“I accept with sincere belief the doctrine of faith as handed down to us from the Apostles by the orthodox Fathers, always in the same sense and with the same interpretation.” FatherBeliefAcceptingCatholicSalvationDoctrineOrthodoxInterpretationSincereCatholicismApostles Author:Pope Pius X
“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, just as Christ revealed it, and no consideration of time or circumstance can lessen the strictness of this obligation.” LostChristChurchDutyCircumstancesSacredSalvationObligationOur TimeConsiderationPreachingRelevanceWhittling Author:Pope Pius XII
“Those wretches tainted with the error of Indifferentism and Modernism hold that dogmatic truth is not absolute, but relative: that is, that it must adapt itself to the varying necessities of the times and the varying dispositions of souls, since it is not contained in an unchangeable revelation, but is, by its very nature, meant to accommodate itself to the life of man.” MenSoulTruth IsAbsolutesSalvationErrorsRevelationsRelativeDispositionModernismAccommodateDogmaticTaintedUnchangeable Author:Pope Pius XI
“Let nothing of the truths that have been defined be lessened, nothing altered, nothing added, but let them be preserved intact in word and in meaning.” Has BeensSalvationDefinedAltered Author:Pope Gregory XVI
“We declare that no one is permitted to introduce, or to describe, or to compare, or to study, or otherwise to teach another faith. Whoever presumes to introduce or teach or pass on another creed . . . or whoever presumes to introduce a novel doctrine . . . We declare to be anathematized.” TeachNovelStudySalvationDoctrineCompareIntroducingCreeds Author:Pope Agatho
“The proposition that the principal articles of the Apostles' Creed did not have the same meaning for the Christians of the earliest times as they have for Christians of our time is hereby condemned and proscribed as erroneous.” ChristianSalvationOur TimeArticlesCreedsPrincipalPropositionsApostles Author:Pope Pius X
“True Christianity today is not different from primitive Christianity ... She remains what she has been since her foundation: always the same.” Has BeensDifferentTodayChristianityFoundationRemainsSalvationPrimitiveTrue Christianity Author:Pope Pius XII
“It is an error to believe that Christ did not teach a determined body of doctrine applicable to all times and to all men, but rather that He inaugurated a religious movement adapted, or to be adapted, to different times and different places.” MenBelieveDifferentBodyChristReligiousTeachMovementSalvationErrorsDeterminedDoctrineAll TimeDifferent PlaceAdaptedDifferent Times Author:Pope Pius X
“Christ's commandment to hear the Church . . . is binding on all men, in every period, and every country.” MenCountryChristChurchPeriodsSalvationCommandmentsBinding Author:Pope Pius XI
“All people and each individual man is called to come into the Church.” PeopleMenIndividualChurchSalvation Author:Pope Pius XII