Birth: March 2, 1810 Death: July 20, 1903
To the shepherds alone was given all power to teach, to judge, to direct; on the faithful was imposed the duty of following their teaching, of submit….
Inequality of rights and power proceeds from the very Author of nature..
Remember and understand well that where Peter is, there is the Church; that those who refuse to associate in communion with the Chair of Peter belong….
These most crafty enemies [the devils] have filled and inebriated with gall and bitterness the Church, the spouse of the Immaculate Lamb, and have la….
Therefore those governing the State ought primarily to devote themselves to the service of individual groups and of the whole commonwealth, and throu….
Moreover, Christians are born for combat, whereof the greater the vehemence, the more assured, God willing, the triumph: 'Have confidence; I have ove….
Our own belief is that the renovation of the world will be brought about only by the Holy Eucharist..
The death sentence is a necessary and efficacious means for the Church to attain its end when rebels act against it and disturbers of the ecclesiasti….
To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity..
Peace is built on the foundation of justice..
The equal toleration of all religions...is the same as atheism..
The Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever..
It is an in, a grave evil and a disturbance of the right order, for a larger and higher organisation, to arrogate to itself functions which can be pe….
Not only, in strict truth, was marriage instituted for the propagation of the human race, but also that the lives of husbands and wives might be made….
If unbridled licence of speech and writing be granted to all, nothing will remain sacred and inviolate; even the highest and truest mandates of natur….
People differ in capacity, skill, health, strength; and unequal fortune is a necessary result of unequal condition. Such inequality is far from being….
Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own. This is one of the chief points of distinction between man and the animal creation..
The devotion which God sends to the succor of His Church and of the nations at the present time is the devotion to the Most Holy Eucharist. It is the….
It is shameful and inhuman to treat men like chattels to make money by, or to regard them merely as so much muscle or physical power..
The twentieth century must be a century of the Blessed Sacrament if it means to be a century of resurrection and of life.
There is in the Sacred Heart the symbol and express image of the infinite love of Jesus Christ which moves us to love in return..