Quote by Joseph Pohle

“—With the sole exception of Penance, which demands certain supernatural acts (faith, contrition, etc.) either as quasi-matter, or at least as a necessary condition,…

— Joseph Pohle

Consequently, heretics and schismatics, separated from the unity of this Body, are able to receive the same Sacrament, but with no benefit to themselves;…

— Saint Augustine

“The Church has always regarded the admin istration of a Sacrament in the state of mortal sin as a sacrilege, and insists on the…

— Joseph Pohle

“The category of validity allows for ecclesiastical lines to be crossed, even if there is no communion between ecclesial bodies. It allows Rome to…

— Andrew Stephen Damick

“Aquinas teaches: " As God did not bind His power to the Sacraments, so as to be unable to bestow the sacramental effect without…

— Joseph Pohle

“Indeed, in exiling Arius and his followers the treatment of ‘heretics’ had been taken out of the hands of bishops and become subject to…

— Simon Baker

“The faithful of to-day should try by a more ardent contrition to make up for the enforced mildness of the Church in the administration…

— Joseph Pohle

“All the Sacraments, as acts of their invis ible author and chief minister, Jesus Christ, by vir tue of their immanent dignity, move God…

— Joseph Pohle

The Sacraments are the salvation of those who use them rightly, and the damnation of those who misuse them.

— Saint Augustine

It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should…

— Sam Harris

By heart we believe and by mouth confess the one Church, not of heretics but the Holy Roman, Catholic, and Apostolic Church outside which…

— Pope Innocent III

“Now all these [heretics] are of much later date than the bishops to whom the apostles committed the Churches; which”

— The Church Fathers