learn about the Catholic church through the saints, they had wise words to say. They are our friends to guide us to Christ. Meditate on these words.
May God bless you.
"To recoil before an enemy, or to keep silence when from all sides such clamors are raised against truth, is the part of a man either devoid of character or who entertains doubt as to the truth of what he professes to believe. In both cases such mode of behaving is base and is insulting to God, and both are incompatible with the salvation of mankind." Pope Leo XIII
"The greatest obstacle in the apostolate of the Church is the timidity or rather the cowardice of the faithful."-Pope St. Pius X
"When lies have been accepted for some time, the truth always astounds with an air of novelty."-St. Clement of Alexandria
The first requirement of salvation is to keep the standard of the True Faith. --Pope St. Adrian II (867-872)
If anyone prays with heretics, he is a heretic.-Pope St. Agatho I (678-682)
The devil has always attempted, by means of the heretics, to deprive the world of the Mass, making them precursors of the Anti-Christ, who, before anything else, will try to abolish and will actually abolish the Holy Sacrament of the altar, as a punishment for the sins of men, according to the prediction of Daniel "And strength was given him against the continual sacrifice" (Daniel 8:12D). --St. Alphonsus Liguori, Doctor of the Church (1696-1787)
St. Athanasius, to whom it was objected, "You have the bishops against you," answered with Faith: "that proves that they are all against the Church." --St. Athanasius (ca. 296-373) If the world goes against the truth, then Athanasius goes against the world [Athanasius contra mundum]. --St. Athanasius (ca. 296-373) [tag also attributed to the Roman Emperor Constantius in the year 355 when he chided Pope Liberius for refusing to condemn St. Athanasius ("Who are you to stand up for Athanasius against the world?")
Persecutions serve to bring forth saints.--St. Augustine (354-430) Wrong is wrong even if everybody is doing it, and right is right even if nobody is doing it.-St. Augustine (354-430) If there are some present who do not understand what is being said or sung, they know at least that all is said and sung to the glory of God, and that is sufficient for them to join in it devoutly. --St. Augustine (354-430)
In the Old Testament the New is concealed, in the New the Old is revealed.-- St. Augustine (354-430)
There is a beauty of form, a dignity of language, a sublimity of diction which are, so to speak, spontaneous, and are the natural outcome of great thoughts, strong convictions, and glowing feelings. The Fathers [of the Church] often attain to this eloquence without intending to do so, without self-complacency and all unconsciously.--St. Augustine (354-430)
A man cannot have salvation, except in the Catholic Church. Outside the Catholic Church he can have everything except salvation. He can have honor, he can have Sacraments, he can sing alleluia, he can answer amen, he can possess the gospel, he can have and preach faith in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost; but never except in the Catholic church will he be able to find salvation. --St. Augustine (354-430)
Matters have come to this pass: the people have left their houses of prayer and assembled in the deserts, -- a pitiable sight; women and children, old men, and men otherwise inform, wretchedly faring in the open air, amid most profuse rains and snow-storms and winds and frosts of winter; and again in summer under a scorching sun. To this they submit because they will have no part of the wicked Arian leaven. --St. Basil the Great (ca. 330-ca. 379)
It is permissible to resist the Pope when he invades souls and troubles the commonwealth; and moreover, if he appears to be causing harm to the Church, it is permissible, I say, to resist him by not doing what he enjoins and by preventing his will to triumph. --St. Robert Bellarmine
A pope who is a manifest heretic automatically (per se) ceases to be pope and head, just as he ceases automatically to be a Christian and a member of the Church. Wherefore, he can be judged and punished by the Church. This is the teaching of the ancient Fathers who teach that manifest heretics immediately lose all jurisdiction. --St. Robert Bellarmine
Better that only a few Catholics should be left, staunch and sincere in their religion, than that they should, remaining many, desire as it were, to be in collusion with the Church's enemies and in conformity with the open foes of our faith. --St. Peter Canisius (1521-1597)
Alas, Most Holy Father! At times obedience to you leads to eternal damnation. --St. Catherine of Siena (1347-1380) Letter to Pope Gregory IX, 1376
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.--G.K. Chesterton
To adhere to a false Bishop of Rome is to be out of communion with the Church. --St. Cyprian
They [deaconesses] were only women-elders, not priestesses in any sense, and their mission was not to interfere in any way with Sacerdotal functions, but simply to perform offices in the care of women. --St. Epiphanius
Not to oppose error is to approve it; and not to defend truth is to suppress it; and indeed to neglect to confound evil men, when we can do it, is no less a sin than to encourage them. --Pope St. Felix III
Say your Pater, Ave, and Credo in Latin ... so as to join in the universal language of the Church. --St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622) Be assured that we shall obtain more grace and merit in one day by suffering patiently the afflictions that come to us from God or from our neighbor than we would acquire in ten years by mortifications and other exercises that are of our own choice. --St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
By this our decree, to be valid in perpetuity, we determine and order that never shall anything be added to, omitted from, or changed in this [Traditional Roman Catholic] missal.--Pope St. Pius V
Is it Tradition? Then ask no more.--St. John Chrysostom
Liberal Catholics are the worst enemies of the Church. --Pope Pius IX
The Church has no right whatsoever to touch the institution and form of the Sacraments.--Pope St. Pius X (1903-1914)
They want them [the Modernists] to be treated with oil, soap, andcaresses. But they should be beaten with fists. In a duel, you don't count or measure the blows, you strike as you can. War is not made withcharity: it is a struggle, a duel. If Our Lord were not terrible, He would not have given an example in this too. See how he treated thePhilistines, the sowers of error, the wolves in sheep's clothing, the traders: He scourged them with whips! --Pope St. Pius X (1903-1914), to someone who begged him to show pity toward a Modernist
Henceforth the enemy of the Church is no longer outside the Church; he is now within.-Pope St. Pius X (1903-1914)
Modernists vent all their bitterness and hatred on Catholics who zealously fight the battles of the church. There is no species of insult which they do not heap upon them, but their usual course is to charge them with ignorance or obstinacy. When an adversary rises up against them with an erudition and force that renders them redoubtable, they seek to make a conspiracy of silence around him to nullify the effects of his attack. -- Pope St. Pius X (1903-1914)
