O Mary Mother of Mercy and Refuge of Sinners! We beseech thee to look with pitying eyes on poor heretics and schismatics. Do thou, who art the Seat o….

Let no Christian therefore, whether philosopher or theologian, embrace eagerly and lightly whatever novelty happens to be thought up from day to day,….

But how can you know anything of the impression made on others? Who can assure you that others do not draw therefrom incentives to evil? You do not k….

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

By divine mandate the interpreter and guardian of the Scriptures, and the depository of Sacred Tradition living within her, the Church alone is the e….

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

Beyond fashion and its demands, there are higher and more pressing laws, principles superior to fashion, and unchangeable, which under no circumstanc….

This practice of adoration is based on strong and solid reasons. For the Eucharist is at once a sacrifice and a sacrament; but it differs from the ot….

The most insidious of sophisms are usually repeated to justify immodesty and seem to be the same everywhere..

Henceforth it will be the task of this Sacred Congregation not only to examine carefully the books denounced to it, to prohibit them if necessary, an….

In fact, it seems that present-day science, with one sweeping step back across millions of centuries, has succeeded in bearing witness to that primor….

"Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's and unto God the things which are God's." One would like to add: Give unto man things which are man….

When she was thrown into the air by a savage bull in the amphitheatre at Carthage, her first thought and action when she fell to the ground was to re….

To live without risk is to risk not living..

That which does not correspond to the truth or to the moral norm possesses, objectively, no right either to existence or to propagation or to action..

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 c….

All people and each individual man is called to come into the Church..

You lose nothing through peace. You can lose everything through war..

Above all, the state of grace is absolutely necessary at the moment of death; without it, salvation and supernatural happiness the beatific vision of….

Some say they are not bound by the doctrine which teaches that the Mystical Body of Christ and the Roman Catholic Church are one and the same thing. ….

It might be said that society speaks through the clothing it wears. Through its clothing it reveals its secret aspirations and uses it, at least in p….