposeth and is lifted up above all that
is called God or that is worshipped?  --St. Basil the Great (ca. 330-ca.
379)
(in 373)

       Matters have come to this pass:  the people have left their houses
of
prayer and assembled in the deserts, -- a pitiable sight; women and
children,
old men, and men otherwise inform, wretchedly faring in the open air, amid
most profuse rains and snow-storms and winds and frosts of winter; and again
in summer under a scorching sun.  To this they submit because they will have
no part of the wicked Arian leaven.  --St. Basil the Great (ca. 330-ca.
379),
Epistulae 242 (in 376)

       Only one offense is now vigorously punished, an accurate observance
of our fathers' traditions.  For this cause the pious are driven from their
countries and transported into the deserts.  The people are in
lamentation....   Joy and spiritual cheerfulness are no more; our feasts are
turned into mourning; our houses of prayer are shut up; our altars are
deprived of spiritual worship.  No longer are there Christians assembling,
teachers presiding, saving instructions, celebrations, hymns by night, or
that blessed exultation of souls, which arises from communion and fellowship
of spiritual gifts....  The ears of the simple are led astray, and have
become accustomed to heretical profaneness.  The infants of the Church are
fed on the words of impiety. For what can they do?  Baptisms are in Arian
hands; the care of travelers, visitation of the sick, consolation of
mourners, succors of the distressed....  Which all, being performed by them,
become a bond to the people... so that in a little while, even though
liberty
be granted us, no hope will remain that they, who are encompassed by so
lasting a deceit, should be brought back again to the acknowledgment of the
truth.  --St. Basil the Great (ca. 330-ca. 379), Epistulae, in a letter to
the bishops of Italy and Gaul (in 376)

       Unjust laws are, properly speaking, no laws.  --St. Robert
Bellarmine

       And we ourselves experience this, that when we enter ornate and
clean
Basilicas, adorned with crosses, sacred images, altars, and burning lamps,
we
most easily conceive devotion.  But, on the other hand, when we enter the
temples of the heretics, where there is nothing except a chair for preaching
and a wooden table for making a meal, we feel ourselves to be entering a
profane hall and not the house of God.  --St. Robert Bellarmine, Octava
Controversia Generalis, liber II, Controversia Quinta, caput XXXI.

       As a Catholic, my faith tells me that the Church has a divine
origin,
but my own experience tells me that it must be divine because no human
institution run with an equal mixture of ineptitude and wickedness would
have
lasted a fortnight.  --Hilaire Belloc

       The Faith is that which Rome accepted in her maturity; nor was the
Faith the cause of her decline, but rather the conservator of all that could
be conserved.  --Hilaire Belloc, Europe and the Faith, 1920 (Tan Books, c.
1920/rep. 1992, p. 13

       Every manifestation of divine influence among men must have its
human
circumstance of place and time.  The Church might have risen under Divine
Providence in any spot; it did, as a fact, spring up in the high Greek tide
of the Levant and carries to this day the noble Hellenic garb.  It might
have
risen at any time; it did, as a fact, rise just at the inception of that
united Imperial Roman system which we are about to examine.  It might have
carried for its ornaments and have had for its sacred language the
accoutrements and the speech of any one of the other great civilizations,
living or dead:  of Assyria, of Egypt, of Persia, of China, of the Indies.
As a matter of historical fact, the Church was so circumstanced in its
origin
and development that its external accoutrement and its language were those
of
the Mediterranean, that is, of Greece and Rome:  of the  Empire.  --Hilaire
Belloc, Europe and the Faith, 1920 (Tan Books, c. 1920/rep. 1992, p. 19

       More and more as time went on did things turn into a battle between
two opponents -- those who would preserve intact the great structure of the
old faith, its liturgy and morals and affirmation of doctrine -- and those
who would build up something quite new and different to act against it, to
dethrone it, to take its place: and the Mass was the test."  --Hilaire
Belloc, Cranmer, 1931, pp. 60-61

       That truth had already been put in one sentence by St. Jerome, when
he said that, if the Graeco-Roman world had accepted the Catholic Church in
time, the decay of civilization would never have taken place.  --Hilaire
Belloc, The Crisis of Civilization:  Being the Matter of a Course of
Lectures
Delivered at Fordham University 1937 (Tan Books, c. 1937/rep. 1992, p. 39)

       You will not remedy the world until you have converted the world.  -
-
Hilaire Belloc, The Crisis of Civilization:  Being the Matter of a Course of
Lectures Delivered at Fordham University 1937 (Tan Books, c. 1937/rep. 1992,
p. 165)

       Now against the great heresies, when they acquire the driving power
of being the new and fashionable thing, there arises a reaction within the
Christian and Catholic mind, which reaction gradually turns the current
backward, gets rid of the poison and re-establishes Christian civilization.
Such reactions begin, I repeat, obscurely.  It is the plain man who gets
uncomfortable and says to himself, "This may be the fashion of the moment,
but I don't like it."  It is the mass of Christian men who feel in their
bones that there is something wrong, though they have difficulty in
explaining it.  The reaction is usually slow and muddled  and for a long
time
not successful. But in the long run with internal heresy it has always
succeeded; just as the native health of the human body succeeds in getting
rid of some internal infection.  --Hilaire Belloc, The Great Heresies
(London:  Sheed & Ward, 1938) pp. 58-58

       For the first issue (the dwindling of Catholic influence, the
restriction of our numbers and political value to the edge of extinction)
there is to be noted the increased ignorance of the world about us, coupled
with the loss of those faculties whereby men might appreciate what
Catholicism means and take advantage of their salvation.  The level of
culture including a sense of the past, sinks visibly.  With each decade the
level is lower than the last.  In that decline, tradition is breaking away
and melting like a snow-draft at the edge of winter.  Great lumps of it fall
off at one moment and another, melt, and disappear.
       Within our generation the supremacy of the classics has gone.  You
find men upon every side possessed of power who have forgotten that from
which we all came; men, to whom Greek and Latin, the fundamental languages
of
our civilization, are incomprehensible, or at best curiosities.  Old men now
living can remember uneasy rebellion against tradition; but young men only
perceive for themselves how little there is left against which to rebel, and
many fear that before they die the body of tradition will have disappeared.
That the mood of faith has been largely ruined, ruined certainly for the
greater part of men, all will admit.  --Hilaire Belloc, The Great Heresies
(London:  Sheed & Ward, 1938) pp. 157

       Our civilization developed as a Catholic civilization.  It developed
and matured as a Catholic thing.  With the loss of Faith it will slip back
no
only into Paganism, but inter barbarism with the accompaniments of Paganism
and especially the institution of slavery.  --Hilaire Belloc, "The New
Paganism," in Essays of a Catholic (1931)

       The Old Paganism was profoundly traditional; indeed it had no roots
except in tradition, deep reverence for its own past, and for the wisdom of
its ancestry and the pride therein were the very soul  of the Old Paganism;
that is why it formed so solid a foundation on which to build the Catholic
Church, and that is also why it offered so long a determined resistance to
the growth of the Catholic Church.  But the New Paganism has for its very
essence contempt for tradition and contempt for ancestry.  It respects
perhaps nothing, but least of all does it respect the spirit of 'our fathers
have told us.'  --Hilaire Belloc, "The New Paganism," in Essays of a
Catholic
(1931)

       Most people are taught by way of example and not by way of words.  -
-
St. Benedict

       Prefer nothing to the work of God [the Opus Dei, the Divine Office].
-- St. Benedict

We declare that the greater part of those who are damned have brought
the calamity on themselves by ignorance of the mysteries of the Faith, which
they should have known and believed, in order to be united with the elect.
-
-Pope Benedict XIV (1740-1758)

       [The Church] simply permits them [private revelations] to be
published for the instruction and the edification of the faithful.  The
assent to be given to them is not therefore an act of Catholic Faith but of
human faith, based upon the fact that these revelations are probable and
worthy of credence.
St. John of the cross asserts that the desire for revelations deprives faith
of its purity, develops a dangerous curiosity that becomes a source of
illusions, fills the mind with vain fancies, and often proves the want of
humility, and of submission to Our Lord, Who, through His public revelation,
has given all that is needed for salvation.
       We must suspect those apparitions that lack dignity or proper
reserve, and above all, those that are ridiculous.  This last characteristic
is a mark of human or diabolical machination.  --Pope Benedict XIV (1740-
1758)

       Latinis potius literis erudiantur, quam ut facultas concedatur,
adhibendi in Missae celebratione vulgarem linguam [Let them rather learn
Latin letters, that that the faculty be conceded of using the vulgar tongue
in the celebration of Mass].  --Pope Benedict XIV (1740-1758), De Missa
Sacrificio, 1.2, c. 2. n. 14

       The Church must steadily and firmly heed that although the language
of the people may change, the language of liturgy should not be altered.
Thus, the Mass must be said in the language in which it was said from the
beginning, even if such a language be already, antiquated and strange to the
people, for it is wholly enough, if the learned men understand it.  --Pope
Benedict XIV (1740-1758), De Missae Sacrificio, 2, II

       Hence arose the monstrous errors of "Modernism," which Our
Predecessor
[Pope St. Pius X] rightly declared to be "the synthesis of all heresies,"
and
solemnly condemned.  We hereby renew that condemnation in all its fullness,
Venerable Brethren, and as the plague is not yet entirely stamped out, but
lurks
here and there in hidden places, We exhort all to be carefully on their
guard
against any contagion of the evil, to which we may apply the words Job used
in
other circumstances:  "It is a fire that devoureth even to destruction, and
rooteth up all things that spring" (Job 31:12).  Nor do We merely desire
that
Catholics should shrink from the errors of Modernism, but also from the
tendencies or what is called the spirit of Modernism.  Those who are
infected
by
that spirit develop a keen dislike for all that savors of antiquity and
become
eager searchers after novelties in everything: in the way in which they
carry
out religious functions, in the ruling of Catholic institutions, and even in
private exercises of piety.  Therefore it is Our will that the law of our
forefathers should still be held sacred:  "Let there be no innovation; keep
to
what has been handed down."  In matters of faith that must be inviolably
adhered
to as the law; it may however also serve as a guide even in matters subject
to
change, but even in such cases the rule would hold:  "Old things, but in a
new
way."  --Pope Benedict XV (1914-1922), Encyclical Letter "Ad Beatissimi
Apostolorum," November 1, 1914

       It suffices for us not to wish to be better than our fathers.  --St.
Bernard of Clairvaux

       In spiritual life, when you cease to climb, you begin to descend.  -
-
Saint Bernard

       Predicting the future is an occupation for pagans, not Christians.   -
-
Blessed Virgin Mary to St. Alfred, King of England

       The best perfection is to do ordinary things in a perfect manner.
Constant fidelity in little things is a great and heroic virtue.  -- St.
Bonaventure (1221-1274)

       Tolle hoc sacramentum de ecclesia, et quid eris in mundo, nisi error
et
infidelitas?  Et populus Christianus erit quasi grex porcorum dispersus et
idolatriae deditus, sicut expresse patet in caeteris infidelibus.
       [Take this Sacrament (of the Holy Eucharist) from the Church, and
what
will there be in the world, except error and unfaithfulness?  And the
Christian
people will be scattered like a herd of pigs and given over to idolatry, as
is
patently clear among the rest of the unfaithful.]  --St. Bonaventure (1221-
1274)

       It is true that the official teaching of the Church (and the
reality)
is that the Mass is the Unbloody Sacrifice of Jesus.  But if as Marshall
McLuhan once claimed, "The medium is the message," we have succeeded by
virtue of the liturgical reforms ... in transforming the appearance of the
Mass (the medium) from a serious act of objective worship of an actual,
transcendent God to a 45-minute occasion at which "we gather, we listen, we
respond."  We have gone psychologically, intellectually, and ritually from a
Mass that externally indicated that something important may actually have
been taking place, beyond the priest, beyond the people --and almost beyond
their control --to an occasion whose definition is measured solely in terms
of the wordy effervescence of the ever-babbling priest's personality and the
snappy participation of the congregation.  --Fr. Anthony Brankin, St. Thomas
More Church, Chicago

       In the D.C. public schools today [1992], the cost per pupil is
almost
$5,000 per year.  Yet, in many, children are reading at levels three and
four
years below the national average.  At Blessed Sacrament [parish in D.C.] in
the 1940s, tuition was free; we were taught in "overcrowded" (by today's
standards) classrooms by women, some of them girls barely out of their
teens,
who were paid almost nothing.  They had given up boyfriends, families, home,
and the prospect of marriage and children to live in a convent and instruct
these children in basic education and our common Catholic faith.  The
elements indispensable to the success of these parish schools were teachers
who cared deeply, and strictly disciplined children, upon whom constant
demands were made.  No nonsense was tolerated.  Money had nothing to do with
it, dedication not being a function of dollars.  --Patrick J. Buchanan,
"Blessed Sacrament:  How Millions of Catholic Children Grew up, in the Bad
Old Days," Latin Mass Magazine, May-June 1992, p. 25

       In recent years, politicians and the secular clergy of the national
press, who succeeded the routed Christian clergy as our Lords Spiritual,
have
not hesitated to use the power of law to insist that all Americans,
including
us "heretics," set aside as a day of reflection and remembrance the birthday
of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, a secular saint whose interests appear
to
have been somewhat broader than peace and civil rights.  The church of
yesterday never insisted that non-believers observe our feast days or Holy
Days of Obligation; yet, the triumphant humanists have no reservations about
imposing their household gods upon us.  --Patrick J. Buchanan, "Blessed
Sacrament:  How Millions of Catholic Children Grew up, in the Bad Old Days,"
Latin Mass Magazine, May-June 1992, p. 26

       The first step of this program was taken in 1951 with the reform of
the solemn Easter Vigil.  The second is contained in the document which we
shall explain in the following pages, and which forms a bridge for passing
from the old rubrical situation to the new.  It is a bridge which opens the
way to a promising future.  --Fr. Annibale Bugnini, author of the New Mass,
writing in 1955 in the preface of his pamphlet entitled The Simplification
of
the Rubrics, a commentary on the reforms of the rubrics made in that same
year

       Dear Buan, we inform you of the task that the Council of Brothers
has
established for you in agreement with the Grand Master and the Princes to
the
Throne, and we charge you:... to spread de-Christianization by confusing
rites and languages and to set priests, bishops, and cardinals against each
other.  Linguistic and ritualistic babble means victory for us, since
linguistic and ritual unity has been the strength of the Church.....
Everything must happen within a decade.  --Letter of Mason Peerless Grand
Master, July 14, 1964, concerning a secret mission assigned to Fr. Annibale
Bugnini

       We must discard from our Catholic prayers and from the Catholic
liturgy everything that could constitute the slightest risk of obstacle or
displeasure for our separated brethren, that is, for the Protestants.  --Fr.
Annibale Bugnini, principal author of the Novus Ordo liturgical reforms,
L'Osservatore Romano, March 19, 1965

       ...In brief, I believe I have sown the seeds of maximum license with
the document, according to your instructions.  I had to fight bitterly and
make use of every wile to have it approved by the Pope, in the face of my
enemies in the Congregation for Rites.  Fortunately for us, we won immediate
backing from our friends and brothers in the Universa Laus, who are loyal.
I
thank you for the sum sent and in the hope of seeing you soon.  I send my
embrace.  Your brother Buan (Bugnini)  --Archbishop Annibale Bugnini, reply
to the head of the Lodge, July 2, 1967, 30 Days (no. 6, 1992)

       Eastern Rites, Roman Mass More Apostolic Than.  Much better than the
Oriental [Eastern] Liturgies, it [the Roman Mass] has kept the purest and
most ancient tradition, represented by St. Justin and St. Hippolytus, a
tradition which places the words of institution at the Last Supper in the
midst of the Sacrifice, and terminates the Eucharistic prayer by a solemn
doxology.  It think we may say that it is the Liturgy which approaches most
closely to the Apostolic anaphora.  --Abbot Dom Fernand Michel Cabrol,
O.S.B., "The Excellence of the Roman Mass," in Angelus, February 2001
(XXIV:2), p. 16

       [Religion,] the exercise of all that belongs to the worship and
honor
of God.  --St. Joseph Cafasso, The Priest, the Man of God:  His Dignity and
Duties

       All this power is given to the Pope for no other end than the
service
of the Church.  She is greater than he, not in authority but in worth and
nobility.  The papacy is for the Church, not the Church for the papacy; the
end is always a nobler thing than the means.  -- St. Giacomo Tommaso de Vio
Gaetani (Cajetan) (1469-1534)

       Those who refuse to give up the Catholic Faith must be put to the
sword.  --John Calvin (1509-1564)

       Even in the Roman Catholic church, my God -- they've translated the
Mass out of ritual language and into a language that has a lot of domestic
associations.  The Latin of the Mass was a language that threw you out of
the
field of domesticity.
       The altar was turned so that the priest's back was to you, and with
him you addressed yourself outward.  Now they've turned the altar around --
it looks like Julia Child giving a demonstration -- all homey and cozy.  --
Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

       In condemning us, you condemn all your ancestors -- all the ancient
priests, bishops and kings -- all that was once the glory of England, the
island of saints, and the most devoted child of the See of Peter.  --St.
Edmund Campion, English recusant martyr

       I am a Catholic man and a priest.  In that Faith have I lived and in
that Faith I intend to die.  If you esteem my religion treason, then I am
guilty.  --St. Edmund Campion, who in similar times went about the country,
from manor house to town house, celebrating the Canonized Mass, within a
milieu that treated the upholders of such a Mass a societal criminals and
ecclesial outlaws
       Better that only a few Catholics should be left, staunch and sincere
in their religion, than that they should, remaining many, desire as it were,
to be in collusion with the Church's enemies and in conformity with the open
foes of our faith.  --St. Peter Canisius (1521-1597), one of the greatest
Jesuit theologians, speaking of the Protestants, who were then introducing
changes such as vernacular liturgies, the abolition of fasting laws, the
removal of statues, and other diminutions of traditional Catholicism

       It behooves us unanimously and inviolably to observe the
ecclesiastical traditions, whether codified or simply retained by the
customer practice of the Church.  --St. Peter Canisius (1521-1597), Summae
Doctrinae Christianae

     Peter has no need of our lies or flattery.  Those who blindly and
indiscriminately defend every decision of the supreme Pontiff are the very
ones who do most to undermine the authority of the Holy See -- they
destroy instead of strengthening its foundations.  --Melchior Cano,
Theologian of the Council of Trent

       Alas, Most Holy Father!  At times obedience to you leads to eternal
damnation.  --St. Catherine of Siena (1347-1380) Letter to Pope Gregory IX,
1376

       Cursed be you, for time and power were entrusted to you, and you
did not use them!  --St. Catherine of Siena (1347-1380) to Pope Gregory XI
(1371-1378), the last pope at Avignon, who returned to Rome in January
1377

       Speak the truth as if you had a thousand voices!  It is silence that
kills the World. --St. Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)

     We've had enough of exhortations to be silent!  Cry out with a hundred
thousand tongues. I see the world is rotten because of silence.  --St.
Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)

       It is the Mass that matters.  --Catholics in Elizabethan England

A good man was there of religion, He was a poor parson of a town,
But rich he was in holy thought and work;
He was also a learned man, a clerk,
That the Christian Gospel would truly preach,
And his parishioners devoutly would he teach....
And though he was holy and virtuous
He was not to sinful men contemptuous
Nor in his speech mean nor scornful,
But in his teaching, discreet and thoughtful
To draw people to heaven by fairness,
And by good example; this was his business.
But if any person were obstinate
Whether he were of high or low estate,
Him would he rebuke sharply, right there
A better priest I trust there is nowhere.
He wanted no pomp and reverence,
Nor did he have an over-fastidious conscience.
But Christ's doctrine and his apostles twelve
He taught, but first he followed it himself.
--Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canturbury Tales

       Fools with tools are still fools.  --Archbishop Charles Chaput, of
Denver

       We need to stop over-counting our numbers, our influence, our
institutions, and our resources, because they're not real.  We can't talk
about following St. Paul and converting our culture until we sober up and
get
honest about what we've allowed ourselves to become.  --Archbishop Charles
Chaput, of Denver, April 2, 2009

       These are days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed
but his own.  --G.K. Chesterton

       Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.  -
-
G.K. Chesterton

       The funeral of Christianity [after the 1799 death of the Pius VI,
imprisoned by the French Republic] was interrupted by the least expected
incident of all -- the corpse came to life.  --G.K. Chesterton

       Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of
those who merely happen to be walking about.  --G. K. Chesterton

       Of all conceivable forms of enlightenment, the worst is what these
people call the Inner Light.  Of all the horrible religions, the most
horrible is the worship of the god within.  Anyone who knows anybody knows
how it would work; any one who knows anyone from the Higher Thought Center
knows how it does work.  That Jones shall worship the god within him turns
out ultimately to mean that Jones shall worship Jones.  --G.K. Chesterton

       I am very glad that our fashionable fiction seems to be full of a
return to paganism, for it may possibly be the first step of a return to
Christianity.  Neo-pagans have sometimes forgotten, when they set out to do
everything the old pagans did, that the final thing the old pagans did was
to
get christened.  --G.K. Chesterson, March 20, 1926

       Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our
ancestors.  It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit
to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking
about.  --G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

       God wills to be worshipped with all that is beautiful, rich,
reverent, and inspiring in nature as well as in humanity....  The entire
book
of Leviticus is devoted to the careful and minute description of the
elaborate ceremonies which were to be observed by priests and people in
their
approach to their Heavenly Father.  --Right Rev. Mons. John D. Chidwick,
D.D., from The Golden Jubilee of St. Agnes' Parish, New York City, 1873-
1923.

       It was the most profound and grandiose poetry, enhanced by the most
august gestures ever confided to human beings.  I could not sufficiently
satiate myself with the spectacle of the Mass.  --Paul Claudel, converted by
watching Solemn High Mass at Notre Dame in Paris

       The Church uses her chant and her ceremonies to appeal to the sense
faculties, and to reach, through them, the souls of her children more fully,
and to give to their wills a more effective presentation of the true goods,
and raise them up more surely, more easily, and more completely to God.  I
can therefore enjoy all the changeless, wholesome refreshment of dogma
thrown
into relief by Liturgy, and let myself be moved by the majestic spectacle of
a solemn High Mass, and esteem the prayers of absolution, of the touching
rites of Baptism, Extreme Unction, the Burial Service, and so on.  --Dom
Jean-Baptiste Chautard, The Soul of the Apostolate (Trappist, KY:  Abbey of
Gethsemani, 1946, pp. 218-219).

       Est quidem vera lex recta ratio naturae congruens, diffusa in omnes,
constans, sempiterna, quae vocet ad officium iubendo, vetando a fraude
deterreat; quae tamen neque probos frustra iubet aut vetat nec improbos
iubendo aut vetando movet.  Huic legi nec obrogari fas est neque derogari ex
hac aliquid licet neque tota abrogari potest, nec vero aut per senatum aut
per populum solvi hac lege possumus.  (True law is right reason congruent
with nature, spread among all persons, constant, everlasting, which calls to
duty by commanding, deters from crime by forbidding; which nevertheless
neither commands or forbids good persons in vain, nor moves evil persons by
commanding or forbidding.  the wicked by ordering or forbidding.  Neither is
it right to replace this law, nor is it permitted to amend it in any part,
nor can it be entirely abrogated, nor in fact can we be released from this
law by either the senate or the people.)  [The Natural Moral Law]  --Marcus
Tullius Cicero, De Re Publica III.xxii.33)

       The Pope's power is not absolute.  It goes without saying that it is
bound to Scripture, to the ecumenical councils and to the unchangeable
elements of Tradition -- not to the secondary ones.  It is bound, and it
cannot say whatever it likes.  It is impossible to think of an absolute
power; such power has never existed in the Church.  Nothing of the Tradition
can be changed deep down.  It is true that among its secondary elements
there
is a little of everything, including errors.  But the essential cannot be
touched....
       There is also a danger within Catholicism.  The Magisterium is not
the only thing there is.  There is the whole Church.  There are the
faithful....  There are examples from history showing that it was the
faithful who conserved the true Tradition.  Venerable John Henry Cardinal
Newman illustrated this brilliantly in his study on the Arians.  At a time
when almost the whole episcopate had become Arian with little resistence --
in the persons of Athanasius of Alexandria and St. Hilary of Poitier in
France -- it was the faithful who defended the Faith, who made sure that
Christianity survived....
       And I wonder if paradoxically a new crisis were to explode such as
the Arian one, would the faithful be capable of defending the Faith and
Tradition?  Of safeguarding Catholicism once again?  --Yves Cardinal Congar,
1993, Interview with 30 Days [a central figure at Vatican II]

       Classical canonists discussed the question of whether a pope, in his
private or personal opinions, could go into heresy, apostasy, or schism.  If
he were to do so in a notoriously and widely publicized manner, he would
break communion, and according to an accepted opinion, lose his office ipso
facto (c. 194, sec. 1, 2o).  Since no one can judge the pope (c. 1404) no
one
could depose a pope for such crimes, and the authors are divided as to how
his loss of office would be declared in such a way that a vacancy could then
be filled by a new election  --James Corridan et al., editors, The Code of
Canon Law:  A Text and Commentary 1983, commissioned by the Canon Law
Society
of American [New York:  Paulist 1985], c. 333)

       [We] are awaiting the last phase which will mark a substantial
withdrawal of the word "ity" from the Church because its bishops, more than
all others combined, hold the responsibility for the predicament in which we
find ourselves.  They seem to be obsessed by secular ecumenism as they
persist in following a pattern of self-preservation instead of Church
preservation.  It is, sorrowfully, a pattern of materialism instead of
spirituality; a pattern contrary to Christ's prediction, namely, he who
loses
his life will find it.... Our modern bishops are in tragic need of humility
and sanctity.  Perhaps today is too late for their personal renewal in view
of the damage that has been effected in our sanctuaries and schools and
seminaries not only these past ten years but this last half century.  --Fr.
Charles Coughlin, Helmet and Sword (1967), pp. 50-51

       One must neither pray nor sing songs with heretics.  --Council of
Carthage (Patrologia Latina, vol. 56, col. 486)

       In the consecration of the Body of the Lord this form of words is
used:  "Hoc is enim corpus meum;" and in that of the blood:  "Hic est enim
calix sanguinis mei, novi et aeterni testament, mysterium fidei, quod pro
vobis et pro multis effundetur in remissionem peccatorum."  -- Dogmatic
Council of Florence, A.D. 1442

       We have learned from a report by Sparatus, that you will not cease
hauling in the huts of your compatriots certain tables upon which you
celebrate the divine sacrifice of the Mass with the assistance of women whom
you describe as commensals (colhospitae) and who, while you are distributing
the Eucharist, administer to the people the blood of Christ.  This is a
novelty, an unprecedented superstition; we are profoundly saddened to
witness
the resuregence of an abominable sect which had never taken hold in the
Gauls; the oriental fathers have dubbed it Pepundienne after Pepundius,
author of this schism, who dared to associate women in the service of the
altar.  Licinius, Metropolitan of Tours; Estochius, Bishop of Angers; and
Melaine of Rennes, on the two secular priests Lovocat and Catihern, who went
from Great Britain to Brittany, France
       In our province it would be best to have one mode of holy ceremonies
and divine office lest a variety of observances toward a single end should
give rise to the belief that our devotions also express differences.  --
Council of Tours (565)

       Whatever may be the custom elsewhere, the American tradition, of
which Catholics form so loyal a part, is satisfied simply to call to public
attention moral questions with their implications and leave to the
conscience
of
the people the specific political decision which comes in the act of voting.
--
Richard Cardinal Cushing, 1960

       Whosoever is separated from the Church is united to an adulteress.
--St. Cyprian, Bishop & Martyr (ca. 200-258)

       We are called gods because not only does grace elevate us to a
supernatural glory, but even more because we have in us God who dwells and
remains there.  --St. Cyril of Alexandria

       After you have reverently sanctified your eyes by gazing upon the
sacred Body, receive It; but be careful lest any particle be lost.  For if
you lose a portion, it will be as if you lost a part of yourself; for, tell
me, if someone gave you grains of gold, would you not save them with the
greatest care and watch so that none would be lost and you suffer damage?
Should you  not, therefore, be far more careful that not even a crumb go
lost
of that which is more valuable than gold or precious gems?... Remember these
various points.  Keep yourselves blameless.  Do not stay away from Holy
Communion; do not by defilement with sin rob yourselves of this sacred and
sanctifying mystery."  --St. Cyril of Alexandria, March 18, 386

       Human affairs are now carried on in so many different languages, so
that many people are no better understood by others when they use words than
when they do not.  --Dante Alighieri

       The prevailing attitude among so many of the [conservative] clergy
is
to accept a particular belief or attitude not because it has an inherent and
enduring truth or value, but because it happens to be the current policy.
Thus, the very clergy who would have denounced (and rightly so) any layman
who had attended a Protestant service before the Council will not denounce
any layman who suggests that the faith would in any way be compromised by
attending such services....  Thus, a matter touching upon the very nature of
the Church Christ founded is seen in itself as something neutral; all that
matters is the current instruction.  --Michael Davies, Pope John's Council,
(Angelus Press, 1977), pp. 17-18

       During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries a bureaucratic
mentality had developed among Catholics, the clergy in particular.  The
essence of Catholicism was seen as implementing any instruction coming from
higher authority whatever its merits, and this is still the attitude of most
of those clergy who abhor the destruction of the traditional liturgy.  They
complain but they obey.  --Michael Davies, The Missal of 1962:  A Rock of
Stability, Latin Mass (X:2, Spring 2001), pp. 11-12

       The Eucharistic teaching of the Council of Trent is indeed
compromised by the Novus Ordo Missae itself, and not simply by the abuses
which accompany its celebrations....  --Michael Davies, Pope Paul's New
Mass,
Author's Introduction (Angelus Press, 1980), p. xxiv

       It is indeed no exaggeration to claim that we are living now in the
dark night of the Church.  Lack of reverence to the Blessed Sacrament or
even
outright sacrilege constitutes perhaps the most terrifying aspect of this
dark night.  --Michael Davies, "The American Scandal," Appendix VI to Pope
Paul's New Mass (Angelus Press, c. 1980)

       In other words, you justify attendance at Tridentine Masses on the
principle of what is called in moral theology, epikeia, or equity, which
assumes that in cases of human --not divine --law, the lawgiver would not
prohibit a certain action if he knew all the circumstances in a concrete
situation which are said to make the observance of the law impossible.  --
Michael Davies, The Schismatic Six

       Many traditional Catholics much prefer the pre-1962 Missal and
would,
in at least some respects, like to see certain features of that Missal
restored eventually, but to campaign for this at present would be
unrealistic
and counterproductive.  Mainstream traditionalists are rightly, prudently,
and very successfully directing all their energies into the widest possible
use of the 1962 Missal.  --Michael Davies, "Adoremus -- A Balanced
Appraisal," in The Wanderer, January 15, 1996 (29:1), pp. 1 et seq.  (cf.
Michael Davies, The Second Vatican Council and Religious Liberty, Appendix
A)

       It is to be hoped that all the traditional priestly communities will
look upon each other as allies rather than rivals, and that some of the
unfortunate mutual criticism which has occurred in the past will not be
repeated.  --Michael Davies, "A Letter from London," Wanderer, February 15,
1996 (29:3), p. 5

       Its [Vatican II's] documents do not pertain to the Church's supreme
Magisterium, the Extraordinary Magisterium, but to its Ordinary Magisterium,
and therefore it cannot be presumed with certainty that in formulating those
documents it was guided by the Holy Spirit, or that these documents are an
expression of the word of Christ for His Bride the Church in our time.  The
Council could have invested its teaching or even some of its teaching with
the authority of the Extraordinary infallible Magisterium, but it
deliberately chose not to do so.  Where teaching is proposed by the
Magisterium without the intention of fully engaging the prudential authority
of the Church, it does so only in a fallible manner.  --Michael Davies,
"Adoremus -- A Balanced Appraisal," in Wanderer, January 15, 1996 (29:1),
pp.
1 et seq.  (cf. Michael Davies, The Second Vatican Council and Religious
Liberty, Appendix A)

       In his article "Magisterium" in A  Dictionary of Theology, Fr.
Joseph
Crehan, S.J., ... drew our attention to the fact that the Council accepted
that it had "put forth its teaching without infallible definitions" by
concluding the decree on the Church "with the words decernimus ac statuimus"
('We decree and establish') and not with the word definimus."  The same
formula was used for all sixteen promulgated documents of the Council.  As
was explained above, infallibility pertains only to definitions."  --Michael
Davies in "The Authority of Vatican II," Latin Mass, March-April 1993, p. 28

       There have been celebrations of the Indult Mass in the United States
where the homilies have been used as propaganda to try to stop people going
to the traditional Mass.  Then you have some celebrations of the Indult Mass
in which the Lectionary of the 1969 Missal is used; that is completely
contrary to the regulations governing these Indult Masses.  You are supposed
to have the 1962 Missal used exactly....  An unadulterated 1962 Missal must
be used, and Communion must be given on the tongue.  --Michael Davies,
"Catholic Interviews," in Catholic, June-July 1996 (No. 154), p. 8

       As the quotations from Card. Newman make clear, it is an established
historical fact that St. Athanasius and St. Eusebius of Samosata [?Bp. of
Vercelli, ob. 371] both ordained outside their own dioceses.  An interesting
reference to him [St. Eusebius] occurs in a study of the Church's divine
constitution by Dom Adrien Grea, OSB, [L'Eglise et sa Constituition Divine
(Editions Casterman, 1965), p. 236] in his examination of the extraordinary
powers of the episcopate which can only be exercised in the most drastic
circumstances:  "In the fourth century St. Eusebius of Samosata traveled
through Eastern dioceses devastated by the Arians and ordained orthodox
pastors for them, without having particular jurisdiction over them.  These
are evidently extraordinary actions as were the circumstances that gave rise
to them."  --Michael Davies, St. Athanasius:  Defender of the Faith (Kansas
City, MO:  Angelus Press, 2nd ed./June 1995), p. 74.

       During a period of schism and heresy, their [bishops'] duty to
defend
the integrity of tradition extends beyond any single diocese.  Card. Newman
illustrates this by pointing out out that St. Athanasius, St. Epiphanius of
Salamis, and St. Eusebius of Samosata, both fierce opponents of Arianism,
had
ordained outside their own dioceses.  --Michael Davies, St. Athanasius:
Defender of the Faith (Kansas City, MO:  Angelus Press, 2nd ed./June 1995),
p. 43.

       No one with even a cursory knowledge of the history of the Church
could possibly claim either that there had ever been any previous radical
reform of the liturgy in the 2000 years of its history, or that any
sacramental rite had been composed artificially by a committee composed for
the purpose.  The principle governing authentic liturgical development has
never been expressed more perfectly than by the Protestant historian,
Professor Owen Chadwick:  "Liturgies are not made; they grow in the devotion
of centuries."  --Michael Davies, Letter From London:  Unhappy Anniversary,"
Remnant, April 30, 1994

       It might be hoped that ... [Traditional Catholics] would see each
other as allies, and even if they did not have identical opinions on the
most
effective method of restoring the traditional Mass, or of the attitude that
we should take to the New Mass, they would at least refrain from polemical
attacks on fellow traditionalists.  As Bill Marra has expressed it so
perfectly:  "No enemies on the right!"  --Michael Davies, "A Response:  To
Father Peter Scott, SSPX, in The Remnant, May 31, 1997 (XXX:10), p. 2

       Cardinal Stickler mentioned that the cardinal from Sicily [at
Vatican
II said, "Fathers, Fathers, we have to be careful or we'll end up with the
whole of the Mass in the vernacular," and all the bishops roared with
laughter because they thought that such a suggestion was ridiculous.  --
Michael Davies, Inside the Vatican, March 2000, "Interview:  Here I Stand,"
pp. 16

       The Ecclesia Dei Commission stated in a letter to Father Bisig
[Superior of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter] it wants traditionalists
to be integrated into the reality of the Church of today, but the reality of
the Church of today is that it is disintegrating, and traditional Catholic
have no intention of being integrated into a disintegrating Church.  We are
happy to remain within the very rapidly expanding traditionalist movement
which we think is the most vital and orthodox and most loyal section of the
Catholic Church.  --Michael Davies, Inside the Vatican, March 2000,
"Interview:  Here I Stand," pp. 17

       Everything that the Christian world possessed of doctrine and poetry
and music and art was poured into the liturgy and molded into an organic
whole which centered round the Divine Mysteries.  --Christopher Dawson

       [The traditional Mass] is the most elaborate work of art ever
created
by man.  --Christopher Dawson

       We are turned so much towards the assembly that we often forget to
turn ourselves together, people and priest, towards God!  Yet, without this
essential orientation, the celebration no longer has any Christian meaning.
--Albert Cardinal Decourtray, Archbishop of Lyons, Primate of France,
Documentation Catholique, Paris, June 21, 1992, p. 613)

       What Catholics once were, we are.  If we are wrong, then Catholics
through the ages have been wrong.  --Robert DePiante, Secretary of the
Society of Traditional Roman Catholics.  [Also expressed as:  "We are what
you once were.  We believe what you once believed.  We worship as you once
worshipped. If we are wrong now, you were wrong then.  If you were right
then, we are right now.]

       Stylus brevis, grata facundia; celsa, clara firma sententia.  [A
pity
style, of quite elegant grace; lofty, clear in its sound expression.   --
Dominican Office, of St. Thomas Aquinas' Latin style

       Anti-Catholicism is the last respectable bias among those who view
themselves as models of enlightenment.  Utter a word remotely offensive to
Jews, blacks, women, or gays?  Heaven forbid.  Yet some of those same people
do not blink before mocking the Church or Jesus or Catholic sacraments....
Don't Catholics deserve the same consideration?  --Dr. William A. Donohue,
President of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, interviewed
in the New York Times, June 1, 1998

       It is a grave impoverishment of our culture that so many classify
music as an amusement; and not as a collective voice of mankind that unites
men on a higher level of spiritual sensitiveness than they could otherwise
attain.  --Winfred Douglas, Church Music in History and Practice:  Studies
in
the Praise of God (New York:  Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937), p. 9

       The switch from Latin to English immediately rendered obsolete the
entire musical repertoire of cathedral, chapel, and parish church....  At
the
heart of the Edwardine reform was the necessity of destroying, of cutting,
hammering, scraping, or melting into a deserved oblivion the monuments of
popery, so that the doctrines they embodied might be forgotten.  Iconoclasm
was the central sacrament of the reform, and, as the programme of the
leaders
became more radical in the years between 1547 and 1553, they sought with
greater urgency the celebration of that sacrament of forgetfulness in every
parish in the land.  --Dr. Eamon Duffy, British Historian, The Stripping of
the Altars (New Haven:  Yale University Press, 1992), p. 465, 480

       No one can foresee what the situation in the church will be in 2036,
any more than anyone could have predicted the present situation from the
vantage point of 1956.  --Prof. Robert J. Edgeworth, President of the Latin
Liturgy Association

       The Catholic Church was the only one to raise its voice against
Hitler's attack on freedom.  Until that period the Church had never
attracted
my attention, but today I express my great admiration and my profound
attachment to this Church which alone had the boundless courage to fight for
moral and spiritual freedom.  --Albert Einstein (himself a Jew), Essays

       Even if there were only one person left who held the right Catholic
Faith, there would be the Catholic Church.  --Ven. Anne Catherine Emmerick
(1774-1824)

      The Church is the only one, the Roman Catholic!  And if there were
left upon earth but one Catholic, he would be the one, universal Church, the
Catholic Church, the Church of Jesus Christ against which the gates of
Hell shall never prevail.  -- Ven. Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774-1824)

       It is the Mass that matters.  --English Catholics at the time of the
persecutions

       When you read, do not be content with turning the pages, but review
the same passage twice, three times, or more in order to understand well all
its significance.  Reading too quickly is like storm rains that fall
violently and flow away without giving the earth time to become moistened
and
are therefore useless or not very useful to it.  Spiritual reading must
rather imitate gentle rain, which falls slowly, penetrates to the depths of
the earth and fertilizes the soil.  [He who wishes always to be with God
must
often pray and read.  When we pray, it is we who speak to God; but when we
read, it is God who speaks to us.]  --St. Ephrem

       They [deaconesses] were only women-elders, not priestesses in any
sense, and their mission was not to interfere in any way with Sacerdotal
functions, but simply to perform offices in the care of women.  --St.
Epiphanius (Haer. lxxix, cap. iii)

       The crosses with which our path through life is strewn associate us
with Jesus in the mystery of His crucifixion.  -- St. John Eudes (1601-1680)

       [The traditional Mass] is the most beautiful thing this side of
heaven.  It came forth out of the grand mind of the Church and lifted us out
of earth and out of self, and wrapped us round in a cloud of mystical
sweetness and the sublimities of a more than angelic liturgy, and purified
us
almost without ourselves, and charmed us with celestial charming so that our
very senses seemed to find vision, hearing, fragrance, taste, and touch more
than ear can give.  --Fr. Frederick W. Faber, 19th century, Oratorian priest
at the Brompton Oratory, London, close associate of Cardinal Newman

       As the decay in belief in the Divinity of Jesus continues to
increase, the tendency will be to model church organization according to the
political theories in favor at the moment.  The democratic form of society
will be exalted and a "Reunion of Christendom," for example, will be aimed
at, along the lines followed by the League of Nations.  --Fr. Fahey

       We have to distinguish according to the schemata and the chapters
those which have already been the subject of dogmatic definitions; as for
the
declarations which have a novel character, we have to make reservations.  --
Cardinal Pericle Felici, describing the "theological note" of the Council

       Not to oppose error is to approve it; and not to defend truth is to
suppress it; and indeed to neglect to confound evil men, when we can do it,
is no less a sin than to encourage them.  --Pope St. Felix III

       The first remedy against spiritual temptations which the devil
plants
in the hearts of many persons in these unhappy times, is to have no desire
to
procure by prayer, meditation, or any other good work, what are called
(private) revelations, or spiritual experiences, beyond what happens in the
ordinary course of things; such a desire of things which surpass the common
order can have no other root or foundation but pride, presumption, a vain
curiosity in what regards the things of God, and in short, an exceedingly
weak faith.  It is to punish this evil desire that God abandons the soul,
and
permits it to fall into the illusions and temptations of the devil, who
seduces it, and represents to it false visions and delusive revelations.
Here
we have the source of most of the spiritual temptations that prevail at the
present time; temptations which the spirit of evil roots in the souls of
those who may be called the precursors of Antichrist.  --St. Vincent Ferrer
(1350-1419)

       Hence, that meaning of the sacred dogmata is ever to be maintained
which has once been declared by Holy Mother Church, and there must never be
an abandonment of this sense under the pretext or in the name of a more
profound understanding....  If anyone says that it is possible that at some
given time, given the advancement of knowledge, a sense may be assigned to
the dogmata propounded by the Church which is different from that which the
Church has always understood and understands: let him be anathema.  --First
Vatican Council

       This Magisterium is not superior to the Word of God, but is its
servant. It teaches only what has been handed on to it.  --First Vatican
Council, Dei Verbum, Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation

       Neque enim Petri successoribus Spiritus sanctus promissus est, ut eo
revelante novam doctrinam patefacerent, sed ut eo assistente traditam per
apostolos revelationem seu fidei depositum sancte custodirent et fideliter
exponerent.
       [For the Holy Ghost was promised to the successors of Peter not so
that they might, by His revelation, make known some new doctrine, but that,
by His assistance, they might religiously guard and faithfully expound the
revelation or Deposit of Faith transmitted by the Apostles.  --First Vatican
Council, Constitutio Dogmatica Prima de Ecclesia Christi (Pastor Aeternus),
chap. 4, De Romani Pontificis Infallibili Magisterio, July 18, 1870

       He who goes about to take the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass from the
Church plots no less a calamity than if he tried to snatch the sun from the
universe. --St. John Fisher, 16th-century English bishop

       The fort is betrayed even of them that should have defended it.  --
St. John Fisher, 16th-century English bishop

       Ordo autem missarum, quibus oblata Deo sacrificia consecrantur,
primo
a sancto Petro est institutus, cuius celebrationem uno eodemque modo
universus peragit orbis.
       [Moreover, the order of Mass, by which the sacrificial offerings are
consecrated to God, were first instituted by Blessed Peter, the celebration
of which in one and the same manner the whole world carries out].  --St.
Isidore of Seville, Patrologia Latina vol. 83, col. 752A

       About this time there lived Jesus, a wise man....  When Pilate, upon
hearing him accused by men of the highest standing amongst us, had condemned
him to be crucified, those who had in the first place come to love him did
not give up their affection for him....  --Flavius Josephus (n. 37/38),
Antiquities of the Jews, 18:63.  This passage is known as the Testimonium
Flavium and appears to have suffered at the hands of later Christian
interpolators, and the original wording of this section is now lost.

       If an angel should come down from heaven and show me any other thing
than I have believed all my lifetime past, I would not believe him.  --
Blessed John Forest, one of the martyrs of the English Reformation

       The Pope has no authority from Christ in temporal matters, in
questions of politics....  His authority is ecclesiastical authority; it
goes
no further than that of the Church herself.  But even in religious matters,
the Pope is bound, very considerably, by the divine constitution of the
Church.  There are any number of things that the pope cannot do in religion.
He cannot modify, nor touch in any way, one single point of the revelation
Christ gave to the Church; his business is only to guard this against attack
and false interpretation.  We believe that God will guide him that his
decisions of this nature will be nothing more than a defense or unfolding of
what Christ revealed.  The pope can neither make nor unmake a sacrament; he
cannot affect the essence of any sacrament in any way.  He cannot touch the
Bible; he can neither take away a text from the inspired Scriptures nor add
one to them.  He has no fresh inspiration nor revelation.  His business is
to
believe the revelation of Christ, as all Catholics believe it, and to defend
it against heresy....  The Pope is not, in the absolute sense, head of the
Church; the head of the  Church is Jesus Christ our Lord....  The Pope is
the
vicar of that head, and therefore visible head of the Church on earth,
having
authority delegate from Christ over the Church on earth only....  If the
Pope
is a monarch, he is a very constitutional monarch indeed, bound on all sides
by the constitution of the Church, as this has been given to her by Christ.
--Fr. Adrian Fortescue (England's greatest liturgical historian, 1874-1923),
The Early Papacy to the Synod of Chalcedon in 451 (St. Austin Press, 1997),
pp. 27-28

       So our Mass goes back without essential change to the age when
Caesar
ruled the world and thought he could stamp out the faith of Christ, when our
fathers met together before dawn and sang a hymn to Christ as God....  There
is not in Christendom a rite so venerable as ours.  --Adrian Fortescue
(England's greatest liturgical historian, 1874-1923), The Mass:  A Study of
the Roman Liturgy (London, 1917), p. 213

       [There is] a prejudice that imagines that everything Eastern must be
old.  This is a mistake, and there is no existing Eastern liturgy with a
history of continual use stretching back as far as that of the Roman Mass.
-
-Adrian Fortescue (England's greatest liturgical historian, 1874-1923), The
Mass:  A Study of the Roman Liturgy (London, 1917), p. 213n

       Let us be as Roman as possible always.  But in artistic matters let
us look to Rome's good artistic periods.  It would be absurd to defend
mangled plainsong and operatic music as Roman.  It is just as absurd to
claim
the name of the ancient city for only one period of her long artistic
development.  Skimped chasubles, gold braid, and lace are not Roman; they
are
eighteenth-century bad taste.  --Adrian Forescue (England's greatest
liturgical historian, 1874-1923), The Vestments of the Roman Rite (New York:
Paulist Press, 1912)

       The everlasting God has in His wisdom foreseen from eternity the
cross that He now presents to you as a gift from His inmost Heart.  This
cross that He now sends you He has considered with His all-knowing eyes,
understood with His divine mind, tested with His wise justice, warmed with
loving arms and weighted with His own hands to see that it be not one inch
too large and not one ounce too heavy for you.  He has blessed it with His
holy Name, anointed it with His grace, perfumed it with His consolation,
taken one last glance at you and your courage and then sent it to you from
heaven, a special greeting from God to you, an alms of the all-merciful love
of God.
       If the name Peter makes us recognize him as chief, the name Simon
warns us that he was not unlimited chief, but obedient and subordinate
chief....  Our Lord is Lord and Master in his own right:  St. Peter only
administers for Him.  --St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622)

       Say your Pater, Ave, and Credo in Latin ... so as to join in the
universal language of the Church.  --St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622)

       Be assured that we shall obtain more grace and merit in one day by
suffering patiently the afflictions that come to us from God or from our
neighbor than we would acquire in ten years by mortifications and other
exercises that are of our own choice.  --St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622)

       "We do not sufficiently remember our dead, our faithful departed....
Notwithstanding their advantages, the state of the souls in purgatory is
still very sad and truly deserving of compassion.  Moreover, the glory that
they will render to God in heaven is delayed.  These two motives ought to
engage us, by our prayers, our fasts, our alms, and all kinds of good works,
especially by offering the holy sacrifice of the Mass for them, to procure
their speedy deliverance."  -- St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622)

       We may compare a soul rising from sin to holiness to the dawn which,
as it rises, does not at once dispel darkness, but advances gradually.  It
is
an old saying, that a slow cure is a certain cure.  Spiritual diseases like
those of the body come mounted and at full speed; they return on foot and
creeping. We must be patient and courageous.  It is sad to see those who,
finding their attempts after the devout life hindered by various
infirmities,
begin to grow uneasy, to fret and be disheartened, almost ready to yield to
the temptation of forsaking their aim and falling back.  --St. Francis de
Sales (1567-1622), Philothea, Part I, Chapter v

       There will be an uncanonically elected Pope who will cause a great
schism, there will be diverse thoughts preached which will cause many, even
those in the different orders to doubt, yea, even agree with those heretics
which will cause my Order to divide, then will there be such universal
dissensions and persecutions that if those days were not shortened even the
elect would be lost.  --St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226)

       Too many American Catholics are just Protestants who go to Mass on
Sunday.  --Hamish Fraser

       The American Church is in schism.  -- Edouard Cardinal Gagnon
(1990).

       The Roman Rite, in important parts, goes back at least to the fourth
century, more exactly to the time of Pope Damasus (366-384).  The Canon of
the Mass had attained by the time of Gelasius I (492-496) the form it has
kept until now, apart from some modifications made under Gregory I (590-
604).
The only thing which the popes have unceasingly insisted upon since the
fifth
century is that the Roman Canon must be adopted; their argument being that
it
went back to the Apostle St. Peter.  --Msgr. Klaus Gamber, The Reform of the
Roman Liturgy:  Its Problems and Background (Una Voce Press, 1987/1993)

       In the final analysis, ... in the future the traditional rite of
Mass
must be retained in the Roman Catholic Church ... as the primary liturgical
form for the celebration of Mass.  It must become once more the norm of our
faith and the symbol of Catholic unity throughout the world, a rock of
stability in a period of upheaval and never-ending change.  --Msgr. Klaus
Gamber, The Reform of the Roman Liturgy

       There never was a celebration versus populum in either the Eastern
or
Western Church.  Instead, there was a turning toward the East.  -- Msgr.
Klaus Gamber, The Reform of the Roman Liturgy

       In contrast to the liturgies of the Eastern Church, which continued
their development well into the Middle Ages, but remained fixed thereafter,
the Roman liturgy, in its simple, even plain forms, which originated in
early
Christianity, has remained almost unchanged for centuries.  There is no
question that the Roman liturgy is the oldest Chrsitian rite.  Over time, a
number of popes have undertaken revisions.  In an early period, Pope Damasus
I (366-384) did so; and later, so did Pope St. Gregory the Great (590-604),
among others.  --Msgr. Klaus Gamber, The Reform of the Roman Liturgy:  Its
Problems and Background (Una Voce Press, 1987/1993, p. 10)

       It most certainly is not the function of the Holy See to introduce
Church reforms.  The first duty of the pope is to act as primary bishop
(episcopus = supervisor), to watch over the traditions of the Church --her
dogmatic, moral, and liturgical traditions.  --Msgr. Klaus Gamber, The
Reform
of the Roman Liturgy:  Its Problems and Background (Una Voce Press,
1987/1993, p. 38)

       Liturgy and faith are interdependent.  That is why a new rite was
created, a rite that in many ways reflects the bias of the new (modernist)
theology.  The traditional liturgy simply could not be allowed to exist in
its established form, because it was permeated with the truths of the
traditional faith and its ancient forms of piety....   Instead of our
religious life entering a period of new invigoration, as has happened in the
past, what we now see is a form of Christianity that has turned towards the
world.  --Msgr. Klaus Gamber, The Reform of the Roman Liturgy:  Its Problems
and Background (Una Voce Press, 1987/1993, pp. 100, 102)

       Se per malum fidem et negligentiam pontificis, universalis ecclesia
in errorem induci possit,... tutela Christi ... iudicium tale impediretur.
[If the entire Church should ever face the danger of being led astray
through
the bad faith and negligence of a pope,... Christ's vigilance ... would
prevent an infallible declaration.]  --Bishop Gasser of Bressanone at the
time of the First Vatican Council, Mansi 52, col. 1212-1214

       Let those who like myself have known and sung a Latin-Gregorian High
Mass remember it if they can.  Let them compare it with the Mass that we now
have.  Not only the words, the melodies, and some of the gestures are
different.  To tell the truth, it is a different liturgy of the Mass.  This
needs to be said without ambiguity:  the Roman Rite as we knew it no longer
exists [le rite romain tel que nous l'avons connu n'existe plus].  It has
been destroyed [il est detruit].  Some walls of the former edifice have
fallen while others have changed their appearance, to the extent that it
appears today either as a ruin or the partial substructure of a different
building.  We must not weep over the ruins or dream of an historical
reconstruction.  --Fr. Joseph Gelineau, one of the most influential members
of Archbishop Annibale Bugnini's Consilium, which composed the New Mass,
"Demain La Liturgie," Latin Mass, November-December 1992, p. 32

       Men are hard at work to put an end to the 2000-year worship history
of the Roman Catholic Church.  They seem determined to interrupt the
continuous Sacrifice of Calvary, and the Supreme Act of reparation to the
infinite God.  Nearly every Catholic Church has been "remodeled and updated"
--altars have been removed and destroyed, sanctuaries have been leveled to
the ground, and the House of God has been turned into a meeting facility, a
place nobody wants to visit at any time other than when service are being
conducted.  Consequently, all things reminiscent of the Old Order of
Sacrifice have been "massacred," as it were, and in too many instances, the
"massacre" of Sacred things has been conducted by the very ones who once
enjoyed their use and were careful custodians of them.  --Fr. Leonard
Giardina, O.S.B., Prior of Christ the King Monastery, Cullman, Alabama, in
Speculum Benedictinum (#5, Christmas 1993).

       Let us pray that God will give all traditional Roman Catholic
priests
and people the grace to understand that unless and until unity of purpose is
achieved amongst all traditional Roman Catholic priests and people, the work
of restoring the Sacrifice of the Mass will be paralyzed and, therefore,
ineffective.  May God grant to all Traditional Roman Catholic priests and
people the grace to put aside every cause other than the cause of the
restoration of the Mass.  When the Holy Sacrifice is restored to Catholic
worship, all things will be returned to their proper focus.  Have no fear
about that.  --Fr. Leonard Giardina, O.S.B., Prior of Christ the King
Monastery, Cullman, Alabama, The Catholic Voice, (XI:2, June 1995), p. 3

       The Sacrifice of the Mass is and remains the center of the Christian
Religion, the sum of spiritual exercises, the heart of devotion and the soul
of piety.  Hence that ever-new, never-failing power by which the Holy
Sacrifice of the Mass attracts all Catholic hearts and gathers Catholic
nations around its altars.  Everywhere the Holy Mass retains this magnetic
power of attraction....  The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is the soul and the
heart of the liturgy of the Church; it is the mystical chalice that presents
to our lips the sweet fruit of the passion of the God-Man -- this is, grace.
--Fr. Nicholas Gihr, The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass

       Latin is the language of the Church, and the sad withering away of
the Christian liturgy by translations into the vulgar language, which
vulgarizes it without cease, makes one see the necessity of a sacred
language, whose very changelessness is protected against the deprivations of
taste.  --Etienne Gilson [modern historian of the Middle Ages], The
Philosopher and Theology (1960)

       The Reformation began in lust and continued in greed and hypocrisy.
--Chris Gonenthal, "The Tragic Fall of Catholic England" in Adsum (March
2001)

       To use the words of the Fathers of the Council of Trent, it is
certain that the Church "was instructed by Jesus Christ and His Apostles and
that all truth was daily taught by the inspiration of the Holy Ghost."
Therefore, it is obviously absurd and injurious to propose a certain
"restoration and regeneration" for her as though necessary for her safety
and growth, as if she could be considered subject to defect or obscuration
or other misfortune.  Indeed these authors of novelties consider that a
"foundation may be laid of a new human institution," and what St. Cyprian
detested may come to pass, that what was a divine thing "may become a human
Church."  --Pope Gregory XVI (1831-1846), Mirari Vos, "On Liberalism and
Religious Indifferentism," August 15, 1832

       We now come to another and most fruitful cause of the evils that at
present afflict the Church and that we so bitterly deplore.  We mean
Indifferentism..., or that fateful opinion, everywhere diffused by the craft
of the wicked, that men can by the profession of any faith obtain the
eternal salvation of their souls, provided their life conforms to justice
and good morals....  Let them tremble then who imagine that every creed
leads by an easy path to the court of blessedness....  Consequently, they
will perish eternally without any doubt if they do not hold to the Catholic
faith and preserve it entire and without alteration.  --Pope Gregory XVI
(1831-1846), Mirari Vos, "On Liberalism and Religious Indifferentism," No.
14, August 15, 1832

       Liturgical Reform, having as one of its basic principles the
abolition of all mystical acts and formulations, insists upon the usage of
modern languages for the divine service....  Hatred for the Latin language
is inborn in the heart of all enemies of Rome.  They recognize it as the
bond that unites Catholics throughout the world, as the arsenal of orthodoxy
against all the subtleties of the sectarian spirit.  They consider it the
most powerful arm of the Papacy....  We must admit that it is a master blow
of Protestantism to have declared war on the sacred language. If it should
ever succeed in ever destroying it, it would be well on the way to victory.
Exposed to a profane gaze, like a virgin who has been violated, from that
moment on the liturgy has lost much of its sacred character, and very soon
people find that it is not worthwhile putting aside one's work or pleasure
in order to go and listen to what is being said in the way one speaks in the
marketplace.  How long do you think the faithful will go to hear these self-
styled liturgists cry "The Lord be with you" and how long will they continue
to respond "and with your spirit"?  --Dom Prosper Gueranger, O.S.B.,
Liturgical Institutions, vol. 1, chapter IV "The Antiliturgical Heresy,"
(1840)

       Priests should not always be obedient because they will assume the
vices of their superiors too.  --Pope St. Gregory the Great (590-604)

       If the scandal comes from the truth, one must endure the
scandal rather than conceal the truth"  -- Pope St. Gregory the Great (590-
604), In Hezechiam Sermo VII

       The Church, instructed by the teaching of humility, does not command
as though by authority, but persuades by reason.  --Pope St. Gregory the
Great (590-604), Epistulae 1:30

       It's a dumb dog that doesn't bark when the wolf is among the sheep!
--Pope St. Gregory the Great (590-604), In Ezechiam Homilia 7

       Blind that they [the Modernists] are, and leaders of the blind,
inflated with a boastful science, they have reached that pitch of folly
where they pervert the eternal concept of truth and the true nature of the
religious sentiment.  With that new system of theirs, they are seen to be
under the sway of a blind and unchecked passion for novelty, thinking not at
all of finding some solid foundation of truth, but despising the holy and
apostolic traditions, they embrace other vain, futile, uncertain doctrines,
condemned by the Church, on which, in the height of their vanity, they think
they can rest and maintain truth itself.  --Pope Gregory XVI (1831-1846)

       Surely the pastors have done foolishly; for excepting a very few,
who
either on account of their insignificance were passed over, or who by reason
of their virtue resisted, and who were to be left as a seed and root for the
springing up again and revival of Israel [the Church] by the influence of
the
Spirit, all temporized, differing from each other only in this, that some
succumbed earlier, and others later; some were foremost champions and
leaders
in the impiety, and others joined the second rank of the battle being
overcome by fear, or by interests or by flattery, or, what was the most
excusable, by their own ignorance.  --St. Gregory of Nazianzus (329-389) [an
orthodox Catholic bishop when the Church in the East was dominated by Arian
bishops and priests], Orationes xxi.24

One who entered the parish church at Wittemberg after Luther's
victory discovered that the same vestments were used for divine service as
of
yore, and heard the same old Latin hymns.  The Host was elevated and
exhibited at the Consecration.  In the eyes of the people, it was the same
Mass as before, despite the fact that Luther omitted all the prayers which
represented the sacred function of the Sacrifice.  The people were
intentionally kept in the dark on this point.  "We cannot draw the common
people away from the Sacrament, and it will probably be thus until the
Gospel
is well understood," said Luther.  The rite of celebration of the Mass, he
explained, is a "purely external thing," and said further that "the damnable
words referring to the Sacrifice could be omitted all the more readily,
since
the ordinary Christian would not notice the omission and hence there was no
danger of scandal."  --Hartmann Grisar, S.J.

       The intention of Paul VI in the matter of the liturgy, in the matter
of what is commonly called the Mass, was to reform the Catholic liturgy so
that it should approximate as closely as possible to the Protestant liturgy
.. with the Protestant Lord's Supper....  I can only repeat that Paul VI
did
all that he could to bring the Catholic Mass away from the tradition of the
Council of Trent towards the Protestant Lord's Supper.  He was assisted by
Archbishop Bugnini in particular, though Bugnini did not always enjoy the
full confidence of Paul VI....  The Mass of Paul VI is first and foremost a
banquet, is it not?  It lays heavy emphasis upon the aspect of taking part
in
a banquet, and much less upon the idea of sacrifice, ritual sacrifice in the
presence of God, the priest only showing his back.  So I do not think I am
mistaken when I say that the intention of Paul VI, and the new liturgy which
bears his name, was to ask the faithful to participate more in the Mass, to
make more space for Scripture and less for what some call "magic," but
others
call consecration, consubstantiation, transubstantiation and the Catholic
Faith.  In other words we see in Paul VI an ecumenical intention to wipe out
or at least to correct or soften everything that is too Catholic in the Mass
and to bring the Catholic Mass, again I say, as close as possible to the
Calvinist liturgy.  --Jean Guitton, French philosopher and close friend of
Pope Paul VI, in the radio program "Ici Lumiere 101," broadcasted by Radio-
Courtoisie, Paris, December 19, 1993, translated by Adrian Davies in Latin
Mass, Winter 1995 (IV, 1), pp. 10-11

       Either the Catholic Church remains constant in her fundamental
articles of faith over the centuries, or she is no longer the Church founded
by Christ....  What leaders of the Church need to do [in this] veritable
emergency of faith [is] to hold on literally for dear life to what Christ
has
revealed, to what has been defended for us by the champions of orthodoxy
like
Athanasius, Augustine, Jerome, and Gregory the Great, lived out before us by
saints and mystics like Benedict, Francis, and Ignatius Loyola, like ...
Teresa ... and Thomas More.  --Fr. John A. Hardon, "The Crisis of Faith,
Christian Order, May 1997, pp. 275-76

       An Indult, after all, does mean an exception to the norm -- in
effect, second-class citizenship.  --Fr. Brian Harrison

       The bishops were under the impression that the liturgy had been
fully
discussed [at the Second Vatican Council].  In retrospect it is clear that
they were given the opportunity of discussing only general principles.
Subsequent changes were more radical than those intended by Pope John and
the
bishops who passed the decree on the liturgy.  His sermon at the end of the
first session shows that Pope John did not suspect what was being planned by
the liturgical experts."  --Cardinal Heenan, Crown of Thorns (London, 1974),
p. 223

       If the Church is to remain truly the Catholic Church, it is
essential
to keep a universal tongue.  --Cardinal Heenan, 1967

       Jesus wept over Jerusalem, and Pope John would have wept over Rome
if
he had foreseen what would be done in the name of his Council.  --Cardinal
Heenan, 1968

       The Conservatives whose talent for accommodation to any environment
renders them nearly invisible until it's too late.  No matter what happens,
they are not so much in the Church as "in," and for them the Church is the
establishment.  Their unquestioning obedience to authority, blinder than any
Mason's, relieves them of untold struggles of conscience.  Although they may
express a preference for the ancient Mass, they have no problems with the
new
one as long as the music is good the atmosphere reverent, and the majority
attend it....  Their catechisms rarely teach outright heresy, but jarring
truths are prudently disregarded lest charity be wounded.  --Solange Strong
Hertz, "It's Only Natural," Remnant, February 28, 1994, p. 10

       Because the papacy cannot be exercised apart from it [the Faith],
Innocent II, St. Antoninus, Paul IV, St. Robert Bellarmine, St. Alphonsus
Liguori, and other eminent theologians and canonists have contended that no
heretic can be Pope, even should he preempt the Chair of Peter, for he does
not possess the faith of Peter....  As Vicar of Christ and Head of the
Church, the Pope is indeed ... an infallible shadow, but only by virtue of
the Rock whose outline he projects.  Separated from the Rock, he is not even
a shadow, and no more infallible than any other pagan, heretic, or
schismatic.
       Alas, the Pope's office does not confirm him in grace.  This
explains
why traditionally the faithful pray in the Litany of the Saints "to preserve
the Apostolic Prelate and all ecclesiastical orders in holy religion."  Like
anyone else, the Pope can commit the most grievous sins without prejudice to
his ministry or estrangement from the body of the faithful, but again, like
anyone else, he excommunicates himself if he sins against faith and falls
into heresy or schism, for faith is to the Church what the root is to the
tree.  No longer part of the Mystical Body, how can he function as its
earthly, visible head?
Lest the faithful be scandalized at such an eventuality, the Book of Daniel
explicitly foretells a time when the power of evil would be "magnified even
to the prince of the strength" (a person commonly identified as the Pope by
the Church Fathers) and would take "from him the continual sacrifice ...
because of sins" (Dan. 8:11-12).  The prophet Osee likewise predicted that
"the children of Israel," prefiguring the Church, "shall sit many days
without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice and without altar
and
without ephod and without theraphim" [liturgical vestments]....
       It remains that authority, even the supreme papal authority, is at
the service of the faith, and not the other way round.  As St. Paul told the
Corinthians, speaking as their bishop, "We can do nothing against truth" (2
Cor. 13:8), inasmuch as his authority was conferred on him only for the
reinforcement of truth.  Belief in the Holy Catholic Church is a solemnly-
defined article of the Creed, without which no one can be saved.  One, holy,
universal, and apostolic, the Church is indefectible because she is the
Mystical Body of Christ, against whom the gates of hell have no power
whatever to prevail.  Her soul is the Spirit of Christ, which is the Holy
Ghost.  For the Church to defect, God himself would have to defect.  Nowhere
does the Creed enjoin faith in Peter, or even in the Papacy, for these are
not indefectible, and part from the Church they have no credibility....
       Never actually concluded, the First Vatican Council left the
Catholic
world with a somewhat one-sided view of papal authority, which must be seen
in the larger context of the infallibility of the Church to remain in
balance.  It was not long before the obedience due the Pope was over-
emphasized.  There was a natural human tendency to forget that even in this
regard, obedience is no transcendent theological virtue like faith, hope, or
charity, but a simple moral virtue like any other, in the practice of which
it is possible to sin by excess as well as by deficiency....
       For not even in mediaeval times has deference to the Pope as an
individual assumed the proportions it has today.  As often as not, even the
popular idiom instinctively refers to the Second Vatican Council as "Pope
John's Council" and the subsequent reforms as "the liturgy of Paul VI"
rather
than the liturgy of the Church....
       There is no precedent for the uncritical adulation accorded John
Paul
II....  It is no longer unusual for fans of the Pontiff to view him apart
from his office, as an outstanding celebrity in his own right..., giving
rise
to a veritable cult....
       At the First Vatican Council Pope Pius IX promulgated as dogma that
the Pope speaks infallibly when doing so "ex cathedra, that is, when in
discharge of the office of Pastor and Doctor of all Christians, by virtue of
his supreme Apostolic authority he defines a doctrine regarding faith or
morals to be held by the Universal Church, by the divine assistance promised
to him in blessed Peter."  Although "such definitions are irreformable of
themselves and not from the consent of the Church," a clear line of
demarcation was laid between Peter acting in his official capacity as Pope,
and Peter as a private individual.  The Council had already made clear in
the
decree De Ecclesia Christi that the assistance of the Holy Ghost had not
been
promised to Peter's successors to reveal new doctrines, but only to teach
and
preserve intact the Deposit [of Faith] confided to the Apostles.  --Solange
Strong Hertz, "De Petris:  On the Rocks," Wanderer

       The Church was not in any special crisis when the Second Vatican
Council was convened in 1962.  On the contrary, it was in a particularly
flourishing state, institutionally, intellectually, and religiously.  As
John
Lukacs pointed out in 1959 (in his introduction to Alexis de Tocqueville's
"The European Revolution), "for the first time since the Counter-
Reformation,
conversions have been flowing almost unilaterally toward Catholicism."  But
today, after the Council, the entire trend has been reversed:
institutionally, intellectually, religiously, the Church is under attack, is
falling back, is in crisis.  --Will Herberg

       Vernacular means banalization; vernacular means profanation.  --
Canon
Gregory Hesse of Austria

       We started with twelve bishops, and one of them was a traitor.  Now
we have the opposite.  --Canon Gregory Hesse of Austria

       The churches shall lament with great lamentations, because there
shall neither oblation be made, nor incense, nor worship grateful to God.
But the sacred houses of churches shall be like to cottages, and the
precious
Body and Blood of Christ shall not be exist in those days, the liturgy shall
be extinguished, the psalmody shall cease, the reciting of Scriptures shall
not be heard.  --St. Hippolytus (ob. ca. 236)

       And women, whether believers or catechumens, shall stand for their
prayers by themselves in a separate part of the Church....  And the
presbyters -- or, if there are not enough presbyters, the deacons -- shall
hold the cups, and shall stand with reverence and modesty.  And even if the
bishop should be absent when the faithful meet at a supper, if a presbyter
or
deacon is present they shall eat in a similar orderly fashion, and each
shall
be careful to take the blessed bread from the presbyter's or deacon's hand."
--St. Hippolytus (ob. ca. 236), The Apostolic Tradition

       The Latin is also so close to the Church's liturgical and
theological
wellsprings that its abandonment has left many people badly out of touch
with
their traditions.  Its demise has been one of the principal stimuli to the
belief that liturgy ought to be a completely contemporary thing....  The
association of the Latin language with the timeless, mysterious, and
traditional aspects of worship is so profound that no fully adequate
translation of it into the vernacular is possible.  The decision to
translate
the liturgy into the vernacular has had momentous consequence which should
not be minimized.  It may lead to the disappearance of almost all sense of
the sacred in liturgy....  --Prof. James Hitchcock, The Recovery of the
Sacred (1974), "written less than a decade after Vatican II to call
attention
to certain liturgical trends which seemed unwise and even destructive"

       Q.  If a person lived a decent, noble and moral life as judged by
Catholic Faith beliefs and standards, yet was not a Christian or a Catholic
and may, for the sake of discussion, be a non-believer, would this person be
denied Heaven?
       A.  To gain eternal salvation, it is not always required that a
person be incorporated in fact as a member of the  Church, but it is
required
that he belong to it at least in desire and longing [in voto].  It is not
always necessary that this desire be explicit as it is with catechumens.
When
a man is invincibly ignorant, God also accepts an implicit desire, so called
because it is contained in the good disposition of soul by which a man wants
his will to be conformed to God's will.
       [The letter than goes on to state under what circumstances it
suffices for salvation to belong to the Church by an implicit desire of
longing:  such a person must be invincibly ignorant of his error, possess
supernatural Faith (by which he believes that God exists and is a rewarder
to
those that seek Him), and have an implicit desire informed with perfect
charity.  Referring to the encyclical Mystici Corporis, the Letter says:
"... the pope censures those who exclude from eternal salvation all men who
belong to the Church only with implicit desire, and he also censures those
who falsely maintain that men can be saved equally as well in any
religion."]
--Letter of the Holy Office to the Archbishop of Boston, August 8, 1949

       The Episcopate was now so generally corrupted by the spirit of the
world that to be subject to it was often a direct menace to spiritual and
temporal well being.  --Fr. Philip Hughes, Popular History of the Catholic
Church (Macmillan, 1946), p. 91

       Wherever the bishop appears, let the people be there; just as
wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church.  --St. Ignatius,
Bishop of Antioch, ca. 110 [first known use of the word "Catholic" as
applied
to Christians]

       Who does not know that what has been handed down by Peter, the
Prince
of the Apostles, to the Roman Church is still observed unto this day and
must
be observed by all?  --Pope Innocent I (402-417) to Decentius, Bishop of
Gubbio, about St. Peter as the founder of the Roman liturgy, for the method
of celebration followed and introduced by him was undoubtedly the essential
and permanent foundation for its later development and form

       The consecratory formula of the Roman Canon has been imposed on the
Apostles by Christ directly, and handed down by the Apostles to their
successors.  --Pope Innocent III (1198-1215)

       The judgment of God may be compared to a mirror.  It is not the
mirror's fault if the face it reflects is hideous.  --St. Jerome, Great
Father and Doctor of the Western Church

       I have never spared heretics, and I have done my best to make the
enemies of the Church my own....  All we who hold the Catholic Faith wish
and long that, while the heresy is condemned, the men may be reformed.  At
all events, if they will continue in error, the blame does not attach to us
who have written, but to them, since they have preferred a lie to the truth.
--St. Jerome, Great Father and Doctor of the Western Church

       The best advice that I can give you is this.  Church traditions --
especially when they do not run counter to the Faith -- are to be observed
in the form in which previous generations have handed them down.  --St.
Jerome, Epistulae, lxxi.6

       They [the bishops of France] are not the Church.  Jesus Christ is
the Church.  --St. Joan of Arc to the Church tribunal that condemned her

       No Catholic could subscribe to even moderate socialism.  --Pope John
XXIII

       I suppose I should quote it for you in Latin, for one could speak
in Italian, or French, or German, but some might not be able to understand
it.  Latin is the language of the Church, and hence is universal.  --Pope
John XXIII, 1958, in an audience given to the press in the Clementine Hall
of the Vatican

       Latin is the immutable language of the Western Church.  --Pope John
XXIII, Apostolic Constitution Veterum Sapientia, February 22, 1962 (just
eight months before the opening of Vatican II)
       Egomet ipse praesens adfui sat proxime stans proper altare S. Petri
in Basilica Vaticana cum ipse Ioannes Pp. XXIII hoc documentum Veterum
Sapienia publici iuris fecit.  Et res ita accidit:
       Tota Basilica Vaticana ingenti multitudine fidelium repleta, Summus
Pontifex ingressus est et sermonem habuit praeclarum quo momentum et valorem
huius documenti (Veterum Sapientia) sat fuse et abundanter audientibus
explicavit et inter cetera hoc quoque dixit:
       "Ne postea dici possit hunc Summum Pontificem iam aetate provectum
non bene intellexisse quali documento nomen suum subscribendo apposuisset,
sed tantummodo subscripsisse, quia alii hoc documentum illi ad subscribendum
dedereunt, Ego vobis dico me scire quid nunc subscribam et me quod in
documento scriptum est re vera velle et propterea hoc documentum coram
omnibus vobis in hoc altari Sancti Petri sollemniter subscribam."
       Et coram omnibus nobis, me -- ut dixi -- sat proxime adstante,
documentum subscripsit.
       Hoc est historice certum, quia ante tot testes public factum est.
       [I myself was present, standing very closely to the altar of St.
Peter in the Vatican Basilica when Pope John XXIII enacted this document,
"Veterum Sapientia," as a public law.  And the event occurred as follows:
       [The whole Vatican Basilica was full of a large crowd of the
Faithful.  The Supreme Pontiff entered and gave an outstanding sermon
by which he explained at length and in detail to the audience the importance
and weightiness of this document ("Veterum Sapientia"), and among other
things said the following too:
       ["Lest afterwards it may be said that this Supreme Pontiff,
now advanced in age, has not well understood what kind of document
he has enacted by signing his name, but has signed it only because others
gave this document to him for his signature, I say to you that I know what I
was signing and I willed in truth what was written in the
document, and consequently I solemnly signed this document before you all on
this altar of St. Peter."
       [And before all of us, while I -- as I said -- stood very closely
by,
he signed the document.
       [This is historicaly certain, because it was done publicly before so
many witnesses.]  --Fr. Suitbertus a S. Ioanne a Cruce, Letter of September
15, 1998, to the Familia Sancti Hieronymi

       Let no innovator dare to write against the use of Latin in the
sacred
rites ... nor let them in their folly attempt to minimize the will of the
Apostolic See in this matter.  --Pope John XXIII, Apostolic Constitution
Veterum Sapientia, February 22, 1962

       Quoniam lingua Latina est lingua Ecclesiae viva.  [For the Latin
language is the living language of the Church.]  --Pope John XXIII,
Apostolic
Constitution Veterum Sapientia, No. 6, February 22, 1962

       [The Latin language] has been consecrated through constant use by
the
Apostolic See.  --Pope John XXIII, Apostolic Constitution Veterum Sapientia,
chap. 10, February 22, 1962

       Let no innovator dare to write against the use of Latin in the
sacred
rites... nor let them in their folly attempt to minimize the will of the
Apostolic See in this matter.  --Pope John XXIII, Apostolic Constitution
Veterum Sapientia, chap. 13, February 22, 1962

       The Catholic Church has a dignity far surpassing that of every
merely
human society, for it was founded by Christ the Lord.  It is altogether
fitting, therefore, that the language it uses should be noble, majestic, and
non-vernacular.  --Pope John XXIII, Veterum Sapientia, February 22, 1962,
chap. 13

       We also, impelled by the weightiest of reasons ... are fully
determined to restore this language to its position of honor and to do all
We
can to promote its study and use.  The employment of Latin has recently been
contested in some quarters, and many are asking what the mind of the
Apostolic See is in this matter.  We have therefore decided to issue the
timely directives contained in this docuyment, so as to ensure that the
ancient and uninterrupted use of Latin be maintained and, where necessary,
restored.  --Pope John XXIII, Veterum Sapientia, chap. 13, February 22, 1962

       The greatest concern of the Ecumenical Council is this:  that the
sacred deposit of Christian doctrine should be guarded and taught more
efficaciously....  The salient point of this Council is not, therefore, a
discussion of one article or another of the fundamental doctrine of the
Church.  --Pope John XXIII, Opening Speech to the Council, October 11, 1962

       When you face Jesus Christ in eternity, He is not going to ask you
how you got along with the Roman Curia, but how many souls you saved.  --
Pope
John XXIII

       When, during the rebellious first session of the Council, he [Pope
John XXIII] realized that the papacy had lost control of the process, he
attempted, as Cardinal John Heenan of Westminster later revealed, to
organize
a group of bishops to try to force it to an end.  Before the second session
opened he had died.  --Alice Muggeridge, The Desolate City (revised &
expanded ed./1990), p. 72; letter from Fr. Joseph W. Oppitz, C.S.s.R. in
"America" magazine of April 15, 1972

       Stop the Council; stop the Council.  --Pope John XXIII, on his
deathbed, quoted in Kevin Haney, "The Stormy History of General Councils,"
Latin Mass, Spring 1995, attributed to Jean Guitton (ob. March 21, 1999),
the
only Catholic layman to serve as a peritus at Vatican II  [Also it was
reported in Michael Davies Apologia Pro Marcel Lefebvre that Pope John XXIII
attempted to stop the Second Vatican Council at the end of the first
session.
Davies further stated that this same pope, in the final days and hours of
his
life, repeatedly urged "Stop the council; stop the council."]
        The Church is not an archaeological museum, but the ancient
fountain
which slakes the thirst of the generation of today as she did that of the
generations of the past.  --Pope John XXIII

       I want to guard my faith carefully like a sacred treasure.  Most of
all I want to be true to that spirit of faith which is gradually being
hittled away before the so-called requirements of criticism, in the
atmosphere and light of modern times.... It will always be my principle, in
all spheres of religious knowledge and in all theological or biblical
questions, to find out first of all the traditional teaching of the Church,
and on this basis to judge the findings of contemporary scholarship....  In
general, it will be my rule to listen to everything and everyone, to think
and study much....  --Pope John XXIII, Journal of a Soul, translated by
Dorothy White, pp. 211-212

       ...This wind of Modernism blows very strongly and more widely than
seems at first sight, and ... it may very likely strike and bewilder even
those who were at first moved only by the desire to adapt the ancient truth
of Christianity to modern needs.  Many, some of them good men, have fallen
into error, perhaps unconsciously; they have let themselves be swept into
the
field of error.  --Pope John XXIII, Journal of a Soul, translated by Dorothy
White, pp. 242

       Above all, one must always be ready for the Lord's surprise moves,
for although he treats his loved ones well, he generally likes to test them
with all sorts of trials such as bodily infirmities, bitterness of soul, and
sometimes opposition so powerful as to transform and wear out the life of
the
servant of God....  --Pope John XXIII, Journal of a Soul, translated by
Dorothy White, pp. 350

       The floor of Hell is paved with the skulls of rotten bishops. --St.
John Chrysostom, Patriarch of Constantinople and Great Eastern
Doctor of the Church

       A soul should be as ready to pray in the marketplace as in the
oratory; when sitting among friends as when attending services in church.  -
-
St. John Chrysostom, Patriarch of Constantinople and Great Eastern Doctor of
the Church

       Our chant is nothing but an echo, an imitation of the angelic chant.
Music was invented in Heaven.  Around and above us the angels sing.  --St.
John Chrysostom, Patriarch of Constantinople and Great Eastern Doctor of the
Church

       I speak not with rashness, but what I feel and mean:  among priests,
I reckon that not many are saved, but many more perish, not so much on
account of their own sins as for the sins of others, which they have not put
a remedy to.  --St. John Chrysostom, Patriarch of Constantinople and Great
Eastern Doctor of the Church

       When you are before the altar where Christ reposes, you ought no
longer to think that you are amongst men, but believe that there are troops
of angels and archangels standing by you, and trembling with respect before
the sovereign Master of Heaven and earth.  Therefore, when you are in
church,
be there in silence, fear, and veneration.  -- St. John Chrysostom

       I have occasion to listen to the reading of St. Paul's epistles.  At
the sound of this spiritual trumpet I am filled with joy; and I am greatly
moved, and overcome with longing.  For in the words that are read, I sense
the voice of a friend, and I feel as though he were standing before me, and
I
heard him preaching with his own mouth.  But at the same time I am grieved
and troubled that not all Christians know this great saint as they ought;
indeed, some are so ignorant of him that they do not even know the exact
number of his epistles.  This failure is not due to any natural
incompetence,
but to their unwillingness to have the apostle's writing constantly in their
hands.
       We ourselves must acknowledge that whatever we know, if we know
anything at all, we do not owe to the excellence or keenness of our
understanding, but to this holy man.  Him we love with a warm love, and
never
cease to read his writings.  It is with us as with those in love; better
than
anyone else they know the actions and accomplishments of those whom they
love
simply because of their constant concern.  The holy apostle himself makes
the
same observation when he says in his epistle to the Philippians:  "It is
just
and proper to think so of you all because I have you in my heart, both in my
chains and in the confirmation and defense of the gospel."
       If, therefore, you devoted yourselves to sympathetic reading of the
apostle's writings, you would have no need of seeking anything further.  But
many of you gathered here must attend to the rearing of children and the
care
of a wife and the upkeep of a home.  You are accordingly no longer able to
apply yourselves adequately to this task; but you ought, at least , try hard
to assimilate the thoughts that others have gathered.  Certainly you could
give the sermon as much attention as you do the pursuit of profane
interests!
It is almost a shame not to ask more of you; yet even this little is very
worthwhile.  --St. John Chrysostom, Patriarch of Constantinople & Great
Eastern Doctor of the Church

       To put a heretic to death is an unpardonable crime.  --St. John
Chrysostom, Patriarch of Constantinople & Great Eastern Doctor of the Church
[St. John Chrysostom held it acceptable to prevent public meetings and the
preaching of heresy, and St. Augustine believed that it was permissible to
fine or exile heretics]

       Is it Tradition?  Then ask no more.  --St. John Chrysostom,
Patriarch
of Constantinople and Great Eastern Doctor of the Church

       The floor of Hell is paved with the skulls of bishops.  --St. John
Chrysostom, Patriarch of Constantinople and Great Eastern Doctor of the
Church
       Stay away from visions, apparitions, and miracles as much as you
can.
Be careful of visions, even when they are authentic.  --St. John of the
Cross
(1542-1591)

       Private prayer is like straw scattered about:  if you set it on
fire, it makes a lot of little flames.  But if these straws be gathered into
a bundle and lit, you get a mighty fire blazing to the sky.  Public prayer
[Holy Mass and Divine Office] is like that.  --St. John Vianney, the Cure of
Ars (1786-1859)

       I don't want to have anything to do with the Vatican.  The devil is
in the Vatican.  --Albino Cardinal Luciani, later Pope John Paul I, on his
pilgrimage to Fatima, July 1977

       We address especially the young people:  in an epoch when in some
areas, as you know, the Latin language and the human values are less
appreciated, you must joyfully accept the patrimony of the language which
the
Church holds in high esteem and must, with energy, make it fruitful.  The
well-known words of Cicero, "Non tam praeclarum est scire Latine, quam turpe
nescire (Brutus, xxxvii.140)"  [It is not so much excellent to know Latin,
as
it is a shame not to know it] in a certain sense are directed to you.  We
exhort you all to lift up high the torch of Latin which is even today a bond
of unity among peoples of all nations.  --Pope John Paul II, 1978

       The [Second Vatican] Council must be understood in the light of all
of Holy Tradition and on the basis of the constant magisterium of the
Church.
--Pope John Paul II, November 6, 1978, at the reunion of the Sacred College
of Cardinals

       Ecclesia quae Latina vocatur, quamvis propter utilitates pastorales
in liturgia etiam sermones vulgares induxerit, a principio ex quo lingua
eius
propria est Latina non recedit.
       [The Church which is called Latin, although because of pastoral
utility has even introduced vulgar tongues in the liturgy, has not retreated
from the principle by which its language is properly Latin.]  --Pope John
Paul II, Sermon of 26 November 1979, Acta Apostolicae Sedis (LXXI, 1979), p.
507

       Nevertheless, there are also those people who, having been educated
on the basis of the old liturgy in Latin, experience the lack of this "one
language," which in all the world was an expression of the unity of the
Church and through its dignified character elicited a profound sense of the
Eucharistic Mystery.  It is therefore necessary to show not only
understanding but also full respect towards these sentiments and desires.
As
far as possible these sentiments and desires are to be accommodated, as is
moreover provided for in the new dispositions.  The Roman Church has special
obligations towards Latin, the splendid language of ancient Rome, and she
must manifest them whenever the occasion presents itself.  --Pope John Paul
II, Dominicae Cenae, sec. 10, February 24, 1980

       I would like to ask forgiveness --in my own name and in the name of
all of you, venerable and dear brothers in the Episcopate --for everything
which, for whatever reason, through whatever human weakness, impatience or
negligence, and also through the at time partial, one-sided and erroneous
application of the directives of the Second Vatican Council, may have cause
scandal and disturbance concerning the interpretation of the doctrine and
the veneration due to this great Sacrament [of the Holy Eucharist].  And I
pray the Lord Jesus that in the future we may avoid in our manner of dealing
with this sacred mystery anything which could weaken or disorient in any way
the sense of reverence and love that exists in our faithful people.  --Pope
John Paul II, Dominicae Cenae, sec. 12, February 24, 1980

       There are of course various roles that women can perform in the
liturgical assembly:  these include reading the word of God and proclaiming
the intentions of the Prayer of the Faithful.  Women are not however
permitted to act as altar servers."  --Pope John Paul II, Inaestimabile
Donum, sec. 18, April 3, 1980

       The faithful have a right to a true Liturgy, which means the Liturgy
desired and laid down by the Church....  Undue experimentation, changes and
creations bewilder the faithful.  The use of unauthorized texts means a loss
of the necessary connection between the lex orandi and the lex credendi.
The Second Vatican Council's admonition in this regard must be remembered:
"No person, even if he be a priest, may add, remove, or change anything in
the liturgy on his own authority."  --Pope John Paul II, Inaestimabile
Donum, April 3, 1980

       Pope John conceived the Council as an eminently pastoral event.  --
Pope John Paul II, October 27, 1985 Angelus

       At the Second Vatican Council, the Catholic Church committed herself
irrevocably to following the path of the ecumenical venture."  --Pope John
Paul II, Encyclical Ut Unum Sint (1995)

       I like classical music very much, but I also enjoy rock 'n roll, as
I am not a man of the past.  --Pope John Paul II, Allocution to Grade-School
Children, Melbourne, 1996

       At the dawn of a new millennium, two world views collide:  paganism
and theism -- the earth goddess versus the God who made the heavens and the
earth.  At the heart of our culture's wars are Spirit Wars.  But this clash
doesn't take place a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. This is
happening right now in our living rooms!  Within a single generation, Judeo-
Christian America has become a breeding ground for the new paganism.  Behind
the dazzling diversity of pro-choice culture -- abortion rights, the
homosexual agenda, radical feminism, New Age spirituality, goddess worship,
and witchcraft -- lies a coherent pagan spirituality bent on absolute
control of our culture and intolerant of any truth that stands in opposition
to its teachings.  Pagans in the Pews is essential reading for the Church
today.  -
-
Peter R. Jones, Pagans in the Pews:  Protecting Your Family and Community
from the Pervasive Influence of the New Spirituality (Regal Books, 2001, 288
pages).  Peter R. Jones is Professor of New Testament at Westminster
Theological Seminary in California.  Dr. Jones also serves as associate
pastor at New Life Presbyterian Church in Escondido, California.  Dr. Jones
is the author of three books, including The Gnostic Empire Strikes Back:  An
Old Heresy for the New Age (1992), Spirit Wars:  Pagan Revival in Christian
America (1997), and Gospel Truth/Pagan Lies:  Can You Tell the Difference
(1999).

       When I saw the definition of the Mass in the instruction that
precedes the Novus Ordo, I said:  "This definition of the Mass is
unacceptable; I must go to Rome to see the Pope."  I went and said:  "Holy
Father you cannot allow this definition.  It is heretical.  You cannot leave
your signature on a document like this."  The Holy Father replied to me:
"Well, to speak truthfully, I did not read it.  I signed it without reading
it."  --Charles Cardinal Journet of Geneva (1891-1975), explaining that Pope
Paul VI signed texts that he had not read

       The claim that the altar of the early church was always designed to
celebrate facing the people, a claim made often and repeatedly, turns out to
be nothing but a fairy tale.  --Fr. Josef A. Jungmann, author of Missarum
Sollemnia, in The Pastor magazine shortly after Vatican II

       The decision of Vatican II, to which the Pope adheres and spreads,
is absolutely clear:  Today we no longer understand ecumenism in the sense
of the ecumenism of a return, by which the others would "be converted" and
return to being "catholics."  This was expressly abandoned by Vatican II.
Today ecumenism is considered as the common road:  all should be converted
to the following of Christ, and it is in Christ that we will find ourselves
in the end....  Even the Pope, among other things, describes ecumenism in Ut
unum sint as an exchange of gifts.  I think this is very well said:  each
church has its own riches and gifts of the Spirit, and it is this exchange
that unity is trying to be achieved and not the fact that we should become
'protestants' or that the others should become 'catholics' in the sense of
accepting the confessional form of Catholicism.  -- Walter Cardinal Kaspar,
President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, Adista,
Rome, February 26, 2001, p. 9

         Respecting other religions does not mean ignoring irreconcilable
differences from Catholic teaching.  When evaluating Eastern techniques, it
[sic] is important to remember that Eastern spirituality and Catholic
spirituality are based on strongly conflicting views of reality.  Eastern
spirituality tells us that our sense of individuality is an illusion, that
we are really "the Absolute" or "the whole Universe" or "God" or (in some
secular variations) that we have "infinite potential."  Our highest good is,
therefore, to lose our false sense of individuality and to realize our
infinite nature and potential.  This theme is common to both traditional
Eastern religions and to modern New Age variations.  Catholic spirituality,
however, tells us that our sense of individuality is both real and eternal
and that we are limited beings totally dependent on God.  Our highest good
is, therefore, to submit our wills to that of God, and to grow thereby in
the ability to receive and return God's love.  If we accept the Catholic
view, then it shouldn't be surprising that difficulties can arise from
Eastern practices.  If we are truly limited dependent beings, then the more
we experience ourselves as infinite in nature or potential the more we will
be living an illusion.  Living this illusion, even partially, can have
destructive consequences.  --Joseph Kellett, Catholic Voice, April 20, 1992,
p. 2)

       This time we are going to stay in the Church, and we are going to
dismantle the Catholic Church from within.  --Hans Kung, peritus of Vatican
II

       The Catholic Church is alone in keeping the true worship.  This the
fount of Truth, this the house of Faith, this the temple of God.  --
Lactantius
(ca. 240 -ca. 320)

       The fall and ruin of the world will soon take place.  But it seems
that nothing of the kind is to be feared as long as the city of Rome stands
intact.  But when the capital of the world has fallen, who can doubt that
the end will have come for the affairs of men and for the whole world.  It
is that city which sustains all things.  --Lactantius (ca. 240 -ca. 320)

       He is also the moralist who, through his advocacy of virginity and
vows of chastity, did the most to free the individual from family ties and
women from male domination, placing them on the same plane as men."  --
Valery Larbaud, An Homage to Jerome, Patron Saint of Translators (Marlboro,
Vermont:  Marlboro Press, 1984)

       There [in De Optimo Genere Interpretandi] he [St. Jerome] sets forth
his great principle:  to render the meaning rather than the words of a text.
Then, as is his wont, he introduces his references and looks for backers:
Terence, Plautus, Cicero.  The last two-thirds of the work consist in a
demonstration of the fact that the Evangelists, like the Apostles, very
freely translated passages of the Old Testament that they cite, sometimes
erring in their attributions, while the Seventy were often unfaithful to the
'Hebraic Truth.'  Finally, he takes up his theme of the simplicity that is
indispensable to the ecclesiastical style....  This Letter LVII contains the
essential:  the listing, complete with examples, of the greatest
difficulties of the art of translation, and an ingenious illustration of the
basic rule:  Non verbum e verbo, sed sensum exprimere de sensu, a trick of
the trade and a sort of reductio ad absurdum, "translate" a work in verse
into prose, but within the same language.  A few more passages from his
works, such as the conclusion of Letter XX on "non-translatable" foreign
words, which therefore must be borrowed, the rest of the preface to the
Chronicon not cited in the De Optimo Genere Interpretandi, a few sentences
from the Prefaces and which are given in most Latin editions of the Vulgate,
etc..., complete this "Art of Translation."  --Valery Larbaud, An Homage to
Jerome, Patron Saint of Translators (Marlboro, Vermont:  Marlboro Press,
1984)

       For even the Authorized Version, despite all the reworking and all
the approximations of the Hebrew text, rejoins --through Wycliffe --the
Vulgate; and it is as if its deliberate archaism were a finery adopted in
order to outdo, in minds dazzled by its beauty, the deliberate modernism of
Jerome.  --Valery Larbaud, An Homage to Jerome, Patron Saint of Translators
(Marlboro, Vermont:  Marlboro Press, 1984)

       Our future lies in our past.  --Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre (1905-
1991)

       No authority, not even the highest in the hierarchy, can compel us
to abandon or diminish our Catholic faith, so clearly expressed and
professed by the Church's Magisterium for nineteen centuries.  --Archbishop
Marcel Lefebvre (1905-1991)

       [The New Order service] is a spiritual poison that destroys the
Catholic Faith, a danger to souls.  --Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre (1905-1991)

       We are living in an age completely exceptional.  We must realize
this.  The situation is no longer normal, quite particularly in Rome.  --
Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre (1905-1991)

       Satan's masterstroke is to have succeeded in sowing disobedience
to all Tradition through obedience.  --Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre (1905-
1991)

       How can I agree to abandon the Mass of all ages or to admit to
place it at the same level as the Novus Ordo, created by Annibale Bugnini,
with the participation of Protestants to make of it an equivocal supper that
eliminates totally the Offertory, and touches on the very words of the
Consecration?  --Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre (1905-1991)

       I am going to put a fishbone in the gullet of the Roman
bureaucrats -- they can't swallow it and they can't cough it up.  --
Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre (1905-1991)

       It is certain that the evil in the [New] Mass is something
internal to the Mass, inside the Mass, and not something merely external or
extrinsic to it.  --Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre (1905-1991), "June
Conferences"

       The New Mass is] a poisoned Mass, because, once Catholic truths
are no longer affirmed in the Mass, as is the case in the Protestant
version, then little by little, faith in these truths disappears too.  --
Archbishop Marcel LeFebvre (1905-1991), "June Conferences"

       I have the Mass of St. Pius V only once a month.  What am I to do
on the other Sundays?  Should I go to the New Mass if there is not a Mass of
St. Pius V?"  I cannot counsel you to assist at something which is bad.  I
cannot!  I would not go myself, because I do not want to breathe in that
atmosphere; it is stronger than I am; I could not go.  So I advise you not
to go....  I am giving you the advice which I, in conscience, believe, and
which I feel obliged to give you -- but I am not saying that, if you go, you
are committing a mortal sin; I am saying that if you go, you will, in the
long run, endanger your Faith, and that is very serious.  You must be
careful.  It would be better to stay at home, to pray at home with your
children, until you can get to a Mass of St. Pius V, the true Mass, the
Catholic Mass, the Mass of the ages....  In the missions we visited the
Faithful three times a year, in some places only once a year....  In spite
of this, these people did not lose the Faith; they prayed; they prayed to
the Blessed Virgin....  They kept the Faith.  We do not have the right to
endanger our Faith!  Even if it is a slow poison, it is still a poison.  --
Archbishop Marcel LeFebvre (1905-1991), "June Conferences"

       We cleave, with all our heart and with all our soul, to Catholic
Rome, the guardian of the Catholic Faith and of the traditions necessary for
the maintenance of that Faith and to eternal Rome, mistress of wisdom and
truth.  On the other hand, we refuse and have always refused to follow the
Rome of the neo-Protestant trend clearly manifested throughout Vatican
Council II and, later, in all the reforms born of it.  --Archbishop Marcel
Lefebvre (1905-1991), "Declaration of November 21, 1974"

       I have said many times in my conferences that the three most
disputed matters at the Council were collegiality, ecumenism, and religious
liberty....  But, of course, these three subjects of so much violent
discussion at the council correspond precisely to the three Liberal
principles of liberty, equality, fraternity.  --Abp. Marcel Lefebvre (1905-
1991), December 1975

       We are suspended a divinis by the Conciliar Church and for the
Conciliar Church and for the Conciliar Church, to which we have no wish to
belong.  That Conciliar Church is a schismatic Church, because it breaks
with the Catholic Church that has always been.  It has its new dogmata, its
new priesthood, its new institutions, its new worship, all already condemned
by the Church in many a document, official and definitive....  The Church
that affirms such errors is at once schismatic and heretical.  THIS
CONCILIAR CHURCH IS, THEREFORE, NOT CATHOLIC.  To whatever extent pope,
bishops, priests, or faithful adhere to this new Church, they separate
themselves from the Catholic Church.  --Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre (1905-
1991), "Reflections on Suspension a Divinis," June 29, 1976

       I do not say that the pope is not the pope, but I do not say either
that you cannot say that the pope is not the pope."  --Archbishop Marcel
Lefebvre (1905-1991), Letter to his American priests, 1979

       The New Mass is intrinsically evil.  The New Mass is the Mass of
Luther.  --Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre (1905-1991), 1979

       As for myself, I do not want people to make me say that the New
Mass is good, but that it is simply less good than the Traditional Mass.  I
cannot say that.  I cannot say that these modern sacraments are good.  They
were made by Protestants.  They were made by Bugnini.  And Bugnini himself
said on March 19, 1956, as can still be read in L'Osservatore Romano and in
Documentation Catholique, which published a translation of Bugnini's
discourse:  "We must strip from our Catholic prayers and from the Catholic
liturgy everything which can be the shadow of a stumbling block for our
separated brethren, that is  for the Protestants."  This was on March 19,
1965, just before the reforms....  Keep the Faith.  Be a martyr rather than
abandon your Faith....  For it is clear that those who habitually attend the
New Mass and the new sacraments undergo a gradual change of mentality.
After a few years it will become apparent in questioning somebody who goes
regularly to this new ecumenical Mass that he has adopted its ecumenical
spirit.  This means that he ends up by placing all religions on the same
footing....  He has become liberal and protestant and is no longer Catholic.
--Abp. Marcel Lefebvre (1905-1991), Speech in Montreal, Canada, 1982, "There
Is Only One Religion," apud The Angelus, July 1995 (XVIII:7), p. 4

       All these [pre-John XXIII] Popes have resisted the union of the
Church with the [Modernist] revolution; it is an adulterous union and from
such a union only bastards can come.  The rite of the new mass is a bastard
rite, the sacraments are bastard sacraments.  We no longer know if they are
sacraments which give grace or do not give it.  The priests coming out of
the seminaries are bastard priests, who do not know what they are.  They are
unaware that they are made to go up to the altar, to offer the sacrifice of
Our Lord Jesus Christ and to give Jesus Christ to souls.  --Abp. Marcel
Lefebvre (1905-1991), "An Open Letter to Confused Catholics," 1986

       I have summed it up to Cardinal Ratzinger in certain words, of course,
because it is difficult to sum up this whole situation, but I said to him:
"Eminence, see, even if you grant us a bishop, even if you grant us a
certain self-government in relation to the bishops, even if you grant us all
the liturgy of 1962, if you grant us to continue the seminaries and Society,
as we do it now, we cannot collaborate.  It is impossible, impossible,
because we work in two diametrically opposed directions.  You, you work for
the de-Christianization of society, of the human person, and of the Church,
and we, we work for its Christianization.  They cannot be in agreement."  --
Abp. Marcel Lefebvre (1905-1991), 1987

       The Novus Ordo Missae, even when said with piety and respect for the
liturgical rules... is impregnated with the spirit of Protestantism. It
bears within it a poison harmful to the faith.   --Archbishop Marcel
Lefebvre (1905-1991), "An Open Letter to Confused Catholics," 1988

       Now I don't know if the time has come to say that the pope is a
heretic.  I don't know if it is the time to say that.  You know, for some
time many people, the sede-vacantists, have been saying "there is no more
pope," but I think that for me it was not yet the time to say that, because
it was not sure, it was not evident, it was very difficult to say that the
Pope is a heretic, the Pope is apostate.  But I recognize that slowly, very
slowly, by the deeds and acts of the pope himself we begin to be very
anxious.  I am not inventing the situation; I do not want it.  I would
gladly give my life to bring it to an end, but this is the situation we
face, unfolding before our eyes like a film in the cinema.  I don't think it
has ever happened in the history of the Church, the man seated in the chair
of Peter partaking in the worship of false gods.  What conclusion must we
draw in a few months if we are confronted by these repeated acts of
partaking in false worship?  I don't know.  I wonder.  But I think the Pope
can do nothing worse than call together a meeting of all religions, when we
know there is only one true religion and all other religions belong to the
devil.  So perhaps after this famous meeting of Assisi, perhaps we must say
that the Pope is a heretic, is apostate.  Now I don't wish yet to say it
formally and solemnly, but it seems at first sight that it is impossible for
a pope to be publicly and formally heretical.  Our Lord has promised to be
with him, to keep his faith, to keep him in the Faith -- how can he at the
same time be a public heretic and virtually apostatize?  So it is possible
we may be obliged to believe this pope is not the pope.  --Archbishop Marcel
Lefebvre (1905-1991), "The Archbishop Speaks:  Talks given by Archbishop
Marcel Lefebvre on March 30 and April 18, 1986," The Angelus, July 1, 1986
(IX:7, pp. 3-4)

       My dear friends, the See of Peter and the post of authority in Rome
[is] being occupied by anti-Christs; the destruction of the Kingdom of Our
Lord is being rapidly carried out even within His Mystical Body here
below..., since this Rome, Modernist and Liberal, is carrying on its work of
destruction of the Kingdom of Our Lord.  --Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre (1905-
1991) Letter to Future SSPX Bishops, August 1987

      Rome has lost the Faith, my dear friends.  Rome is in apostasy.
These are not just words in the air that I say to you.  It is the truth.
Rome is in apostasy.  He [the pope] has left the Church.  They [the
Newchurchers] have left the Church.  This is sure, sure, sure!"  --
Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre (1905-1991), Retreat Conference, September 4,
1987)

       Witnesses to the Faith, martyrs, always had to choose between
Faith and authority.  We are re-living the trial of Joan of Arc, only with
us it is not a disagreeable few months, it has been going on for 20 years!
--Abp. Marcel Lefebvre (1905-1991), June 13, 1988

       You must change, come back to Tradition.  It is not just a
question of the Liturgy, it is a question of the Faith.  --Abp. Marcel
Lefebvre (1905-1991) to Cardinal Oddi, from his address to his priests, "Two
Years after the Consecration - We Must Not Waver, We May Not Compromise,"
September 6, 1990

       At this stage it is relevant to remind Catholics all over the
world that obedience to the pope is not a primary virtue.  The hierarchy of
virtues starts with the three theological virtues of faith, hope, and
charity, followed by the four cardinal virtues of justice, temperance,
prudence, and fortitude.  Obedience is a derivative of the cardinal virtue
of justice.  Therefore, it is far from ranking first in the hierarchy of
virtues.  --Abp. Marcel Lefebvre (1905-1991), "Interview with Archbishop
Marcel Lefebvre," The Angelus, August 1992, pp. 2 et seqq.

       This is another fruit of Vatican II:  it preaches so-called
tolerance toward all ideas, but as soon as one opposes one of its aims, it
is intolerance personified.  Denying justice does not faze them.  --Abp.
Marcel Lefebvre (1905-1991), "Interview with Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre,"
The Angelus, May 1994, p. 6

       The heresy which is now being born will become the most dangerous of
all:  the exaggeration of the respect due to the Pope and the illegitimate
extension of his infallibility.  --Fr. LeFloch, Rector of the French
Seminary in Rome (1926)

       The sweet concord of voices, the blaze of lights, the fragrance of
perfume, the rich vestments, the sacred vessels, adored with precious
stones, the statues and pictures, which awaken holy thoughts, the glorious
creation of architectural genius, working their effects of height and
distance, the music of the bells.  --Gottfreid Wilhelm von Leibnitz, German
philosopher and mathematician

       Above all things, avoid marriage with those outside the Faith.  It
is foolish to expect that those who differ from us regarding religion can
cooperate mentally in other things.  --Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903)

       To the priest it belongs to impose himself as a barrier to the
encroachments of error and disguised heresy;... to unmask their deceits and
point out their ambushes; to caution the simple, to give courage to the
timid, to open the eyes of the blind.  --Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903),
Encyclical letter to the Archbishops, Bishops, and Clergy of France

       This work is remarkable at once for the richness and exactness of
its
doctrine, and for the elegance of its style; it is a precious summary of all
theology, both dogmatic and moral.  --Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903), on the
Catechism of the Council of Trent

       [Divorce] is the fruitful cause of mutable marriage contracts; it
diminishes mutual affection; it supplies a pernicious stimulus to
unfaithfulness; it is injurious to the care and education of children; it
gives occasion to thee breaking up of domestic society; it scatters the
seeds
of discord among families; it lessens and degrades the dignity of women, who
incur the danger of being abandoned when they shall have subserved the lust
of their husbands.  And since nothing tends so effectually as the corruption
of morals to ruin families and undermine the strength of kingdoms, it may
easily be perceived that divorce is especially hostile to the propserity of
families and states.  --Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903), Encyclical Letter Arcanum
(February 10, 1880) on Christian Marriage

       Let us unite in mind and heart, launching a counterattack on evil,
that truth may at length triumph over error and virtue over vice, and this,
through confident recourse to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and continual use
of her heavenly weapons, the Holy Rosary and Brown Scapular.  Victorious
over
Satan in the very first instant of Her Immaculate Conception, may she show
forth her power over wicked movements which We clearly see to be animated
with the spirit of revolt, and with the incorrigible perfidy and hypocrisy
of
Satan and his fellow demons.  Let us implore the help of St. Michael, Prince
of the Heavenly Host, who hurled those rebels down to hell, and of St.
Joseph
the Spouse of the Most Holy Virgin and Patron of the Catholic Chruch.  Under
their protection and the persevering prayer of the faithful, may God
mercifully come to the help of the human race, exposed to so many dangers.
--Pope Leo XIII (1884)

       Justice forbids and reason itself forbids that the State should be
godless, or that it should adopt a line of action which would end in
godlessness -- namely, to treat the various religions (as they call them)
alike, and to bestlow upon the promiscuously equal rights and privileges....
Yet, with the discernment of a true mother, the Church weighs the great
burden of human weakness, and well knows the course down which the minds and
actions of men in this are are being borne.  For this reason, while not
conceding any right to anything save what is true and honest, she does not
forbid public authority to tolerate what is at variance with truth and
justice, for the sake of avoiding greater ills....   But to judge aright, we
must acknowledge that the more a State is driven to tolerate evil, the
further it is from perfection.  --Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903), Encyclical
Libertas Praestantissimum, June 1888

       All the world knows that this Divine promise ought to be understood
to apply to the Universal Church and not to any part of the church taken in
isolation, for individual segments may, and in fact, indeed have, been
overcome by the forces of evil.  --Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903), Satis
Cognitum,
June 29, 1896

       They knew only too well the intimate bond that unites faith with
worship, "the law of belief with the law of prayer," and so, under the
pretext of restoring it to its primitive form, they corrupted the order of
the liturgy in many respects to adapt it to the errors of the Innovators."
-
-Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903), Apostolicae Curae, September 13, 1896

       Now, if a person has seriously and duly used the proper matter and
form for performing or administering a sacrament, he is by that very fact
presumed to have intended to do what the Church does.  This principle is the
basis of the doctrine that a sacrament is truly a sacrament even if it is
conferred through the ministry of a heretic or unbaptized person, provided
the Catholic rite is used.  --Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903), Apostolicae Curae,
September 13, 1896

       Precisely at the epoch when the American colonies, having, with
Catholic aid, achieved liberty and independence, coalesced into a
constitutional republic, the ecclesiastical hierarchy was happily
established
amongst you; and at the very time when the popular suffrage placed the great
Washington at the helm of the Republic, the first bishop [John Carroll] was
set by apostolic authority over the American Church.  The well-known
friendship and familiar intercourse which subsisted between these two men
seems to be an evidence that the United States ought to be conjoined in
concord and amity with the Catholic Church. And not without cause; for
without morality the State cannot endure -- a truth which that illustrious
citizen of yours, whom We have just mentioned, with a keenness of insight
worthy of his genius and statesmanship perceived and proclaimed. --Pope Leo
XIII (1878-1903), Encyclical Letter Longinque oceani (January 6, 1895) to
the
bishops of America, para. 4 [Pope Leo also donated an inscribed stone "A
Roma
Americae" to the Washington Monument, which the Know-Nothings stole]

       But, moreover (a fact which it gives pleasure to acknowledge),
thanks
are due to the equity of the laws which obtain in America and to the customs
of the well-ordered Republic.  For the Church amongst you, unopposed by the
Constitution and government of your nation, fettered by no hostile
legislation, protected against violence by the common laws and the
impartiality of the tribunals, is free to live and act without hindrance.  -
-
Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903), Encyclical Letter Longinque oceani (January 6,
1895) to the bishops of America, sec. 6

       There can never ... be any real discrepancy between the theologian
and the physicist, as long as each confines himself within his own lines,
and
both are careful, as St. Augustine warns us, "not to make rash assertions,
or
to assert what is not known as known."  --Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903),
Encyclical Letter Providentissimus Deus, November 18, 1893

       Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on
the
part of the good.  --Pope Leo XIII, Sapientiae Christianae

       From the foregoing it is manifest, beloved son, that we are not able
to give approval to those views which, in their collective sense, are called
by some "Americanism."  But if by this name are to be understood certain
endowments of mind which belong to the American people, just as other
characteristics belong to various other nations; and if, moreover, by it are
designated your political conditions and the laws and customs by which you
are governed, there is no reason to take exception to the name.  But if this
is to be so understood that the doctrines which have been adverted to above
are not only indicated, but exalted, there can be no manner of doubt that
our
venerable brethren, the bishops of America, would be the first to repudiate
and condemn them as being most injurious to themselves and to their country.
For it would give rise to the suspicion that there are among you some who
conceive and would have the Church in America different from what she is in
the rest of the world.  --Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903), Testem Benevolentiae
(Encyclical on True and False Americanism), to U.S. Cardinal James Gibbons,
January 22, 1899 (although warning of the dangers of Americanism [he never
called it a heresy], the pope praised America for granting the Catholic
Church such liberty of action)

       If you practice religion looking for comfort, you will end up with
soft soap, but if you practice religion looking for truth, you will end up
with truth, with comfort thrown in besides.  --C.S. Lewis

       Prayer doesn't change God; it changes me.  --C.S. Lewis

       Disputationes magis aggravant schismata quam sanant:  communis
operatio, oratio, fortitudo, communes (si Deus voluerit) mortes pro Christo
adbunabunt.  [Debates more aggravate schism than cure them:  common action,
prayer, courage, and (if God should will) deaths for Christ enrich].  --C.S.
Lewis, Letter of November 25, 1947, to Blessed Fr. Giovanni Calabria

       Nunc enim curiosi scrutatores omnia nostra effodiunt et veneno
publicitatis (ut rem barbaram verbo barbaro nominem) aspergunt [For now
curious scrutinizers dig out everything of ours and sprinkle with them with
the poison of publicity (that I may name a barbarous thing with a barbarous
word].  --C.S. Lewis, Letter of January 3, 1961, to Fr. Luigi Pedrollo

       It is clear that the Church is facing a grave crisis.  Under the
name
of "the new Church," "the post-conciliar Church," a different Church from
that of Jesus Christ is now trying to establish itself; an anthropocentric
society threatened with immanentist apostasy which is allowing itself to be
swept along in a movement of general abdication under the pretext of
renewal,
ecumenicism [sic], or adaptation.  -- Henri Cardinal de Lubac, S.J.,
speaking
at the Institute on Renewal in the Church, University of Toronto, August,
1967


       Si hoc instrumentum, tam aptum moderandi et firmandi, a sacra
Liturgia
eripitur, stabilitas dogmatum periclitatur. Sectae protestanticae linguae
vulgari se converterunt et in factiones innumeras se dissolverunt....
       Saeculis recentibus, etiam in America Septentrionali tam
materialistica,
incrementum Sanctae Matris Ecclesiae vere mirabile fuit, retenta sacra
Liturgia
in lingua latina. Conatus protestantismi deficiunt, et protestantismus
lingua
vulgari utitur. Iterum rogamus:  quare mutatio, praesertim quando mutatio in
hac
re difficultates multas et pericula magna secumfert? Omnes in hoc Sacro
Concilio
possumus in mentem revocare mutationes fundamentales in significatione
verborum
vulgarium usus hodierni. Deinde sequitur quod si sacra Liturgia in lingua
vulgari sit, immutabilitas doctrinae periclitetur....
       Si linguae vulgares introducuntur, praevidemus interpretationes
innumeras sacrorum dogmatum. Ut aeterna veritas doctrinae exprimatur, sacra
dogmata significationem et formam pristinam immutabiliter retineantur!...

       Introductio linguae vulgaris debet separari ab actione sacrae
Missae.
Sancta Missa debet remanere ut est. Graves mutationes in liturgia
introducunt
graves mutationes in dogmata.

       If this instrument [the Latin language], so appropriate for
regulating
and confirming, is ripped out of the Sacred Liturgy, the stability of
dogmata
is
endangered.  Protestant sects have converted to the vernacular and have
dissolved into innumerable sects....
       In recent times, even in materialistic North America, the growth of
Holy
Mother Church has been true remarkable, with the Sacred Liturgy being kept
in
the Latin language.  The attempts of Protestantism are failing, and
Protestantism uses the vernacular.  We ask again:  Why the change,
especially
since changes in this matter involves many difficulties and great dangers?
All
in this Sacred Council can recall the fundamental changes in the meaning of
vernacular words in use today?  Thus it follows that if the Sacred Liturgy
were
in the vernacular, the immutability of doctrine would be endangered....
       If the vernacular is introduced, we foresee innumerable
interpretations
of sacred dogmata.  In order that the eternal truth of doctrine be
expounded,
let sacred dogmata retain their pristine form and significance....
       The introduction of the vernacular must be separated from the action
of
Holy Mass.  Holy Mass must remain as it is.  Serious changes in liturgy
introduce serious changes in dogmata.  --James Cardinal McIntyre, Archbishop
of
Los Angeles (1948-1970)

       Tolle Missam, tolle Ecclesiam [destroy the Mass [and] destroy the
Church].  --Martin Luther

       Love the [Biblical] languages as you do the Gospel.  --Martin Luther

       The languages [Hebrew, Greek, and Latin] are the sheath in which the
sword of the Spirit is lodged.  -- Martin Luther

       Sin, and sin boldly, but believe more boldly still.  --Martin Luther

       A pure heart enlightened by God must not dirty, soil itself with the
Law.  Thus let the Christian understand that it matters not whether he keeps
it or not; yea, he may do what is forbidden and leave undone what is
commanded, for neither is a sin....  We must put away thoughts and disputes
about the Law, whenever the conscience becomes terrified and feels God's
anger against sin.  Instead of that, it will be better to sing, to eat, to
drink, to sleep, to be merry in spite of the devil.  --Martin Luther

       When the Mass has been overthrown, I think we will have overthrown
the Papacy.  I think it is in the Mass, as on a rock, that the papacy wholly
rests....  Everything will of necessity collapse when their sacrilegious and
abominable Mass collapses.  --Martin Luther

       Come, my princes, strike!  To arms!  Thrust!  The times have come,
blessed times where with blood a prince can win heaven more easily than we
can with our prayers; I, Martin Luther, I myself ordered their tortures,
impalement, beheading, bludgeoning.  --Martin Luther, against the Peasant's
War of 1524

       Jews are young devils damned to hell....  Burn down Jewish schools
and synagogues, and throw pitch and sulphur into the flames; destroy their
houses; confiscate their ready money in gold and silver; take from them
their
sacred books, even the whole Bible; forbid their holding any religious
services under penalty of death; and, if that does not help matters, hunt
them out of the country like mad dogs.  --Martin Luther, Luther's Works,
vol.
xx, pp. 2230-2632

       Be a sinner, and sin boldly, but believe more boldly still....  We
must sin as long as we are what we are....  Sin shall not drag us away from
Him [Christ] even should we commit fornication or murder, thousands and
thousands of times a day [provided only that the sinner believes]....  Be a
sinner, sin boldly and fearlessly.  --Martin Luther, Letter to Melanchthon,
August 1, 1521

       Let all the vestments, the altar, the candles be, until they get
used
up, or we decide to change them.  And if somebody wants to do things
differently, let him do it.  But for the real Mass among true Christians,
the
altar should not remain its current form, and the priest should always face
the people....  It will be necessary to preserve for a time some of the
ceremonies of the ancient Mass for the weak-minded who might be scandalized
by too sudden a change.  --Martin Luther

       There is a threefold distinction in worship and the Mass.  First a
Latin Order which we have before published and which is called the Formula
Missae.  This I do not herewith wish to have abrogated or changed; but as we
have observed it among us, so shall it be free to use the same where and
when
we please or occasion requires, for I in no way wish to banish the Latin
language from Divine Service....If I could bring it to pass, and Greek and
Hebrew were as familiar to us as the Latin and had as many fine melodies and
songs, we would hold Mass, sing, and read on successive Sundays in all four
languages, German, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew.  I do not at all agree with
those who give themselves to only one language and despise all others.  --
Martin Luther, Works of Martin Luther, Phil Ed., Vol. VI, p. 172

       The 21st century will be spiritual, or it will not be.  --French
writer Andre Malraux (1901-1976)

       A change which held both on earth and in heaven had been
accomplished....  There was no Holy Sacrifice offered morning by morning.
The
Scriptures were read, but there was no Divine Teacher to interpret them.
The
Magnificat was chanted still, but it rolled along the empty roofs, for Jesus
was no longer on the altar.  So it is to this day.  There is no light, no
tabernacle, no altar, nor can be, till Jesus shall return thither.  They
stand
like the open sepulcher, and we may believe that angels are there, ever
saying,
"He is not here.  Come and see the place where the Lord was laid."  --Henry
Edward Cardinal Manning (1808-1892), The Blessed Sacrament, Center of
Immutable
Truth, speaking of the heretical Anglican Church

       The Holy Fathers who have written upon the subject of Antichrist,
and
the prophecies of Daniel, without a single exception, as far as I know --
and
they are the Fathers both of the East and of the West, the Greek and the
Latin Church --, all of them unanimously say that in the latter end of the
world, during the reign of the Antichrist, the Holy Sacrifice of the Altar
will cease....  Then the Church shall be scattered, driven into the
wilderness, and shall be for a time, as it were in the beginning, invisible,
hidden in catacombs, in dens, in mountains, in lurking places; for a time it
shall be swept, as it were, from the face of the earth.  Such is the
unanimous testimony of the Fathers of the early centuries.  --Henry Edward
Cardinal Manning (1808-1892), The Present Crisis of the Holy See (1861)

       Didn't our Lord guarantee the indefectibility of the Church (Matthew
16:18)?  Yes, but we must distinguish between the organization and the
mystical Body of Christ which is composed of believers, people of faith.  --
Fr. Malachi B. Martin

       Prior to Constantine there was no Church structure as we know it
today. The Popes before that, many of whom were martyred, lived secretly in
the poorest sections of Rome.  It was the victorious Constantine who sought
out Pope Miltiades, and installed him in a palace.  The Church was changed
in
its external lineaments.  It grew, and it evolved as an institution....  We
must realize that in spite of the confusion, disarray, and decline in
today's
institutional Church, the essence of our faith remains.  We are members of
the Mystical Body of Christ....  Thus, despite heretical bishops and priests
and nuns, when a Catholic dies in grace after receiving the Body and Blood
of
Christ he has achieved victory -- he has won eternal life with God and His
saints.  --Fr. Malachi B. Martin, in a talk "A Retrospective Glance at
Vatican II", March 15, 1993, New York, making what he termed an all-
important
distinction between the institutional or structural Church, and the Mystical
Body of Christ

       It's very hard for people to realize that the real Church is now
underground and that what we have is a facade, which Christ has deserted....
Anybody in the Catholic Church today can see in the facade, in the
appearance, all the elements that were there in 1950:  pope, bishops,
cardinals, priests, nuns, newspapers, seminaries, institutes, publishing
houses, missions, religious orders of nuns and priests.  The facade is
there.
The terrible thing is:  what most people cannot allow themselves to admit is
that it is an illusion.  The organization as it was then does not exist
now....
       Is an underground Church justified under these circumstances?
Absolutely.  If the only way that you can have your children go to
Confession
and Holy Communion, and you can hear Mass at least once a month, and receive
the Body and Blood of Christ, truly, once a month, there is no question in
my
mind, because without that you're not going to save your soul.  You won't
get
Sanctifying Grace....  --Fr. Malachi B. Martin, "The Kingdom of Darkness"
(audiotaped interview, 1995)

       So we're in a situation there where the institutional Church does
not
necessarily line up with the body of Christ.  No, it does not.  And remember
that at the time of the Arians, as [Cardinal] Newman pointed out in his
examination of the Arian heresy.  What restored the Church -- remember,
first
of all, the Arian heresy had attracted 81% of the bishops -- Newman points
out that the people who saved the Church, who finally got rid of the Arians,
were not the clergy, not the pope, but the people, in their faith, finally
shed them as alien material.  It took three or four hundred years.... It was
as pernicious as that.  Similarly here, too, it will be the people
themselves, God in the people, who will reject them, but then they have to
turn to the lawful authority of the Church, when there is a lawful authority
that consents to exercising its responsibilities and tells the people the
truth of revelation.  --Fr. Malachi B. Martin, "The Kingdom of Darkness"
(audiotaped interview, 1995)

       The Novus Ordo is normally invalid.  You've got to make an effort to
make the Novus Ordo valid.  You can make it valid, but you've got to make an
effort.  Of itself, it seems to be invalid.... I've been to hundreds of
Masses -- I make it my business -- Novus Ordos, just to notice the ritual,
and the vast majority are invalid.  And as to the intention of the priest,
no
wonder!  He doesn't believe in the Sacrifice of Calvary, he doesn't believe
in grace, he doesn't believe in Heaven, he doesn't believe in a Savior.  He
believes in having a communal celebration where everybody loves each other
and kisses each other.  He doesn't believe in the Mass as the salvific act
of
Christ on the altar with the people in veneration and adoration.  He doesn't
believe in that any longer.  --Fr. Malachi B. Martin, "The Kingdom of
Darkness" (audiotaped interview, 1995)

       The people who composed the [Novus Ordo] Mass originally were six
Protestants and two Catholics, under the direction of a Freemason called
Annibale Bugnini, who is ... an archbishop, and he lost his faith.  And he
was the originator of it.  And the first version of the Mass, which he drew
up for Pope Paul VI -- you know what happened to it.  He gave it to Paul VI,
and two cardinals, Ottaviani and Bacci, went to Pope Paul VI and said, "Your
Holiness, if you publish this Mass, we're going to declare you a heretic."
They said that.  So Paul VI withdrew it.  He made some small changes in it,
and hence we got the Novus Ordo.  --Fr. Malachi B. Martin, "The Kingdom of
Darkness" (audiotaped interview, 1995)

       The traditional Roman Mass was never forbidden, never abrogated, and
never declared illegal, by any competent Roman official.  But, all over the
Church, there was an active and sometimes a violent policy of suppressing
any
trace of the traditional Roman Mass....  Without some special care, not
indicated in the official text and instructions of the Novus Ordo, the
ceremony of the Novus Ordo does not ensure its validity, i.e., that it
achieves that presentation of Christ's Sacrifice on Calvary.  As a general
fact, nowadays throughout the Church such special care is rare.
Consequently, the celebration of the Novus Ordo does not always result in a
valid Mass.  Indirectly, this result can be seen mirrored in the overall
lack
of sacramental reverence for the Eucharist among the clergy and the laity.
-
-Fr. Malachi B. Martin, Catholic Family News, April 1995, p. 4

       [The National Bishops' Councils have as their ultimate objective]
the
liquidation of absolute papal control over the dogma and moral discipline of
the Church, no longer called Roman, [which] would consist of a gaggle of
"national churches" bound together by sentiment and association,... free to
arrange the "national" affairs of their Church merely according to the
"local
culture."  --Fr. Malachi B. Martin, Roman Catholic Observer, April 1995, p.
25

       Let me make quite clear ... for you and for everybody listening.
This man [John Paul II] is my pope.  He does represent Christ.  He is the
Vicar of Christ for me.  And if he were to speak under conditions of
infallibility, I will accept what he says.  But I am allowed, nay, I am
obliged by my Tradition and my Faith and by previous popes to critique
anybody -- priest, bishop, cardinal, or pope -- when I think they are in
error....  So John Paul II has ventured out along the edges of orthodoxy in
his statements and in his preaching, but whenever he taught, he has never
yet
taught error infallibly.  He's never adopted the infallible mode.  The
infallible mode is something where the pope says, "I am now doing this as
the
head of all Catholics, I am doing it as the Successor of Peter, and it is to
be held by all the faithful under pain of mortal sin."  He has never done
that yet.  --Fr. Malachi B. Martin, Interview with Art Bell, Chancellor
Networks, May 4, 1998

       The prophecy of Fatima is not a pleasant document to read.  There is
not pleasant news.  It implies -- it doesn't make any sense -- unless we
accept that there will be, or that there is in progress, a wholesale
apostasy
amongst clerics and laity in the Catholic Church and that the institutional
organization of the Roman Catholic Church, that is, the organization of
parishes, dioceses, archbishops and bishops and cardinals and the Roman
bureaucracies and the chanceries throughout the world -- unless that is
totally disrupted and rendered null and void, the Third Secret makes no
sense. And number two, the other salient characteristic about it is that it
means intense suffering of the peoples.  --Fr. Malachi B. Martin, Interview
with Art Bell, Chancellor Networks, May 4, 1998

       The fact is, I think, that once the churchmen of the Roman Catholic
Church drifted into grave error after the Vatican Council, Christ said,
"Okay, you want to go that way; all right, I'm not with you."  And he
withdrew His grace, and therefore we have this devastation of Catholic
marriages, this devastation of Catholic religious orders, the major ones
above all -- Jesuits, Dominicans, Carmelites, Holy Ghost Fathers -- all
devastated, and the lack of cohesive theological thinking and philosophical
thinking in the Church is glaring and discouraging.  Christ withdrew his
grace, and that was His decision in view of our infidelity because our
churchmen were unfaithful, and are unfaithful to Him.  I think that's where
we are, but we still can have His grace, we can receive his body and blood,
and we can be protected by the Angels and the Saints.  But now we're in a
battle; there's bloody battle going on.  --Fr. Malachi B. Martin, Interview
with Art Bell, Chancellor Networks, May 4, 1998

       With its selections from St. Paul of such phrases as "Try
everything;
retain what is good," Mediator Dei was, in fact, taken by the neo-liturgists
as a go-ahead for experimentation.  Meanwhile the Vatican approved a
liturgical updating in the way of a new Latin translation of the Psalms for
the Canonical Hours.  Fr. [Dieter] Bonneterre remarks [Le Mouvement
Liturgique], "This version, very faithful to the Hebrew, lacks all poetic
feeling.  It is full of words difficult to pronounce and impossible to sing
to Gregorian melodies.  It remains a witness to the lack of liturgical
sensitivity on the part of Augustin Bea and his fellow Jesuits at the
Biblicum.  --Mary Ball Martinez, The Undermining of the Catholic Church
(1991)

       It is good to recall that our of the original twelve Apostles, only
one had the courage to stand with Christ at Calvary.  Traditionalists, St.
John must then must be our patron, for that is what we are called upon to do
now, as Christ's Church is being crucified as He was.  --Michael J. Matt,
"The Democratization of the Catholic Church," Remnant, October 31, 1994, p.
7.

       As Catholics, we must recall that the Theology of the Papacy is
highly complex and must be understood in its totality.  It would be nice if
it were all as simple as merely being able to say of any and all bad Popes:
"He's the Pope, and he can never harm the Church.  We, therefore, have
nothing to worry about."
But we must recall the words of St. Robert Bellarmine, for example, which
obviously indicate that a Pope is capable of harming the Church and so can
indeed harm the Faith of believers.  In his De Romano Pontifice, II:29, St.
Robert Bellarmine says:  "It is lawful to resist him [the Pope] when he
attacks souls or troubles the state, and, above all, when he appears to be
causing harm to the Church.  It is lawful, I say, to resist him by not doing
what he commands and by hindering the execution of his will"....
       Practically speaking, the majority of practicing Catholics know
nothing of the Theology of the Papacy, and generally speaking most of them
have a wholly inaccurate understanding of the doctrine of Papal
Infallability.  Somewhere between Sede-vacantism [belief that the Apostolic
See is currently vacant] and Papolatry [belief that everything the Pope does
is of divine authority] lies the truth. --Michael J. Matt, "The Remnant
Speaks," Remnant, August 15, 1996, p. 11.

       The Church went to bed Catholic and woke up Modernized.  --Michael
J.
Matt, "On Unjust Compromise and Indults," Remnant, October 15, 1996, p. 4.

       One year later, I feel tranquil and consider the punishment
[excommunication for co-consecrating bishops with Abp. Lefebvre] unjust and
invalid....  Whoever breaks with those who broke with tradition stands with
the Truth....  Is it a crime to defend the tradition of the Church?...  The
safekeeping and transmission of the Catholic faith is today seriously and
gravely threatened by various factors, among them the new seminaries that do
not provide an authentic Catholic training....  The future?  That belongs to
God; we trust in Providence.  --Bishop de Castro Mayer, of Campos, Brazil

       The difference between  John Paul and Davies, of course, is that the
latter wishes to replace the rite of Paul VI.  (But even Davies, and other
stalwart Tridentine Mass devotees like the late Fr. Vincent Miceli, point
out
that prudence requires the new rite be left in place for those who sincerely
prefer it, lest they be harmed by any sudden change.)  --Roger McCaffrey,
"From the Publisher," Latin Mass, July-August 1992.

       Tradition is more important than a pope.  He himself is
representative of it, and is a key element, sine qua non, of Christ's
Church.
--Roger McCaffrey,  Latin Mass, July-August 1994 (3:4), p. 32

       Latin ... was mediaeval Europe's lingua franca and its culturally
preeminent instrument of thought and expression.  It offered the
incomparable
advantage, denied to us in the modern world, of a living and learned
language
common to the whole of western Christendom and transcending the localism of
many different languages and dialects.  When its writers used the term tota
latinitas (rather than the geographical designation Europa) and spoke of the
orbis latinus, everyone knew they were referring to their shared Latin
culture.  More locally the adjective latinus could identify, for example,
the
Latin quarter in Paris, where the language was commonly used for both oral
and written communication.  --F.A.C. Mantello, The Catholic University of
America

       Proceeding in logical order, he examined first whether the Council
documents come under the Church's extraordinary or ordinary infallibility --
not under extraordinary infallibility because both Pope John XXIII and Paul
VI explicitly said the Council was making no definitive declarations; nor
under ordinary infallibility because ... the bishops of Vatican II presented
none of their doctrines as requiring definitively to be believed.  Nor are
these doctrines even part of the Church's authentic (i.e., ordinary, non-
universal) teaching, because the bishops expressed no intention to hand down
the Deposit of the Faith; on the contrary, their spokesmen (e.g., Paul VI)
expressed their intention to come to terms with the modern world and its
values, long condemned by true Catholic churchmen as being intrinsically
unCatholic.  Therefore, the documents of Vatican II have only a Conciliar
authority, the authority of that Council, but no Catholic authority at all,
and no Catholic need take seriously anything Vatican II said, unless it was
already Church doctrine beforehand.   --Fr. Pierre Marie, editor of the
French Traditional Dominicans' quarterly, Le Sel de la Terre

       The sermons of these ancient preachers come down to us under the
name
of The Targuns and Midrashes. But they made no change in the ancient Hebrew
of Moses and Temple, and synagogue services to our day (circa  1906) remains
in the pure Hebrew, which only the learned Jews now understand. People who
find fault because Mass is said in Latin, Greek , and tongues the people do
not understand, do not  realize that Christ worshipped in the synagogues
where the services were in a dead language.  --Fr. James L. Meager, D.D.,
How
Christ Said the First Mass

       The Latin Church, which I constantly find myself admiring, despite
its frequent astounding imbecilities, has always kept clearly before it the
fact that religion is not a syllogism, but a poem....  Rome, indeed, has not
only preserved the original poetry of Christianity; it has also made capital
additions to that poetry -- for example, [to] the poetry ... of the liturgy
itself....  A Solemn High Mass must be a thousand times as impressive, to a
man with any genuine religious sense in him, as the most powerful sermon
ever
roared under the big top....  Let the reverend fathers go back to Bach.  If
they keep on spoiling poetry and spouting ideas, the day will come when some
extra-bombastic deacon will astound humanity and insult God by proposing to
translate the liturgy into American, that all the faithful may be convinced
by it.  --H.L. Mencken, Essay (1923)

       It is often asserted that the pressures of modern life make a daily
recitation of the Rosary impractical.  Nothing can be further from the
truth.
In fact, it is the pressures of modern life that make its daily recitation
essential.  Never has an active life been incompatible with prayer.  We need
only look at the lives of the saints to give the lie to this theory.  A
perfect example of this is St. Francis Borgia, who managed to combine a very
busy life with an active prayer life.  It was, in fact, the pressures of his
world that led him to God, for he knew that one "can find true happiness
nowhere but in the Cross of Christ.  All the pleasures of the world seem ...
heavy and wearisome when once [one has] experienced the sweetness of the
Savior's yoke."  -- Missionaries of the Sacred Heart

       61. Jesus, our Savior, true God and true man must be the ultimate
end
of all our other devotions; otherwise they would be false and misleading.
He
is the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and end of everything.  "We
labor,"
says St. Paul, "only to make all men perfect in Jesus Christ."  For in him
alone dwells the entire fullness of the divinity and the complete fullness
of
grace, virtue and perfection.  In him alone we have been blessed with every
spiritual blessing; he is the only teacher from whom we must learn; the only
Lord on whom we should depend; the only Head to whom we should be united and
the only model that we should imitate. He is the only Physician that can
heal
us; the only Shepherd that can feed us; the only Way that can lead us; the
only Truth that we can believe; the only Life that can animate us. He alone
is everything to us and he alone can satisfy all our desires.  We are given
no other name under heaven by which we can be saved.  God has laid no other
foundation for our salvation, perfection and glory than Jesus.  Every
edifice
which is not built on that firm rock, is founded upon shifting sands and
will
certainly fall sooner or later.  Every one of the faithful who is not united
to him is like a branch broken from the stem of the vine.  It falls and
withers and is fit only to be burnt.  If we live in Jesus and Jesus lives in
us, we need not fear damnation.  Neither angels in heaven nor men on earth,
nor devils in hell, no creature whatever can harm us, for no creature can
separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus.  Through him,
with
him, and in him, we can do all things and render all honor and glory to the
Father in the unity of the Holy Ghost; we can make ourselves perfect and be
for our neighbor a fragrance of eternal life.
       62. If then we are establishing sound devotion to our Blessed Lady,
it is only in order to establish devotion to our Lord more perfectly, by
providing a smooth but certain way of reaching Jesus Christ.  If devotion to
our Lady distracted us from our Lord, we would have to reject it as an
illusion of the devil.  But this is far from being the case.  As I have
already shown and will show again later on, this devotion is necessary,
simply and solely because it is a way of reaching Jesus perfectly, loving
him
tenderly, and serving him faithfully.  --St. Louis de Montfort, "Trait� de
la
vraie d�votion � la Sainte Vierge" [Treatise on on True Devotion to the
Blessed Virgin]

       In reading the schema [on the Sacred Liturgy], I could not help
thinking that, if the Church of Rome went on improving the Missal and
Breviary long enough, they would one day invent the Book of Common Prayer.
-
-Bishop Moorman of Ripon, Anglican Observer at the Second Vatican Council,
apud Michael Davies, Pope Paul's New Mass (Kansas City, MO:  Angelus Press,
1980), p. 257

       I do not care if I have against me all the Bishops; I have with me
the Saints and all the doctors of the Church.  --St. Thomas More

       The things I pray for, dear Lord, give me the grace to work for.  --
St. Thomas More

       For one Bishop of your opinion, I have a hundred Saints of mine, for
one parliament of yours -- and God alone knows what kind -- I have all the
General Councils for a thousand years.  -- St. Thomas More

       This man [Martin Luther] vomits ... by the mouthful.  --St. Thomas
More

       These are terrors for children, not me.  --St. Thomas More to Henry
VIII's Secretary Cromwell, when threatening More for not coming over to the
king's schism

       Does not this contrast between the traitor [Judas, "so wide awake
and
intent on betraying the Lord that the very idea of sleep never entered his
head"] and the apostles [sleeping in the Garden of Gethsemane] present to us
a clear and sharp mirror image (as it were), a sad and terrible view of what
has happened through the ages from those times even to our own?  Why do not
bishops contemplate in this scene their own somnolence?  Since they have
succeeded in the place of the apostles, would that they would reproduce
their
virtues just as eagerly as they embrace their authority and as faithfully as
they display their sloth and sleepiness!  For very many are sleepy and
apathetic in sowing virtues among the people and maintaining the truth,
while
the enemies of Christ, in order to sow vices and uproot the faith..., are
wide awake....  --St. Thomas More, De Tristitia Christi, 46

       Even to Judas God gave many opportunities of coming to his senses.
He did not deny him His companionship.  He did not take away from him the
dignity of his apostleship.  He did not even take the purse-strings from
him,
even though he was a thief.  He admitted the traitor to the fellowship of
His
beloved disciples at the Last Supper.  He deigned to stoop down at the feet
of the betrayer and to wash with His most innocent and sacred hands Judas'
dirty feet, a fit symbol of his filthy mind....  Finally, when Judas, coming
with his crew to seize him, offered him a kiss, a kiss that was in fact the
terrible token of his treachery, Christ received him calmly and gently. ...
Therefore, since God showed His great mercy, in so many ways even toward
Judas, an apostle turned traitor, since he invited him to forgiveness so
often and did not allow him to perish except through despair alone,
certainly
there is no reason why, in this life, anyone should despair of any imitator
of Judas.  Rather, according to that holy advice of the apostle, "Pray for
one another, that you may be healed,"  if we see anyone wandering wildly
from
the right road, let us hope that he will one day return to the path, and
meanwhile let us pray humbly and incessantly that God will hold out to him
chances to come to his senses, and likewise that with God's help he will
eagerly seize them, and having seized them will hold fast and not throw them
way.  --St. Thomas More, De Tristitia Christi

       The total experience -- the dim lights, the glint of the
vestments, the glow of the stained-glass windows, the mantralike murmur of
the Latin -- was mind-washing.  It calmed the soul, opened the spirit to
large, barely grasped Presences and Purposes.  For a trembling moment
every week, or ever day if they chose, ordinary people reached out and
touched the Divine.  --Charles R. Morris, American Catholic:  The Saints
and Sinners Who Build America's Most Powerful Church (New York:  Times
Books, 1997, pp. 174-175

       The Mass must not be said ... in any language but that in which it
has
come down to us from the early hierarchs of the Western Church.  --John
Henry
Cardinal Newman

       I have all that time thought that a time of widespread infidelity
was
coming, and through all those [50] years the waters have in fact been rising
as a deluge.  I look for the time, after my life, when only the tops of the
mountains will be seen like islands in the waste of waters.  --John Henry
Cardinal Newman

       The Church is ever militant; sometimes she gains, sometimes she
loses; and more often she is at once gaining and losing in different parts
of her territory.  What is ecclesiastical history but a record of the
ever-doubtful fortune of the battle, though its issue is not doubtful?
Scarcely are we singing the Te Deum when we have to turn to our Miserere;
scarcely are we in peace, when we are in persecution;  scarecely have we
gained a triumph when we are visited by a scandal.  Nay, we make progress
by means of reverses; our griefs are our consolations; we lose Stephen to
gain Paul, and Matthias replaced the traitor Judas.  --John
Henry Cardinal Newman (1801-1890)

       To the devotional mind what is new and strange is as repulsive,
often as dangerous, as falsehood is to the scientific.  --John
Henry Cardinal Newman (1801-1890)

       I am suspicious of any religion that is a people's religion, or an
age's religion.  --John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801-1890)

       You want proof of the devil's existence.  Show me a man who denies
his existence.  There's your proof!  --John Henry Cardinal Newman
(1801-1890)

       [I foresee the] day when the enemy will be both outside and inside
the Church.  --John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801-1890)

       To be deep in history is to cease to be Protestant. --John
Henry Cardinal Newman (1801-1890)

       Therefore, when profane persons scoff at our forms, let us argue
with
ourselves thus -- and it is an argument which all men, learned and
unlearned,
can enter into:  These forms, even were they of mere human origin (which
learned men say is not the case, but even if they were), are at least of a
spiritual and edifying character as the rites of Judaism.  And yet Christ
and
His Apostles did not even suffer these latter to be irreverently treated or
suddenly discarded.  Much less may we suffer it in the case of our own; lest
stripping off from us the badges of our profession, we forget that there is
a
faith to maintain and a world of sinners to be eschewed.  --John
Henry Cardinal Newman (1801-1890)

       There is at this day a confederacy of evil, marshalling its hosts
from all parts of the world, organizing itself, taking its measures,
enclosing the Church of Christ as in a net, Apostasy and all its tokens and
instruments are of the evil one and savior of death. He offers baits to
tempt
men: he promises liberty, equality (sounds like VII?), trade and wealth,
remission of taxes, reforms. He promises illumination, knowledge, science,
philosophy, enlargement of mind. He scoffs at times gone by, at sacred
traditions, at every institution, which reveres them. He bids man mount
aloft, to become a god. He laughs and jokes with men, gets intimate with
them, takes their hands, gets his fingers between theirs, grasps them and
then they are his.  --John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801-1890)

       I thank God that I live in a day when the enemy is outside the
Church, and I know where he is, and what he is up to.  But, I foresee a day
when the enemy will be both outside and inside the Church ... and, I pray
for
the poor faithful who will be caught in the crossfire.  --John
Henry Cardinal Newman (1801-1890)

       To one great mischief I have from the first opposed myself.  For
thirty, forty, fifty years, I have resisted to the best of my power the
spirit of liberalism in religion.  Never did Holy Church need champions
against it more sorely than now, when, alas, it is an error overspreading as
a snare the whole earth.  Liberalism in religion is the doctrine that there
is no positive truth in religion, but that one creed is as good as another,
and this is the teaching which is gaining substance and force daily.  It is
inconsistent with any recognition of religion as true.  It teaches that all
are to be tolerated, for all are matters of opinion.  Revealed religion is
not a truth, but a sentiment and a taste; not an objective fact, not
miraculous; and it is the right of each individual to make it say just what
strikes his fancy.  Devotion is not necessarily founded on faith.  Men may
go
to Protestant Churches and to Catholic, may get good from both and belong to
neither.  They may fraternise together in spiritual thoughts and feelings,
without having any views at all of doctrines in common, or seeing the need
of
them.  Since, then religion is so personal a peculiarity and so private a
possession, we must of necessity ignore it in the intercourse of man with
man.  If a man puts on a new religion every morning, what is that to you?
It is as impertinent to think about a man's religion as about his sources of
income or his management of his family.  Religion is in no sense the bond of
society.  --John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801-1890), 1879, in his
"bigletto" speech, upon receiving the cardinal's hat

       I know that all times are perilous, and that in every time serious
and anxious minds, alive to the honor of God and the needs of man, are apt
to
consider no times as perilous as their own.  At all times the enemy of souls
assaults with fury the Church which is their true Mother....  Doubtless, but
still admitting this, still I think that the trails which lie before us are
such as would appall and make dizzy even such courageous hearts as St.
Athanasius, St. Gregory I, or St. Gregory VII.  And they would confess that
dark as the prospect of their own day, ours has a darkness different in kind
from any that has been before it.  The special peril of the time before us
is
the spread of that plague of infidelity, that the Apostles and our Lord
Himself have predicted as the worst calamity of the last times of the
Church....  I do not mean to presume to say that this is the last time, but
that it has had the evil prerogative of being like that more terrible
season,
when it is said that the elect themselves will be in danger of falling away.
Christianity has never yet had the experience of a world simply irreligious.
The Roman and Greek world when Christianity appeared was full of
superstition, not of infidelity....  Even among the skeptics of Athens, St.
Paul could appeal to the Unknown God.  But we are now coming to a time when
the world does not acknowledge our first principles.  As in the revolted
kingdom of Israel, there will be a remnant.  The history of Elias is here a
great consolation for us, for he was told from heaven that even in that time
of idolatrous apostasy, there were seven thousand men who had not bowed
their
knees to Baal.  --John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801-1890), Address
on the Opening of a Seminary, 1873

       Here I draw the reader's attention to the words "material" and
"formal". "Thou shalt not kill":  murder is the formal transgression of this
commandment, but accidental homicide is the material transgression.  The
matter of the act is the same in both cases, but in the homicide there is
nothing more than the act, whereas in murder there must be the intention,
etc., which constitutes the formal sin.  So, again, an executioner commits
the material act, but not that formal killing which is a breach of the
commandment.  So a man, who, simply to save himself from starving, takes a
loaf which is not his own, commits only the material, not the formal act of
stealing, this is, he does not commit a sin.  And so a baptized Christian,
external to the Church, who is in invincible ignorance, is a material
heretic, and not a formal.  --John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801-
1890), Apologia pro Vita Sua, 1864

       It is not a little remarkable that, though historically speaking the
fourth century is the age of the doctors, illustrated as it is, by the
Saints
Athanasius, Hilary, the two Gregories, Basil, Chrysostom, Ambrose, Jerome,
and Augustine (and all those saints bishops also, except one, nevertheless
in
that very day the divine tradition committed to the infallible Church was
proclaimed and maintained far more by the faithful than by the
episcopate....
I mean still, that in that time of immense confusion the divine dogma of Our
Lord's divinity was proclaimed, enforced, maintained, and (humanly speaking)
preserved, far more by the Ecclesia docta ("the taught Church" -- the
faithful) than by the Ecclesia docens ("the teaching Church" -- the
Magisterium); that the body of the Episcopate was unfaithful to its
commission, while the body of the laity was faithful to its baptism....
       On the one hand, then, I say that there was a temporary suspension
of
the functions of the Ecclesia docens.  The body of bishops failed in their
confession of the faith.  There was weakness, fear of consequences,
misguidance, delusion ... extending itself into nearly every corner of the
Catholic Church.  --John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801-1890), The
Arians of the Fourth Century, 1833

       The episcopate, whose action was so prompt and concordant at Nicaea
on the rise of Arianism, did not, as a class or order of men, play a good
part in the troubles consequent upon the Council; and the laity did.  The
Catholic people, in the length and breadth of Christendom, were the
obstinate
champions of Catholic truth, and the bishops were not.  Of course, there
were
great and illustrious exceptions; first, Athanasius, Hilary, the Latin
Eusebius, and Phoebadius; and after them, Basil, the two Gregories, and
Ambrose;...  And again, in speaking of the laity, I speak inclusively of
their parish-priests (so to call them), at least in many places; but on the
whole, taking a wide view of the history, we are obliged to say that the
governing body of the Church came short, and the governed were pre-eminent
in
faith, zeal, courage, and constancy.
       This is a very remarkable fact; but there is a moral in it.  Perhaps
it was permitted in order to impress upon the Church at that very time
passing out of her state of persecution to her long temporal ascendancy, the
greatest evangelical lesson, that, not the wise and powerful, but the
obscure, the unlearned, and the weak constitute her real strength.  It was
mainly by the faithful people that Paganism was overthrown; it was by the
faithful people, under the lead of Athanasius and the Egyptian bishops, and
in some places supported by their Bishops or priests, that the worst of
heresies was withstood and stamped out of the sacred territory.  --John
Henry
Cardinal Newman (1801-1890), The Arians of the Fourth Century, 1833

       It [the Traditional Latin Mass] is virtually unchanged since the
third century.  --John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801-1890), Callistus

       ...Neither Pope nor Council are on a level with the Apostles.  To
the
Apostles the whole revelation was given, by the Church it is transmitted; no
simply new truth has been given to us since St. John's death; the one office
of the Church is to guard "that noble deposit" of truth, as St. Paul speaks
to Timothy, which the Apostles bequeathed to her, in its fulness and
integrity.  Hence the infallibility of the Apostles was of a far more
positive and wide character than that needed by and granted to the Church.
We call it, in the case of the Apostles, inspiration; in the case of the
Church, assistentia.  --John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801-1890),
Infallibility
and Conscience

       To me nothing is so consoling, so piercing, so thrilling, so
overcoming as the Mass, said as it is among us.  I could attend Masses
forever and not be tired.  It is not a mere form of words, it is a great
action, the greatest action that can be on earth.  It is not the invocation
merely, but, if I dare use the word, the evocation of the Eternal.  He
becomes present on the altar in flesh and blood, before whom angels bow and
devils tremble.  This is that awful event which is the scope, and the
interpretation, of every part of the solemnity.  Words are necessary, but as
means, not as ends; they are not mere addresses to the throne of grace, they
are instruments of what is higher, of consecration, of sacrifice....  Each
in
his own place, with his own heart, with his own wants, with his own
thoughts,
with his own intentions, with his own prayers, separate but concordant,
watching what is going on, watching its progress, uniting in its
consummation; not painfully and hopelessly following a hard form of prayer
from beginning to end, but like a concert of musical instruments, each
different but concurring in a sweet harmony, we take our part with God's
priest supporting him yet guided by him....  And the great Action is the
measure and the scope of it.  --John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801-
1890), Loss and Gain (1848)

       Those therefore who after the manner of wicked heretics dare to set
aside ecclesiastical traditions, and to invent any kind of novelty, or to
reject any written or unwritten Tradition of the Church, or who wrongfully
and outrageously devise the destruction of any of those Traditions enshrined
in the Catholic Church, are to be punished thus:  if they are bishops, we
order them to be deposed, but if they are monks or laypersons, we command
them to be excluded from the community.  --Second Council of Nicaea (787)

       I think that for a lot of people, the Latin Mass, accompanied by the
music, incense, icons, and art, inspired people in the sense of being
involved in something special and something out of the ordinary.... It's
like
Robert Stone said:  "The Church I left no longer exists."  In an effort to
make the Mass more "relevant" -- that horrible catchword from the 60's, the
Church made it irrelevant in many Catholics' spiritual lives.  --Peter
Occhiogrosso, Once a Catholic:  Prominent Catholics and Ex-Catholics Reveal
the Influence of the Church on Their Lives

       Let the King do as his mother and all preceding kings of Scotland
did:  ... why does he seek for more than the inheritance of rights they left
him?  They never had any faith other than the faith that is Roman and
Catholic.  --Blessed John Ogilvie, one of the martyrs of the English
Reformation

       Of a truth, God willed to prepare the nations for His teaching, and
provided that they should submit to one Roman Emperor.  Nor should there be
a
plurality of kings and nations alienated from one another, to make it more
difficult for the Apostles to follow what was commanded of them by the words
of Christ, "Go ye forth and teach all nations."  And so, it was constituted
for Jesus to be born under Augustus who, in one great kingdom, had
congregated the multitudes scattered over the world."  --Origen, Contra
Celsum, 2:412:30 (cf. Dante Alighieri, De Monarchia)

       In the first three centuries, ascetics and virgins did not live in
common; they stayed in the world.  Without any public ceremonies, such as
were later introduced, they committed themselves to keep chaste "for the
sake
of the kingdom of heaven" and lived among the other members of the Christian
community, in their own homes, owning property, and earning their living by
work.  --Jose Orlandis, A Short History of the Catholic Church, p. 51

       Many famous bishops, such as St. Ambrose of Milan and Eusebius of
Vercelli, fostered monastic life among the clergy of their churches.  An
outstanding example of this was St. Augustine who, after becoming bishop of
Hippo, brought his clergy together in his home and established a system of
life in common.  --Jose Orlandis, A Short History of the Catholic Church, p.
53

       You know, a time will come when a man will no longer be able to say,
"I speak Latin and am a Christian" and go his way in peace.  There will come
frontiers, frontiers of all kinds -- between men -- and there will be no end
to them.  --John Osborne, Luther, 2:4, spoken by St. Giacomo Tommaso de Vio
Gaetani (Cajetan) (1469-1534) to Martin Luther

       I must tell you that, when on an official visit to Rome last
September [1992], other Irish bishops and I visited the Commission, Ecclesia
Dei.  The President, [Antonio] Cardinal Innocenti, opened the discussion by
telling us that this was a temporary Commission which is to work itself out
of existence.
       The cardinal explained very clearly to us that the use of the "Novus
Ordo" (the present form of Mass) was an order by the Pope, whereas "Ecclesia
Dei" was a pastoral desire of the Pope that bishop would give consideration,
in a pastoral way, to request for the Tridentine Rite Mass.
       It is not then a matter of the bishop obeying or disobeying the
Pope;
it is a matter of pastoral responsibility, of what is good for the Church as
a whole in the diocese.
       I have given very serious consideration to the matter and, before
God, I do not consider that the celebration of the Tridentine Mass would be
pastorally beneficial for the Church in the diocese.  --Bishop Diarmaid
O'Sullieabhean, Irish bishops' representative on the International Committee
for English in the Liturgy (ICEL)

       So far from being a cool (which, I suppose, implies cold-blooded and
inhumane) diplomatist, Pius XII was the most warmly humane, kind, generous,
sympathetic (and incidentally saintly) character that it has been my
privilege to meet in the course of a long life.  --Francis Osborne,
Britain's
wartime Ambassador to the Vatican

       It is rather strong to claim that the New Mass is contrary to the
Council of Trent but, displeasing as it is, it is true.  --Alfredo Cardinal
Ottaviani, Cardinal Prefect of the Supreme Holy Office

       I pray to God that I may die before the end of the council -- in
that
way I can die a Catholic.  --Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani, June 1962, Cardinal
Prefect of the Supreme Holy Office, following a speech by Cardinal Montini
(the future Paul VI) on the need for changes in the Church

       Are we seeking to stir up wonder, or perhaps scandal, among the
Christian people, by introducing changes in so venerable a rite that has
been
approved for so many centuries and is now so familiar?  The rite of Holy
Mass
should not be treated as if it were a piece of cloth to be refashioned
according to the whim of each generation.  --Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani,
Cardinal Prefect of the Holy Office, 1962, apud Ralph M. Wiltgen, The Rhine
Flows into the Tiber (Tan Books, 1967), p. 28

       It is obvious that the New Order of Mass has no intention of
presenting the Faith taught by the Council of Trent.  But it is to this
Faith
that the Catholic conscience is bound forever.  Thus, with the promulgation
of the New Order of Mass, the true Catholic is faced with a tragic need to
choose.  --Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani, The Ottaviani Intervention, Sec. VI

       The work of the devil will infiltrate even into the Church in such a
way that one will see cardinals opposing cardinals, bishops against other
bishops. The priests who venerate me will be scorned and opposed by their
confreres [other priests].  The churches and altars will be devastated and
sacked, and the Sacred Hosts will be underfoot.  Satan stalks among the
bishops, the prelates, lay people, and cardinals.  The Church will be full
of
those who accept compromises, and the demon will press many priests and
consecrated [religious] souls to leave the service of the Lord.  The demon
will be especially implacable against the souls consecrated to God.  --Our
Lady of Akita, Japan, Message of October 13, 1973; approved April 1984 by
the
Most Rev. John Shojiro Ito, Bishop of Niigata, Japan, and June 1988 by
Joseph
Cardinal Ratzinger, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the
Faith
       The Church will be in eclipse....  Rome will lose the faith and
become the seat of the Antichrist.  --Our Lady of La Salette (September 19,
1846)

       Christian is my name, and Catholic my surname.  The one designates
me, while the other makes me specific.  Thus, I am attested and set
apart....
When we are called Catholics, it is by this appellation that our people are
kept apart from any heretical name.  --St. Pacian, Bishop of Barcelona,
Spain, letter to the Novationist Sympronian, 1:4 , ca. 385

       I found that there is not fact or hypothesis of modern physics or
astronomy which cannot be comfortably accommodated inside the ample arms
of the Church.  I discovered that, historical speaking, people seem to
leave the Church because they want forbidden things, never because they
want a deeper truth.  I found that people enter the Church because they
want the fulfillment of either heart of brain or soul.  Many men have
abandoned Rome because they wished to worship at the altar of man's
self-sufficient intellect; nobody ever left the Church because the best in
him could not find fulfillment there.  --Gretta Palmer, prominent
freelance journalist, 1974

       There seems nothing unreasonable in thinking that the Roman Liturgy,
as used in the time of Gregory the great, may have existed from a period of
the most remote antiquity.  --Sir William Palmer, historian

       The two essentials for good government are power and gentleness.  By
the first Christ achieves His ends, by the second He uses such means as
harmonize with the nature of secondary agents....  Fortiter et suaviter.  --
Pius Parrsch, The Church's Year of Grace, (Collegeville, MN:  Liturgical
Press, c. 1962), vol I, p. 178

       We declare that if ever it should appear that any bishop, even one
acting as an Archbishop, Patriarch, or Primate, or a Cardinal of the Roman
Church, or a legate, or even the Roman Pontiff, whether prior to his
promotion to cardinal, or prior to his election as Roman Pontiff, has
beforehand deviated from the Catholic faith or fallen into any heresy, We
enact, we decree, we determine, we define:  Such promotion or election in
and
of itself, even with the agreement and unanimous consent of all the
Cardinals, shall be null, legally invalid, and void.  It shall not be
possible for such a promotion or election to be deemed valid or to be valid,
neither through reception of office, consecration, subsequent
administration,
or possession, not even through the putative enthronement of a Roman Pontiff
himself, together with the veneration and obedience accorded him by all.
Such promotion or election shall not through any lapse of time in the
foregoing situation be considered even partially legitimate in any way....
Each and all of the words, as acts, laws, appointments of those so promoted
or elected -- and indeed, whatsoever flows therefrom -- shall be lacking in
force, and shall grant no stability and legal power to anyone whatsoever.
Those so promoted or elected, by that very fact and without the need to make
any further declaration, shall be deprived of any dignity, position, honor,
title, authority, office, and power....  Therefore, it is permitted to no
one
to impair this page of Our approval, renewal, sanction, statute, wills of
repeal, of degrees, or to go contrary to it by a rash daring deed.  If
anyone, moreover, will have presumed to attempt this, he will incur the
wrath
of Almighty God and of the blessed Apostles Peter and Paul.  --Pope Paul IV
(1559-1566), Bull "Cum ex Apostolatus Officio," February 16, 1559, sec. 9

       The Church truly is according to Christ's spirit preserved in Holy
Scripture and Apostolic Tradition, interpreted and developed by the
authentic
tradition of the Church.  --Pope Paul VI

       There is in the Church a type of thinking that is non-Catholic, and
although it is possible that it may become prevalent, it will never be the
Catholic Church.  --Pope Paul VI to Jean Guitton, French philosopher and
close friend, toward the end of the pope's life, apud "Paul VI's Secret"

       When it is a matter of the language used in public worship, think
seriously before you decide that those parts of the liturgy which belong to
the priest should be in any other language than that handed down to us by
our
forebears; for only thus will the unity of the Mystical Body at prayer and
the accuracy of the sacred formularies be maintained.  --Pope Paul VI, The
Tablet, January 11, 1964

       The magisterium of the Church did not wish to pronounce itself under
the form of extraordinary dogmatic pronouncements....  --Pope Paul VI,
discourse closing Vatican II, December 7, 1965

       [Vatican II] had avoided proclaiming in an extraordinary manner of
dogmata having the mark of infallibility.  --Pope Paul VI, Audience of
January 12, 1966

       Some persons speak of reforming the Church and giving up the
Church's
laws, traditions, and aspirations....  They feel that the whole structure of
the Church should be revised, and that the laws of the Church are outmoded
and out-of-step with the present times.  Those persons are not on the right
road. They bring sorrow to the Church and undermine her spiritual and social
structure.  --Pope Paul VI, February 21, 1966

       Latin is still the official language of the Catholic Church despite
the new vernacular liturgy.  Latin will live again with greater impetus,
despite fears for its survival.  --Pope Paul VI, April 10, 1966

       Out of our good will and high esteem for you we cannot permit
something that could be the cause of your own downfall, that could be the
source of serious loss to you, and that surely would afflict the Church of
God with sickness and sadness.  Even if you are reluctant, allow us to
defend
your real interests.... The same Church gives you the mandate to safeguard
the traditional dignity, beauty, and gravity of the choral office in both
its
language [Latin] and its chant....  Obey the commands that a great love for
your own ancient observances itself suggests....  [The failure to use Latin]
attacks not only this bountiful spring of civilization, this rich treasure
of
piety, but attacks too the decorum, the beauty, and the original vigor of
the
prayer and song of the liturgy.  The Latin language is assuredly worthy of
being defended with great care instead of being scorned; for the Latin
Church
it is the most abundant source of Christian civilization and the richest
treasury of piety....  We must not hold in low esteem these traditions of
your fathers, which were your glory for centuries.  --Pope Paul VI,
Sacrificium Laudis, August 15, 1966, Epistle to Superiors General of
Clerical
Religious Institutes Bound to Choir, on the Celebration of the Divine Office
in Latin
         The tail of the devil is functioning in the disintegration of the
Catholic world.  --Pope Paul VI, October 5, 1967

       The Church finds herself in an hour of anxiety, a disturbed period
of
self-criticism, or what would even better be called self-demolition [auto-
destruction].  It is an interior upheaval, acute and complicated, which
nobody expected after the Council.  It is almost as if the Church were
attacking itself.  We looked forward to a flowering, a serene expansion of
conceptions which matured in the great sessions of the council.  But ... one
must notice above all the sorrowful aspect.  It is as if the Church were
destroying herself.  --Pope Paul VI, December 7, 1968, Address to the
Lombard
Seminary at Rome

       This method, "on the tongue," must be retained.  --Pope Paul VI,
Apostolic Letter Memoriale Domini, May 29, 1969

       A new rite of Mass:  a change in the venerable tradition that has
gone on for centuries.  This is something that affects our hereditary
religious patrimony, which seemed to enjoy the privilege of being
untouchable
and settled.  --Pope Paul VI, General Audience Address of November 26, 1969

       The Latin language will not thereby disappear.  It will continue to
be the noble language of the Holy See's official acts; it will remain as the
means of teaching in ecclesiastical studies and as the key to the patrimony
of our religious, historical and human culture.  If possible, it will
reflourish in splendor.  --Pope Paul VI, General Audience Address, November
26, 1969

       We are parting with the speech of the Christian centuries; we are
becoming like profane intruders in the literary preserve of sacred
utterance....  We have reason for regret, reason almost for bewilderment.
What can we put in the place of that language of the angels?  We are giving
up something of priceless worth.  Why?  What is more preciouis than these
loftiest of our Church's values? --Pope Paul VI, General Audience Address,
November 26, 1969

       An offense to Rome, and a self-inflicted mutilation of Roman
culture.
--Pope Paul VI, January 1970, reproaching the Italian state for abolishing
Latin the middle schools, when receiving the Mayor of Rome

       We have the impression that through some cracks in the wall the
smoke
of Satan has entered the temple of God:  it is doubt, uncertainty,
questioning, dissatisfaction, confrontation.... We thought that after the
Council a day of sunshine would have dawned for the history of the Church.
What dawned, instead, was a day of clouds and storms, of darkness, of
searching and uncertainties.  --Pope Paul VI, June 29, 1972, Homily during
the Mass for Sts. Peter & Paul, on the occasion of the ninth anniversary of
his coronation

       What strikes me when I look at the Church is that within
Catholicism,
within the Catholic Church, there is a non-Catholic thinking.  It is very
possible that this non-Catholic thinking in the Catholic church will
prevail,
but it will never represent the Catholic Church.  Something must remain.  A
little flock must remain, however small it may be.  --Pope Paul VI to Jean
Guitton (Paul VI Secret), French philosopher and close friend of Pope Paul
VI
September 7, 1977

       The tail of the devil is functioning in the disintegration of the
Catholic world.  The darkness of Satan has entered and spread throughout the
Catholic Church even to its summit.  Apostasy, the loss of the faith, is
spreading throughout the world and into the highest levels within the
Church.
--Pope Paul VI, October 13, 1977, Address on the Sixtieth Anniversary of the
Fatima Apparitions

       The New Mass is not an official Mass of the Catholic Church.... [It]
is in itself a danger to the faith and is intrinsically evil.  --Fr. James
Peek's SSPX Holy Cross Seminary Letter to Friends and Benefactors, July 3,
1996, p. 2

       1) The second Diocesan Commission, which worked from 1984 to 1986,
voted explicitly on 2 May 1986, by an overwhilming majority for the Non
constate de supernaturalitate (11 negative votes, 2 positive, 1 in nucleo, 1
in abstention).  2) The declaration of the Episcopal Conference of 1991
stated:  "On the basis of studies conducted so far, it cannot be affirmed
that supernatural apparitions and revelations are occurring."  ...My
conviction and my position is not only Non constat de supernaturalitate, but
also Constat de non supernaturalitate as regards the apparitions or
revelations of Medjugorje. --Msgr. Ratko Peric, Bishop of Mostar, Letter of
October 2, 1997, to M. Thierry Boutet, Editor of the journal Edifa.

       If the church is singing the same tune as everybody else, who needs
the church?  That's why I am persuaded that celibacy is much more important
than it has ever been before.... The church and celibacy represent a
"countercultural force" ["a contradiction to world values"] showing that
there is more to life than the pursuit of personal satisfaction.  --
Archbishop Daniel E. Pilarczyk of Cincinnati, Chairman of the U.S. Bishops'
Conference, at the Vatican Synod on the Clergy, October 5, 1990

       The Latin Tridentine Mass is not a schismatic Mass.  --Fr. Manuel
Pinon, O.P., Latin Mass, November-December 1992, p. 2

       The harm that comes to souls from the lack of reading holy  books
makes me shudder....  What power spiritual reading has to lead to a change,
of course, and to make even worldly people enter into the way of
perfection.  --Padre Pio of Petrelcina (1887-1968), Letter to his spiritual
director, Fr. Agostino

       Blasphemies cross my mind incessantly, and even more so false
ideas, ideas of infidelity and unbelief.  I feel my soul transfixed at every
instant of my life, it kills me....  My faith is upheld only by a constant
effort of my will against every kind of human persuasion.  My faith is only
the fruit of the continual efforts that I exact of myself.  And all of this,
Father, is not something that happens a few times a day, but it is
continuous....  Father, how difficult it is to believe!  --Padre Pio of
Petrelcina (1887-1968), Letter to his spiritual director, Fr. Agostino

       By this our decree, to be valid in perpetuity, we determine and
order
that never shall anything be added to, omitted from, or changed in this
[Traditional Roman Catholic] missal.  --Pope St. Pius V, Quo Primum

       They knew the capacity of innovators in the art of deception.  In
order not to shock the ears of Catholics, the innovators sought to hide the
subtleties of their tortuous maneuvers by the use of seemingly innocuous
words7 such as would allow them to insinuate error into souls in the most
gentle manner. Once the truth had been compromised, they could, by means of
slight changes or additions in phraseology, distort the confession of the
faith that is necessary for our salvation, and lead the faithful by subtle
errors to their eternal damnation.  This manner of dissimulating and lying
is vicious, regardless of the circumstances under which it is used.  For
very good reasons it can never be tolerated in a synod of which the
principal glory consists above all in teaching the truth with clarity and
excluding all danger of error.  --Pope Pius VI, "Auctorem fidei," August 28,
1794 [describing the deceptive tactics of the Modernists by manipulating
language, "Vatican II-speak"]

       I am left with my back to the wall. God Himself will see to the
saving of His Church."  --Pope Pius VII (1800-1823), while captive in Savona
in 1809 and the Church all but lost to Napoleon

       Obversari enim tibi debuisset ante oculos, quod constanter et
praedecessores Nostri monuerunt, nimirum, si sacra Biblia vulgari lingua
passim sine discrimine permittantur, plus inde detrimenti quam utilitatis
oriri....  Sane cum in vernaculo sermone creberrimas animadvertamus
vicissitudines, varietates, commutationesque, profecto ex immoderata
biblicarum versionum licentia immutabilitas illa convelleretur, quae divina
decet testimonia, et fides ipsa nutaret, cum praesertim ex unius syllabae
ratione quandoque de dogmatis veritate dignoscatur.
       [For you should have kept before your eyes the warnings which Our
predecessors have constantly given, namely, that, if the sacred books are
permitted everywhere without discrimination in the vulgar tongue, more
damage will arise from this than advantage....  Since in vernacular speech
we
notice very frequent interchanges, varieties, and changes, surely by an
unrestrained license of Biblical versions that changelessness which is
proper
to the divine testimony would be utterly destroyed, and faith itself would
waver, when, especially, from the meaning of one syllable sometimes an
understanding about the truth of a dogma is formed.  --Pope Pius VII (1800-
1823), Epistle "Magno et acerbo" to the Archbishop of Mohileff, September 3,
1816, Denz. 1603-1604)

       What! In my lifetime! I admire your imprudence.  The Church to
canonize her Saints waits till they are dead, and long dead.  Humanity
should be in no greater haste to canonize her heroes, for so long as a man
breathes, no one can aver that his heroism will not belie itself.  --Pope
Pius IX, answering a number of his contemporaries, who wanted to call him
"Great"  similar to his most inimitable predecessors Leo and Gregory;
despite being touched by their sincerity and admiration, he, nevertheless,
refused the honor with this mild rebuke

       Liberal Catholics are the worst enemies of the Church.  --Pope Pius
IX

       The essential beauty [of the Mass] remains, whether the holy rite be
performed under the golden vault of St. Peter's or in a wretched wigwam,
erected in haste by some poor savages for their missionary.  --Pope Pius IX

       Not content like our Predecessors, Pius X and Benedict XV, simply to
approve this pronunciation [more Romano, in the Roman style], We ourselves
express the keenest desire that ... every nation shall endeavor to adopt it
when carrying out the liturgical functions.  --Pope Pius IX, Letter to
Cardinal Dubois of Paris

       It must indeed be held as being of Faith that nobody can be saved
outside the Apostolic Roman Church, the only ark of salvation, into which if
anybody does not enter he will perish by the flood; but it must nevertheless
be likewise held for certain that those who suffer from ignorance of the
true
religion, provided that it is invincible, will not be held accountable for
this.  --Pope Pius IX, Singulari quadam (Allocution against the Errors of
Rationalism and Indifferentism), December 9, 1854 (Denziger-Bannwart 1647).

       And here, beloved Sons and Venerable Brethren, it is necessary once
more to mention and censure the serious error into which some Catholics have
unfortunately fallen.  For they are of the opinion that men who live in
errors, estranged from the true faith and from Catholic unity, can attain
eternal life.  This is in direct opposition to Catholic teaching.  We all
know that those who are afflicted with invincible ignorance with regard to
our holy religion, if they carefully keep the precepts of the natural law
that have been written by God in the hearts of all men, if they are prepared
to obey God, and if they lead a virtuous and dutiful life, can attain
eternal
life by the power of divine light and grace.  For God, Who reads
comprehensively in every detail the minds and souls, the thoughts and habits
of all men, will not permit, in accordance with His infinite goodness and
mercy, anyone who is not guilty of a voluntary fault to suffer eternal
torments (suppliciis).  However, also well-known is the Catholic dogma that
no one can be saved outside the Catholic Church, and that those who
obstinately oppose the authority and definitions of the church, and who
stubbornly remain separated form the unity of the Church and from the
successor of Peter, the Roman Pontiff (to whom the Saviour has entrusted the
care of His vineyard), cannot attain salvation. --Pope Pius IX, Quanto
conficiamur moerore, August 10, 1863 (Denziger 1677; Denziger-Schonmetzer
2866, 2867)

       The Church has no right whatsoever to touch the institution and form
of the Sacraments. --Pope St. Pius X (1903-1914)

       I want my people to be moved to prayer by beauty.  --Pope St. Pius X
(1903-1914)

       Every piece of music Bach wrote is appropriate to be played during a
Catholic Mass.  --Pope St. Pius X (1903-1914)

       These miserable wretches {Modernists], whom by the command of the
Apostle St. John we should refuse even to greet, for the Apostle St. John
says that we should not greet those who are heretics.  --Pope St. Pius X
(1903-1914), Letter to Cardinal Ferrari of Milan

       I am astonished that you should find excessive the measures taken
to confine the flood that threatens to swamp us, when the [Modernist]
error they are striving to spread is much more deadly than that of Luther,
because it aims directly at the destruction not only of the Church but of
Christianity.  --Pope St. Pius X (1903-1914), Letter to Archbishop Geremia
Bonomelli of Cremona

       Kindness is for fools.  They want them [Modernists} to be treated
with oil, soap, and caresses, but they should be beaten with fists!  In a
duel, you don't count or measure the blows, you strike as you can!  War is
not made with charity; it is a struggle, a duel.  If Our Lord were not
terrifying, he would not have given an example in this too.  See how he
treated the Philistines, the sowers of error, the wolves in sheep's
clothing, the traitors in the temple.  He scourged them with whips!  --Pope
St. Pius X (1903-1914), Letter to Archbishop Geremia Bonomelli of Cremona

       There are too many who have turned aside from the truth and in
demanding a reform of discipline, there also to aspire to a reform of dogma
and to harass the Church with the sophisms used by its most violent
opponents [Modernists].  --Pope St. Pius X (1903-1914), Letter to Archbishop
Geremia Bonomelli of Cremona

       The true friends of the people are neither the revolutionaries nor
the innovators.  They are the traditionalists.  --Pope St. Pius X (1903-
1914), Letter on the Sillon, August 25, 1910

       Let us not set foot in the opposing camp, because we would thus be
giving the enemy a proof of our weakness, which the enemy would try to
interpret as a sign of weakness and complicity.  --Pope St. Pius X (1903-
1914)

       The greatest obstacle in the apostolate of the Church is the
timidity, or rather the cowardice, of the faithful.  --Pope St. Pius X
(1903-
1914)

       The Holy Mass is a prayer itself, even the highest prayer that
exists.  It is the Sacrifice, dedicated by Our Redeemer at the Cross, and
repeated every day at the Altar.  If you wish to hear Mass as it should be
heard, you must follow with eye, heart, and mouth all that happens at the
Altar.  Further, you must pray with the Priest the holy words said by him in
the Name of Christ and which Christ says by him.  You have to assoicate your
heart with the holy feelings which are contained in these words, and in this
manner you ought to follow all that happens on the Altar.  When acting in
this way you have prayed Holy Mass.  --Pope St. Pius X (1903-1914)

       Attempting to reconcile our Faith with the modern mentality leads
not only to weakening of that Faith, but to its total destruction.  --Pope
St. Pius X (1903-1914)

       [Gregorian chant,] the chant proper to the Roman Church, ... which
she directly proposes to the faithful as her own.  --Pope St. Pius X (1903-
1914)

       We are unable to favor this [Zionist] movement.  We cannot prevent
the Jews from going to Jerusalem, but we could never sanction it.  The
ground of Jerusalem, if it were not always sacred, has been sanctified by
the life of Jesus Christ.  As the head of the Church, I cannot answer you
otherwise.  The Jews have not recognized Our Lord; therefore, we cannot
recognize the Jewish people....  If you come to Palestine and settle your
people there, we will be ready with priests and churches to baptize all of
you.  --Pope St. Pius X (1903-1914) to Theodore Herzl

       In our time more than ever before, the greatest asset of the liars
is the cowardice and weakness of good men, and all the vigor of Satan's
reign is due to the easy-going weakness of Catholics....  And this reproach
can be leveled at the weak and timid Catholics of all countries.  --Pope St.
Pius X (1903-1914), Beatification of Joan of Arc, December 13, 1898

       Henceforth the enemy of the Church is no longer outside the Church;
he is now within.  --Pope St. Pius X (1903-1914), Encyclical E supremi
apostolatus, October 4, 1903

       For it is vain for us to hope to bring down upon ourselves, to this
end, the abundance of the blessings of heaven if our homage to the Most
High, instead of rising in an odor of sweetness, on the contrary places in
the hand of the Lord the scourge with which our Divine Redeemer once chased
the vile profaners from the Temple.  --Pope St. Pius X (1903-1914), Inter
Pastoris Officii Sollicitudines (Tra le Solecitudine), November 22, 1903

       Kingdoms and empires have faded; time after time nations have
toppled under the weight of years. Yet the Church, indefectible by her
essence and united by an indissoluble tie with her Heavenly spouse, remains
today radiant with eternal youth and strong with the same primitive force
she possessed as she issued forth from the Heart of Christ dying on the
Cross. Powerful men of the world have attacked her. They have vanished, yet
she remains. Countless philosophical systems, of every possible form, have
taken sides against her, claiming to be her masters, boasting to have
destroyed her teaching and demolished her dogmas of faith by proving their
absurdity. One after the other, however they have passed into oblivion. But
all the while the light of truth shines forth...."  --Pope St. Pius X (1903-
1914), Iucunda Sane, December 3, 1904

       One of the primary obligations assigned by Christ to the office
committed to Us of feeding the Lord's flock is that of guarding with the
greatest vigilance the Deposit of Faith delivered to the Saints, rejecting
the profane novelties of words, and the gainsaying of knowledge falsely so-
called.... We may no longer keep silent [against the Modernists], lest we
should seem to fail in our essential duty."  --Pope St. Pius X (1903-1914),
Encyclical Letter Pascendi Dominici Gregis, September 8, 1907, Sec. 1

       We admonish professors to bear well in mind that they cannot set
aside St. Thomas, especially in metaphysical questions, without grave
disadvantage. --Pope St. Pius X (1903-1914), Pascendi Dominici Gregis,
September 8, 1907

       The partisans of errors are to be sought not only among the Church's
open enemies; but, what is to be most dreaded and deplored, in her very
bosom, and are the more mischievous the less they keep in the open.  We
allude, Venerable Brethren, to many who belong to the catholic laity, and
what is much more sad, to the ranks of the priesthood itself .. thoroughly
imbued with the poisonous doctrines taught by the enemies of the Church.  --
Pope St. Pius X (1903-1914), Encyclical Letter Pascendi Dominici Gregis,
September 8, 1907

       Modernists vent all their bitterness and hatred on Catholics who
zealously fight the battles of the church.  There is no species of insult
which they do not heap upon them, but their usual course is to charge them
with ignorance or obstinacy.  When an adversary rises up against them with
an
erudition and force that renders them redoubtable, they seek to make a
conspiracy of silence around him to nullify the effects of his attack.  --
Pope St. Pius X (1903-1914), Encyclical Letter Pascendi Dominici Gregis,
September 8, 1907

       For Catholics, nothing will remove the authority of the Second
Council of Nicaea, where it condemns those who dare, after the impious
fashion of heretics to deride ecclesiastical traditions, to invent novelties
of some kind or to endeavor by malice or craft to overthrow any one of the
legitimate traditions of the Catholic Church.  --Pope St. Pius X (1903-
1914),
Encyclical Letter Pascendi Dominici Gregis, September 8, 1907

       In their [the Modernists'] books, one finds some things that might
well be approved by a Catholic, but on turning over the page, one is
confronted by other things that might well have dictated by a Rationalist.
-
-Pope St. Pius X (1903-1914), Encyclical Letter Pascendi Dominici Gregis,
September 8, 1907

       They lay the ax not to the branches and shoots, but to the very
root,
that is, to the faith and its deepest fibers.  And once having struck at
this
root of immortality, they proceed to diffuse poison through the whole tree
so
that there is no part of the Catholic truth which they leave untouched, none
that they do not strive to corrupt.  Further, none is more skillful, none
more astute than they, in the employment of a thousand noxious devices, for
they play the double part of rationalist and Catholic, and this so craftily
that they easily lead the unwary into error; and as audacity is their chief
characteristic, there is no conclusion of any kind from which they shrink or
which they do not thrust forward with pertinacity and assurance.  --Pope St.
Pius X (1903-1914), Encyclical Letter Pascendi Dominici Gregis, September 8,
1907

       Revelation, constituting the object of the Catholic faith, was not
completed with the Apostles.  --Pope St. Pius X (1903-1914), Lamentabili
sane, March 7, 1907, Proposition 21, condemned

       The fact that many Catholic writers also go beyond the limits
determined by the Fathers and the Church herself is extremely regrettable.
In the name of higher knowledge and historical research (they say), they are
looking for that progress of dogmata which is, in reality, nothing but the
corruption of dogmata. --Pope St. Pius X (1903-1914), Lamentabili sane,
March
7, 1907

       We do by Our Apostolic authority repeat and confirm both that decree
of the Supreme Sacred Congregation and those Encyclical Letters of ours,
adding the penalty of excommunication against their contradictors, and
this we declare and decree that should anybody, which, may God forbid, be
so rash as to defend any one of the propositions, opinions, or teachings
condemned in these documents, he falls, ipso facto, under the censure
contained under the chapter "Docentes" of the Constitution "Apostolicae
Sedis," which is the first among the excommunications latae sententiae,
simply reserved to the Roman Pontiff.  This excommunication is to be
understood as salvis poenis, which may be incurred by those who have
violated in any way the said documents, as propagators and defenders of
heresies, when their propositions, opinions, and teachings are heretical,
as has happened more than once in the case of the adversaries of both
these documents, especially when they advocate the errors of the
Modernists that is, the synthesis of all heresies.  Pope St. Pius X (1903-
1914), Motu Proprio "Praestantia Scripturae," November 18, 1907

       The gravity of the evil [of Modernism] is daily growing and must be
checked at any cost. We are no longer dealing, as at the beginning, with
opponents 'in sheep's clothing,' but with open and bare-faced enemies in our
very household, who, having made a pact with the chief foes of the Church
are
bent on overthrowing the Faith.  These are men whose haughtiness in the face
of heavenly wisdom is daily renewed, claiming the right to correct it as if
it were corrupted.  They want to renovate it as if it were consumed by old
age, increase it and adapt it to worldly tastes, progress and comforts, as
if
it were opposed not just to the frivolity of a few, but to the good of
society.  There will never be enough vigilance and firmness on the part of
those entrusted with the faithful safe-keeping of the sacred deposit of
evangelical doctrine and ecclesiastical tradition, in order to oppose these
onslaughts against it."  --Pope St. Pius X (1903-1914), Motu Proprio
"Sacrorum Antistitum," 1910

       Let not the priesthood be misled by the miracles of a false
democracy
into the maze of modern ideas; let it not borrow from the rhetoric of the
worst enemies of the Church, the high-flown phrases, full of promises, which
are as high-sounding as unrealizable.  --Pope St. Pius X (1903-1914), Letter
Notre Charge Apostolique, August 25, 1910

       In order that the faithful may more actively participate in divine
worship, let them be made once more to sing the Gregorian chant.  --Pope
Pius
XI

       Lingua Latina, quam dicere Catholicam vere possumus [the Latin
language, which we can truly say is Catholic].  --Pope Pius XI

       [The Mass] is the most important organ of the ordinary magisterium
of
the Church.  --Pope Pius XI

       The family is more sacred than the state.  --Pope Pius XI, Casti
Connubii (December 31, 1930), para. 69

To the end that the faithful may take a more active part in divine worship,
Gregorian chant ought to be restored among the people, at least in all that
applies to them....  Moved by the beauty of the liturgy, they ought to take
part in the sacred ceremonies,... raising their voices according to the
rules
laid down, to alternate with the voice of the priest and that of the choir.
--Pope Pius XI, Divini Cultus

       For the Church, precisely because it embraces all nations and is
destined to endure until the end of time ... of its very nature requires a
language that is universal, immutable, and non-vernacular.  --Pope Pius XI,
Officiorum Omnium, 1922

       [Lingua Latina est] vinculum unitatis [the Latin language is the
bond
of unity].  --Pope Pius XI, Apostolic Letter Unigenitus Dei Filius, March
19,
1924

       Certainly such ["ecumenical"] movements as these cannot gain the
approval of Catholics.  They are founded upon the false opinions of those
who
say that since all religions equally unfold and signify, though not in the
same way, the native inborn feeling in us all through which we are borne
toward God and humbly recognize His rule, therefore, all religions are more
or less good and praiseworthy....
       This Apostolic See cannot on any terms take part in their
[ecumenical] meetings, nor is it in any way lawful for Catholics either to
support or to work for such enterprises; for if they do so, they will be
giving countenance to a false Christianity, quite alien to the one Church of
Christ....
       It might appear that the Pan-Christians ["ecumenists"], engaged
in trying to confederate the churches, are pursuing the noble idea of
increasing charity among all Christians.  Yet how could charity harm faith?
       All remember how John, the very Apostle of Charity, who in his
Gospel
seems to have opened the secrets of the Most Sacred Heart       of Jesus and
who always inculcated in the minds of his disciples the new commandment,
"Love one another," had wholly forbidden them to have relations with those
who did not profess entire and uncorrupted the teachings of Christ.  "If
anyone comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him
into
the house, or say to him, Welcome" (2 John 10/C).  Since charity is founded
in whole and sincere faith, the disciples of Christ must be united by the
bond of unity in faith and by it as the chief bond.
       How could a Christian covenant be imagined in which they who entered
it could in matters of faith each retain, although contrary to those of
others, their own opinions and judgments?  Through what agreement could men
of opposed opinions become one and the same society of the faithful?...
       In such great differences of opinions we do not know how a road may
be paved to the unity of the Church save alone through one teaching
authority, one sole law of belief, and one sole faith among Christians.
       Moreover, we know how easy is the path from denial of this to the
neglect of religion, or indifferentism, and to modernism, which holds the
very same error, to wit:  dogmatic truth is not absolute, but relative; it
is
proportionate to the needs of times and places and to the various tendencies
of the mind, since dogmatic truth is not contained in an unchanging
revelation, but is such that it accommodates itself to the life of men....
       Therefore, Venerable Brethren, it is clear why the Apostolic See has
never permitted its children to take part in these ["ecumenical"] meetings.
The union of Christians cannot be otherwise obtained than by securing the
return of the separated to the one true Church of Christ, from which they
once unhappily withdrew.  To the one true Church of Christ, We say, that
stands forth before all and that by the will of its Founder will remain
forever the same as when He Himself established it for the salvation of all
mankind....
       Let them hear Lactantius crying out:  "The Catholic Church is alone
in keeping the true worship.  This the fountain of truth, it is the
household
of the faith, it is the temple of God; if anyone does not enter it or if
anyone departs from it, he is a stranger to the hope of life and
salvation...."  --Pope Pius XI, Mortalium Animos, January 6, 1928

       We see some men, convinced that it is very rare to meet men deprived
of
all religious sense, nourish the hope that it might be possible to lead
peoples without difficulty, in spite of their religious differences, to a
fraternal agreement on the profession of certain doctrines considered as a
common foundation of spiritual life.  That is why they begin to hold
congresses, reunions, conferences, frequented by an appreciably large
audience, and, to their discussions, they invite all men indistinctly,
infidels of all kinds along with the faithful of Christ and even those who,
unfortunately, have separated themselves from Christ or who, with bitterness
and obstinacy, deny the divinity of His nature and of His mission.
       Such undertakings cannot, in any way, be approved by Catholics, since
they are based on the erroneous opinion that all religions are more or less
good and praiseworthy, in the sense that all equally, although in different
ways, manifest and signify the natural and innate sentiment that carries us
towards God and pushes us to recognize with respect His power. In truth, the
partisans of this theory fall into a complete error, but what is more, in
perverting the notion of the true religion, they repudiate it, and they fall
step by step into naturalism and atheism.  --Pope Pius XI, Mortalium animos,
January 6, 1928

       There is but one way in which the unity of Christians may be
fostered, and that is by furthering the return to the one true Church of
Christ of those who are separated from it.  --Pope Pius XI, Mortalium
Animos,
January 6, 1928

       This being so, it is clear that the Apostolic See can by no means take
part in these [ecumenical] assemblies, nor is it in any way lawful for
Catholics to give such enterprises their encouragement or support....  For
it
is indeed a question of defending revealed truth.  Jesus Christ sent His
Apostles into the whole world to declare the faith of the Gospel to every
nation and to save them from error....  Moreover, He enforced His command
with this sanction:  "He that belileveth and is baptized shall be saved; he
that believeth not shall be condemned" (Mark 16:16/DRV).  --Pope Pius XI,
Mortalium Animos, January 6, 1928  [Vatican II's Declaration Nostra aetate
contradicts this doctrine of the Church, when it says:  "The Catholic Church
rejects nothing of what is true and holy in these religions.  She has a high
regard for the manner of life and conduct, the precepts and doctrines that,
although differing in many ways from her own teaching, nevertheless often
reflect a ray of that truth which enlightens all men."]

       And it is wonderful how, from the earliest times, those simple
chants
which adorn the sacred prayers and the liturgical action contributed to the
fostering of popular piety.  For especially in the ancient basilicas, where
bishops, clergy, and people joined alternately in singing the divine
praises,
liturgical changes were of no small avail in winning many barbarians to
Christian worship and civilization.
       It was in the churches that the opponents of Catholicism learned to
enter into the dogma of the communion of saints; wherefore the Arian Emperor
Valens actually fainted away, overcome by a strange stupor before the
majesty
of the divine mystery celebrated by St. Basil, and at Milan St. Ambrose was
charged by heretics with bewitching the multitude by his liturgical chants,
the very same which attracted St. Augustine and convinced him to embrace the
faith of Christ.
       Henceforth into the churches where the citizens formed, as it were
one great choir, there poured artisans, painters, sculptors, and students of
letters, all imbued through the liturgy with that knowledge of theology to
which so many remarkable monuments of the Middle Ages even to this day bear
splendid testimony.  --Pope Pius XI, Apostolic Constitution Divini cultus
sanctitatem, December 20, 1928

       From the nature of His work the Redeemer ought to have associated
His
Mother with His work.  For this reason We invoke her under the title of Co-
redemptrix.  She gave us the Savior, she accompanied Him in the work of
Redemption as far as the Cross itself, sharing with Him the sorrows of the
agony and of the death in which Jesus consummated the Redemption of mankind.
--Pope Pius XI, Allocution to Pilgrims from Vicenza assembled in Rome for
the Jubilee of the Redemption, Nov. 30, 1933

       The persistence of the Good Lady in face of the danger that
threatens
the Church is a divine warning against the suicide that the modification of
the Faith, liturgy, theology, and soul of the Church would represent.  I
hear
around me partisans of novelties who want to demolish the Holy Sanctuary,
destroy the universal flame of the Church, reject her adornments, and make
her remorseful for her historical past.  Well, my dear friend, I am
convinced
that the Church of Peter must affirm her past, or else she will dig her own
tomb.  --Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli,
later Pope Pius XII (1939-1958), to Count Enrico Pietro Galeazzi

       A day will come when the civilized world will deny its God, when the
Church will doubt as Peter doubted.  She will be tempted to believe that man
has become God, that His Son is merely a symbol, a philosophy held by so
many
others, and in the churches Christians will search in vain for the red lamp
where God awaits them, like Magdalen weeping before  the empty tomb, "Where
have they taken Him?" --Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, later Pope Pius XII (1939-
1958), apud Msgr. Roche and P. Saint Germain, Pie XII devant l'histoire, pp.
52-53

       True science discovers God behind every door.  --Pope Pius XII
(1939-1958)

       The grace of Matrimony will remain for the most part an unused
talent
hidden in the field unless the parties exercise these supernatural powers
and
cultivate and develop the seeds of grace they have received.  --Pope Pius
XII
(1939-1958)

       When I listen to music, I feel as if I'm praying; after it's all
over, it seems as if I've come out of a meditation.  --Pope Pius XII (1939-
1958)

       I am obsessed by the Virgin's words, that she entrusted to the
little
Lucia of Fatima.  Our Heavenly Mother's standing up against the danger that
threatens the Church is a divine warning against the suicide that an
alteration of the Faith would mean to its liturgy, its theology, and its
soul.  I hear around me those fascinated with novelties who would like to
dismantle the Sacred Chapel, destroy the Church's universal flame, reject
its
vestments, and make it regret its historical past.  Well, my dear friend, it
is my conviction that the Church of Peter must assume its past, or it will
dig its tomb.
       The day will come when the civilized world will deny its God, when
the Church will doubt as Peter doubted. It will be tempted to believe that
man has become God, that His Son is only a symbol, a philosophy as so many
others.  In our churches, Christians will search in vain for the red
sanctuary lamp where God awaits them.  Like Mary Magdalene, weeping before
the empty tomb, they will ask:  "Where have they taken Him?"  --Pope Pius
XII
(1939-1958), (Mgr. Roche and P. Saint Germain; Pie XII devant l'histoire,
pp.
52-53), while he was Secretary of State under Pope Pius IX.  Pius XII,
evidentally fearing the worst, scrapped his own plans for an ecumenical
council.  The Third Secret of Fatima was transferred to the Vatican in a
sealed envelope in 1957. Pope John XXIII suppressed publication of the
message in 1960, the year in which it was to have been disclosed to the
faithful.  Paul VI read the Third Secret almost immediately after his
election to the papacy.  He too relegated it to oblivion, dispatching
Cardinal Ottaviani to offer excuses for its non-disclosure at a Mariological
conference in Rome in 1967, two years before he gave permission for the New
Mass.

       We observe elsewhere, with anxiety and some apprehension, an undue
fondness for innovation and a tendency to stray from the path of truth and
prudence.  Certain plans and suggestions for the liturgical revival are
mingled with principles with, either in fact or by implication, jeopardize
the sacred cause they are intended to promote and sometimes introduce
errors.
--Pope Pius XII (1939-1958)

       The day the Church abandons her universal tongue [Latin] is
the day before she returns to the catacombs.  --Pope Pius XII (1939-1958)

       The Holy Ghost, Who spoke by them [the sacred writers of the Bible],
did not intend to teach men these things -- that is the essential nature of
the things of the universe..., [which principle] will apply to cognate
sciences.  --Pope Pius XII, Encyclical Letter Divino Afflatu Spiritu,
September 30, 1943

       The teaching authority of the Church does not forbid that, in
conformity with the present state of human sciences and sacred theology,
research and discussion on the part of men experienced in both fields, take
place in regard to the doctrine of evolution, in as far as it inquires into
the origin of the human body as coming from pre-existent and living matter -
-
for the Catholic Faith obliges us to hold that souls are immediately created
by God.  However, this must be done in such a way that the reasons for both
opinions -- that is, those favorable and those unfavorable to evolution --
be
weighed and judged with the necessary seriousness, moderation and measure,
and provided that all are prepared to submit to the judgment of the Church,
to whom Christ has given the mission of interpreting authentically the
Sacred
Scriptures and of defending the dogmata of faith.  --Pope Pius XII (1939-
1958), Encyclical Letter Humani Generis

       God at times lets trials befall individuals and peoples, trials of
which the malice of men is the instrument in a design of justice directed
toward the punishment of sin, towards purifying persons and peoples
through the expiations of this present life and bringing them back by this
way to himself.  --Pope Pius XII (1939-1958), June 29, 1941

       If a times there appears in the Church something that indicates the
weakness of our human nature, it should not be attributed to her juridical
constitution, but rather to that regrettable inclination to evil found in
each individual, which its Divine Founder permits even at times in the most
exalted members of His Mystical Body, for the purpose of testing the virtue
of the Shepherds no less than of the flocks, and that all may increase the
merit of their Christian faith.  --Pope Pius XII (1939-1958), Encyclical
Letter Mystici Corporis (The Mystical Body), June 29, 1943,

       From a heart overflowing with love, we ask each and every one of
them
to correspond to the interior movements of grace, and to seek to withdraw
from that state in which they cannot be sure of their salvation.  For even
though by an unconscious desire and longing they have a certain relationship
with the Mystical Body of the Redeemer, they still remain deprived of those
many heavenly gifts and helps which can be enjoyed only in the Catholic
Church.  --Pope Pius XII (1939-1958), Encyclical Letter Mystici Corporis,
June 29, 1943, Sec. 103 (cf. Council of Trent, Sess. VI, Ch.
xiv)

       Latin!  A language ancient, but not dead, whose superb echo, even if
not heard for centuries in the ruined amphitheaters, the famous forum and
the
temples of the Caesars, is not silent in Christ's basilicas, where the
priest
of the Gospel and the heroes of the martyrs repeat and sing again the psalms
and hymns of the first centuries in the reconsecrated language of the
Quirites.  Now, the language of Rome is principally a sacred language, which
is heard in the divine rites, in the theological halls and in the Acts of
the
Apostolic See, and to which you yourselves often address a sweet greeting to
the Queen of Heaven, your Mother, and to our Father Who reighns above.  --
Pope Pius XII (r. 1939-1958), Allocation on Education, January 30, 1949

       The temerity and daring of those who introduce novel liturgical
practices, or call for the revival of obsolete rites out of harmony with
prevailing laws and rubrics [antiquarianism, archaeologism], deserve severe
reproof.  It has pained Us grievously to note, Venerable Brethren, that such
innovations are actually being introduced, not merely in minor details but
in
matters of major importance as well.  We instance, in point of fact, those
who make use of the vernacular in the celebration of the august Eucharistic
Sacrifice; those who transfer certain feast-days -- which have been
appointed
and established after mature deliberation -- to other dates; those finally
who delete from the prayer-books approved for public use the sacred texts of
the Old Testament, deeming them little suited and inopportune for modern
times.  --Pope Pius XII (1939-1958), Encyclical Letter Mediator Dei,
November
20, 1947, Sec. 59

       The use of the Latin language, customary in a considerable section
of
the Church, is a manifest and beautiful sign of unity, as well as an
effective antidote for any corruption of doctrinal truth.  --Pope Pius XII
(1939-1958), Encyclical Mediator Dei, November 20, 1947, Sec. 60

       Ancient usage must not be esteemed more suitable and proper, either
in its own right or in its significance for later times and new situations,
on the simple ground that it carries the savor and aroma of antiquity
[antiquarianism, archaeologism]....  It is neither wise nor laudable to
reduce everything to antiquity by every possible device.  Thus, to cite some
instances, one would be straying from the straight path were he to wish the
altar restored to its ancient table-form; were he to want black excluded as
a
color for the liturgical vestments, were he to forfeit the use of sacred
images and statues in churches; were he to order the crucifix so designed
that the Divine Redeemer's Body shows no trace of His cruel sufferings; and
lastly were he to disdain and reject polyphonic music or singing in
parts....
--Pope Pius XII (1939-1958), Encyclical Letter Mediator Dei (On the Sacred
Liturgy), November 20, 1947, Secs. 61-62

       Just as obviously unwise and mistaken is the zeal of one who in
matters liturgical would go back to the rites and usage of antiquity....
This way of acting bids fair to revive the exaggerated and senseless
antiquarianism [archaeologism] to which the illegal Council of Pistoia
[1794]
gave rise....  For perverse designs and ventures of this sort tend to
paralyze and weaken that process of sanctification by which the Sacred
Liturgy directs the sons of adoption to their Heavenly Father for their
souls' salvation.  --Pope Pius XII (1939-1958), Encyclical Letter Mediator
Dei (On the Sacred Liturgy), Secs. 63-64, November 20, 1947

       Many of the faithful are unable to use the "Roman Missal" even
though
it is written in the vernacular; nor are all capable of understanding
correctly the liturgical rites and formulas....  On the contrary, they can
adopt some other method which proves easier for certain people; for
instance,
they can lovingly meditate on the mysteries of Jesus Christ or perform other
exercises of piety [e.g., the Rosary or the Breviary] or recite prayers
which, though they differ from the sacred rites, are still essentially in
harmony with them. --Pope Pius XII (1939-1958), Encyclical Letter Mediator
Dei (On the Sacred Liturgy), Sec. 108, November 20, 1947

       Above all, do not allow -- as some do, who are deceived under the
pretext of restoring the Liturgy or who idly claim that only liturgical
rites
are of any real value and dignity -- that Churches be closed during the
hours
not appointed for public functions, as has already happened in some places;
where the adoration of the august Sacrament and visits to Our Lord in the
tabernacles are neglected; where confession of devotion is discouraged; and
devotion to the Virgin Mother of God, a sign of "predestination" according
to
the opinion of holy men, is so neglected, especially among the young, as to
fade away and gradually vanish.  Such conduct most harmful to Christian
piety
is like poisonous fruit, growing on the infected branches of a healthy tree,
which must be cut off so that the life-giving sap of the tree may bring
forth
only the best fruit.  --Pope Pius XII (1939-1958), Encyclical Letter
Mediator
Dei (On the Sacred Liturgy), Sec. 176, November 20, 1947

       Gregorian chant, which the Roman Church considers her own as handed
down from antiquity and kept under her close tutelage, is proposed to the
faithful as belonging to them also.  In certain parts of the Liturgy the
Church definitely prescribes it; it makes the celebration of the Sacred
Mysteries not only more dignified and solemn but helps very much to increase
the faith and devotion of the congregation.  --Pope Pius XII (1939-1958),
Encyclical Letter Mediator Dei (On the Sacred Liturgy), Sec. 191, November
20, 1947

       There are priests for whom we must express Our anxiety; those who,
to
meet the peculiar circumstances of our time, have all to often become
absorbed in the world of external activity to the neglect of their primary
duty, namely their own sanctification.  As we have already publicly
declared,
it is necessary to correct the error of those who dare to suppose that the
salvation of men can be procured by what has been truly called "the heresy
of
action"; action, that is, which does not rely on grace and disregards the
means of sanctification appointed by Jesus Christ.  --Pope Pius XII (1939-
1958), Apostolic Exhortation Menti nostrae (On the Spiritual Perfection of
Priests), September 23, 1950

       Proh dolor, Latina lingua, gloria sacerdotum, nunc languidiores
usque
et pauciores habet cultores....  Enimvero Latin lingua, itemque et Graeca,
cui tot ecclesiastica scripta, iam a prisco christiano aevo, commissa sunt,
thesaurus est incomparandae praestantiae; quare sacrorum administer qui eam
ignorat, reputandus est lamentabili mentis laborare squalore....  [Latina
lingua,] ... quae in Latina Ecclesia liturgico fruitur usu, quae denique
Catholicae Ecclesiae est magni pretii vinculum.  Nullus sit sacerdos, qui
eam
nesciat facile et expedite legere et loqui!
       [Alas, the Latin language, the glory of priests, now has laxer and
even fewer cultivators....  For the Latin language, and likewise the Greek,
to which so many ecclesiastical writings, even from the early Christian era,
have been committed, is a treasurehouse of incomparable precedence;
wherefore
the minister of the sacred rites who is ignorant of it, is to be reputed to
work with a lamentable squalor of mind....  [The Latin language], which
enjoys liturgical use in the Latin Church, which, in the end, is for the
Catholic Church the bond of great worth.  Let there be no priest who does
not
know how to read and speak it easily and conveniently.] --Pope Pius XII,
Sermon Magis quam to the Teachers of the Order of Discalced Carmelite
Brothers, September 23, 1951 (A.A.s., 1951, p. 737)

       The objective against which the adversary today launches his
assaults, openly or under cover, is not, as was usual in the past, one or
another particular point of doctrine or of discipline, but rather the whole
range of Christian doctrine and morals until the final consequences.  In
other words, we are dealing with an all-out attack with an absolute "yes" or
"no."  Under these conditions, the true Catholic must remain all the more
firm and unshakeable in his Catholic faith.  --Pope Pius XII, Discourse of
February 10, 1952

       The sacred pastors are not the inventors and composers of the
Gospel,
but merely the authorized guardians and preachers divinely established.
Wherefore, we ourselves, and all bishops with us, can and must repeat the
words of Jesus Christ:  "My teaching is not my own, but his who sent me"
(John 7:16)....  Therefore, we are not teachers of a doctrine born of the
human mind, but we are in conscience bound to embrace and follow the
doctrine
which Christ Our Lord taught and which He solemnly commanded His Apostles
and
their successors to teach (Matthew 28:19-20)."  --Pope Pius X, Encyclical
Letter Ad Sinarum Gentem," October 7, 1954

       To separate the tabernacle from altar is to separate two things
which
by their origin and their nature should remain united.  --Pope Pius XII,
Praesentia Christi (Address to the International Congress on Pastoral
Liturgy
on the Liturgical Movement), September 22, 1956

       The Church relates a past event, but means to convey a present
reality. What she says, in effect, is this:  what occurred 1900 years ago
happens to us now in a mystical or sacramental manner, especially though the
Sacrifice of the Mass.  --Dr. Pius Parsch, The Church's Year of Grace
(Collegeville, MN:  The Liturgical Press), vo. I, pp. 312-313

       [The Latin Language] -- to congregate the scattered empires, to
mollify their rituals, to draw together into converse the discordant
populations and the rude tongues, and to hold out a common discourse to all
mankind.  --Pliny the Elder, Natural History, 3:5:17

       Before the tribunal of God's mercy we, the shepherds, should make
ourselves repsonsible for all the evils now burdening the flock of Christ
..
not in generosity, but in justice ... [for] the almost ruined Church.  --
Reginald Cardinal Pole (1500-1558), papal legate at the Council of Trent,
who
wrote the opening address to the Council

       This matter of language is not trivial.  I have been told by
Japanese
Catholics that it is virtually impossible to discuss the Trinity and certain
other theological concepts in the language of their islands.  Japanese quite
simply lacks the vocabulary and grammatical structure.  --Gary Potter, "The
Catholic Language," Wanderer, January 15, 1993, p. 5

       The victory of the vernacular in the Church's liturgy signals
unmistakably the becoming of a World Church, whose individual churches exist
independently in their respective cultural phrases, inculturated, and no
longer a European import.  --Fr. Karl Rahner, "The Priest-Mover of the
Catholic Church," New York Times Magazine, September 23, 1979

       I know supernatural Faith is infinitely higher than natural culture,
but so long as a soul is blasted and withered by today's anti-culture, the
leap to faith is too great.  There must be a ramp to Rome on the natural
level.  In school, that should be the glories of Western civilization so-
called, meaning, in fact, the natural fruits of Catholic culture.  The
ground must be prepared; otherwise, the seed simply bounces off.  Especially
with children.  --Quoted in Bp. Richard N. Williamson, of the Society of St.
Pius X, September 1, 1994

        The words and deeds of Pope Francis since his election earlier last
year have been so little Catholic and so outrageous, that the idea that
recent popes have not really been Popes ("sedevacantism") has been given a
new lease of life. Notice that Pope Francis merely expresses more blatantly
than his five predecessors the madness of Vatican II.  The question remains
whether any of the six Conciliar Popes (with the possible exception of John-
Paul I) can really have been Vicars of Christ.
       The question is not of prime importance.  If they have not been
Popes, still the Catholic Faith and morals by which I must "work out my
salvation in fear and trembling" (Phil. II, 12) have not changed one iota.
And if they have been Popes, still I cannot obey them whenever they have
departed from that Faith and those morals, because "we ought to obey God
rather than men" (Acts, V, 29).  However, I believe in offering answers to
some of the sedevacantists' arguments, because there are sedevacantists who
seem to wish to make the vacant See of Rome into a dogma which Catholics
must believe.  In my opinion it is no such thing.  "In things doubtful,
liberty" (Augustine).

       The Faith is a seamless garment, the Mass its fabric.... And the
traditional liturgy trains the heart; its message cannot be mistaken, no
matter the priest offering it.  The reverence and piety --or lack of same --
inculcated by the liturgy are the underpinnings of formal instruction in the
Faith.  Long before textbooks, sanctifying grace was at work in the souls of
believers, who learned the Faith from the liturgy and through others'
example.  Thus did the Church grow, before catechetical textbooks.  --Editor
Jeffrey Rubin, The Latin Mass, July-August 1992, p. 2

       The right to say the old Mass exists both by virtue of "immemorial
custom" and by decree of Pope St. Pius V, whose 1570 bull normalizing the
Tridentine rite, "Quo Primum," explicitly granted the right to use it to all
priests "in perpetuity."  --Jeffrey Rubin and Roger McCaffrey, "The Church's
Underground Order," Latin Mass, November-December 1992, p. 12

       With regard to the regulations issued by this Sacred Congregation in
favor of priests who, on account of advanced years or inform health, find it
difficult to use the new Order of the Roman Missal or the Mass Lectionary:
it is clear that the Ordinary may grant permission to use, in whole or in
part, the 1962 edition of the Roman Missal in masses celebrated without a
congregation, with the changes introduced by the Decrees of 1965 ["Inter
Oecumenici"] and 1967 ["Tres abhinc annos"].  But this permission can be
granted only for Masses celebrated without a congregation.  Ordinaries may
not grant it for Masses celebrated with a congregation.  --Sacred
Congregation for Divine Worship, Decree Conferentiarum Episcopalium, October
28, 1974; Notitiae, November 1974, page 353

       I do not think it either wise or necessary to cramp the ordinary
pupil upon the Procrustean bed of the Augustan Age, with its highly
elaborate
and artificial verse forms and oratory.  Post-classical and medieval Latin,
which was a living language down to the end of the Renaissance, is easier
and
in some ways livelier; and a study of it helps to dispel to widespread
notion
that learning the literature came to a full stop when Christ was born and
only woke up again at the dissolution of the Monasteries.  --Dorothy Sayers
apud Fr. Randall Paine, "The Language that Rose from the Dead," Latin Mass,
September-October 1992, p. 33

       Was the [Second Vatican] Council a wrong road that we must now
retrace if we are to save the Church?  The voices of those [traditional
Catholics] who say that it was are becoming louder, and the followers more
numerous.  Among the more obvious phenomena of the last years must be
counted
the increasing number of integralist [traditional] groups in which the
desire
for piety, for a sense of mystery, is finding satisfaction.  We must be on
guard against minimizing these movements.  Without a doubt, they represent a
sectarian zealotry that is the antithesis of catholicity.  We cannot resist
them too firmly.  --Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Prefect of the Congregation
for the Doctrine of the Faith, Principles of Catholic Theology, pp. 389-390

       Even Leo XIII recommended that the rosary be recited during Mass in
the month of October.  --Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Theological Highlights
of
Vatican II (1966), p. 87

       Today, more than ever, we must be conscious that only the Lord can
save the Church.  She is Christ's; it is up to him to provide for her.  To
us
He is asking that we work with all our might, without reserve, and with the
serenity of one who is conscious of being a useless servant, unable to cope
with or solve alone the situation which has been created.  --Joseph Cardinal
Ratzinger, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, 1984

       [The Third Secret of Fatima foretells] "the dangers that weigh on
the
faith and the 'last times'" [but also it is] "salutary and radiant."  --
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, 1984, after having read the Third Secret of
Fatima, cf. Fatima joie intime, p. 412

       Certainly the results of Vatican II seem cruelly opposed to the
expectations of everyone, beginning with those of Pope John XXIII and then
of
Pope Paul VI.  Expected was a new Catholic unity, and instead we have been
exposed to dissension which, to use the words of Pope Paul VI, seems to have
gone from self-criticism to self-destruction.  Expected was a new
enthusiasm,
and many wound up discouraged and bored.  Expected was a great step forward,
and instead we find ourselves faced with a progressive process of decadence
that has developed for the most part precisely under the sign of a calling
back to the Council, and has therefore contributed to discrediting it for
many.  The net result, therefore, seems negative.  I am repeating here what
I
said ten years after the conclusion of the work:  it is incontrovertible
that
this period has definitely been unfavorable for the Church.  --Joseph
Cardinal Ratzinger, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the
Faith, December 24, 1984, L'Osservatore Romano

       The most blatant example of this [anti-pastoral and intellectualist
approach] is the reform of the Calendar:  those responsible simply did not
realize how much the various annual feasts had influenced Christian people's
relation to time.  In redistributing these established feasts throughout the
year according to some historical arithmetic -- inconsistently applied at
that -- they ignored a fundamental law of religious life....  The new Missal
was published as if it were a book put together by professors, not a phase
in
a continual growth.  Such a thing has never happened before.  It is
absolutely contrary to the laws of liturgical growth.  --Joseph Cardinal
Ratzinger, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Feast
of Faith (San Francisco:  Ignatius Press, 1986), pp. 81, 86

       [The Novus Ordo is] the real destruction of the Roman Rite.  --
Joseph
Cardinal Ratzinger, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the
Faith, apud Msgr. Klaus Gamber, Reform of the Roman Liturgy:  Its Problems
and Background (Una Voce Press, 1987/1993), Introduction

       We ought to get back the dimension of the sacred in the liturgy.
The
liturgy is not a festivity; it is not a meeting for the purpose of having a
good time.  It is of no importance that the parish priest has cudgeled his
brains to come up with suggestive ideas or imaginative novelties.  The
liturgy is what makes the Thrice-Holy God present amongst us; it is the
burning bush; it is the Alliance of God with man in Jesus Christ, Who has
died and risen again.  The grandeur of the liturgy does not rest upon the
fact that it offers us interesting entertainment, but in rendering tangible
the Totally Other, Whom we are not capable of summoning.  He comes because
He
wills.  In other words, the essential in the liturgy is the mystery, which
is
realized in the common ritual of the Church; all the rest diminishes it.
Men
experiment with it in lively fashion, and find themselves deceived, when the
mystery is tranformed into distraction, when the chief actor in the liturgy
is not the Living God but the priest or the liturgical director....  --
Joseph
Cardinal Ratzinger, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the
Faith, in a speech "Lessons from the Lefebvre Schism," in Chile, July 1988

       Certainly there is a mentality of narrow views that isolates Vatican
II and which has provoked this opposition.  There are many accounts of it
which give the impression that from Vatican II onward everything has been
changed, and what preceded it has no value or, at best, has value only in
the
light of Vatican II.
       The Second Vatican Council has not been treated as a part of the
entire living Tradition of the Church, but as an end of Tradition, a new
start from zero.  The truth is that this particular council defined no dogma
at all, and deliberately chose to remain on a modest level, as a merely
pastoral council; and yet so many treat it as though it had made itself into
a sort of super-dogma which takes away the importance of all the rest.  --
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of
the Faith, El Mercurio, July 17, 1988

       Today we might ask:  Is there a Latin Rite any more?  Certainly
there
is no awareness of it.  To most people the liturgy appears to be rather
something for the individual congregation to change.  --Joseph Cardinal
Ratzinger, The Latin Mass, November-December 1992, p. 34

       The reform of the liturgy in the spirit of the liturgical movement
was not a priority for the majority of the fathers, and for many not even a
consideration.  Thus, for example, in his outline of themes after the
beginning of the Council, Cardinal Montini -- who as Paul VI would be the
real pope of the Council -- said quite clearly that he did not see the
reform
of the liturgy as a substantial task in the Council.  The liturgy and its
reform had, since the end of World War I, become a pressing question only in
France and Germany, and indeed above all from the perspective of the purest
possible restoration of the ancient Roman liturgy, to which belonged the
active involvement of the people in the liturgical event.  These two
countries, which at that time enjoyed theological leadership in the Church
(and we must of course add Belgium and the Netherlands) had during the
preparation phase succeeded in putting through a schema on the Sacred
Liturgy, which quite naturally found its place in the general theme of the
church.  The fact that this text became the first subject of the Council's
discussions really had nothing to do with the majority of the Fathers having
an intense interest in the liturgical question.  Quite simply, no great
disagreements were expected in this area, and the undertaking was viewed as
a
kind of practical exercise to learn and test the method of conciliar work.
It would not have occurred to any of the Fathers to see in this text a
"revolution" signifying the "end of the Middle Ages," as some theologians
felt they should interpret it subsequently.  The work was seen as a
continuation of the reforms introduced by Pius X and carried on carefully
but
resolutely by Pius XII.  General expressions such as "the liturgical books
should be revised as soon as  possible" (no. 25) were understood in this
sense:  as the uninterrupted continuation of that development which had
always been there and which, since Pope Pius X and Pius XII, had received a
definite profile from the rediscovery of the classical Roman liturgical
traditions, which was, of course, to overcome certain tendences of  Baroque
liturgy and nineteenth-century devotional piety and to promote a new humble
and sober centering of the authentic mystery of Christ's presence in His
Church.  In this context it is not surprising that the "model Mass" now
proposed, which was supposed to (and in fact did) take the place of the
traditional Ordo Missae, was in 1967 rejected by the majority of the Fathers
who had been called together to a special synod on the matter.  Some
publications now tell us that some liturgist (or perhaps many?) who were
working as advisers had had more far-reaching intentions from the outset.
Their wishes would surely not have received the approval of the Fathers.
Nor
were such wishes expressed in any way in the text of the council, although
one can subsequently read them into some general statements.  --Joseph
Cardinal Ratzinger, Milestones, Memoirs 1927-1977 (1997), chapters 10-11

       I am convinced that the ecclesial crisis in which we find ourselves
today results in large part from the collapse of the liturgy.... The
liturgical reform has produced extremely grave damage for the Faith".  --
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of
the Faith, La mia vita (San Paolo Editor, 1997)

       The drastic manner in which Pope Paul VI reformed the Mass in 1969
provoked extremely serious damage to the Church....
       The suppression of the old Mass marked a break in the history of the
liturgy, the consequences of which could only be tragic....
       I am convinced that the ecclesial crisis in which we find ourselves
today depends in great part upon the collapse of the liturgy, which at times
is actually being conceived of etsi Deus non daretur:  as though in the
liturgy it did not matter any more whether God exists and whether He speaks
to us and listens to us.  But if in the liturgy the communion of faith no
longer appears, nor the universal unity of the Church and of her history,
nor
the mystery of the living Christ, where is it that the Church still appears
in her spiritual substance?...
       I was dismayed by the banning of the old Missal, seeing that a
similar thing had never happened in the entire history of the liturgy....
       The promulgation of the banning of the Missal that had been
developed
in the course of centuries, starting from the time of the sacramentaries of
the ancient Church, has brought with it a break in the history of the
liturgy
whose consequences could be tragic....
       But the fact that [the liturgy] was presented as a new structure,
set
up against what had been formed in the course of history and was now
prohibited, and that the liturgy was made to appear in some ways no longer
as
a living process but as a product of specialized knowledge and judicial
competence, has brought with it some extremely serious damages for us.  In
this way, in fact, the impression has arisen that the liturgy is "made,"
that
it is not something that exists before us, something "given," but that it
depends on our decisions.  It follows as a consequence that this decision-
making capacity is not recognized only in specialists or in a central
authority, but that, in the final analysis, each "community" wants to give
itself its own liturgy.  But when the liturgy is something each one makes by
himself, then it no longer gives us what is its true quality:  encounter
with
the mystery which is not our product, but our origin and the wellspring of
our life....
       The impression was given that this was completely normal....
       The old structure was broken to pieces, and its pieces were used to
construct another structure, to the detriment of liturgical tradition.  The
crux of the problem was that the reformed liturgy was presented as a new
structure, in opposition to the one which had been formed through
history....
--Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, My Life:  Recollections 1927-1977 (1997), a
book
that appears to be an exercise in "kite-flying," a test of reaction
(Australian Catholic)

       After the Second Vatican Council, the impression arose that the Pope
really could no anything in liturgical matters, especially if he were acting
on the mandate of an ecumenical council.  Eventually the idea of the given-
ness of the liturgy, the fact that one cannot do with it what one will,
faded
from the public consciousness of the West.... In fact, the First Vatican
Council had in no way defined the Pope as an absolute monarch....  The
authority of the pope is not unlimited; it is at the service of Sacred
Tradition.  --Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Prefect of the Sacred Congregation
for the Doctrine of the Faith, "Spirit of the Liturgy" (Ignatius, 2000), pp.
165-166.

       God's providence for the human race, extending into every
generation,
is part of the divine plan to help people accomplish the purpose for which
man exists, that is, through trial on earth, to gain eternal salvation.
Christ, by His supreme sacrifice on the cross, redeemed mankind from
consequences due to Original Sin.  According to the teachings of the
Catholic
Faith, Christ died for all, but not everyone avails himself of God's graces
concerning the forgiveness of sins.  In the words of St. Paul:  "Christ was
offered in sacrifice once to take away the sins of many" (Hebrews 9:28)....
At the Last Supper, Our Lord uttered those memorable words:  "This is the
Blood of the New Covenant which is being shed for many unto the forgiveness
of sins" (Matthew 26:28).  These same words also appear in Mark 14:24.  --
P.J. Romano, SFO, "The 'Pro Multis' Controversy -- Did Christ Say 'For Many'
or 'For All'?,"  The New England Catholic News, Fall 2000 (XIV:3), p. 4.

       Many theologians have spoken of the possibility of heretical popes,
and what resistance should be given them.  What is even more significant is
the Cum ex apostolatus of Paul IV [1559-1566], in which he perceives the
possibility of a Protestant being elected to the throne of Peter.  He says
that in such a case, his acts would be automatically null, and he would not
be the pope, even if he had been accepted and obeyed as true Pope by the
whole Church....  This document ... shows the mind of the Church on this
matter.  In such a case, Paul IV is calling upon Catholics to resist such a
"pope" with all their might.  --Fr. Donald J. Sanborn, Catholic Restoration,
March-April 1994 (IV:2), p. 18

       It is by the gates that the house is entered, and it is the prelates
who should lead the faithful into the Church of Christ.  Therefore, the
devil
hath aimed his heaviest blows at them and hath broken down these gates.
Thus
it is that no more good prelates are to be found in the Church.  Seest thou
not that they do all things amiss?  They have no judgment; they cannot
distinguish inter bonum et malum, inter verum et falsum, inter dulce et
amarum; good things they deem evil, true things false, sweet things bitter,
and vice versa....  See  how in these days prelates and preachers are
chained
to the earth by love of earthly things; the cure of souls is no longer their
concern.... They have not only destroyed the Church of God, but built up
another after their own fashion.  This is the new Church.  Go to Rome and
see....  These prelates have introduced devilish games among us; they have
no
belief in God and jeer at the mysteries of our faith!  What dost Thou, O
Lord?  Why dost Thou slumber?  Arise, and come to deliver Thy Church from
the
hands of the devils, from the hands of tyrants, the hands of iniquitous
prelates.  Hast Thou forsaken Thy Church?  Dost Thou not love her?  Hasten
then the chastisement and the scourge, that it may be quickly granted us to
return to thee.  --Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498), attacking corruption in
the Church, Pope Alexander VI, and the corrupt papal court; the cause for
his
canonization has been advanced at Rome

       Come hither, degenerate Church.  Your vessels you turned to pride,
and
your Sacraments to simony.  In lasciviousness you have become a shameless
whore.
You are worse than a beast.  You are a monster and an abomination.  --Fra
Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498), attacking corruption in the Church, Pope
Alexander VI, and the corrupt papal court; the cause for his canonization
has
been advanced at Rome

       I will say at once, quite firmly, that the best grounding for
education is the Latin grammar.  --Dorothy Sayers, novelist, in the National
Review

       The classic example is the Roman Catholic Church down through the
ages.  The Roman Catholic Church has had a great external unity -- probably
the greatest outward organizational unity that has ever been seen in these
struggles between the different orders within the one church.  Today there
is
a still greater difference between the classical Roman Catholicism and
progressive Roman Catholicism.  The Roman Catholic Church still tries to
stand in organizational oneness, but there is only organizational unity, for
here are two completely different religions, two different concepts of God,
two different concepts of truth.  --Francis A. Schaeffer, Protestant
philosopher/theologian with a conservative bent, The Church at the End of
the
20th Century (Inter-Varsity Press), pp. 140-141

       We have used ambiguous terms during the [Second Vatican] Council,
and
we know how we shall interpret them afterwards.  --Fr. Edward Schillebeeckx,
liberal Dutch theologian and peritus at the Council

        [Anti-Catholicism] is the deepest bias in the history of the
American people.  --Arthur Schlesinger

       We are not liberals nor schismatic; we are Catholic, Roman Catholic.
We want to be the heirs of St. Thomas Aquinas, of Saint Pius V, of the
Society of Saint Pius V, of the Society of St. Pius X.  We are the children
of Archbishop Lefebvre.  We do not want any particular spirituality, we make
ours the one of the Holy Church of our Lord Jesus Christ, priest and victim,
prophet and king. The holiness of the church is not to be found in the new
liturgy, in the relativist ecumenism, not in the naturalist laicization of
the nations.  The sanctity of the Church is to be found in holy tradition.
-
-Fr. Franz Schmidberger, Superior of the Society of St. Pius X, 1993

       They [the faithful] understood well that this institution Ecclesia
Dei was only a concession from Rome, a political maneuver which in no way
had
in mind restoring the true Catholic Mass as, moreover, Cardinal Innocenti
bears witness in a letter of February 12, 1992:  "The Motu Proprio Ecclesia
Dei asks the bishops to take count of the sensibility proper to certain
groups but in no manner must it be a means of re-establishing the pre-
Conciliar rite and being an obstacle to the liturgical reform willed by
Vatican II."  And these same faithful, desirous of seeing the restoration of
the Church do not conceive it oustide of the restoration of the Mass and of
the Catholic priesthood.  They understand that the material celebration of
the Old Mass with more or less unacceptable conditions is not a solution.  -
-
Fr. Franz Schmidberger, Superior General of the Society of St Pius X,
Interview, in Si, Si, No, No
       God has made Himself known to man through the medium of matter;
[therefore, art should be] man's means of reaching God....  Art can fail [in
that purpose....]  Evil lies in the perverse will of man, [not in matter
itself....]  What then must we do [to restore a sense of the sacred to
liturgy?...]  First, we need beauty of place ... a feeling of the presence
of
God.... [Second, we must regain] beauty of movement -- dignity and
reverence.
[Finally, we need] beauty in sound:  [singing and instruments; bells; the
voices of priests and lectors.  --Msgr. Richard J. Schuler in the keynote
address of the 22nd National Wanderer Forum, October 7, 1989

       If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you
behave.  --Abp. Fulton Sheen

        Satan will set up a counterchurch, which will be the ape of the
Church, because he, the Devil, is the ape of God.  It will have all the
notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and emptied of its
divine  content.  It will be a mystical body of the Antichrist that will in
all externals resemble the Mystical Body of Christ....  But the twentieth
century will join the counterchurch because it claims to be infallible when
its visible head speaks ex cathedra.  --Abp. Fulton Sheen, Communism and the
Conscience of the West, 1948

       Win an argument, and you lose a soul.  --Abp. Fulton Sheen

       Tolerance applies only to persons, but never to truth.  Intolerance
applies only to truth, but never to persons.  Tolerance applies to the
erring; intolerance to the error.  Abp. Fulton Sheen

       People today are tired of having their sins explained away.  They
want their sins forgiven. They don't want to be told, any more, that it
was all the fault of their parents or of their environment or that their
glands made them behave that way.  What they long to find is Mercy.  --Abp.
Fulton J. Sheen

       Dead bodies float downstream -- it takes a life body to resist the
current.  And that's why these are great days.  They are struggle, and I
love them.  (Abp. Fulton J. Sheen, Dieterich, ed., Through the Year with
Fulton Sheen, p. 18)

       What the world is suffering from today is not intolerance, but
tolerance:  tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil,
Christ and chaos.  --Abp. Fulton J. Sheen, 1931

       [Satan] will set up a counterchurch which will be the ape of the
[Catholic] Church....  It will have all the notes and characteristics of the
Church, but in reverse and emptied of its divine content.  --Msgr. Fulton J.
Sheen, 1948

       During the past thirty years, people from all the civilized
countries
of the earth have consulted me....  Among all my patients in the second half
of life -- that is to say, over thirty-five -- there has not been one whose
problem in the last report was not that of finding a religious outlook on
life.  It is safe to say that every one of them fell ill because he had lost
that which the living religions of every age have given to their followers,
and none of them has been really healed who did not regain his religious
outlook.  --Abp. Fulton J. Sheen, Peace of Soul (New York:  McGraw-Hill,
1949), p. 37

       Dr. [Karl] Jung said that after 25 years of experience dealing with
mental patients, at least one-third had no observable clinical neurosis, but
all of them were suffering from a want of the meaning and purposes of life,
and not until they discover that will they ever be happy.  In other words,
the vast majority of people today are suffering from what might be called an
existential [after the Existentialists] neurosis, the anxiety of the problem
of living, the answering of the question:  what is it all about, where do I
go from here.  --Abp. Fulton J. Sheen, to the Knights of Columbus, June 1972

       Who is going to save our Church?  Not our bishops, not our priests
and religious.  It is up to you, the people.  You have the minds, the eyes,
the ears to save the Church.  Your mission is to see that your priests act
like priests, your bishops like bishops and your religious act like
religious.  --Abp. Fulton J. Sheen before the Knights of Columbus in June
1972

       You are better off going to a state school where you will have the
chance to fight for your faith, than going to a modern Catholic university
where you will have the new watered-down, modernist version of the faith
spoon-fed to your unsuspecting minds."  --Abp. Fulton J. Sheen, ca. 1967,
apud Martin Patrick Hughes, Ph.D., "The Traditional Catholic in a Modern
University," The Reign of Mary, (XXVIII:91), Fall 1977), p. 5

       The course of life is determined not by the trivial incidents of day
to day, but by a few decisive moments.  There may not be over three, four,
or
five such moments in a human life.  For many people, it would be the
decision
of marriage, the taking of a job, or changing residence.  --Abp. Fulton J.
Sheen, Treasure in Clay:  the Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen, p. 31.

       As one looks over the history of Christendom, it seems that there is
a crisis about every five hundred years.  The first cycle of five hundred
years was the fall of Rome, when God raised up the great Pontiff Gregory the
Great, who had been a senator in Rome.  He became a Benedictine monk and
then
set about conversion of the barbarians and prepared the way for a Christian
Europe.  The second cycle of five hundred years brings us roughly to the
year
1000, when there was the Eastern schism, but also the decline of holiness in
the Church.  Three dominant evils prevailed -- clerical concubinage, simony
or the buying and selling of ecclesiastical offices, and the naming of
bishops by princes and kings.  Gregory VII, who was a Benedictine, was
raised
by God to heal that crisis against much opposition from within and prepared
the way for the great mediaeval civilization.  In the third cycle of five
hundred years, there was a breakup of Christian unity.  Clergy again became
corrupt, nuns became secular, and everyone recognized the need of reform.
Some undertook to reform the Faith.  there was nothing wrong with the Faith.
What needed reformation was behavior.  The great Dominican Pontiff, Pius V,
saved the Church by applying the reforms of the Council of Trent and by
establishing missionary activity throughout the world.  Now we are in the
fourth cycle of five hundred years, with two world wars in twenty-one years,
and the universal dread of nuclear incineration.  This time God has given us
John Paul II, who has drawn the attention of the world to himself as no
human
being has done in history.  --Abp. Fulton J. Sheen, Treasure in Clay:  the
Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen, pp. 244-45.

       There is a lesson in this for traditional Catholic priests.  Some
priests are very intolerant of all who disagree with their opinion on the
question of the status of John Paul II in the Church.  Some of these priests
say that you cannot doubt that John Paul II is the pope and still be a true
Catholic.  Others say that if you do not declare John Paul II to be a non-
pope, you cannot be a true Catholic.  Neither of these groups, of course,
has
any authority to bind the consciences of Catholic people.  Neither has the
power to demand that Catholics assent to their opinions and convictions.  If
saints can disagree in their assessment of the question of who is and who is
not the pope, it is not surprising that Catholic people disagree.  Saints
could disagree because their were objective doubts.  There were strong
arguments on both sides of the question.  As St. Antonie of Florence said:
"Although it is necessary to believe that there is but one supreme head of
the Church, nevertheless, if it happens that two Popes are created at the
same time, it is not necessary for the people to believe that this one or
that one is the legitimate Pontiff; they must believe that he alone is true
Pope who has been regularly elected and they are not bound to discern who
that one is; as to that point, they may be guided by the conduct and opinion
of their particular pastor" (Parsons, Studies in Church History, Vol. II, p.
530).  --Fr. Martin Skierka, "History of Our Faith, in The Roman Catholic,
Vol. XV, No. 4, 1993, p. 28 [St. Catherine of Siena and St. Bridget of
Sweden
supported Urban VI; St. Vincent Ferrer supported Clement VII]

       I would rather belong to a Church that is 5000 years behind the
times
and sublimely indifferent to change than to a church that is five minutes
behind the times, huffing and puffing to catch up.  --Joseph Sobran

       Do not innovate.  Rest content with tradition.  --Pope St. Stephen I
(254-257)

       Hence, not every priest is obliged to be a pastor of souls in the
strict sense of the word, although there can be no doubt that this form of
sacerdotal activity corresponds most perfectly to the essence and purpose of
the priesthood.  Today, as in the past, many priests are engaged in labors
that are only loosely connected with the specific tasks of the ministry.
Nevertheless, they are genuine priests in the full meaning of the words, and
they often accomplish more for the honor of God and the salvation of mankind
than those actually engaged in the cure of souls.  The field in which a
priest can be active outside the specifically sacerdotal sphere is
practically limitless; after all, there is no reputable labor or activity
which could not be taken over by the priest.  As examples of this in our own
time, we point to the former director of the papal observatory in the Roman
College, Father Angelo Secchi (ob. 1878), and to the late Austrian
Chancellor
and eminent statesman, Monsignor Ignaz Seipel (ob. 1932).  Both were men
whose fields of labor lay far outside the specific duties of priestly
vocation, but they remained priestly to the depths of their souls:  their
entire extra-sacerdotal activity was animated by the priestly spirit.  Such
outstanding priestly figures are most useful and beneficial to science and
Christianity, to Church and state alike.  --Most Rev. Wilhelm Stockums, The
Priesthood, Tan Books, 1938/1974), pp. 162-3

       Part of the inheritance each of us receives from our first parents
is
a proclivity to sin.  I think it was G.K. Chesterton who commented that the
one dogma of Catholicism that is totally provable from human experience is
that of original sin.  In other words, even the nicest baby, raised by the
nicest parents, in the nicest environment is prone to sin, resulting from
the
sin of Adam.  And even after that sin is "washed away" in baptism, the
after-
effects remain, as witnessed by a disordered desire for autonomy and
concupiscence.  --Fr. Peter M.J. Stravinskas in "The Catholic Answer," The
Catholic Answer, September/October 1992, p. 25)

       Et hoc secundo modo posset Papa esse schismaticus, si nollet tenere
cum toto Ecclesiae corpore unionem et coniunctionem quam debet, ut si tenat
et totem Ecclesiam excommunicare, aut si vellet omnes Ecclesiasticas
caeremonias apostolica traditione firmatas evertere.  [If he (the pope), as
is his duty, would not be in full communion with the body of the Church as,
for example, if he were to excommunicate the entire Church, or if he were to
change all the liturgical rites of the Church that have been upheld by
apostolic tradition.]   --Suarez (1548-1617, called by Pope Paul V "Doctor
Eximius et Pius" [Excellent and Pius Doctor], usually considered the
greatest
theologian of the Society of Jesus), Tract. de Charitate, Disput. No. 12, p.
1

       There's a temptation to wallow in a smorgasbord of small values --
material goods, entertainment, body worship.  People want to be laid back --
they want a spiritual message instead of development of character.
Christian
faith is based on Good Friday, when Christ was crucified, and Easter.  Many
Californians don't want the hard part, just Easter.  --Rt. Rev. William E.
Swing, Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of California

       ...Unica Christi Ecclesia ... subsistit in Ecclesia catholic....
[The sole Church of Christ ... subsists in the Catholic Church....]  (Second
Vatican Council, Lumen Gentium, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church,
November
21, 1964, para. 8)

       [The Church] here purposes, for the benefit of the faithful and of
the whole world, to set forth, as clearly as possible, and in the tradition
laid down by earlier Councils, her own nature and universal mission.  --
Second Vatican Council, Lumen Gentium (Dogmatic Constitution on the Church,"
para. 1 [justification for interpreting all of Vatican II only in a
traditional light]

       To the latter [the pastors], the laity should disclose their needs
and desires with that liberty and confidence which befits children of God
and
brothers of Christ.  By reason of the knowledge, competence or pre-eminence
which they have, the laity are empowered --indeed sometimes obliged -- to
manifest their opinion on those things which pertain to the good of the
Church.  --Second Vatican Council, Lumen Gentium ("Dogmatic Constitution on
the Church," para. 37 (cf. Codex Iuris Canonici 1983, sec. 212)

       Finally, in faithful obedience to tradition, Holy Mother Church
holds
all lawfully-recognized rites to be of equal right and dignity; that she
wishes to preserve them in the future and foster them in every way.  --
Second
Vatican Council, Sacrosanctum Concilium (Constitution on the Sacred
Liturgy),
para. 4

       Therefore, no other person, not even a priest, may add, remove, or
change anything in the liturgy on his own authority.  --Second Vatican
Council, Sacrosanctum Concilium (Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy), para.
22.3.  Cf. Inter Oecumenici para. 20 (September 26, 1964):  It belongs to
the
Church's authority to regulate the sacred liturgy.  Nobody, therefore, is
allowed to proceed on his own initiative in this domain, for this would be
to
the detriment of the liturgy itself.

       There must be no innovations unless the good of the Church genuinely
and certainly requires them, and care must be taken that any new forms
adopted should in some way grow organically from forms already existing.  --
Second Vatican Council, Sacrosanctum Concilium (Constitution on the Sacred
Liturgy), para. 23

       Linguae Latinae usus in ritibus Latinis servetur.  The use of the
Latin language ... is to be retained in the Latin rites. --Second Vatican
Council, Sacrosanctum Concilium (Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy), para.
36.1

       Care must be taken to ensure that the faithful may be able to say or
sing together in Latin those parts of the Mass that pertain to them.  --
Second Vatican Council, Sacrosanctum Concilium (Constitution on the Sacred
Liturgy), para. 54

       The dogmatic principles which were laid down by the Council of Trent
remain intact.  --Second Vatican Council, Sacrosanctum Concilium
(Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy), para. 55  [In the light of these
texts,
its evident that to be "conciliar," that is, to be "in keeping with the mind
of Vatican II," is to be profoundly reverent toward the Eucharist as truly
Christ present with his people, to be concerned about preserving the Latin
language, and to be mindful of the continuity in Church teaching from all
previous councils, including Trent.]

       In accordance with the age-old tradition of the Latin rite, the
Latin
language is to be retained by clerics in the Divine Office.  --Second
Vatican
Council, Sacrosanctum Concilium (Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy), para.
101.1

       The treasury of sacred music is to be preserved and cultivated with
great care.  --Second Vatican Council, Sacrosanctum Concilium (Constitution
on the Sacred Liturgy), para. 114

       The Church recognizes Gregorian chant as specially suited to the
Roman liturgy.  Therefore, other things being equal, it should be given
pride
of place in liturgical services.  --Second Vatican Council, Sacrosanctum
Concilium (Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy), para. 116

       Of all the propositions that have been advanced, the most difficult
seems to be the one stated at the outset:  Those things that we shudder and
tremble even to consider are actually for the good of the person to whom
they
come....  Ills can be for the good of those who whom they come....  To
triumph over calamities and the terrors of life -- this is assigned to the
great man only.  For anyone to have passed through the length of life
without
mental anguish is to have avoided half of nature.  He is unfortunate who has
never been unfortunate.  Great men rejoice in adversity, as brave soldiers
rejoice in warfare....  I say that God shows favor to those whom He desires
to reach the highest virtue.  He gives to them them means of doing a deed of
high resolve, when great dfficulties are involved....  Hardship is virtue's
opportunity.  --Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C.-?A.D. 65), De Providentia

       If you would have to spend your time responding to all accusations,
there wouldn't be any time left to work for Christ and His Church, but only
to respond to calumnies.  --Giuseppe Cardinal Siri (1906-1989), Archbishop
of
Genoa

       If the Church were not divine, this [Second Vatican] council would
have buried it.  --Giuseppe Cardinal Siri (1906-1989), Archbishop of Genoa

       It will take a hundred years to heal the wounds left by the Second
Vatican Council.  --Giuseppe Cardinal Siri (1906-1989), Archbishop of Genoa

       The Latin language, which is truly the Catholic language, is
unchangeable, is not vulgar, and has for many centuries been the guardian of
the unity of the Western Church....  To provide a wider place to the
vernacular languages in the liturgy as an ordinary and universal thing would
fuel confusion and surprise between the faithful and would open the way for
bitter controversies.  There is no lack of academicians of the new
disciplines who write and speak against the use of Latin in the sacred
Rites.
These types of persons should not find confirmation and encouragement in
this
Sacred Council....  No change will get past the Statue of Liberty.  --
Francis
Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop of New York (1889-1967)

       Let nothing be innovated beyond what is traditional.  --Pope St.
Stephen (253-257), Eph. 74:8

       I still remember very well how after several radical proposals a
Sicilian Bishop rose and implored the fathers to allow caution and reason to
reign on this point [of the language of worship], because otherwise there
would be the danger that the entire Mass might be held in the language of
the
poeple -- whereupon the entire hall burst into uproarious laughter.  --
Alphons Cardinal Sticker, "Recollections of a Vatican II Peritus" in Die
heilege Liturgie, Franz Breid, ed., Steyr, Austria, Ennsthaler Verlage,
1997.
English translation in Latin Mass, 8:1 (Winter) 1999, p. 30.

       It has been known that in the worship of all the religions, a sacred
language is used....  For centuries, Latin remained in the Roman Catholic
Church as the only language for worship....  A similar process also can be
seen not only in the history of other Christian rites but also in other
religions.  For example, for the Moslems, old (classical) Arabic remains the
language of the liturgy.  For the Hindus, it is the Sanskrit Language.  This
is a natural and general proof that worship, because of its necessary
connection with the supernatural, inherently requires its own particular
relgious language, which should not be the vulgar one.  --Alfons Cardinal
Stickler, "The Theological Attractiveness of the Tridentine Mass," a speech
given on May 20, 1995, in Fort Lee, New Jersey apud Catholic Family News,
(II:7, July 1995), p. 8

       The vulgar tongue has often vulgarized the Mass itself, and the
translation of the original Latin has resulted in serious doctrinal
misunderstanding and error....  This Babel of common worship results in a
loss of external unity in the worldwide Catholic Church, which was once
unified in a common voice....  We must admit that only a few decades after
the reform of the liturgical language, we have lost that former possiblity
of
praying and singing together even in the great international gatherings such
as Eucharistic Congresses, or even during meetings with the Pope as the
external center of unity of the church.  We can no longer sing and pray
together.  --Alfons Cardinal Stickler, "The Theological Attractiveness of
the
Tridentine Mass," a speech given on May 20, 1995 in Fort Lee, New Jersey
apud
Catholic Family News, (II:7, July 1995), p. 10

       The vernacular has often vulgarized the Mass itself, and the
translation of the original Latin has resulted in serious doctrinal
misunderstanding and errors....  The theological correctness of the
Tridentine Mass corresponds with the theological incorrectness of the
Vatican
II Mass.  --Alfons Cardinal Stickler in an address given May 11, 1996, in
New
York

       If the Pope lays down an order contrary to right customs, one does
not have to obey him.  --Suarez (1548-1617)

       [Vatican II], the French Revolution in the Catholic Church.  --
Cardinal Suenens

       It has come to our knowledge that some priests deliver the Lord's
Body to a layman or to a women to carry it to the sick.  This synod
therefore
forbids such presumption to continue.  -- Synod (De Consecr., dist. 12)

       The founder of that sect, a certain Chrest, had suffered execution
in
the reign of Tiberius, during the procuratorship of Pontius Pilate.  Held in
check only for a time, the wicked superstition broke out once again, not
only
in Judea, the birthplace of the malady, but even here in the city itself.  -
-
Tacitus, Annales, 15:44

       My dear, dear child, set your heart at rest.  Whether you have
deserved it or not, take your suffering as coming from God, thank Him for it
and be at peace and at rest.  Every myrrh sent by God has been specially
arranged to lift us up through suffering to higher things.  That is why He
has placed so many obstacles in our path.  God could have made loaves of
bread grow out of the ground instead of corn if He had wanted to.  If would
have been just as easy for Him.  But He wanted men to be tried in all sorts
of ways.  In the eternal order which He has established, He has arranged and
provided for each one of us, with more care than the best painter in the
world would bestow on a masterpiece.  --Johann Tauler, O.P. (1300-1361),
Sermon III for Epiphany

       See the Christians, how they love one another!  --Tertullian

       Sanguis martyrum, semen Christianorum.  [The blood of the martyrs
[is]
the seed of the Christians.]  --Tertullian [St. Alphonsus Liguoriin
his book, The Victories of the Martyrs, tells us that eleven million men,
women, and children were martyred for the Faith before the Edict of Milan in
313]

       It seems to me that to other saints Our Lady has given power to help
us in only one kind of necessity.  But this glorious St. Joseph, I know by
my
own experience, assists us in all kinds of necessities.  And Our Lady, it
appears, wishes us to understand that as He was obedient to St. Joseph on
earth, so now in heaven He now grants St. Joseph "whatever" he asks.  This
truth many others have also experienced, who have recommended themselves to
him.  Many now are devoted to him, and I myself have fresh experiecne of his
power.  --St. Theresa of Avila

       It is suffering that makes us like to Him.  -- St. Therese of
Lisieux
(1873-1897)

       Yet temptations are often very profitable to a man although they be
troublesome and grievous:  for in them a man is humbled, purified, and
instructed."  --Thomas a Kempis

       To love is to will the good of another.  --St. Thomas Aquinas

       The first fruit of untruth is injustice.  --St. Thomas Aquinas

       Charity is a greater virtue than obedience.  --St. Thomas Aquinas

       The worst wolves in sheep's clothing are the heretics and then, bad
prelates.  --St. Thomas Aquinas

       Hold firmly that you faith is identical with that of the ancients.
Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.  --St. Thomas Aquinas

       Their inculpable [invincible] ignorance will not save them; but if
they fear God and live up to their conscience, God, in His infinite mercy,
will furnish them with the necessary means of salvation, even so as to send,
if needed, an angel to instruct them in the Catholic Faith, rather than let
them perish through inculpable ignorance.  --St. Thomas Aquinas

       Fraternal correction is a work of mercy.  Therefore even prelates
ought to be corrected....  It must be observed, however, that if the faith
were endangered, a subject ought to rebuke his prelate even publicly.  Hence
Paul, who was Peter's subject, rebuked him in public, on account of the
imminent danger of scandal concerning the faith, and as the gloss of
Augustine says in Gal. 2:11, Peter gave an example to superiors, that if at
any time they should happen to stray away from the straight path, they
should
not disdain to be reproved by their subjects....  [This] is within the
competence of everyone in respect of any person.  --St. Thomas Aquinas,
Summa
Theologica, II IIae, Q. 33, A. 4, R. ad Obj. 2)

       It is written ([Johannes Gratianus, Decretum Gratiani, P. III] De
Consecr., dist. 12):  "It has come to our knowledge that some priests
deliver
the Lord's body to a layman or to a woman to carry it to the sick:  The
synod
therefore forbids such presumption to continue; and let the priest himself
communicate the sick."  --St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, P. III, Q.
82, Art. 3

       Out of reverence towards this sacrament [the Holy Eucharist],
nothing
touches it but what is consecrated; hence the corporal and the chalice are
consecrated, and likewise the priest's hands, for touching this sacrament.
-
-St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, P. III, Q. 82, Art. 3

       It is absurd and a detestable shame, that we should suffer those
traditions to be changed, which we have received from the fathers of old.  -
-
St. Thomas Aquinas

       Paul, who was Peter's subject, rebuked him in public on account of
the imminent danger of scandal concerning the faith, and, as the gloss of
St.
Augustine says on Galatians 2:11, "Peter gave an example to superiors, that
if at any time they should happen to stray from the straight path, they
should not disdain to be rebuked by their subjects."  --St. Thomas Aquinas

       In discussing questions of this kind two rules are to be observed,
as
Augustine teaches (Gen. ad lit. i.18).  The first is, to hold the truth of
Scripture without wavering.  The second is that since Holy Scripture can be
explained in a multiplicity of senses, one should adhere to a particular
explanation, only in such measure as to be ready to abandon it, if it be
proved with certainty to be false; lest Holy Scripture be exposed to the
ridicule of unbelievers, and obstacles be placed to their believing.  --St.
Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Ia, Q. 68, Art. 1

       But fraternal correction is a work of mercy.  Therefore, prelates
[bishops] also ought to be corrected by their subjects even in public.  --
St.
Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, II IIae, Q. 33, Art. 4, with quotations
from St. Augustine's Epistles 211 and Galatians 2:11)

       Absolutely speaking, the sacrament of the Eucharist is the greatest
of all the sacraments....  First of all because it contains Christ Himself
substantially:  whereas the other sacraments contain a certain instrumental
power which is a share of Christ's power....  For all the sacraments seem to
be ordained to this one as their end.  --St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa
Theologica, Ia, Q. 68, Art. 3

       Disobedience is not a schism, no matter how obstinate it is, for as
long as it does not contain a rebellion against the authority of the Pope or
of the Church.  --St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, IIa IIae, Q. 39,
Art.
1 ad 8)

       Although it clearly follows from the circumstances that the Pope can
err at times, and command things which must not be done, that we are not to
be simply obedient to him in all things, that does not show that he must not
be obeyed by all when his commands are good.  To know in what cases he is to
be obeyed and in what not,... it is said in the Acts of the Apostles:  "One
ought to obey God rather than man"; therefore, were the Pope to command
anything against Holy Scripture, or the articles of faith, or the truth of
the Sacraments, or the commands of the natural or divine law, he ought not
to
be obeyed, but in such commands, to be passed over (despiciendus)....  --
Cardinal Juan de Torquemada (Turrencremata), Summa de Ecclesia (1489)

       In this way, the Pope could, without doubt, fall into Schism....
Especially is this true with regard to the liturgy, as for example, if he
did
not wish personally to follow the universal customs and rites of the
Church....  The same holds true for other aspects of the liturgy in a very
general fashion.... By separating himself from the observance of the
Universal customs of the church, and by so doing with obstinacy, the Pope is
able to fall into schism.  Such a conclusion is only just because the
premises on which it is based are beyond doubt.  For, just as the Pope can
become a heretic, so he is also able to do so with the sin of obstinacy.
Thus it is that Innocent states (De Consuetudine) that it is necessary to
obey a Pope in all things as long as he does not himself go against the
universal customs of the Church, but should he go against the universal
customs of the Church, he need not be followed...."  --Cardinal Juan de
Torquemada (Turrencremata), Summa de Ecclesia (1489) and Commentarii in
Decretum Gratiani (1519)

       [Well founded is] the right and duty of legitimate public authority
to punish malefactors by means of penalities commensurate with the gravity
of
the crime, not excluding, in cases of extreme gravity, the death penalty.  -
-
Council of Trent (1545-1563)

       If anyone shall say that the baptism, which is also given by
heretics
in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, with the
intention of doing what the Church does, is not true baptism:  let him be
anathema.  --Council of Trent (1545-1563), Denziger 860

       The holy, ecumenical Council of Trent, lawfully assembled in the
Holy
Ghost, presided over by the same apostolic legates, has as its purpose to
preserve in its purity the ancient, absolute, and completely perfect faith
and teaching in the holy Catholic Church about the great mystery of the
Eucharist and to avert heresies and errors.  --Council of Trent (1545-1563),
Denziger 937a)

       No one, moreover, so long as he lives in this mortal state, ought so
far to presume concerning the secret mystery of divine predestination, as to
decide for certain that he is assuredly in the number of the predestined
(Canon 15), as if it were true that he who is justified either cannot sin
any
more (Canon 23), or if he shall have sinned, that he ought to promise
himself
an assured reformation.  For except by special revelation, it cannot be
known
whom God has chosen for Himself (Canon 16).  --Council of Trent (1545-1563),
Session VI

       Si quis dixerit, receptos et approbatos ecclesiae catholicae ritus
in
solemni sacramentorum administratione adhiberi consuetos aut contemni, aut
sine peccato a ministris pro libito omitti, aut in novus alio per quemcumque
ecclesiarum pastorem mutari posse:  anathema sit.
       [If anyone says that the received and approved rites of the
Catholic Church, accustomed to be used in the administration of the
Sacraments, may be despised or omitted by the ministers without sin and at
their pleasure, or may be changed by any pastor whosoever of the churches
to other new ones, let him be anathema.] --Council of Trent (1545-1563),
Session VII, Can. 13 [applying to Eastern as well as western rites, to the
pope as well as other pastors]

       If anyone denies that the Body and Blood, together with the Soul and
Divinity, of our Lord Jesus Christ, and, therefore, the whole Christ is
truly, really, and substantially contained in the sacrament of the Most Holy
Eucharist, but says that Christ is present in the sacrament only as a symbol
or figure, or by His power:  let him be condemned.  --Council of Trent
(1545-
1563), Session XIII, Canon (Denziger, 883)

       If anyone says that the Holy Catholic Church has not been influenced
by just cause and reasons to give Communion under the form of bread only to
laymen and even to clerics when not consecrating, or that she has erred in
this, let him be anathema.  --Council of Trent (1545-1563), Session XXI,
Canon 2 (Denziger 935)

       Although the Mass contains a great teaching for the faithful,
nevertheless, it has not seemed good to the Fathers that it should be
celebrated here and there in the vulgar tongue.  --Council of Trent (1545-
1563), Session XXII, Chapter VIII

       If anyone says that in the Mass a true and real sacrifice is not
offered to God, or that the act of offering is nothing else than Christ
being
given to us to eat, let him be anathema.  --Council of Trent (1545-1563),
Session XXII, Canon 1

       If anyone says that the ceremonies, vestments, and outward signs
that
the Catholic Church makes use of in the celebration of Masses are incentives
to impiety, rather than offices of piety, let him be anathema.  --Council of
Trent (1545-1563), Session XXII, Canon 7

       Si quis dixerit ... lingua tantum vulgari Missam celebrari debere,
anathema sit.
       [If anyone says that the Mass ought to be celebrated in the
vernacular only, ... let him be anathema.]  --Council of Trent (1545-1563),
Session XXII, Canon 9 (Denziger 956)

       Idque eo magis, quod ovium Christi sanguinem, quae ex malo
negligentium et sui officii immemorum pastorum regimine peribunt, Dominus
noster Iesus Christus de manibus eius sit requisiturus.
       [And this all the more because our Lord, Jesus Christ, will require
at his hands the blood those sheep of Christ who have perished through the
wicked misgovernment of neglectful bishops unmindful of their duty.]  --
Council of Trent (1545-1563), Session XXIV, Chap. 1, De Reformatione
(November 11, 1563)

       [The false prophet] will not base his orthodoxy on the Magisterium,
the ancient teachings of the Church, or even the Ten Commandments, but he
will try to update them on purely humanistic grounds.  He will emphasize the
dignity of man, the sacredness of human life, the inviolability of the
individual human being....  He will speak of Jesus, but not of Jesus Christ.
--Fr. Paul Trinchard

       Reform and Conservative are not Judaism at all.  Their adherents are
Jews, according to Jewish law, but their religion is not Judaism.  They
sanction homosexuality, divorce, intermarriage, and conversion.  Such views
are repugnant not only to Torah Judaism, but also to common morality.
Reform
and Conservative Judaism can be classed only in the category of heretical
movements that have plagued our people at one time or another.  --Union of
Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada, March 1997

       If there is anything divine among the possessions of men, which the
citizens of Heaven might covet (were covetousness possible for them), it
would certainly be the most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, whose blessing is
such that in it man possesses a certain anticipation of Heaven while still
on
earth.  --Pope Urban VIII

       [To contend that] ways must be prepared for people to unite their
voices with that of the whole Church -- if this be understood to signify the
introduction of the use of the vernacular language into the liturgical
prayers -- is condemned as false, rash, disturbing to the order prescribed
for the celebration of the sacred mysteries, easily productive of many
evils.
--  Auctorem Fidei, Pope Urban VIII, 1624

       The complaint that the use of the Latin language by the Church is an
obstacle to the devotion of "everyman"... -- let us make no mistake about
the
origin of this centuries old [Protestant] complaint; let us recognize it for
what it is:  a very subtle and dangerous weapon skillfully wielded by the
enemy of Christian civilization [Satan].  For the unity of the Church is so
bound up with the unity of liturgical language that any attack against the
latter is directly aimed at the former.
       One cannot insist too strongly on this truth.  Today it is possible
to see more clearly whither such tendencies lead.  We are witnessing a vast
revolt against Christian traditions, morals and culture, and unless we
Catholics of the West strengthen all bonds that bind us together we shall
not
be able to prevent the whole ... [world] from reverting to worse than
paganism.  It is therefore a duty, both religious and patriotic, steadfastly
to oppose all such insidious anti-Latin propaganda and to cultivate by all
possible means this bond of a common tongue to express the worship of a
common Faith.  --V.G.L., Legendo (Liverpool: Rushworth & Dreaper, 1943), pp.
vi-vii

       Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.  --Peter
Viereck, "American Religious Identification Survey 2008"

The Divine Office is the school of all virtues.  The master who
teaches us in it is the Holy Ghost, the source of all truth; it is also the
Prophets, Apostles, and Saints of God.  --St. Vincent de Paul

       When the Arian poison had contaminated not only a limited area, but
the whole world, almost all the bishops of the Latin Church fell into
heresy,
forced by violence or deceived by guile.  It was like a fog fallen upon the
spirits and hiding which road to take.  In order to be safe from this
contagious plague, the true disciples of Christ had to prefer the ancient
beliefs rather than all the false novelties.  --St. Vincent of Lerins (ca.
400-ca. 450)

       When a foulness invades the whole Church..., we must return to the
Church of the past. --St. Vincent of Lerins (ca. 400-ca. 450)

       I have often inquired earnestly and attentively of very many men
eminent for sanctity and learning, how and by what rule I may be able to
distinguish the truth of the Catholic faith from the falsehood of heretical
depravity; and I have always and in almost every instance received an answer
to this effect: That whether I or anyone else should wish to detect the
frauds and avoid the snares of heretics as they arise, and to continue sound
and complete in the Catholic faith, we must the Lord helping, fortify our
own
belief in two ways: first by the authority of the Divine Law, and then, by
the tradition of the Catholic Church.  --St. Vincent of Lerins (ca. 400-ca.
450), Commonitorium

       So what shall the Catholic Christian do if some part of the Church
should come to detach itself from the communion, from the Universal Faith?
What other side could he take than to prefer to the gangrenous and corrupted
member, the body which is whole and healthy?  And if some new contagion
should seek to poison, not only a little part of the Church, but the whole
Church at once, then his greatest care should once again be to adhere to
antiquity, which obviously cannot be seduced by any deceitful novelty.  --
St.
Vincent of Lerins (ca. 400-ca. 450), Commonitorium

       Understanding, knowledge, and wisdom must increase and powerfully
grow in one and in all, both in each individual man and in the Church,
during
the passage of time and of the ages, but grow solely within its own species,
that is to say, within the same dogma, in the same sense, and in the same
meaning [in eodem dogmate, eodem sensu, eademque sententia].  --St. Vincent
of Lerins (ca. 400-ca. 450), Commonitorium [this expression was lifted
textually by the First Vatican Council and for the Anti-Modernist Oath].

       Magnopere curandum est ut id teneamus, quod ubique, quod semper,
quod
ab omnibus creditum est; hoc est etenim vere proprieque catholicum.
       [Care must especially be had that we hold that which was believed
everywhere, always, and by all; for this is truly and properly catholic.]  -
-
St. Vincent of Lerins (5th century), Commonitorium, IX (Rouet de Journel,
#2168)

       This indult ["Ecclesia Dei"] is an insult.  It is not for us
[Society
of St. Pius X]....  We do not accept the new mass as lawful....  [It is] an
adulterous union with bastard fruits....  We want the concubine gone  Wee
hope and pray ... for the condemnation and total disappearance of the new
mass.... The traditional mass ... is the only form of worship acceptable to
God.  The new mass is not.  --Fr. Jean Violette, SSPX District Superior of
Australia and New Zealand, Letter to the Faithful, August 27, 1994

       In Spain, during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, there were
none of those bloody revolutions, those conspiracies and cruel visitations
which were seen in the other countries of Europe....  Only by means of the
Inquisition, Spain escaped those horrors which dishonor all others.  --
Voltaire

       Be careful.  These are dangerous times.  The devil would like you to
believe that the battle for the ancient Mass has been all but won.  But have
no doubt.  He hates the ancient Mass and anyone who has devotion to it, and
in particular those who offer the Holy Sacrifice.  Now is the time for
watchfulness, for he will try to trick us.  The time when success can be
measured is the most dangerous time of all.  --Alice von Hildebrand, Latin
Mass, (VIII:4, Fall 1999), p. 15

       In the case of practical authority, which refers to the ordinances
of
the pope, the protection of the Holy Spirit is not promised in the same way.
Ordinances can be unfortunate, ill-conceived, even disastrous.  Here Roma
locuta, causa finita does not hold.  The faithful are not obliged to regard
all ordinances as good and desirable.  They can regret them and pray that
they be taken back; indeed, they can work, with all due respect for the
pope,
for their elimination.

       [There is now a strong tendency in the Church] to prefer communion
to
faith; thus, peace implicitly becomes the highest value.  --Dr. Dietrich von
Hildebrand  (St. Catherine of Siena wrote that peace can be worse than
strife
or war.)

       The fact that many orthodox Catholics fight these heresies is not
deplorable; on the contrary, we should rejoice that there are still faithful
Catholics, and that they raise their voices against heresies, for God
expects
that of them.  St. Paul says there always will be heresies, and he adds that
God permits them to test the faithful.  The disunity which is based on the
incompatibility of truth and faslehood cannot and should not be avoided.  --
Dr. Dietrich von Hildebrand

       The emphasis of Vatican II is not really on ecumenism, as that word
is properly understood; what the Council urges is actually a new attitude
toward non-Catholic religions.  The Council invites Catholics, while clearly
recognizing the dogmatic errors of the sects, to recognize also what is true
in them.  By this recognition it is hoped that Catholics will feel not only
our dolorous separation from our Christian brethren, but also the imperfect
unity resulting from those truths which we share with them.  This is
certainly a noble and praiseworthy thing; but it is also, I repeat, a
dangerous thing.  For compared to the Church's universality, and the mission
of conversion we must all feel as a consequence of it, the recognition of
what we have in common with non-Catholics is a quite secondary
consideration.
--Dr. Dietrich von Hildebrand

       The Church has survived because she has always condemned errors.  In
the words of Cardinal Newman:  "the fear of error is simply necessary to the
genuine love of truth."  A spirit very different from Newman's reigns in the
Church today.  In the face of a fearful crisis menacing the Church --a
crisis
of Faith, a crisis from within --we hear the argument, even from some
bishops, that the most regrettable thing today is disunity among Catholics.
--Dr. Dietrich von Hildebrand

       First, there is the mafia in the Church, the prelates who have not
only lost their faith but who remain in the Church in order to destroy the
Church; otherwise, they would leave the Church.  If I would lose my faith, I
would leave the Church.  But to lose the faith and remain in the Church,
there must be some reason for that.  They use the slogan "progress" as a
means to camouflage their diabolical work of destruction and to fool the
faithful, in order to draw them away from Christ and His holy Church.  They
are real servants of the anti-Christ.  --Dr. Dietrich von Hildebrand

       To be sure, there exists a harmless type of mediocrity which is
content to remain in its modest place.  But what we have been faced with in
the Church in recent years is the revolution of the mediocre.  Before the
Second Vatican Council there were many theologians and priests who had no
great culture, no profound intelligence, and even a mediocre approach to
life; but they remained silent, or repeated by rote the glorious teaching of
the Church.  Perhaps they did so in an inadequate way, mechanically and
superficially; but still they were poor mouthpieces of something
incomparably
greater than their own limited minds:  they transmitted to some extent
Divine
truth.  They accepted a modest role.  Their mediocrity was regrettable, but
not disastrous....  In the intense mediocrity that is known as "Catholic
progressivism" the most mediocre layman, priest, or professor of theology
(being a professor is not the least insurance against the dullest
mediocrity)
now aspires to "reform" the Church, to create a "new theology," to be
"revolutionary."  --Dr. Dietrich von Hildebrand

       What really matters, surely, is not whether the faithful feel at
home
at Mass, but whether they are drawn out of their ordinary lives into the
world of Christ.  --Dr. Dietrich von Hildebrand, "The Case for the Latin
Mass"

       Those who idolize our epoch, who thrill at what is modern simply
because it is modern, who believe that in our day man has finally "come of
age," lack pietas.  --Dr. Dietrich von Hildebrand, "The Case for the Latin
Mass"

       The basic error of most of the innovations is to imagine that the
new
liturgy brings the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass nearer to the faithful, that
shorn of its old rituals the Mass now enters into the substance of our
lives.
For the question is whether we better meet Christ in the Mass by soaring up
to Him, or by dragging Him down into our own pedestrian, workaday world.
       The innovators would replace holy intimacy with Christ by an
unbecoming familiarity.  The new liturgy actually threatens to frustrate the
confrontation with Christ, for it discourages reverence in the face of
mystery, precludes awe, and all but extinguishes a sense of sacredness.
What
really matters, surely, is not whether the faithful feel at home at Mass,
but
whether they are drawn out of their ordinary lives into the world of Christ
-
- whether their attitude is the response of ultimate reverence:  whether
they
are imbued with the reality of Christ....
       A Catholic should regard his liturgy with pietas.  He should revere,
and therefore fear to abandon the prayers and postures and music that have
been approved by so many saints throughout the Christian era and delivered
to
us as a precious heritage.  To go no further, the illusion that we can
replace the Gregorian chant, with its inspired hymns and rhythms, by equally
fine, if not better, music betrays a ridiculous self-assurance and lack of
knowledge.  --Dr. Dietrich von Hildebrand, "The Case for the Latin Mass"

       It is sad enough when people lose their faith and leave the Church;
but it is much worse when those who in reality have lost their faith remain
within the Church and try -- like termites -- to undermine Christian faith
with their claim that they are giving to Christian revelation the
interpretation that suits "modern man."  --Dr. Dietrich von Hildebrand,
Trojan Horse in the City of God, p. 265

       There is no reform to carry out.  We have to admire the maturation
and development of these [traditional Roman] rites as the fruit of the Faith
of the Church, inherited since the first centuries of the Church.  --Msgr.
Gilles Wach, "An Interview with Msgr. Gilles Wach," in Wanderer, (XIX:1,
January 15, 1996), p. 6.

       "Participation" in the Mass does not mean hearing our own voice.  I
"participate" in a work of art when I study it and love it silently.  --
Evelyn Waugh

       Sloth is not just laziness.  It is an inability to act for your
own spiritual good.  That is, knowing what is necessary for the good of
your own soul, and not being able, or not being willing, to take the
necessary actions.  --Evelyn Waugh

       He [Cardinal Lawrence Joseph Cardinal Shehan, of Baltimore] had the
personal kindliness, moderation, and liberality of spirit that distinguishes
the true conservative from the mere reactionary.  --George Weigel, The
National Catholic Register, June 24, 1990

       The Lord God does not at present seem to be wanting large numbers
for
his remnant in any part of the world.  What matters ... is that there is a
hard core of souls holding onto the Faith in quality and numbers sufficient
to make it difficult to imagine the pilot light being extinguished.  --Bp.
Richard N. Williamson, of the Society of St. Pius X

       By divine Providence, pagan Rome provided the central launching pad
of the Catholic Church.  Pagan Romans were the raw material of the first
Roman Catholics.  So the study of Latin gives access, as no other study can
do, to the natural life-blood of our supernatural Faith.  --Bp. Richard N.
Williamson, of the Society of St. Pius X

       I love independent minds -- as long as they agree with me.  --Bp.
Richard N. Williamson, of the Society of St. Pius X, in "Back to the Land,
Back to God?," St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary Bulletin, January 3, 2001

       It is a misrepresentation often repeated, that Catholics imagine the
supreme pontiff to be free of all liability to moral transgression, as
through they believed that no action performed by him could be sinful.  It
can hardly be necessary for me to deny so gross and so absurd an imputation.
--Cardinal Wiseman

       My Lord, I understand that there is a Reformation in Religion
intended by the Parliament; and I wish that several things were reformed;
but
let me tell you that when you have reformed, that others will come, and
refine upon you, and others again upon them; et sic deinceps, that at last
there will be no Religion left, but Atheism will spring up.  The Myseteries
of Religion are to be let alone; they will  not bear an examination.  --
Cardinal Wolsey

       "Independent" priests are an essential cog in the traditional
movement.  They have given up the "security" of a diocesan payroll, pension,
and other comforts.  They do not have to play politics with a liberal bishop
or possibly a heretical bishop.  Fraternity of St. Peter priests and
diocesan
priest who say the "indult " Mass must hew to the party line, or face even
more persecution.  --Edward K. Wunder, Ringwood, NJ

        I ask and I order two things:  Let the modern 'masses' cease at
once
and let them return to the Canon ordained by the Tridentine Council of Pius
V.  Let them, who have apostatized and have been traitors, return to the
primitive sources of the Church.  Repent and return to the good path at once
and immediately.  Let the Holy Mass be in Latin and in the manner that the
Council of Trent defined it forever.  --Revelation to Sister Maria
Concepcion
Zuniga Lopez of Mexico (ob. 1979), Founder of the Franciscan Minim nuns in
1942, in a revelation on October 29, 1974 (she has received revelations
since
the age of 12).  This revelation is advanced in answer to those that claim
all revelations reported have supported the Novus Ordo and the pope.

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