Pope St. Pius X

We must adore the dispositions of Divine Providence, which, having instituted the Church on this earth, allows her to encounter every kind of obstacle, and formidable resistance on her way. The reason for this is obvious, because the Church is militant and therefore in continuous struggle: a struggle that makes …

The Church, even in preaching Jesus Christ crucified, stumbling block and folly to the world (cf. 1 Cor 1:23), has become the foremost leader and protector of civilization. She propagated it wherever her apostles preached. She preserved and perfected the good elements of the ancient pagan civilizations, disentangling from barbarism …

You know very well, Venerable Brethren, that even when surrounded by tribulation, the Church still enjoys some consolation from God. “Christ also loved the Church, and delivered himself up for her, that He might sanctify her... in order that He might present to himself the Church in all her glory, …

St. Pius X - Church of Holy Mary of Guadalupe (Mexico) Our Predecessor, Benedict XIV, had just cause to write: “We declare that a great number of those who are condemned to eternal punishment suffer that everlasting calamity due to ignorance of those mysteries of Faith which must be known …

A[ccording to modernists,] it was a common error of the past to judge that the authority of the Church comes directly from God; and it was then rightly held to be autocratic. But this conception has now become obsolete. For having declared, as they do, that the Church is a …