Pius V Quotes

#1. To separate tabernacle from altar is to separate two things which by their origin and nature should remain united.

Pope Pius XII

#2. The state (the U.S. Constitution) has not the right to leave every man free to profess and embrace whatever religion he may desire.

Pope Pius IX

#3. To heal the breach between the rich and the poor, it is necessary to distinguish between justice and charity.

Pope Pius X

#4. How many girls there are who do not see any wrongdoing in following certain shameless styles like so many sheep. They certainly would blush if they could guess the impression they make and the feelings they evoke in those who see them.

Pope Pius XII

#5. One Galileo in two thousand years is enough.

Pope Pius XII

#6. Nothing would please us more than to see our beloved children form the habit of reading the Gospels - not merely from time to time, but every day.

Pope Pius X

#7. Just as the divine Redeemer, dying on the Cross, offered Himself as Head of the whole human race to the eternal Father, so also in this "clean oblation" (Mal 1:2), He, as Head of the Church, offers not only Himself but, in Himself, all His mystical members.

Pope Pius XII

#8. God being infinite beauty, the soul united to Christ draws upon himself the admiring and tender gaze of the Angels, who, were they capable of any passion, would be filled with envy at his lot.

Pope Pius X

#9. Catholics can in no way convince themselves that so enormous and unjust an in equality in the distribution of this world's goods truly conforms to the designs of the all-wise Creator.

Pope Pius XI

#10. 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 as if this religion were not the work of God but of man, or some kind of philosophical discovery susceptible of perfection by human efforts.

Pope Pius IX

#11. Let the storm rage and the sky darken - not for that shall we be dismayed. If we trust as we should in Mary, we shall recognize in her, the Virgin Most Powerful who with virginal foot did crush the head of the serpent.

Pope Pius X

#12. Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid ... research and discussions ... with regard to the doctrine of evolution.

Pope Pius XII

#13. Give me an army saying the Rosary and I will conquer the world.

Pope Pius IX

#14. Lust sullies every age of man, but quite extinguishes old age.

Pope Pius II

#15. The Pope and God are the same, so he has all power in Heaven and earth.

Pope Pius V

#16. All the evils of the world are due to lukewarm Catholics.

Pope Pius V

#17. Among all the devotions approved by the Church none has been so favored by so many miracles as the devotion of the Most Holy Rosary

Pope Pius X

#18. A deep spiritual bond exists between Christians, Moslems and Jews, for as Pope Pius XII said, all Christians are "spiritual Semites" because we are descended spiritually from Abraham.

Fulton J. Sheen

#19. As a champion of the Church Militant in a hostile secular society, Belloc would sometimes exhibit a siege mentality akin to the defiance of Pius IX.

Joseph Pearce

#20. The proposition that the principal articles of the Apostles' Creed did not have the same meaning for the Christians of the earliest times as they have for Christians of our time is hereby condemned and proscribed as erroneous.

Pope Pius X

#21. The true friends of the people are neither revolutionaries, nor innovators, but traditionalists.

Pope Pius X

#22. In 1954, Pope Pius XI, of all people, sent some Vatican delegates on a trip to Libya with these written instructions: Do NOT think that you are going among Infidels. Muslims attain salvation, too. The ways of Providence are infinite.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#23. No one can be, at the same time, a sincere Catholic and a true Socialist.

Pope Pius XI

#24. There always exists an absolute norm to be preserved

Pope Pius XII

#25. If a future Pope teaches anything contrary to the Catholic Faith, do not follow him.

Pope Pius IX

#26. In the criminal law [ ... ] imprisonment should be resorted to only after the most anxious consideration.

Pius Langa

#27. [A] high minded gallantry in defense of the foundations of Christian culture.

Pope Pius XII

#28. Feeding the birds is also a form of prayer.

Pope Pius XII

#29. We lament, too, the destruction of purity among women and young girls as is evidenced by the increasing immodesty of their dress and conversation and by their participation in shameful dances.

Pope Pius XI

#30. By divine mandate the interpreter and guardian of the Scriptures, and the depository of Sacred Tradition living within her, the Church alone is the entrance to salvation: She alone, by herself, and under the protection and guidance of the Holy Spirit, is the source of truth.

Pope Pius XII

#31. All men are brothered in Jesus Christ.

Pope Pius XII

#32. A. D. 1560, pope Pius the Fourth, ordered all the protestants to be severely persecuted throughout the Italian states, when great numbers of every age, sex, and condition, suffered martyrdom.

John Foxe

#33. Below the knee, halfway down the arm, and two finger widths below the collarbone.

Pope Pius XII

#34. One should not withdraw from individuals and commit to the community what they can accomplish by their own enterprise and industry

Pope Pius XI