“There is no surer means of calling down God's blessing upon the family than the daily recitation of the Rosary.” MeanChristianCallingBlessingRosaryHoly RosaryPraying The RosaryRecitation Author:Pope Pius XII
“[A] high minded gallantry in defense of the foundations of Christian culture.” ChristianCultureReligiousFoundationScaryDefenseGallantry Author:Pope Pius XII
“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. Some reduce to a meaningless formula the necessity of belonging to the true Church in order to gain eternal salvation. Others finally belittle the reasonable character of the credibility of Christian Faith. These and like errors, it is clear, have crept in among certain of our sons who are deceived by imprudent zeal for souls or by false science.” SoulCharacterBodyChristianCertainOrderChristChurchTeachClearSonEternalGainsCatholicSalvationErrorsBoundsDoctrineReasonableBelongingFormulasMeaninglessMysticalDeceivedCredibilityZealCatholic ChurchChristian FaithBelittleBody Of ChristRoman CatholicRoman Catholic Church Author:Pope Pius XII
“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 become God. In our churches, Christians will search in vain for the red lamp where God awaits them. Like Mary Magdalene, weeping before the empty tomb, they will ask, ‘Where have they taken Him?’” MenWorldBelieveChristianAsksChurchTakenDoubtRedEmptyDenyVainCivilizedPeterMaryTemptedLampsWeepingTombsDoubtedMary Magdalene Author:Pope Pius XII
“To desire grace without recourse to the Virgin Mother is to desire to fly without wings.” ChristianMotherDesireGraceWingsVirginsRecourseHoly Mary Author:Pope Pius XII
“It is absolutely necessary that the Christian community be subject in all things to the Sovereign Pontiff if it wishes to be a part of the divinely-established society founded by our Redeemer.” IfsChristianWishCommunitySubjectsAll ThingsSovereignRedeemerChristian CommunityHarlots Author:Pope Pius XII
“Beyond fashion and its demands, there are higher and more pressing laws, principles superior to fashion, and unchangeable, which under no circumstances can be sacrificed to the whim of pleasure or fancy, and before which must bow the fleeting omnipotence of fashion. These principles have been proclaimed by God, by the Church, by the Saints, by reason, by Christian morality.” Has BeensReasonChristianLawChurchPleasurePrinciplesFashionHigherCircumstancesMoralityDemandSaintSuperiorsFancyBowsModestyFleetingWhimOmnipotenceUnchangeableChristian Morality Author:Pope Pius XII
“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 imprudently accustoming them to live hardly clothed and in making them lose the sense of modesty, you should be ashamed of yourselves and of the harm done the little ones whom heaven entrusted to your care, to be reared in Christian dignity and culture.” IfsShouldLittlesDoneCareChristianMotherCultureHeavenLosesSonDaughterDignityShameIllHarmAshamedModestyDistressPerilYour SonSon And DaughterIf Only You Knew Author:Pope Pius XII
“These principles have been proclaimed by God, by the Church, by the Saints, by Christian reason and morals.” Has BeensReasonChristianChurchPrinciplesMoralitySaintModestyChristian Morality Author:Pope Pius XII
“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 know the depths of human frailty. . . Oh, how truly was it said that if some Christian women could only suspect the temptations and falls they cause in others with modes of dress and familiarity in behavior, which they unthinkingly consider as of no importance, they would be shocked by the responsibility which is theirs.” IfsKnowsHumansMadeSaidWould BeChristianFallEvilCausesResponsibilityBehaviorDrawsImportanceDressesDepthImpressionTemptationSuspectsModestyShockedIncentivesFamiliarityFrailtyHuman FrailtiesChristian Women Author:Pope Pius XII
“Let no Christian therefore, whether philosopher or theologian, embrace eagerly and lightly whatever novelty happens to be thought up from day to day, but rather let him weigh it with painstaking care and a balanced judgment, lest he lose or corrupt the truth he already has, with grave danger and damage to his faith.” HappensCareChristianLosesPowerfulDangerJudgmentCatholicEmbracePhilosopherGravesDamageBalancedDay To DayTheologianNovelty Author:Pope Pius XII
