“The preaching of the Church truly continues without change and is everywhere the same. It has the testimony of the Prophets and Apostles and all their disciples.” ChurchCatholicProphetPreachingDiscipleTestimonyApostles Author:Irenaeus of Lyons
“The Catholic Church holds that it is not admissible to ordain women to the priesthood, for very fundamental reasons. These reasons include: the example recorded in the Sacred Scriptures of Christ choosing His apostles only from among men; the constant practice of the Church, which has imitated Christ in choosing only men; and her living teaching authority which has consistently held that the exclusion of women from the priesthood is in accordance with God's plan for His Church.” MenReasonChristChurchPracticePlansTeachingExampleAuthorityCatholicFundamentalsSacredConstantScriptureConsistentlyApostlesCatholic ChurchExclusionPriesthoodGod's PlanSacred Scripture Author:Pope Paul VI
“The apostles and their successors are God's vicars in governing the Church which is built on faith and the sacraments of faith. Wherefore, just as they may not institute another Church, so neither may they deliver another faith, nor institute other sacraments.” MayChurchPowerfulBuiltCatholicSacramentsGoverningApostlesInstituteSuccessorsVicars Book:Summa Theologica, Volume 4 (Part III, First Section) Source: Summa Theologica, Volume 4 (Part III, First Section)
“I was brought up Catholic, and I felt the power of art from a very young age - seeing the brutality of all those images of flayed apostles and tortured saints was a pretty strong introduction.” ArtAgeYoungStrongFeltSeeingCatholicSaintYoung AgeIntroductionApostlesBrutality Author:Damien Hirst
“The saints must be honored as friends of Christ and children and heirs of God. Let us carefully observe the manner of life of all the apostles, martyrs, ascetics, and just men who announced the coming of the Lord. And let us emulate their faith, charity, hope, zeal, life, patience under suffering, and perseverance unto death so that we may also share their crowns of glory.” MenLifeMayChildrenGodChristianDeathSufferingFaithHopeJesusBeliefChristReligiousLordShareHonorGloryPatienceCatholicCharityPerseveranceSaintChristian InspirationalPersistenceTrust In GodCrownsHonoredTheologianMonkMartyrZealApostlesCommitment To GodServing OthersHeirsEmulateServant Of GodFollowing JesusLife Patience Author:John of Damascus
“...it is proper that the duty of helping the poor and unfortunate should especially stir Catholics, since they are members of the Mystical Body of Christ. In this we have come to know the love of God, said John the Apostle, that He laid down His life for us, and we likewise ought to lay down our life for the brethren. He who has the goods of this world and sees his brother in need and closes his heart to him, how does the love of God abide in him? (1Jn 3:16 17)” KnowsWorldNeedsShouldHeartDoeSaidHelpingBodyChristPoorPovertyOur LivesThis WorldBrotherDutyOughtMembersCatholicLaysGod LoveGoodsGenocideUnfortunateMysticalApostlesBrethrenBody Of Christ Author:Pope John XXII
“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
“We, as Catholics are not permitted to believe anything of our own will, nor to choose what someone has believed of his. We have God's apostles as authorities, who did not themselves of their own wills choose anything of what they wanted to believe, but faithfully transmitted to the nations, the teachings of Christ.” BelieveWantedNationsChristTeachingAuthorityCatholicCatholicismApostlesSeville Author:Isidore of Seville
“In the Catholic Church, there are many other things which most justly keep me in her bosom. The consent of peoples and nations keeps me in the Church; so does her authority, inaugurated by miracles, nourished by hope, enlarged by love, established by age. The succession of priests keeps me, beginning from the very seat of the Apostle Peter, to whom the Lord, after His resurrection, gave it in charge to feed His sheep (Jn 21:15-19), down to the present episcopate.” DoeAgeNationsChurchLordAuthorityMiracleCatholicSeatsPriestsCatholicismResurrectionPeterSheepConsentApostlesBosomsCatholic ChurchSuccession Book:Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books] Source: Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]
“The Lord did nothing either of himself or through his apostles without his Father, with whom he is united; so too, you should undertake nothing without the bishop and the presbyters priests.” ShouldFatherUnitedLordCatholicPriestsCatholicismApostlesBishops Author:Ignatius of Antioch
“Be obedient to the bishop and to one another, as Jesus Christ was in the flesh to the Father, and the apostles to Christ and to the Father and to the Spirit, so that there may be unity in flesh and in spirit.” MaySpiritFatherJesusChristJesus ChristCatholicUnityFleshCatholicismApostlesBishopsObedient Author:Ignatius of Antioch
“Take care, then, to be firmly grounded in the teachings of the Lord and his apostles so that you may prosper in all your doings both in body and in soul, in faith and in love, in the Son, and in the Father and in the Spirit, in the beginning and in the end, along with your most worthy bishop and his spiritual crown, your presbyters, and with the deacons, who are men of God.” MenMaySoulEndsBodyCareSpiritualSpiritFatherLordTeachingSonCatholicWorthyTake CareCatholicismCrownsGroundedApostlesBishopsDoingsMan Of GodDeacons Author:Ignatius of Antioch
“The Church will be punished because the majority of her members, high and low, will become so perverted. The Church will sink deeper and deeper until she will at last seem to be extinguished, and the succession of Peter and the other Apostles to have expired. But, after this, she will be victoriously exalted in the sight of all doubters.” SeemsLastsChurchPowerfulMembersLowsSightCatholicMajorityDeeperPeterApostlesSuccessionExaltedHighs And LowsDoubtersExpired Author:Nicholas of Flue
“See that ye all follow the bishop, even as Jesus Christ does the Father, and the presbytery as ye would the apostles; and reverence the deacons, as being the institution of God. Let no man do anything connected with the Church without the bishop. [] Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude [of the people] also be; even as, wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church. [] Whatsoever [the bishop] shall approve of, that is also pleasing to God, so that everything that is done may be secure and valid.” PeopleMenMayDoeDoneFatherJesusChristChurchJesus ChristCatholicInstitutionsConnectedSecureReverenceMultitudesApostlesCatholic ChurchBishopsDeacons Author:Ignatius of Antioch
“Whosoever you are who introduce new doctrines, I beseech you to spare the ears of Romans! Spare that faith which was commended by the voice of an Apostle. Why should you attempt to teach us, at the end of hundreds of years, that which we never heard before? Why bring forward what Peter and Paul did not will to make known? Until this day, the world was Christian without your doctrine. Thus, I hold as an old man onto that faith wherein I was regenerated as a boy.” MenWorldShouldYearsEndsChristianVoiceKnownBoysTeachHeardEarsCatholicDoctrineThis DayOld ManPeterIntroducingSparesApostles Author:St. Jerome