L I B R A R Y
ANTHOLOGY OF PAPAL QUOTATIONS
BIBLICAL REFERENCE
2Thessalonians 2:3,4
Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped...
ANTHOLOGY OF PAPAL QUOTATIONS
BACKGROUND
Below is a collection of direct declarations, citations and explanations on the historical theological and ecclesiastical positions of the Papacy. None of these ideas have been "renounced", "denounced" or "rescinded" as such actions by the Papacy would not be ecclesiastically "legal" or theologically permissible, as the Papacy is maintained to be "infallible" in it's "dogma".
ANTHOLOGY OF PAPAL QUOTATIONS
T H E P A P A C Y C L A I M S T O A C T U A L L Y "B E G O D"
"To make war against the Pope is to make war against God, seeing the Pope is God, and God is the Pope."
-Moreri's History. (Louis Moréri [25 March 1643 - 10 July 1680] was a French priest and encyclopedist.)
"The leader of the Catholic church is defined by the faith as the Vicar of Jesus Christ (and is accepted as such by believers). The Pope is considered the man on earth who takes the place of the Second Person of the omnipotent God of the Trinity."
- (John Paul II, Crossing the Threshold of Hope, p. 3, 1994).
"The Pope is not simply the representative of Jesus Christ. On the contrary, he is Jesus Christ Himself, under the veil of the flesh, and who by means of a being common to humanity continues His ministry amongst men ... Does the Pope speak? It is Jesus Christ Who is speaking. Does he teach? It is Jesus Christ Who teaches. Does he confer grace or pronounce an anathema? It is Jesus Christ Himself Who is pronouncing the anathema and conferring the grace. Hence consequently, when one speaks of the Pope, it is not necessary to examine, but to obey: there must be no limiting the bounds of the command, in order to suit the purpose of the individual whose obedience is demanded: there must be no caviling at the declared will of the Pope, and so invest it with quite another than that which he has put upon it: no preconceived opinions must be brought to bear upon it: no rights must be set up against the rights of the Holy Father to teach and command; his decisions are not to be criticized, or his ordinances disputed. Therefore by Divine ordination, all, no matter how august the person may be - whether he wear a crown or be invested with the purple, or be clothed in the sacred vestments: all must be subject to Him Who has had all things put under Him."
-Evangelical Christendom, January 1, 1895, pg. 15, published in London by J. S. Phillips.
"To believe that our Lord God the Pope has not the power to decree as he is decreed, is to be deemed heretical." [Canon Law]
- Gloss "Extravagantes" o.f Pope John XXII Cum inter, Tit. XIV, Cap. IV. Ad Callem Sexti Decretalium, Paris, 1685. (See actual document here)
"It is quite certain that Popes have never approved or rejected this title 'Lord God the Pope"
- Canon Law, 1580, Gregory XIII.
"In founders and foundresses [of the consecrated orders of nuns and priests, etc.] we see a constant and lively sense of the Church, which they manifest by their full participation in all aspects of the Church's life, and in their ready obedience to the bishops and especially to the Roman Pontiff. Against this background of love towards Holy Church, 'the pillar and bulwark of the truth' (1 Tim 3:15), we readily understand the devotion of Saint Francis of Assisi for 'THE LORD POPE', the daughterly outspokenness of Saint Catherine of Siena towards the one whom she called 'SWEET CHRIST ON EARTH', the apostolic obedience and the sentire cum Ecclesia of Saint Ignatius Loyola, and the joyful profession of faith made by Saint Teresa of Avila: 'I am a daughter of the Church'. We can also understand the deep desire of Saint Theresa of the Child Jesus: 'In the heart of the Church, my mother, I will be love'. These testimonies are representative of the full ecclesial communion which the Saints, founders and foundresses, have shared in diverse and often difficult times and circumstances. They are examples which consecrated persons need constantly to recall if they are to resist the particularly strong centrifugal and disruptive forces at work today. A distinctive aspect of ecclesial communion is allegiance of mind and heart to the magisterium of the bishops, an allegiance which must be lived honestly and clearly testified to before the People of God by all consecrated persons, especially those involved in theological research, teaching, publishing, catechesis and the use of the means of social communication. Because consecrated persons have a special place in the church, their attitude in this regard is of immense importance for the whole people of God"
- (Pope John Paul II, "Apostolic Exhortation on the Consecrated Life and Its Mission in the Church and in the World," to the bishops and clergy, religious orders and congregations, societies of apostolic life, secular institutes, and all the faithful, given in Rome, at Saint Peter's, March 25, 1996)
"It seems that Pope John Paul II now presides over the universal Church from his place upon Christ's cross," said Bishop Dunn, who traveled with seven other prelates to Rome.
- "Auckland Bishop Says Pope Presides From the Cross" AUCKLAND, New Zealand, SEPT. 20, 2004 -Zenit.org (Article # ZE04092001)
"The Pope is of so great dignity, and so exalted that he is not a mere man, but as it were God. and the vicar of God."
-Ferraris Ecclesiastical Dictionary
"All names which in the Scriptures are applied to Christ, by virtue of which it is established that He is over the church, all the same names are applied to the Pope."
- On the Authority of the Councils, book 2, chapter 17
"The Pope and God are the same, so he has all power in Heaven and earth."
- Pope Pius V, quoted in Barclay, Chapter XXVII, p. 218, "Cities Petrus Bertanous".
"...the Pope is as it were God on earth, sole sovereign of the faithful of Christ, chief of kings, having plenitude of power."
- Lucius Ferraris, in "Prompta Bibliotheca Canonica, Juridica, Moralis, Theologica, Ascetica, Polemica, Rubristica, Historica", Volume V, article on "Papa, Article II", titled "Concerning the extent of Papal dignity, authority, or dominion and infallibility", #1, 5, 13-15, 18, published in Petit-Montrouge (Paris) by J. P. Migne, 1858 edition.
"The Pope takes the place of Jesus Christ on earth...by divine right the Pope has supreme and full power in faith, in morals over each and every pastor and his flock. He is the true vicar, the head of the entire church, the father and teacher of all Christians. He is the infallible ruler, the founder of dogmas, the author of and the judge of councils; the universal ruler of truth, the arbiter of the world, the supreme judge of heaven and earth, the judge of all, being judged by no one, God himself on earth."
- Quoted in the New York Catechism.
"The Pope and God are the same, so he has all power in heaven and earth."
- Barclay Cap. XXVII, p. 218. Cities Petrus Bertrandus, Pius V
"the appellation of God had been confirmed by Constantine on the Pope, who, being God, cannot be judged by man."
- (Pope Nicholas I), Labb IX Dist.: 96 Can. 7, Satis evidentur, Decret Gratian Primer Para.
"The pope is of so great dignity and so exalted that he is not a mere man (...) he is as it were God on earth, sole sovereign of the faithful of Christ, chief of kings, having plenitude of power."
-Lucius Ferraris, «Prompta Bibliotheca», 1763, Volume VI, 'Papa II', pp.25-29
"The supreme teacher in the Church is the Roman Pontiff. Union of minds, therefore, requires (...) complete submission and obedience of will to the Church and to the Roman Pontiff, as to God Himself."
-Leo VIII, «On the Chief Duties of Christians as Citizens», Encyclical letter, 1890
"God separates those whom the Roman Pontiff, who exercises the functions, not of mere man, but of the true God (...) dissolves, not by human but rather by divine authority."
-Decretals of Gregory IX», Book 1, Chapter 7.3
"Hence the Pope is crowned with a triple crown, as king of heaven and of earth and of the lower regions (infernorum)."
-Lucius Ferraris, «Prompta Bibliotheca», 1763, Volume VI, 'Papa II', p.26
"Innocent III has written: "Indeed, it is not top much to say that in view of the sublimity of their offices the priests are so many gods."
-The dignity of the priesthood by Liguori p, 36
"The Pope is not only the representative of Jesus Christ, he is Jesus Christ himself, hidden under the veil of flesh."
- Catholic National, July 1895.
"We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty"
- Pope Leo XIII Encyclical Letter of June 20, 1894,
"For thou art the shepherd, thou art the physician, thou art the director, thou art the husbandman, finally thou art another God on earth."
- Labbe and Cossart's "History of the Councils." Vol. XIV, col. 109
The title "Lord God the Pope" is found within a gloss of Extravagantes of Pope John XXII, title 14, chapter 4
In an Antwerp edition of the Extravagantes, the words, "Dominum Deum Nostrum Papam" (Our Lord God the Pope) can be found in column 153. In a Paris edition, they are found in column 140.
[Roman Catholic Canon Law stipulates through Pope Innocent III that the Roman pontiff is... ]
"the vicegerent upon earth, not a mere man, but of a very God;" and in a gloss on the passage it is explained that this is because he is the vicegerent of Christ, who is "very God and very man."
- Decretales Domini Gregorii translatione Episcoporum, (on the transference of Bishops), title 7, chapter 3; Corpus Juris Canonice (2nd Leipzig ed., 1881), col. 99; (Paris, 1612), tom. 2, Devretales, col. 205
"The pope is the supreme judge of the law of the land... He is the vicegerent (replacement) of Christ, who is not only a Priest forever, but also King of kings and Lord of lords."
- La Civilia Cattolica, March 18, 1871, quoted in Leonard Woosely Bacaon,
An inside view of the Vatican Council (American Tract Society ed.), p.229, n.
"Christ entrusted His office to the chief pontiff;... but all power in heaven and in earth has been given to Christ;... therefore the chief pontiff, who is His vicar, will have this power."
- Corpus Juris chap. 1 column 29, translated from a gloss on the words Porro Subesse Romano Pontiff
"The pope is the supreme judge of the law of the land . . . He is the vicegerent of Christ, and is not only a priest forever, but also King of kings and Lord of lords"
- La Civilta Cattolica, March 18, 1871.
"All the faithful must believe that the Holy Apostolic See and the Roman Pontiff possesses the primacy over the whole world, and the Roman Pontiff is the successor of blessed Peter, Prince of the Apostles, and is true vicar of Christ, and head of the whole church, and father and teacher of all Christians; and that full power was given to him in blessed Peter to rule, feed, and govern the universal Church by Jesus Christ our Lord."
-First Dogmatic Constitution on the Church of Christ, "Eternal Pastor,"
published in the fourth session of the Vatican Council, 1870,
chap. 3, in Philip Schaff, Creeds of Christendom. vol. 2, p. 262.
"The Pope's authority is unlimited, incalculable; it can strike, as Innocent III says, wherever sin is; it can punish every one; it allows no appeal and is itself Sovereign Caprice; for the Pope carries, according to the expression of Boniface VIII, all rights in the Shrine of his breast. As he has now become infallible, he can by the use of the little word, "orbi", make every rule, every doctrine, every demand, into a certain and incontestable article of Faith. No right can stand against him, no personal or corporate liberty; or as the [Roman Catholic] Canonists put it-"The tribunal of God and of the pope is one and the same." -Ignaz von Dollinger,
- Letter to Archbishop of Munich 1871;
MacDougall,The Acton Newman Relations
(Fordham University Press) pp. 119,120.
"This is our last lesson to you: receive it, engrave it in your minds, all of you: by God's commandment salvation is to be found nowhere but in the Church; the strong and effective instrument of salvation is none other than the Roman Pontificate."
- (Pope Leo XIII, Allocution for the 25th anniversary of his election,
February 20, 1903; Papal Teachings: The Church, Benedictine Monks of Solesmes,
St. Paul Editions, Boston, 1962, par. 653).
"Furthermore, in this one Church of Christ no man can be or remain who does not accept, recognize and obey the authority and supremacy of Peter and his legitimate successors."
- Pope Pius XI, Encyclical, Mortalium animos, January 6, 1928,
The Papal Encyclicals, Claudia Carlen, I.H.M.,
McGrath Publishing Co., 1981, pp. 317, 318
"We define that the Holy Apostolic See (the Vatican) and the Roman Pontiff hold the primacy over the whole world."
-A Decree of the Council of Trent,
quoted in Philippe Labbe and Gabriel Cossart,
"The Most Holy Councils," col. 1167.
"Of what sublime dignity is the office of the Christian priest who is thus privileged to act as the ambassador and the vicegerent of Christ on earth! He continues the essential ministry of Christ; he teaches the faithful with the authority of Christ, he pardons the penitent sinner with the power of Christ, he offers up again the same sacrifice of adoration and atonement which Christ offered on Calvary. No wonder that the name which spiritual writers are especially found of applying to the priest is that of 'alter Christus.' For the priest is and should be another Christ"
- Faith of Millions, John O'Brien, Ph.D., LL.D., 268-269,
"nihil obstat" by Rev. T. E. Dillon-Censor Librorum and "imprimatur"
by John Francis Noll, D.D. -Bishop of Fort Wayne
"But as for you and your companions, you certainly sin, if, having heard the decrees of the Apostolic See, and of the universal Church, and the same is confirmed by Holy Writ, you refuse to follow them; for, though your fathers were holy, do you think that their small number, in a corner of the remotest island, is to be preferred before the universal Church of Christ throughout the world? And if that Columba of yours (and, I may say, ours also, if he was Christ's servant), was a holy man and powerful in miracles, yet could he be preferred before the most blessed prince of the Apostles to whom Our Lord said 'Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it, and to thee I will give the keys of the kingdom of heaven'?" When Wilfrid had spoken thus, the king said, "Is it true Colman, that these words were spoken to Peter by Our Lord?" He answered, "It is true, O king!" Then says he, "Can you show any such power given to your Columba?" Colman answered, "None." Then added the king, "Do you both agree that these words were principally directed to Peter, and that the keys of heaven were given to him by Our Lord?" They both answered. "We do." Then the king concluded, "And I also say unto you, that he is the door-keeper, whom I will not contradict, but will, as far as I know and am able, in all things obey his decrees, lest, when I come to the gates of the kingdom of heaven, there should be none to open them, he being my adversary who is proved to have the keys."
- St. Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation,
quoted in Readings from Church History, Volume I,
edited by Fr. Colman Barry, O.S.B.,
The Newman Press, Westminster, MD, 1966, p. 273.
"That the Roman pontiff alone can with right be called universal."
"That he alone may use the imperial insignia."
"That of the pope alone all princes shall kiss the feet."
"That his name alone shall be spoken in the churches."
"That this title [Pope] is unique in the world."
"That it may be permitted to him to depose emperors."
"That no synod shall be called a general one without his order."
"That no chapter and no book shall be considered canonical without his authority."
"That he himself may be judged by no one."
"That the Roman church has never erred; nor will it err to all eternity, the Scripture bearing witness."
"That the Roman pontiff, if he have been canonically ordained, is undoubtedly made a saint by the merits of St. Peter; St. "Ennodius, bishop of Pavia, bearing witness, and many holy fathers agreeing with him. As is contained in the decrees of St. Symmachus the pope."
"That he may absolve subjects from their fealty to wicked men."
- Pope Gregory VII, Dictatus Papae, 1075,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictatus_papae
T H E P A P A C Y C L A I M S T O "B E I N F A L L I B L E"
"If an infallible pope can abdicate for age or ill health, why not for scandal or mismanagement? Why not from a palace coup or popular revolt?Some conservatives were not pleased. Stanislaw Cardinal Dziwisz, who was private secretary to the late Pope John Paul II, noted that Benedict's predecessor stayed in his job despite great physical suffering. "One doesn't come down from the cross," Dziwisz said."
-TheStar.com Monday Feb. 18:2013
"The Roman Pontiff, head of the college of bishops, enjoys this infallibility in virtue of his office, when, as Supreme Pastor and teacher of all the faithful--who confirms his brethren in the faith--he proclaims by a definitive act a doctrine pertaining to faith or morals....The infallibility promised to the Church is also present in the body of bishops when, together with Peter's successor, 'they exercise the supreme Magisterium,' above all in an Ecumenical Council. When the Church through its supreme Magisterium proposes a doctrine 'for belief as being divinely revealed,' and as the teaching of Christ, the definitions 'must be adhered to with the obedience of faith.' This infallibility extends as far as the deposit of divine revelation itself."
- Catechism of the Catholic Church, #891, 1994 edition.
"The Pope takes the place of Jesus Christ on earth...by divine right the Pope has supreme and full power in faith, in morals over each and every pastor and his flock. He is the true vicar, the head of the entire church, the father and teacher of all Christians. He is the infallible ruler, the founder of dogmas, the author of and the judge of councils; the universal ruler of truth, the arbiter of the world, the supreme judge of heaven and earth, the judge of all, being judged by no one, God himself on earth."
- Quoted in the New York Catechism.
"The Pope's authority is unlimited, incalculable; it can strike, as Innocent III says, wherever sin is; it can punish every one; it allows no appeal and is itself Sovereign Caprice; for the Pope carries, according to the expression of Boniface VIII, all rights in the Shrine of his breast. As he has now become infallible, he can by the use of the little word, "orbi," (which means that he turns himself round to the whole Church) make every rule, every doctrine, every demand, into a certain and incontestable article of Faith. No right can stand against him, no personal or corporate liberty; or as the [Roman Catholic] Canonists put it-"The tribunal of God and of the pope is one and the same." -Ignaz von Dollinger, "
- Letter Addressed to Archbishop of Munich" 1871;
as quoted in MacDougall,
The Acton Newman Relations (Fordham University Press) pp. 119,120.
T H E P A P A C Y C L A I M S P O W E R O V E R A L L "G O V E R N M E N T S"
"It was said to me in the prophet: 'I have set you over nations and over kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down, to destroy, and to overthrow, to build and to plant' (Jer. 1:10)...Others were called to the role of caring, but only St. Peter was invested with the fullness of power [plenitudo potestatis]. See then what manner of servant this is, appointed over the household; he is indeed the vicar of Jesus Christ, the successor of St. Peter, the Christ of the Lord, the God of Pharaoh...the midpoint between God and man... who can judge all things and is judged by no one."
- Consecration Sermon, c. 1200, see Rome Has Spoken; Granfield, Patrick,
The Limits of the Papacy:Authority and Autonomy in the Church, NY:Crossroad, 1987; p. 32.
"We alone have the power to bind and to loose, to absolve Nero and to condemn him; and Christians can not, under penalty of excommunication, execute other judgment than ours, which alone is infallible. People are not the judges of their princes; they should obey without murmuring the most iniquitous orders; they should bow their foreheads under the chastisements which it pleases kings to inflict on them, for a sovereign can violate the fundamental laws of the State, and seize upon the wealth of the citizen, by imposts or by confiscations; he can even dispose of their lives, without any of his subjects having the right to address to him simple remonstrances. But if we declare a king heretical and sacrilegious, if we drive him from the Church, clergy and laity, whatever their rank, are freed from their oaths of fidelity, and may revolt against his power."
- A Complete History of the Popes of Rome, from Saint Peter, the First Bishop to Pius the Ninth, the Present Pope:
Including the History of Saints Martyrs, Fathers of the Church, Religious Orders,
Cardinals, Inquisitions, Schisms and the Great Reformers
(Google eBook), by Louis Marie DeCormenin, James L. Gihon, 1857, p. 242
"We may according to the fullness of our power, dispose of the law and dispense above the law. Those whom the Pope of Rome doth separate, it is not a man that separates them but God. For the Pope holdeth place on earth, not simply of a man but of the true God."
- Decretals of Greogory IX,Book 1, chapter 3
"Within the twenty years this country is going to rule the world. Kings and Emperors will soon pass away and the democracy of the United States will take their place.When the United States rules the world, the Catholic Church will rule the world.Nothing can stand against the Church. I'd like to see the politicians who would try to rule against the Church in Chicago. His reign would be short indeed"
- Roman Catholic Archbishop James E. Quigley (October 15, 1854 - July 10, 1915). Chicago Daily Tribune, May 5, 1903.
"If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hand of the Roman Catholic clergy."
-General Lafayette under President George Washington
"The Roman Catholic motto is ourselves alone for fellow Roman Catholics. We must defeat all heretics (non Catholics) at the ballot box. The holy father states that negative tactics are fatal. The demands of the holy father (the pope) are that the public services should be 100% Roman Catholic soon. Care must be taken that no suspicion may be raised when Roman Catholics are secretly given more government jobs than Protestants, Jews and other heretics."
-Archbishop Gilroy
"There is, ere long, to be a state religion in this country, and that state religion is to be the Roman Catholic."
1st. The Roman Catholic is to wield his vote for the purpose of securing Catholic ascendancy in this country. 2nd. All legislation must be governed by the will of God, unerringly indicated by the pope. 3rd. EDUCATION must be controlled by Catholic Authorities, and under education the opinions of the individual and the utterances of the press are included, and many opinions are to be forbidden by the secular arm, under the authority of the Church, even to war and bloodshed."
- Father Hecker, Catholic World, July 1870
"Undoubtedly it is the intention of the pope to possess this country. In this intention he is aided by the Jesuits, and all the Catholic prelates and priests."
- Brownson's Review, May 1864
"See, sir, from this Chamber, I govern, not only to Paris, but to China; not only to China, but to all the world, without anyone knowing how I do it."
-Tamburini, 14th General of the Jesuits.
"Harmony between the different social classes must be re-established; peace must reign on earth. This is the task I intend to perform for you; this is the duty I promise to fulfil that all may once again be subject to the dominion of God, Jesus Christ and His Vicar on earth."
- Saint Pius X, The New Italian Life Of The Saint,
by Fr. Hieronymo Dal-Gal, translated and adapted
by Rev. Thomas F. Murray, M.A.,
4th revised impression, published by M. H. Gill and Son Ltd.,
50 Upper O'Connell Street, 1954, pg. 104.
Film of Pius XII coronation with audio.See http://www.almocollegiocapranica.it/pioxii.html (The coronation begins at 18:46 into the film. These are the actual words spoken:) Accipe thiaram tribus coronis ornatam, et scias te esse Patrem Principum et Regum, Rectorem Orbis, in terra Vicarium Salvatoris Nostri, cui est honor et gloria in sæcula soculorum. TRANSLATED ...Receive the tiara adorned with three crowns and know that thou art Father of Princes and Kings, Ruler of the World, Vicar of Our Savior on earth, to him be the honor and glory forever and ever.
[Speaking of the time, about 500 A.D., when the Roman Empire was crumbling to pieces:] "No, the [Catholic] Church will not descend into the tomb. It will survive the Empire . . . At length a second empire will arise, and of this empire the Pope will be the master--more then this, he will be the master of Europe. He will dictate his orders to kings who will obey them"
-Andrea Lagarde, The Latin Church in the Middle Ages, 1915, p. vi.
"Fear, then, our wrath and the thunders of our vengeance; for Jesus Christ has appointed us [the popes] with his own mouth absolute judges of all men; and kings themselves are submitted to our authority."
- Pope Nicholas I (858-867 AD)
"It is the office of the Papacy to tread under foot kings and emperors."
- J.H. Ignaz Dollinger, in The Pope and the Council, (London), page 35
"[It is error to believe that] The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church."
- Pope Pius IX, The Syllabus (of Errors), Issued in 1864, Section VI,
Errors About Civil Society, Considered Both in Itself and in its Relation to the Church, #55.
"[It is error to believe that] Kings and princes are not only exempt from the jurisdiction of the Church, but are superior to the Church in deciding questions of jurisdiction."
- Pope Pius IX, The Syllabus (of Errors), Issued in 1864,
Section VI, Errors About Civil Society,
Considered Both in Itself and in its Relation to the Church, #54.
"[It is error to believe that] In the case of conflicting laws enacted by the two powers (Church and civil), the civil law prevails."
- Pope Pius IX, The Syllabus (of Errors), Issued in 1864, Section VI,
Errors About Civil Society, Considered Both in Itself and in its Relation to the Church, # 42.
"Democracy is a mischievous dream where the Catholic Church does not predominate."
-Brownson's Review.
"There is one, and only one, sure democracy, the Catholicism of the Popes"
-The Catholic World, Oct, 1937.
"Some dwell on the vastly increased tolerance shown in this country now to Catholics and Catholic thugs... It betokens a decay of Protestantism."
-Catholic World, Oct. 1935, p.66
The old Protestant culture is about at the end of its rope... Why can't we make the U.S. Catholic in legislation, Catholic in justice, aims and ideals?"
-Father F. X. Talbot, editor of America, official Jesuit magazine for the U.S. statement in New York Globe Dec. 14, 1930
"Religious liberty is merely endured until the opposite can be carried into effect without peril to the Catholic Church."
-Bishop O'Conner of Pittsburgh.
"If Catholics ever gain sufficient numerical majority in this country, religious freedom is at an end. So our enemies say; so we believe"
-The Shephard of the Valley, journal of the late bishop of St. Louis.
In the book Confusion Twice Confounded, Monsignor Joseph H. Brady states that the U.S. Supreme Court is wrong in decisions regarding "separation of Church and State." He says: "A sound view of the Constitution in its relation to religion probably awaits a change in personnel in our highest tribunal."
-The Register, Jan. 23, 1955.
"But Constitutions can be changed, and non-Catholic sects may decline to such a point that the political proscription [ban] of them may become feasible and expedient. What protection would they have against a Catholic state?"
-The State and the Church, pp.38,39, by Miller and Ryan, imprimatur of Cardinal Hayes.
"The Catholic Church in this nation must live on to accomplish her work, even though our Republican form of government disappears."
-The Catholic World, April, 1935, p.12.
They must penetrate wherever possible in the administration of civil affairs... all Catholics should do all in their power to cause the constitution of states, and legislation to be modeled on the principles of the true Church."
-Encyclical of Pope Leo XIII.
Under the influence of Germanic customs and concepts, torture was little used from the 9th to the 12th centuries, but with the revival of Roman law the practice was reestablished in the 12th century... In 1252 (Pope) Innocent IV sanctioned the infliction of torture by the civil authorities upon heretics, and torture came to have a recognized place in the procedure of the inquisitional courts.
-New Catholic Encyclopedia, arts. "Inquisition", "Auto-da-Fe'," and "Massacre of St Bartholomew's Day."
HOLY OFFICE STILL EXISTS
Pope John Paul II Revives Inquisition
The thought of a revived Holy Office of the Inquisition would pacify some and offend others. Nevertheless, the "Holy Office" still exists. Only it's name has been changed. Pope John Paul II has been instrumental in its revival. One may argue that this Ratzinger run agency is merely an attempt by the Catholic Church to root out communism or backslidden priests and their practices. However, with John Paul II's objective to implement "God's mandate" by creating a global church-state which will administer from traditional Roman Catholic theology, is enough cause for alarm. Malachi Martin has already stated in his book, "The Keys of this Blood," that the pope will not tolerate any belief systems that oppose his, not on a civil or church level. In John Paul II the world will behold a tyrant who will coldly execute direct orders against those whom he deems are heretics or immoral. Moreover, like his papal predecessors, John Paul II will carry out his "Godly mandate" in the name of Christ, or perhaps Mary. May God help us all.
- Kathleen R. Hayes Feb 1991, NRI Trumpet Page 3
The Papacy has the right to require the State not to leave any man free to profess his own religion;
The Papacy has the right to employ force;
The Papacy has the right to claim dominion in temporal things;
The Papacy has the right to have the entire control of public schools;
The Papacy has the right to hold princes and kings in subjection;
The Papacy has the right to treat all marriages as invalid which are not solemnized according to the forms of the Council of Trent;
The Papacy has the right to prevent the State granting to immigrants the public exercise of their own worship;
The Papacy has the right to require the State not to permit free expression of opinion;
- Encyclical, Pope Pius X, 1864
T H E P A P A C Y R E J E C T S A L L R E L I G I O U S F R E E D O M
"No man has a right to choose his religion." (New York Freeman, official journal of Bishop Hughes, Jan 26, 1852)
"The Church...does not, and cannot accept, or in any degree favor, liberty in the Protestant sense of liberty."
- Catholic World, April 1870
"Protestantism has not, and never can have, any right where Catholicity has triumphed."
- Catholic Review, June 1875
"Religious liberty is merely endured until the opposite can be carried into effect without peril to the Catholic Church."
- Rt. Rev. O'Connor, Bishop of Pittsburgh
"It is error to believe that Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true."
- Pope Pius IX, The Syllabus (of Errors), Issued in 1864, Section III, Indifferentism, Latitudinarianism, #15.
"It is error to believe that hence it has been wisely decided by law, in some Catholic countries, that persons coming to reside therein shall enjoy the public exercise of their own peculiar worship."
- Pope Pius IX, The Syllabus (of Errors), Issued in 1864,
Section X, Errors Having Reference to Modern Liberalism, #78.
"It is error to believe that Moreover, it is false that the civil liberty of every form of worship, and the full power, given to all, of overtly and publicly manifesting any opinions whatsoever and thoughts, conduce more easily to corrupt the morals and minds of the people, and to propagate the pest of indifferentism."
- Pope Pius IX, The Syllabus (of Errors), Issued in 1864, Section X,
Errors Having Reference to Modern Liberalism, #79.
"This shameful font of indifferentism gives rise to that absurd and erroneous proposition which claims that liberty of conscience must be maintained for everyone. It spreads ruin in sacred and civil affairs, though some repeat over and over again with the greatest impudence that some advantage accrues to religion from it....a pestilence more deadly to the state than any other. Experience shows, even from earliest times, that cities renowned for wealth, dominion, and glory perished as a result of this single evil, namely immoderate freedom of opinion, license of free speech, and desire for novelty".
"Here We must include that harmful and never sufficiently denounced freedom to publish any writings whatever and disseminate them to the people, which some dare to demand and promote with so great a clamor. We are horrified to see what monstrous doctrines and prodigious errors are disseminated far and wide in countless books, pamphlets, and other writings which, though small in weight, are very great in malice."
- Pope Gregory XVI, Mirari Vos (On Liberalism and Religious Indifferentism),
Encyclical promulgated on August 15, 1832, #14 & 15.
A D M I T S "A U T H O R I T Y" D E R I V E D F R O M " R O M A N E M P I R E"
"...superior papal authority and dominion is derived from the law of the Caesars."
-Lucius Ferraris, in "Prompta Bibliotheca Canonica, Juridica, Moralis,
Theologica, Ascetica, Polemica, Rubristica, Historica", Volume V,
article on "Papa, Article II", titled "Concerning the extent of Papal dignity,
authority, or dominion and infallibility", #19,
published in Petit-Montrouge (Paris) by J. P. Migne, 1858 edition.
"...the appellation of God had been confirmed by Constantine on the Pope, who being God, cannot be judged by man."
- Pope Nicholas I, quoted in History of the Councils, vol. IX,
Dist.: 96, Can 7, "Satis Evidentur Decret Gratian Primer Para", by Labbe and Cossart.
"Long ages ago, when Rome through the neglect of the Western emperors was left to the mercy of the barbarous hordes, the Romans turned to one figure for aid and protection, and asked him to rule them; and thus, . . . commenced the temporal sovereignty of the popes. And meekly stepping to the throne of Caesar, the vicar of Christ took up the scepter to which the emperors and kings of Europe were to bow in reverence through so many ages."
-American Catholic Quarterly Review, April, 1911.
"Out of the ruins of political Rome, arose the great moral Empire in the 'giant form' of the Roman Church."
-A.C. Flick, The Rise of the Mediaeval Church, 1909, p. 150.
"Under the Roman Empire the popes had no temporal powers. But when the Roman Empire had disintegrated and its place had been taken by a number of rude, barbarous kingdoms, the Roman Catholic church not only became independent of the states in religious affairs, but dominated secular affairs as well. At times, under such rulers as Charlemagne (768-814), Otto the Great (936-973), and Henry III (1039-1056), the civil power controlled the church to some extent; but in general, under the weak political system of feudalism, the well-organized, unified, and centralized church, with the pope at its head, was not only independent in ecclesiastical affairs but also controlled civil affairs"
-Carl Conrad Eckhardt, The Papacy and World-Affairs, The University of Chicago Press, 1937, P. 1.
"The Caesar who now addresses you, and to whom alone are obedience and fidelity due."
- Pope Pius IX, "Discorsi", (I.,p.253)
[Speaking of the time, about 500 A.D., when the Roman Empire was crumbling to pieces:] "No, the [Catholic] Church will not descend into the tomb. It will survive the Empire . . . At length a second empire will arise, and of this empire the Pope will be the master--more then this, he will be the master of Europe. He will dictate his orders to kings who will obey them"
-Andrea Lagarde, The Latin Church in the Middle Ages, 1915, p. vi.
P A P A C Y E V E N C L A I M S A U T H O R I T Y O V E R L A W O F G O D
"We may according to the fullness of our power, dispose of the law and dispense above the law. Those whom the Pope of Rome doth separate, it is not a man that separates them but God. For the Pope holdeth place on earth, not simply of a man but of the true God."
- Decretals of Greogory IX," Book 1, chapter 3
"We alone have the power to bind and to loose, to absolve Nero and to condemn him; and Christians can not, under penalty of excommunication, execute other judgment than ours, which alone is infallible. People are not the judges of their princes; they should obey without murmuring the most iniquitous orders; they should bow their foreheads under the chastisements which it pleases kings to inflict on them, for a sovereign can violate the fundamental laws of the State, and seize upon the wealth of the citizen, by imposts or by confiscations; he can even dispose of their lives, without any of his subjects having the right to address to him simple remonstrances. But if we declare a king heretical and sacrilegious, if we drive him from the Church, clergy and laity, whatever their rank, are freed from their oaths of fidelity, and may revolt against his power."
- A Complete History of the Popes of Rome, from Saint Peter, the First Bishop to Pius the Ninth,
the Present Pope: Including the History of Saints Martyrs, Fathers of the Church,
Religious Orders, Cardinals, Inquisitions, Schisms and the Great Reformers (Google eBook),
by Louis Marie DeCormenin, James L. Gihon, 1857, p. 242
"Anyone who attempts to construe a personal view of God which conflicts with church dogma must be burned without pity."
- Papal Bull, 1198
Peter Tompkins, Symbols of Heresy in THE MAGIC OF OBELISKS,
p.57 (New York: Harper, 1981))
"Not the Creator of Universe, in Genesis 2:1-3,-but the Catholic Church can claim the honor of having granted man a pause to his work every seven days."
-S. C. Mosna, Storia della Domenica, 1969, pp. 366-367
"The Pope is of great authority and power that he can modify, explain, or interpret even divine laws... The Pope can modify divine law, since his power is not of man, but of God, and he acts as vicegerent of God upon earth."
-Lucius Ferraris, Prompta Ribliotheca, "Papa," art. 2, translated.
"The Pope has the power to change times, to abrogate laws, and to dispense with all things, even the precepts of Christ." "The Pope has the authority and often exercised it, to dispense with the command of Christ."
- Decretal, de Tranlatic Episcop. Cap. (The Pope can modify divine law.) Ferraris' Ecclesiastical Dictionary.
They "dispense with the command of Christ???" When the Catholic church is asked..."Why do you feel you have the power, authority and ability to change Scripture to match your traditions?" They answer... "Had she not such power, she could not have done that in which all modern religionists agree with her; --she could not have substituted the observance of Sunday the first day of the week, for the observance of Saturday the seventh day, a change for which there is no Scriptural authority."
-Rev. Stephan Keenan, A Doctrinal Catechism,
"On the Obedience Due to the Church," chap. 2, p. 174.
(Imprimatur, John Cardinal McCloskey, archbishop of New York.)
"The authority of the church could therefore not be bound to the authority of the Scriptures, because the Church had changed...the Sabbath into Sunday, not by command of Christ, but by its own authority."
- Canon and Tradition, p. 263
"Is not every Christian obliged to sanctify Sunday and to abstain on that day from unnecessary servile work? Is not the observance of this law among the most prominent of our sacred duties? But you may read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and you will not find a single line authorizing the sanctification of Sunday. The Scriptures enforce the religious observance of Saturday, a day which we never sanctify."
-James Cardinal Gibbons, The Faith of Our Fathers (1917 ed.), pp. 72, 73.
"The Catholic church," declared Cardinal Gibbons, "by virtue of her divine mission changed the day from Saturday to Sunday."
- Catholic Mirror Sept. 23 1983. (Cardinal Gibbons)
"The Bible says, Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day. The Catholic church says, No! By my divine power I abolish the Sabbath day, and command you to keep the first day of the week. And lo, the entire civilized world bows down in reverent obedience to the command of the holy Catholic church!"
- Father Enright, C.S.S.R. of the Redemptoral College, Kansas City, Mo., History of the Sabbath, p. 802
"There is no word, no hint in the New Testament about abstaining from work on Sunday. The observance of Ash Wednesday, or Lent, stands exactly on the same footing as the observance of Sunday. Into the rest of Sunday no divine law entered"
- Canon Eyton, The Ten Commandments [Presbyterian].
"Protestantism, in discarding the authority of the [Roman Catholic] Church, has no good reason for its Sunday theory, and ought logically to keep Saturday as the Sabbath."
-John Gilmary Shea, in the American Catholic Quarterly Review, January 1883.
"It is well to remind the Presbyterians, Baptists, Methodists, and all other Christians that the Bible does not support them anywhere in their observance of Sunday. Sunday is an institution of the Roman Catholic Church, and those who observe the day observe a commandment of the Catholic Church."
-Priest Brady, in an address, reported in the Elizabeth, N.J. News of March 18, 1903.
"God simply gave His [Catholic] Church the power to set aside whatever day or days she would deem suitable as Holy Days. The Church chose Sunday, the first day of the week, and in the course of time added other days, as holy days."
-Vincent J. Kelly, Forbidden Sunday and Feast-Day Occupations, p. 2.
"Protestants . . accept Sunday rather than Saturday as the day for public worship after the Catholic Church made the change . . But the Protestant mind does not seem to realize that in accepting the Bible, in observing the Sunday, they are accepting the authority of the spokesman for the church, the Pope."
- Our Sunday Visitor, February 5, 1950.
"We Catholics, then, have precisely the same authority for keeping Sunday holy instead of Saturday as we have for every other article of our creed, namely, the authority of the Church . . whereas you who are Protestants have really no authority for it whatever; for there is no authority for it in the Bible, and you will not allow that there can be authority for it anywhere else."
-The Brotherhood of St. Paul, "The Clifton tracts," Volume 4, tract 4, p. 15.
P A P A C Y A G A I N S T S E P A R A T I O N O F C H U R C H A N D S T A T E
"Consequently, John Paul was criticized by liberal and moderate politicians and newspapers for transgressing the boundary between church and state."
- TIME June 1, 1981 article "Not Yet Hale, but Hearty" By George Russell
In sermons based on the Ten Commandments, John Paul denounced excessive materialism, divorce, contraception and the separation of church and state.
- TIME June 17, 1991 "The Gift Of Life" p. 47 Sermons from A Native Son
Recent statements by the Polish Episcopate have fueled apprehension. In late April the bishops urged that the new constitution exclude any provision for the separation of church and state. Instead, they suggested, "exceptional emphasis should be laid on the need for cooperation between the state and the Catholic Church."
- TIME May 20, 1991 "Five Who Could Be Vice President" Pg 40 "Power to The Pulpit"
In the book Confusion Twice Confounded, Monsignor Joseph H. Brady states that the U.S. Supreme Court is wrong in decisions regarding "separation of Church and State." He says: "A sound view of the Constitution in its relation to religion probably awaits a change in personnel in our highest tribunal."
-The Register, Jan. 23, 1955.
P A P A C Y A D M I T S P A G A N O R I G I N S
"It is interesting to note how often our Church has availed herself of practices which were in common use among pagans...Thus it is true, in a certain sense, that some Catholic rites and ceremonies are a reproduction of those of pagan creeds...."
- The Externals of the Catholic Church, Her Government, Ceremonies, Festivals, Sacramentals and Devotions,
by John F. Sullivan, p 156, published by P.J. Kennedy, NY, 1942
The retention of the old pagan name of Dies Solis, for Sunday is, in a great measure, owing to the union of pagan and Christian sentiment with which the first day of the week was recommended by Constantine to his subjects - pagan and Christian alike - as the 'venerable' day of the sun."
-Arthur P. Stanley, History of the Eastern Church, p. 184
"It has often been charged... that Catholicism is overlaid with many pagan incrustations. Catholicism is ready to accept that accusation - and even to make it her boast... the great god Pan is not really dead, he is baptized"
-The Story of Catholicism p 37
Cardinal Newman admits in his book that; the "The use of temples, and these dedicated to particular saints, and ornamented on occasions with branches of trees; incense, lamps, and candles; votive offerings on recovery from illness; holy water; asylums; holydays and seasons, use of calendars, processions, blessings on the fields; sacerdotal vestments, the tonsure, the ring in marriage, turning to the East, images at a later date, perhaps the ecclesiastical chant, and the Kyrie Eleison [Note 17], are all of pagan origin, and sanctified by their adoption into the Church. {374}"
-An Essay on The Development of the Christian Doctrine John Henry "Cardinal Newman" p.359
The penetration of the religion of Babylon became so general and well known that Rome was called the "New Babylon."
-Faith of our fathers 1917 ed. Cardinal Gibbons, p. 106
"In order to attach to Christianity great attraction in the eyes of the nobility, the priests adopted the outer garments and adornments which were used in pagan cults."
-Life of Constantine, Eusabius, cited in Altai-Nimalaya, p. 94
"The Church did everything it could to stamp out such 'pagan' rites, but had to capitualet and allow the rites to continue with only the name of the local diety changed to some Christian saint's name."
-Religious Tradition and Myth. Dr. Edwin Goodenough,
Professor of Religion, Harvard University. p. 56, 57
"The popes filled the place of the vacant emperors at Rome, inheriting their power, their prestige, and their titles from PAGANISM."
- Stanley's History, pg.40
S A L V A T I O N I T S E L F C O M E S T H R O U G H "F A I T H" I N T H E P A P A C Y
"The Saviour Himself is the door of the sheepfold: 'I am the door of the sheep.' Into this fold of Jesus Christ, no man may enter unless he be led by the Sovereign Pontiff; and only if they be united to him can men be saved, for the Roman Pontiff is the Vicar of Christ and His personal representative on earth."
- Pope John XXIII in his homily to the Bishops and faithful assisting at his coronation on November 4, 1958
"No man outside obedience to the Pope of Rome can ultimately be saved. All who have raised themselves against the faith of the Roman Church, and died in final impenitence have been damned, and gone down to Hell."
- Pope Clement VI, "Super Quibusdam," as cited in "Apostolic Digest, Book V: The Book of Obedience"
"I alone… am the successor of the apostles, the vicar of Jesus Christ.. I am the way, the truth, and the life…"
- Pope Pius IX, History of the Christian Church, by Henry Charles Sheldon, p. 59
“The Pope and God are the same, so he has all power in Heaven and earth.”
- Pope Pius V, quoted in Barclay, Cities Petrus Bertanous Chapter XXVII: 218
"If, therefore, the Greeks or others say that they are not committed to Peter and to his successors, they necessarily say that they are not of the sheep of Christ, since the Lord says that there is only one fold and one shepherd (Jn.10:16). Whoever, therefore, resists this authority, resists the command of God Himself."
- Pope Boniface VIII, Unam Sanctam, DNZ:468, Apostolic Digest, by Michael Malone, Book 4:
"The Book of Christians", Chapter 4:
"There is No Allegiance to Christ Without Submission to the Pope"
"Those who are obstinate toward the authority of the Roman Pontiff cannot obtain eternal salvation."
- Pope Pius IX, Quanto Conficiamur Moerore, DNZ:1677, Apostolic Digest, by Michael Malone, Book 5:
"The Book of Obedience", Chapter 1: "There is No Salvation Without Personal Submission to the Pope"
"This is our last lesson to you: receive it, engrave it in your minds, all of you: by God's commandment salvation is to be found nowhere but in the Church; the strong and effective instrument of salvation is none other than the Roman Pontificate."
- Allocution for the 25th anniversary of his election, February 20, 1903;
Papal Teachings: The Church, Benedictine Monks of Solesmes,
St. Paul Editions, Boston, 1962, page 653
"we
declare, we proclaim, we define that it is absolutely necessary for
salvation that every human creature be subject to the Roman Pontiff. "
-Pope Boniface VIII
UNAM SANCTAM (Promulgated November 18, 1302)
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/b8-unam.html
http://www.papalencyclicals.net/Bon08/B8unam.htm
“Into this fold of Jesus Christ no man may enter unless he be led by the Sovereign Pontiff and only if they be united to him can men be saved…"
- Pope John XXIII, Coronation Homily, Nov. 4, 1958.
P A P A C Y I S T O B E O B E Y E D A N D T R U S T E D A B O V E E V E N G O D
"We define that the Holy Apostolic See and the Roman Pontiff hold primacy over the whole world."
- The Most Holy Councils, Vol. XIII, column 1167
"Even if the Pope were Satan incarnate, we ought not to raise up our heads against him, but calmly lie down to rest on his bosom. He who rebels against our Father is condemned to death"
- Saint Catherine of Siena
"It is error to believe that, if the Pope were a reprobate and an evil man and consequently a member of the devil, he has no power over the faithful."
- Council of Constance, Condemnation of Errors, against Wycliffe,
Session VIII, and Hus: Session XV; DNZ:621, 617, 588,
Apostolic Digest, by Michael Malone, Book 5: "The Book of Obedience",
Chapter 1: "There is No Salvation Without Personal Submission to the Pope"
Revelation 17:3
So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness:
and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast,
full of names of blasphemy...
"All
names which in the Scriptures are applied to Christ,
by virtue of which
it is established that He is over the church,
all the same names are
applied to the Pope."
- On the Authority of the Councils, book 2, chapter 17