Birth: March 2, 1876 Death: October 9, 1958
Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid ... research and discussions ... with regard to the doctrine of evolution..
Mainly through sins of impurity, do the forces of darkness subjugate souls..
To desire grace without recourse to the Virgin Mother is to desire to fly without wings..
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….
True Christianity today is not different from primitive Christianity ... She remains what she has been since her foundation: always the same..
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….
Bodily pain affects man as a whole down to the deepest layers of his moral being. It forces him to face again the fundamental questions of his fate, ….
Feeding the birds is also a form of prayer..
"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….
The theory of war as an apt and proportionate means of solving international conflicts is now out of date..
God has no intention of setting a limit to the efforts of man to conquer space..
The most insidious of sophisms are usually repeated to justify immodesty and seem to be the same everywhere..
Beyond fashion and its demands, there are higher and more pressing laws, principles superior to fashion, and unchangeable, which under no circumstanc….
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….
Sport, properly directed, develops character, makes a man courageous, a generous loser, and a gracious victor; it refines the senses, gives intellect….
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….
Wine is a splendid thing in and of itself, but it is nonetheless proper to examine the high nutritional and hygienic values of wine from a scientific….
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 oblati….
The preaching of the faith has lost nothing of its relevance in our times. The Church has a sacred duty to proclaim it without any whittling-down, ju….
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….