“I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally all and every error and sect contrary to the Holy Catholic Church.” HeartSaidChurchHolyCatholicErrorsContraryCurseSincereCatholic ChurchHeresySectsDetestSincere Heart Author:Galileo Galilei
“Even Martin Luther and John Calvin believed that the Roman Catholic church, up to the Council of Trent, was basically orthodox - a true church with sound fundamental doctrines as well as significant error.” WellsSoundChurchCatholicFundamentalsErrorsSignificantDoctrineOrthodoxCouncilLutherCatholic ChurchRoman CatholicRoman Catholic Church Author:Norman Geisler
“If Socialism, like all errors, contains some truth (which, moreover, the Supreme Pontiffs have never denied), it is based nevertheless on a theory of human society peculiar to itself and irreconcilable with true Christianity. Religious socialism, Christian socialism, are contradictory terms; no one can be at the same time a good Catholic and a true socialist.” IfsHumansChristianTermReligiousChristianityTheoryCatholicErrorsSupremeSocialismPeculiarDeniedNeverthelessSocialistContradictoryHuman SocietyTrue Christianity Author:Pope Pius XI
“Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.” ScienceReligionAbsolutesCatholicErrorsSuperstitionsScience And ReligionIdolatryScience Religion Author:Pope John Paul II
“I have been judged vehemently suspect of heresy, that is, of having held and believed that the sun in the centre of the universe and immoveable, and that the earth is not at the center of same, and that it does move. Wishing however, to remove from the minds of your Eminences and all faithful Christians this vehement suspicion reasonably conceived against me, I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally all and every error, heresy, and sect contrary to the Holy Catholic Church. (Quoted in Shea and Artigas 194)” MindHeartDoeHas BeensSaidEarthChristianMovingUniverseWishChurchSunHolyCatholicErrorsContraryFaithfulCurseRemoveSuspectsSincereJudgedSuspicionCentreCatholic ChurchHeresySectsDetestEminenceVehementSincere Heart Author:Galileo Galilei
“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
“The empire of Christ the King includes not only Catholic nations, not only baptized persons who, though of right belonging to the Church, have been led astray by error, or have been cut off from her by schism, but also all those who are outside the Christian faith: so that truly the whole of mankind is subject to the power of Jesus Christ.” PersonsHas BeensWholeChristianJesusNationsChristChurchCuttingSubjectsMankindKingsJesus ChristCatholicErrorsEmpiresBelongingChristian FaithBaptizedSchism Author:Pope Leo XIII
“Our Apostolic Mandate requires from Us that We watch over the purity of the Faith and the integrity of Catholic discipline. It requires from Us that We protect the faithful from evil and error; especially so when evil and error are presented in dynamic language which, concealing vague notions and ambiguous expressions with emotional and high-sounding words, is likely to set ablaze the hearts of men in pursuit of ideals which, whilst attractive, are nonetheless nefarious.” MenHeartEvilLanguagePowerfulWatchesEmotionalExpressionDisciplineIntegrityProtectIdealsCatholicErrorsNotionPursuitFaithfulAttractivePurityVagueMandatesAmbiguousConcealingApostolic Author:Pope Pius X
“...diabolical error, when it has artfully colored its lies, easily clothes itself in the likeness of truth while very brief additions or changes corrupt the meaning of expressions; and confession, which usually works salvation, sometimes, with a slight change, inches toward death.” SometimesLyingPowerfulExpressionClothesCatholicSalvationErrorsInchesConfessionDiabolical Author:Pope Clement XIII
“Those who are seeking the true religion will never find it outside the Catholic Church alone, because, in every other religion, if they trace it up to the author, they will find some impostor whose imagination furnished a mass of sophisms and errors” IfsImaginationChurchMassCatholicSalvationErrorsSeekingCatholic ChurchTrue Religion Author:Alphonsus Liguori
“I cannot sufficiently be astonished that such is the insanity of some men, such the impiety of their blinded understanding, such, finally, their lust after error, that they will not be content with the rule of faith delivered once and for all from antiquity, but must daily seek after something new, and even newer still, and are always longing to add something to religion, or to change it, or to subtract from it!” MenStillsUnderstandingCatholicLongingAddErrorsLustInsanitySomething NewAntiquityBlinded Author:Vincent of Lerins
“This Apostolic Church never turned from the way of truth nor held any kind of error. It is imperative that nothing of the truths which have been defined be lessened, nothing altered, nothing added, but that they be preserved intact in word and meaning. This is the true rule of faith.” WayKindHas BeensChurchCatholicErrorsDefinedImperativesAlteredApostolicApostolic Church Author:Pope Agatho
“Diabolical error decks itself out with ease in lying colors with some appearance of truth, so that the force of pronouncement is corrupted by a very brief addition or change, and the confession of faith which should have resulted in salvation, by a subtle transition leads to death!” ShouldLyingForceColorShould HaveCatholicSalvationErrorsAppearanceEaseSubtleTransitionConfessionDeckDiabolical Author:Pope Clement XIII