"The thought of hell terrifies me; I cannot bear it. It seems almost impossible to me, I cannot imagine my God being so angry with me as to drive me away, after loving me so much. Yet this is a most certain truth. If I do not fight against my pride, my arrogance and self-esteem, hell awaits me. Oh what a dreadful thought! Is it then true, O beloved Jesus, that I could no longer love you? no longer see your face? that I should be driven from you? I must hope this will never happen, but it might"
- Saint John XXIII
Pope is God mega thread!:
“above the prophets; for these announced Jesus, while the Pope is the voice of Jesus;
above the Precursor; because St. John the Baptist said: “I am not worthy to untie his sandals,” whereas the Pope must say: “God exhorting through us, God speaking through us”;
above the angels; for to which of the angels did He ever say: “Sit at my right hand”? Yet to Peter He said: “You shall sit and judge the twelve tribes of Israel.”
Jesus placed the Pope at the same level as God.”
St John Bosco
Source:
San Giovanni Bosco, Meditazioni, per la novena, le commemorazioni mensili
e la formazione salesiana.
"It is not enough to be validly ordained a bishop for there to be true apostolicity (or 'formal apostolicity'); one must also have been consecrated in communion with the Pope, who is the principle of unity of the bishops, just as Saint Peter was of the Apostles." (Fr. A. Piraux)
In a vision, St. Dominic Savio led St. John Bosco to a beautiful place in the afterlife. St. John Bosco said, "I never thought Heaven was so beautiful." Dominic replied, "This is not Heaven at all. You would not be able to bear that sight." (Likely it was the Limbus Puerorum.)
“They will say Church must hear him, if he teaches rightly, otherwise God should be listened to more than men.
But I object to that; for, who will judge whether the Pontiffis teaching correctly or not? For it is not the part of the sheep to judge whether the shepherd errs or not”
“There are, of course, those who are struggling with invincible ignorance about our most holy religion. Sincerely observing the natural law and its precepts inscribed by God on all hearts and ready to obey God, they live honest lives and are able to attain eternal life by the efficacious virtue of divine light and grace. Because God knows, searches and clearly understands the minds, hearts, thoughts, and nature of all, his supreme kindness and clemency do not permit anyone at all who is not guilty of deliberate sin to suffer eternal punishments.” Pius IX Quanto Conficiamur Moerore
26 juin 1794 : Rappel à Dieu des Bienheureuses Marie-Madeleine Fontaine, Françoise Lanel, Jeanne Gérard et Thérèse Fantou, religieuses se dévouant à Arras au soin des pauvres et des malades. Arrêtées par la république, elles refusent de prêter le serment de liberté-égalité exigé par la Convention. « Liberté égalité ou la mort », elles sont guillotinées en haine de la foi catholique.
"For what are words but words? They fly through the air, but they bruise no stone. And wherefore do such trivial matters go to thine heart, except that thou art yet carnal, and regardest men more than thou oughtest?" - Thomas a Kempis
The claim that a bishop is not schismatic simply because no (actual) jurisdiction is granted at his consecration is false. Formal apostolic succession (= a Catholic Bishop) requires membership in the corpus episcoporum, and the Pope must *recognisably* admit him to this corpus.
The popes, especially Pope Benedict XVI, have stated numerous times since the Council that everything in Vatican 2 has to be interpreted through tradition. Meaning that if anything ambiguous in the documents has an interpretation in line with tradition, you must go with that interpretation. St John Paul 2 specifically praised Fr Luciens document interpreting religious liberty within the hermeneutic of continuity. Pope Benedict also warned for decades of the medias interpretation of the council, and a false spirit of modernism that has infected the church which either ignores the documents and pushes modernism regardless, or takes a heretical interpretation of them. As Catholics we must remain loyal to the magisterium and faithful to tradition. Just because there are bad characters who go against tradition and the faith doesnt justify splitting with Rome.
"You said it and wrote it. (That) I would be a modernist pope. By applying an ecumenical council, I would betray the church. Do you understand that if this were so, I would have to resign and invite you to take my place and lead the church?"
- Pope Saint Paul VI to Archbishop Lefebvre
From a—noticeably strained—letter written by B. Fellay to B. Tissier de Mallerais, R. Williamson, and A. de Galarreta, dated April 14, 2012 (underlining emphasis mine). "Condemnabit te os tuum" (Job 15:6). The complete letter can be read here: https://t.co/bzIOfflJVq
An excerpt from a lecture by Fr. E. Recktenwald (UVK, 2013) wrt the situation under Pope Benedict XVI. Subsequently, Pope Francis granted pastoral concessions. In Feb 2026, talks were offered, provided the episcopal consecrations were postponed. And yet, they play "the victim".
St. William the Abbot (1142)
He was born at Vercelli in the Piedmont region of Italy. He built his first hermit’s hut on Monte Solicoli, and then went to Monte Vergine. Many came to him, attracted by the sanctity of his life. He lived in perpetual contemplation and foretold his own death.