Pope Pius IX Quotes

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• The Church is built on the rock of Peter, and he who eats the Lamb outside this holy dwelling is reprobate .. .He who eats…
• Because God knows, searches and clearly understands the minds, hearts, thoughts, and nature of all, his supreme kindness and clemency do not permit anyone at…
• The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.
• These enemies of divine revelation extol human progress to the skies, and with rash and sacrilegious daring would have it introduced into the Catholic religion…
• The Roman Pontiffs have always...held that all those rites should be preserved which deviate neither from accuracy in matters of faith, nor from what is…
• The most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instant of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by almighty God, in view of…
• The civil liberty of every mode of worship, and full power given to all of openly and publicly manifesting their opinions and their ideas conduce…
• Give me an army saying the Rosary and I will conquer the world.
• The foundation of all our confidence is found in the Blessed Virgin Mary. God has committed to her the treasury of all good things, in…
• It is error to believe that Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall…
• Socialism, Communism, clandestine societies, Bible societies... pests of this sort must be destroyed by all means.
• If anyone says that it is possible that at some time, given the advancement of knowledge, a sense may be assigned to the dogmas propounded…
• Now you know well that the most deadly foes of the Catholic religion have always waged a fierce war, but without success, against this Chair…
• I have always condemned Liberal Catholicism and I will condemn it again forty times over if it be necessary.
• Liberal Catholics are the worst enemies of the Church.
• Nothing can ever pass away from the words of Christ, nor can anything be changed in the doctrine which the Catholic Church received from Christ…
• Atheism in legislation, indifference in matters of religion, and the pernicious maxims which go under the name of Liberal Catholicism are the true causes of…
• The chisel is the pen of the sculptor.

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