Quotes Suitable for Framing: Saint Pope Pius X
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Saint Pope Pius X and Leo XIII have so much to say to us today (not to the exclusion of others). Thanks for posting— I consider this good catechesis.
Wow…from the same encyclical we see this:
“By separating fraternity from Christian charity thus understood, Democracy, far from being a progress, would mean a disastrous step backwards for civilization. If, as We desire with all Our heart, the highest possible peak of well being for society and its members is to be attained through fraternity or, as it is also called, universal solidarity, all minds must be united in the knowledge of Truth, all wills united in morality, and all hearts in the love of God and His Son Jesus Christ. But this union is attainable only by Catholic charity, and that is why Catholic charity alone can lead the people in the march of progress towards the ideal civilization. ”
Something we can all mull over as we watch the Pope’s recent ecumenical video…
“…..but He (Jesus) instructed them in order to convert them and save them.”
-The Royal way of the Cross.-
Conversion?
How traditional.
Many gems in this whole letter about the efforts to ‘ appeal to all the heterodox’ .
I hope many will read it all. I wish I could send a copy to some of our bishops and those priests who just want to “go along” with this change of direction for our Church.
Wait a second. Francis is Pope now. We shouldn’t be digging around in ancient history for old stuff that doesn’t apply anymore. You’re undermining Francis the Merciful and Beneficent.
Francis the Perfect has gone beyond this old, pedestrian stuff. Francis the Perfect has now illustrated that the church used to teach old, legalistic rules that bound us hand and foot and kept us from being as wonderful as Francis the Perfect. So, using my all powerful conscience, I have decided that people such as Pius X were non entities that no modern man need follow. We are evolving into new, perfect Francis beings now.
Thank you Donald. Sometimes, I have to remind myself it’s not just me. Thank you.
My favorite pope.
“Progress” of dogmas is, in reality, nothing but corruption of dogmas … I absolutely reject the heretical doctrine of the evolution of dogma, as passing from one meaning to another, and different from the sense in which the Church originally held it. And likewise, I condemn every error by which philosophical inventions, or creations of the human mind, or products elaborated by human effort and destined to indefinite progress in the future are substituted for that Divine Deposit given by Christ to the faithful custody of the Church . . . Condemned and proscribed is the error that dogmas are nothing but interpretations and evolutions of Christian intelligence which have increased and perfected the little seed hidden in the Gospel.
Pope St. Pius X