The preaching of the faith has lost nothing of its relevance in our times. The Church has a sacred duty to proclaim… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
All people and each individual man is called to come into the Church. — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
By divine mandate the interpreter and guardian of the Scriptures, and the depository of Sacred Tradition living within her, the Church alone… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
Some say they are not bound by the doctrine which teaches that the Mystical Body of Christ and the Roman Catholic Church… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
Salvation and justice are not to be found in revolution, but in evolution through concord. Violence has ever achieved only destruction, not… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
The good of our soul is more important than that of our body; and we have to prefer the spiritual welfare of… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
True Christianity today is not different from primitive Christianity ... She remains what she has been since her foundation: always the same. — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
Above all, the state of grace is absolutely necessary at the moment of death; without it, salvation and supernatural happiness the beatific… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
O Mary Mother of Mercy and Refuge of Sinners! We beseech thee to look with pitying eyes on poor heretics and schismatics.… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
The Church welcomes technological progress and receives it with love, for it is an indubitable fact that technological progress comes from God and, therefore,… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
Human society is not a machine, and it must not be made such, even in the economic field.... Access to employment [shall not be]… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
If a worker is deprived of hope to acquire some personal property, what other natural stimulus can be offered him that will inspire him… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
[Parental] authority must be tempered...with loving kindness and patient encouragement. To temper authority with kindness is to triumph in the struggle which belongs to… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
The faith of the Church is this: That one and identical is the Word of God and the Son of Mary Who suffered on… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
Bodily pain affects man as a whole down to the deepest layers of his moral being. It forces him to face again the fundamental… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
How many young girls there are who do not see any wrongdoing in following certain shameless styles like so many sheep. They certainly would… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
Henceforth it will be the task of this Sacred Congregation not only to examine carefully the books denounced to it, to prohibit them if… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
The most insidious of sophisms are usually repeated to justify immodesty and seem to be the same everywhere. — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
These principles have been proclaimed by God, by the Church, by the Saints, by Christian reason and morals. — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
The day the Church abandons Her universal tongue will be the day before She returns to the Catecombs. — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image