Birth: March 2, 1876 Death: October 9, 1958
A day will come when the civilized world will deny its God, when the Church will doubt as Peter doubted. She will be tempted to believe that man has ….
The day the Church abandons Her universal tongue will be the day before She returns to the Catecombs..
To live without risk is to risk not living..
Private property is a natural fruit of labor, a product of intense activity of man, acquired through his energetic determination to ensure and develo….
Human society is not a machine, and it must not be made such, even in the economic field.... Access to employment [shall not be] made to depend on re….
Below the knee, halfway down the arm, and two finger widths below the collarbone..
Above all, the state of grace is absolutely necessary at the moment of death; without it, salvation and supernatural happiness the beatific vision of….
Let no Christian therefore, whether philosopher or theologian, embrace eagerly and lightly whatever novelty happens to be thought up from day to day,….
All men are brothered in Jesus Christ..
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….
The key to seeing why there should be a Eucharistic worship distinct from the Mass is that the Eucharist is Jesus Christ. No less than His contempora….
[A] high minded gallantry in defense of the foundations of Christian culture..
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….
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….
All people and each individual man is called to come into the Church..
Christian mothers, if only you knew the future of distress and peril, of shame ill-restrained, that you prepare for your sons and daughters in imprud….
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..
"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….
Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid ... research and discussions ... with regard to the doctrine of evolution..