--- title: "17 Pope Pius X Quotes by 13 authors" description: "Browse 17 Pope Pius X quotes by 13 authors. Discover the best Pope Pius X sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/210/madalyn-murray-o-hair-3597_administration_if-any-one-age-could-be-singled-out-as-t_645654.jpg" --- > [If any one age could be singled out as the worst in the history of Christendom, it would be the administration of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madalyn-murray-o-hair/if-any-one-age-could-be-singled-out-as-the-worst-in-the-history-of/) [Madalyn Murray O'Hair](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madalyn-murray-o-hair/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/210/madalyn-murray-o-hair-3597_administration_if-any-one-age-could-be-singled-out-as-t_645654.jpg) > [“New evidence uncovered in the Vatican Secret Archives suggests that the wartime Pope Pius XII – formerly an influential Vatican diplomat named…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cyrus-shahrad/new-evidence-uncovered-in-the-vatican-secret-archives-suggests-that/) [Cyrus Shahrad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cyrus-shahrad/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b76/cyrus-shahrad-61888_pope-pius-x_new-evidence-uncovered-in-the-vatican-se_1238661.jpg) > [“Dermot found me; bad news inexorably does. Let me reiterate, bumping into Pope Pius XIII would have surprised me less. In fact,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-mitchell/dermot-found-me-bad-news-inexorably-does-let-me-reiterate-bumping/) [David Mitchell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-mitchell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a9f/david-mitchell-264_bad-news_dermot-found-me-bad-news-inexorably-does_2199632.jpg) > [In 1954, Pope Pius XI, of all people, sent some Vatican delegates on a trip to Libya with these written instructions: "Do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/in-1954-pope-pius-xi-of-all-people-sent-some-vatican-delegates-on-a/) [Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/65c/elizabeth-gilbert-131_infidel_in-1954-pope-pius-xi-of-all-people-sent_2022365.jpg) > [“Hitler invaded Poland on 1 September 1939. Much to the bafflement of the Allies, however, Pope Pius XII said nothing. He refused…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cyrus-shahrad/hitler-invaded-poland-on-1-september-1939-much-to-the-bafflement-of/) [Cyrus Shahrad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cyrus-shahrad/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/99a/cyrus-shahrad-61888_israel_hitler-invaded-poland-on-1-september-193_1531.jpg) > [Benito Mussolini had barely seized power in Italy before the Vatican made an official treaty with him, known as the Lateran Pact…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/benito-mussolini-had-barely-seized-power-in-italy-before-the-vatican/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/519/christopher-hitchens-117_allies_benito-mussolini-had-barely-seized-power_928190.jpg) > [“Bannon, more synthesist than adherent, brought to Guénon’s Traditionalism a strong dose of Catholic social thought, in particular the concept of “subsidiarity”:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joshua-green/bannon-more-synthesist-than-adherent-brought-to-gu-non-s/) [Joshua Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joshua-green/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/109/joshua-green-3819_pope-pius-x_bannon-more-synthesist-than-adherent-bro_1739503.jpg) > [“Vatican’s secretly composed message to all of Germany’s Catholics. On Palm Sunday, 1937, the letter had been read by every priest, bishop,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-makos/vatican-s-secretly-composed-message-to-all-of-germany-s-catholics-on/) [Adam Makos](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-makos/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/30f/adam-makos-36704_every-man_vatican-s-secretly-composed-message-to-a_1823919.jpg) > [“Pope Pius X said. “If we were to lose Mary,” the pope explained, “the world would wholly decay. Virtue would disappear, especially…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carrie-gress/pope-pius-x-said-if-we-were-to-lose-mary-the-pope-explained-the-world/) [Carrie Gress](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carrie-gress/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5d4/carrie-gress-22402_brightest-star_pope-pius-x-said-if-we-were-to-lose-mary_435594.jpg) > [We cannot escape our destiny, nor should we try to do so. The leadership of the free world was thrust upon us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ronald-reagan/we-cannot-escape-our-destiny-nor-should-we-try-to-do-so-the/) [Ronald Reagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ronald-reagan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2d7/ronald-reagan-119_action_we-cannot-escape-our-destiny-nor-should_1989533.jpg) > [“You alone in Europe are not ancient oh Christianity The most modern European is you Pope Pius X And you whom the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guillaume-apollinaire/you-alone-in-europe-are-not-ancient-oh-christianity-the-most-modern/) [Guillaume Apollinaire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guillaume-apollinaire/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c8a/guillaume-apollinaire-10109_advertising_you-alone-in-europe-are-not-ancient-oh-c_1833187.jpg) > [Benito Mussolini had barely seized power in Italy before the Vatican made an official treaty with him. . . . Catholicism became…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/benito-mussolini-had-barely-seized-power-in-italy-before-the-vatican-2/) [Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/77a/christopher-hitchens-117_allies_benito-mussolini-had-barely-seized-power_2661843.jpg) > [“a leading humanist scholar and occupied many public offices, including that of Lord Chancellor from 1529 to 1532. More coined the word…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-more/a-leading-humanist-scholar-and-occupied-many-public-offices-including/) [Thomas More](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-more/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/512/thomas-more-3382_henry-viii_a-leading-humanist-scholar-and-occupied_2545251.jpg) > [“The Aquarian age would “constellate the problem of the union of opposites.” The “real existence” of evil would have to be acknowledged;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-valentine-lachman/the-aquarian-age-would-constellate-the-problem-of-the-union-of/) [Gary Valentine Lachman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-valentine-lachman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e55/gary-valentine-lachman-14492_christianity_the-aquarian-age-would-constellate-the-p_2636505.png) > [“Sir Thomas More (7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535), also known as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, author, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-more/sir-thomas-more-7-february-1478-6-july-1535-also-known-as-saint/) [Thomas More](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-more/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a94/thomas-more-3382_king-henry_sir-thomas-more-7-february-1478-6-july-1_635160.jpg) > [“Your job then, should you choose to accept it, is to keep searching for the metaphors, rituals and teachers that will help…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/your-job-then-should-you-choose-to-accept-it-is-to-keep-searching-for/) [Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/294/elizabeth-gilbert-131_buddhism_your-job-then-should-you-choose-to-accep_2287353.jpg) > [“Whether it is Bach or Mozart that we hear in church, we have a sense in either case of what gloria Dei,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/whether-it-is-bach-or-mozart-that-we-hear-in-church-we-have-a-sense/) [Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e2e/pope-benedict-xvi-414_art_whether-it-is-bach-or-mozart-that-we-hea_160819.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/pope-pius-x/#itemlist", "name": "Pope Pius X Quotes", "numberOfItems": 17, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If any one age could be singled out as the worst in the history of Christendom, it would be the administration of Pope Pius XII, the most reactionary head of the most reactionary single force in the world - a force that binds men's minds, a force that divides them, a force that chains them so that they are unable to think and act for themselves.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Madalyn Murray O'Hair" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madalyn-murray-o-hair/if-any-one-age-could-be-singled-out-as-the-worst-in-the-history-of/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/210/madalyn-murray-o-hair-3597_administration_if-any-one-age-could-be-singled-out-as-t_645654.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/210/madalyn-murray-o-hair-3597_administration_if-any-one-age-could-be-singled-out-as-t_645654.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/210/madalyn-murray-o-hair-3597_administration_if-any-one-age-could-be-singled-out-as-t_645654.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“If any one age could be singled out as the worst in the history of Christendom, it would be the…” — Madalyn Murray O'Hair", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“New evidence uncovered in the Vatican Secret Archives suggests that the wartime Pope Pius XII – formerly an influential Vatican diplomat named Eugenio Pacelli – may have done more to facilitate Hitler's rise to power than most secular leaders.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Cyrus Shahrad" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cyrus-shahrad/new-evidence-uncovered-in-the-vatican-secret-archives-suggests-that/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b76/cyrus-shahrad-61888_pope-pius-x_new-evidence-uncovered-in-the-vatican-se_1238661.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b76/cyrus-shahrad-61888_pope-pius-x_new-evidence-uncovered-in-the-vatican-se_1238661.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b76/cyrus-shahrad-61888_pope-pius-x_new-evidence-uncovered-in-the-vatican-se_1238661.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“New evidence uncovered in the Vatican Secret Archives suggests that the wartime Pope Pius XII – formerly an…” — Cyrus Shahrad", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Dermot found me; 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Virtue would…” — Carrie Gress", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 10, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We cannot escape our destiny, nor should we try to do so. The leadership of the free world was thrust upon us two centuries ago in that little hall of Philadelphia. In the days following World War II, when the economic strength and power of America was all that stood between the world and the return to the dark ages, Pope Pius XII said, 'The American people have a great genius for splendid and unselfish actions. Into the hands of America God has placed the destinies of an afflicted mankind.' 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The leadership of the free world was thrust upon…” — Ronald Reagan", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 11, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“You alone in Europe are not ancient oh Christianity The most modern European is you Pope Pius X And you whom the windows observe shame keeps you From entering a church and confessing this morning You read the prospectuses the catalogues the billboards that sing aloud That's the poetry this morning and for the prose there are the newspapers There are the 25 centime serials full of murder mysteries Portraits of great men and a thousand different headlines (\"Zone\")”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Guillaume Apollinaire" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guillaume-apollinaire/you-alone-in-europe-are-not-ancient-oh-christianity-the-most-modern/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c8a/guillaume-apollinaire-10109_advertising_you-alone-in-europe-are-not-ancient-oh-c_1833187.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c8a/guillaume-apollinaire-10109_advertising_you-alone-in-europe-are-not-ancient-oh-c_1833187.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c8a/guillaume-apollinaire-10109_advertising_you-alone-in-europe-are-not-ancient-oh-c_1833187.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“You alone in Europe are not ancient oh Christianity The most modern European is you Pope Pius X And you whom…” — Guillaume Apollinaire", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 12, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Benito Mussolini had barely seized power in Italy before the Vatican made an official treaty with him. . . . Catholicism became the only recognized religion in Italy . . . and in return urged its followers to vote for Mussolini's party. Pope Pius XI described [Mussolini] as 'a man sent by providence.' . . . Across southern Europe, the church was a reliable ally in the instatement of fascist regimes. . . .", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Christopher Hitchens" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/benito-mussolini-had-barely-seized-power-in-italy-before-the-vatican-2/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/77a/christopher-hitchens-117_allies_benito-mussolini-had-barely-seized-power_2661843.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/77a/christopher-hitchens-117_allies_benito-mussolini-had-barely-seized-power_2661843.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/77a/christopher-hitchens-117_allies_benito-mussolini-had-barely-seized-power_2661843.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Benito Mussolini had barely seized power in Italy before the Vatican made an official treaty with him…” — Christopher Hitchens", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 13, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“a leading humanist scholar and occupied many public offices, including that of Lord Chancellor from 1529 to 1532. More coined the word \"utopia\", a name he gave to an ideal, imaginary island nation whose political system he described in a book published in 1516. He is chiefly remembered for his principled refusal to accept King Henry VIII's claim to be supreme head of the Church of England, a decision which ended his political career and led to his execution as a traitor. In 1935, four hundred years after his death, More was canonized in the Catholic Church by Pope Pius XI, and was later declared the patron saint of lawyers and statesmen”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Thomas More" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-more/a-leading-humanist-scholar-and-occupied-many-public-offices-including/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/512/thomas-more-3382_henry-viii_a-leading-humanist-scholar-and-occupied_2545251.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/512/thomas-more-3382_henry-viii_a-leading-humanist-scholar-and-occupied_2545251.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/512/thomas-more-3382_henry-viii_a-leading-humanist-scholar-and-occupied_2545251.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“a leading humanist scholar and occupied many public offices, including that of Lord Chancellor from 1529 to…” — Thomas More", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 14, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The Aquarian age would “constellate the problem of the union of opposites.” The “real existence” of evil would have to be acknowledged; it could no longer be understood as the mere absence of good, as was the official Christian stance. This would come about not through politics or any collective effort but through the “individual human being, via his experience of the living spirit,” that is, the unconscious.7 As an example of how the archetypes work on the collective consciousness, Jung notes the then recent papal decree making the Assumption of Mary, Christ’s mother, part of Christian dogma. This was of enormous importance for Jung; it showed that Christianity recognized the need to include the feminine in the Godhead, something it had lacked and which had weakened its appeal. The idea that Mary didn’t die but was taken, body and soul, to heaven, had been accepted for nearly a century, but it wasn’t made part of divine revelation until Pope Pius XII’s decree on November 1, 1950. The masses demanded it and their insistence was, Jung writes, “the urge of the archetype to realize itself.”8”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Gary Valentine Lachman" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-valentine-lachman/the-aquarian-age-would-constellate-the-problem-of-the-union-of/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e55/gary-valentine-lachman-14492_christianity_the-aquarian-age-would-constellate-the-p_2636505.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e55/gary-valentine-lachman-14492_christianity_the-aquarian-age-would-constellate-the-p_2636505.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e55/gary-valentine-lachman-14492_christianity_the-aquarian-age-would-constellate-the-p_2636505.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The Aquarian age would “constellate the problem of the union of opposites.” The “real existence” of evil…” — Gary Valentine Lachman", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 15, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Sir Thomas More (7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535), also known as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, author, and statesman. During his lifetime he earned a reputation as a leading humanist scholar and occupied many public offices, including that of Lord Chancellor from 1529 to 1532. More coined the word \"utopia\", a name he gave to an ideal, imaginary island nation whose political system he described in a book published in 1516. He is chiefly remembered for his principled refusal to accept King Henry VIII's claim to be supreme head of the Church of England, a decision which ended his political career and led to his execution as a traitor. In 1935, four hundred years after his death, More was canonized in the Catholic Church by Pope Pius XI, and was later declared the patron saint of lawyers and statesmen. He shares his feast day, June 22 on the Catholic calendar of saints, with Saint John Fisher, the only Bishop during the English Reformation to maintain his allegiance to the Pope. More was added to the Anglican Churches' calendar of saints in 1980. Source: Wikipedia”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Thomas More" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-more/sir-thomas-more-7-february-1478-6-july-1535-also-known-as-saint/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a94/thomas-more-3382_king-henry_sir-thomas-more-7-february-1478-6-july-1_635160.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a94/thomas-more-3382_king-henry_sir-thomas-more-7-february-1478-6-july-1_635160.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a94/thomas-more-3382_king-henry_sir-thomas-more-7-february-1478-6-july-1_635160.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Sir Thomas More (7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535), also known as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer…” — Thomas More", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 16, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Your job then, should you choose to accept it, is to keep searching for the metaphors, rituals and teachers that will help you move ever closer to divinity. The Yogic scriptures say that God responds to the sacred prayers and efforts of human beings in any way whatsoever that mortals choose to worship—just so long as those prayers are sincere. I think you have every right to cherry-pick when it comes to moving your spirit and finding peace in God. I think you are free to search for any metaphor whatsoever which will take you across the worldly divide whenever you need to be transported or comforted. It's nothing to be embarrassed about. It's the history of mankind's search for holiness. If humanity never evolved in its exploration of the divine, a lot of us would still be worshipping golden Egyptian statues of cats. And this evolution of religious thinking does involve a fair bit of cherry-picking. You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward the light. The Hopi Indians thought that the world's religions each contained one spiritual thread, and that these threads are always seeking each other, wanting to join. When all the threads are finally woven together they will form a rope that will pull us out of this dark cycle of history and into the next realm. More contemporarily, the Dalai Lama has repeated the same idea, assuring his Western students repeatedly that they needn't become Tibetan Buddhists in order to be his pupils. He welcomes them to take whatever ideas they like out of Tibetan Buddhism and integrate these ideas into their own religious practices. Even in the most unlikely and conservative of places, you can find sometimes this glimmering idea that God might be bigger than our limited religious doctrines have taught us. In 1954, Pope Pius XI, of all people, sent some Vatican delegates on a trip to Libya with these written instructions: \"Do NOT think that you are going among Infidels. Muslims attain salvation, too. The ways of Providence are infinite.\" But doesn't that make sense? That the infinite would be, indeed ... infinite? That even the most holy amongst us would only be able to see scattered pieces of the eternal picture at any given time? And that maybe if we could collect those pieces and compare them, a story about God would begin to emerge that resembles and includes everyone? And isn't our individual longing for transcendence all just part of this larger human search for divinity? Don't we each have the right to not stop seeking until we get as close to the source of wonder as possible? Even if it means coming to India and kissing trees in the moonlight for a while? That's me in the corner, in other words. That's me in the spotlight. Choosing my religion.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Elizabeth Gilbert" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/your-job-then-should-you-choose-to-accept-it-is-to-keep-searching-for/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/294/elizabeth-gilbert-131_buddhism_your-job-then-should-you-choose-to-accep_2287353.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/294/elizabeth-gilbert-131_buddhism_your-job-then-should-you-choose-to-accep_2287353.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/294/elizabeth-gilbert-131_buddhism_your-job-then-should-you-choose-to-accep_2287353.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Your job then, should you choose to accept it, is to keep searching for the metaphors, rituals and teachers…” — Elizabeth Gilbert", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 17, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Whether it is Bach or Mozart that we hear in church, we have a sense in either case of what gloria Dei, the glory of God, means. The mystery of infinite beauty is there and enables us to experience the presence of God more truly and vividly than in many sermons. But there are already signs of danger to come. Subjective experience and passion are still held in check by the order of the musical universe, reflecting as it does the order of the divine creation itself. But there is already the threat of invasion by the virtuoso mentality, the vanity of technique, which is no longer the servant of the whole but wants to push itself to the fore. During the nineteenth century, the century of self-emancipating subjectivity, this led in many places to the obscuring of the sacred by the operatic. The dangers that had forced the Council of Trent to intervene were back again. In similar fashion, Pope Pius X tried to remove the operatic element from the liturgy and declared Gregorian chant and the great polyphony of the age of the Catholic Reformation (of which Palestrina was the outstanding representative) to be the standard for liturgical music. A clear distinction was made between liturgical music and religious music in general, just as visual art in the liturgy has to conform to different standards from those employed in religious art in general. 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