The first consideration is that the ceremonies of the Mosaic Law were abrogated by the coming of Christ and that they can no longer be observed witho…

- Pope Benedict Xiv

We declare that a great number of those who are condemned to eternal punishment suffer that everlasting calamity because of ignorance of those myster…

- Pope Benedict Xiv

Pope Gelasius in his ninth letter (chap. 26) to the bishops of Lucania condemned the evil practice which had been introduced of women serving the pri…

- Pope Benedict Xiv

The observance of Lent is the very badge of Christian warfare. By it we prove ourselves not to be enemies of Christ. By it we avert the scourges of d…

- Pope Benedict Xiv

If anyone dared to assert that the Pontiff had erred in this or that canonisation, we shall say that he is, if not a heretic, at least temerarious, a…

- Pope Benedict Xiv

The Holy Apostolic See and the Roman Pontiff have primacy in the entire world. The Roman Pontiff is the Successor of Blessed Peter, the Prince of the…

- Pope Benedict Xiv