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The Church Cannot Silence the Spirit of Truth

“Stand firm in your faith!” We have just heard the words of Jesus: “If you love Me, you will keep my Commandments. And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Counsellor, to be with you for ever, the Spirit of truth” (Jn 14:15-17a). With these words …
Pope Benedict XVI - 28, February 2023

Divine Munus in Human Hands

“You are Peter, and on this rock I will build my Church” (Mt 16: 18). What exactly was the Lord saying to Peter with these words? With them, what promise did He make and what task did He entrust to him? And what is He saying to us – to …
Pope Benedict XVI - 31, January 2023

The Prayer of the Holy Rosary

Our Lady of the Rosary - Monastery of Sts. Dominic and Sixtus, Rome More than once have We asserted – and We recently repeated this in the Encyclical Letter Divini Redemptoris – that there is no remedy for the ever-growing evils of our times except a return to Our Lord …
Pope Pius XI - 30, September 2020

Faith and Science, Church and State

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 …
Pope St. Pius X - 30, April 2020

The Wondrous Power of the Cross

Having discoursed in our last sermon on the events which preceded the Lord’s arrest, it now remains, with the help of divine grace, to discuss, as we promised, the details of the Passion itself. The Lord had made it clear by the words of His sacred prayer (cf. Jn 17) …
Pope St. Leo the Great - 31, March 2019

The Duty to Cooperate with the Truth

Our message is inspired by the first page of the Gospel of St. John, in that prologue which is the theme of the sublime poem that sings of the mystery and reality of the most intimate and sacred union between the Word of God and humanity, between Heaven and earth, …
Pope St. John XXIII - 30, November 2022

Seed of Christ’s Kingdom on Earth

The eternal Father, by a free and hidden plan of His own wisdom and goodness, created the whole world, and chose to raise men to a participation in the divine life. He did not abandon men, fallen in Adam, but ceaselessly offered helps to salvation, in view of Christ, the …
Pope St. Paul VI - 31, October 2022

Cohesion in Diversity

From its very origins the Church has been conscious of the transformation brought about by Christ’s redemptive work, and has joyfully proclaimed it. Through her, the world has become a radically new reality (cf. 2 Cor 5:17), in which people have rediscovered God and hope (cf. Eph 2:12), and have …
Pope St. Paul VI - 30, September 2022

Lift Up Your Hearts!

The Solemnity of All Saints is a favourable occasion to raise our gaze from earthly realities, marked by time, to God’s dimension, the dimension of eternity and holiness. […] all members of the People of God are called to become holy, according to the Apostle Paul’s affirmation: “For this is …
Pontifical Magisterium  - 31, October 2025

The Foundation of Unity

Therefore, of the one and only Church (there is) one body, one head, not two heads as a monster, namely, Christ and Peter, the Vicar of Christ and the successor of Peter, the Lord Himself saying to Peter: “Feed my sheep” (Jn 21:17). He said “my,” and generally, not individually …
Pontifical Magisterium  - 31, May 2025

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