The faith by which we live shall never vary in any age …
for one is the faith which sanctifies the just of all ages.
~Pope St. Leo the great
Pope Pius XII
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A great safeguard is the entire faith, the true faith, in
which neither anything whatever can be added by anyone nor anything taken away;
for, unless faith be one, it is not the faith.
~Pope St. Leo the Great
Truth, which is simple and one, admits of no variety.
~Pope St. Leo the Great
We anathematize those who presume to teach or explain any
other creed. ~Pope Vigilius
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. ~Pope Gregory XVI
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Pope Pius XII
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Pope Pius XII
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Pope Benedict XV
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Pope Benedict XV at prayer
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If anyone according to wicked heretics in any manner
whatsoever, by any word whatsoever, at any time whatsoever, or in any place
whatsoever illicitly removes the boundaries firmly established by the holy
Fathers of the Catholic Church ... in order to seek for novelties and
expositions of another faith ... and, briefly, if it is customary for the most
impious heretics to do anything else, should anyone through diabolical
operation crookedly and cunningly act contrary to the pious preachings of the
orthodox teachers of the Catholic Church, that is, its papal and conciliar
proclamations, to the destruction of sincere confession unto the Lord our God,
and persist without repentance unto the end: let such a person be condemned
forever, and let all the people say: So be it! So be it!
~Pope St. Martin I
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. ~Pope St. Agatho
Beyond a doubt, they perish eternally who do not keep the
Catholic faith entire and unchanged. ~Pope Gregory XVI
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Pope Pius XII
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Pope Pius XII - Jubilee year 1950
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Pope Pius XII
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Pope Pius XII creating Cardinals
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Pope Pius XII
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The Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same
forever. ~Pope Leo XIII
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. ~Pope St. Pius X
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. ~Pope St. Pius X
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.
~Pope Pius XI
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King Henry IV doing penance before Pope Gregory VII
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Pope Pius XII imparting a blessing
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Pope Leo XIII
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Pope St. Pius V
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Pope Bl. Pius IX imparting a blessing
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Pope Bl. Pius IX
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Pope Pius XI
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Pope Pius XI
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We are not, therefore, teachers of a doctrine drawn from
human minds, but-----conscious of our charge-----we ought to embrace and follow
that which Christ Our Lord taught and Whose teaching, by a solemn commandment,
He committed to His Apostles and to their successors ... Moreover, since We are
very certain that this doctrine which we must safeguard in all its integrity is
Divinely revealed, We repeat the words of the Apostle of the Nations: "But
though we, or an Angel from Heaven, preach to you a Gospel besides that which
we have preached to you, let him be anathema" (Galatians 1: 8).
~Pope Pius XII
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Pope Bl. Pius IX
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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. ~Pope
Pius XII
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Pope Pius XI
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Pope St. Pius V
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Pope St. Pius X
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Pope St. Pius X
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Pope St. Pius X at prayer
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Pope St. Pius X
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Pope Pius XI receiving a gift (a tiara) from the people of Milan
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Pope Leo XIII
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