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January
31 |
For my
part, I try, I assure you, to have the true spirit of the
Church. If I had serious doubts about the legitimacy of the
fight that I am waging and which I have led you—I would
say—into waging with me, I would stop right now. (Jun 23,
1983) |
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January
30 |
No, I do
not act starting from a principle… It is the facts—the
circumstances in which I found myself—that constrained me to
act. (Jan 12, 1979) |
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January
29 |
Ours is
a supernatural fight against the spiritual powers of the devil
and of the fallen angels. It is a battle of giants, and not
just a matter of discussions and intellectual jousts. (Feb 23,
1976) |
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January
28 |
Your
first aim is not to fight against error but to know the truth.
(Feb 12, 1976) |
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January
27 |
For the
glory of the Most Blessed Trinity, for the love of Our Lord
Jesus Christ, for devotion to the Most Blessed Virgin Mary,
for the love of the Church, for the love of the Pope, for the
love of the bishops, priests, and all the faithful, for the
salvation of the world and for the salvation of souls, keep
this testament of Our Lord Jesus Christ! Keep the sacrifice
of Our Lord Jesus Christ! Keep the Mass of all times! (Sermon
for his Priestly Jubilee at Portes de Versailles, Sept 23,
1979) |
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January
26 |
Priories
are both strongholds of faith and beacons of Christianity from
where spiritual sustenance is distributed to outlying posts.
(Conference at St. Nicolas du Chardonnet, May 10, 1988) |
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January
25 |
How can
you expect me to pronounce over my ordination chalice other
words than those which I pronounced fifty years ago over this
same chalice? (Sermon for his Priestly Jubilee at Portes de
Versailles, Sept 23, 1979) |
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January
24 |
I cannot
allow individuals in the Society to refuse to pray for the
Holy Father or to refuse to recognize that there is a Pope;
taking that road would lead to an impasse. I don’t want to
lead you into an impasse or put you in an impossible
situation. (Dec 11, 1979) |
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January
23 |
If
only we were tolerated, that would be progress; lot of priests
would come back to the Mass, and lots of faithful would rejoin
Tradition. (
Jun
7, 1979
) |
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January
22 |
The only
aim of my approaches to Rome is to attempt to break down this
iron curtain which hems us in and to ensure that thousands of
souls are saved themselves through having the grace of the
true Mass, the true sacraments, the true catechism and the
true Bible. (Letter to Friends and Benefactors, #16) |
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January
21 |
What
must be our attitude towards the present authorities? Should
we carry on our resistance by locking ourselves away in an
ivory tower? Or should we try to convince the Roman
authorities? I have not taken the side of breaking off
dialogue with Rome. (Mar 27, 1977) |
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January
20 |
I wish
that, one day, all of our seminarians could be put in the
hands of the Holy Father. Our profound wish is to enter in
perfect communion with him, but in the unity of the Faith and
not in a liberal ecumenism. |
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January
19 |
We
applaud the Pope who echoes Tradition and is faithful to the
transmission of the faith, but we do not feel bound by
obedience to novelties that go against Tradition and threaten
the faith. (Letter to Friends and Benefactors, #9; Sept 3,
1975) |
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January
18 |
It
is therefore a question of applying the criteria of Tradition
to the various documents of the Council to know what is to be
kept, what is to be clarified and what is to be rejected. (Principles and
Directives, 1977) |
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January
17 |
The
Council is a non-infallible act of the Magisterium, and
consequently it is susceptible to the influence of an evil
spirit. Le coup de Maître de Satan (Satan's
master stroke), 1974 |
|
January
16 |
The
same men wrote up the acts of the Council and applied them.
They knew very well what they were doing. Consequently, these
reforms are the authentic interpretation of the Council. (
Feb 22, 1979
) |
|
January
15 |
The
Council, purposely and by the grace of the Holy Ghost, wished
to be only pastoral. Le
coup de Maître de Satan (Satan's
master stroke), 1974 |
|
January
14 |
Ecumenism is not the Church's mission. The Church is not
ecumenical, she is missionary. The goal of the missionary
Church is to convert. The goal of the ecumenical Church is to
find what is true in errors and to remain at this level. It is
to deny the truth of the Church. (Apr 14, 1978) |
|
January
13 |
How many Catholics are still
able to admit that the work of the Redemption of Our Lord must
also be accomplished by the instrument of civil societies? And
yet it is the truth, for "all has been created by Our Lord
Jesus Christ". (Sept. 23, 1977) |
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January
12 |
In this
pastoral council, the spirit of error and lies was able to
work at will, planting everywhere time bombs that would cause
institutions to explode at the desired time. (Principles
and Directives, 1977) |
|
January
11 |
During one
century and a half the Popes have condemned liberals, but I
have to acknowledge that these last ones have triumphed in the
Council. (Principles and Directives, 1977) |
|
January
10 |
The Council itself has
transposed the ideas of the modern world: liberty, equality,
fraternity, into its doctrines of religious liberty,
collegiality and ecumenism. (Principles and Directives, 1977) |
|
January
9 |
Above all, never say: “His
Excellency is against the Pope, against the Council.” It
is not true! (May 30, 1971) |
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January 8 |
If each bishop placed at our disposal, at the disposal of faithful Catholics, a church… This is what I will ask the Holy Father, if he will receive me: Allow us, most Holy Father, to experience Tradition. (Lille, Aug 29, 1976) |
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January
7 |
Of course, it is not I who make
the truth, but neither is it the Pope. (Lille, Aug 29, 1976) |
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January
6 |
There will be peace on this
earth only under the reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ. His
reign, that of God's commandments, makes justice reign.
(Lille, Aug 29, 1976) |
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January
5 |
The truth is Our Lord Jesus
Christ; you must take as a reference what the Church has
taught. It is not I who am judging the Holy Father, it is
Tradition. (Lille, Aug 29, 1976) |
|
January
4 |
Our Lord
Jesus Christ is the only person in the world Who was able to
say "I am God", and by this very fact He is the only
king of humanity. (Lille, Aug 29, 1976) |
|
January
3 |
It is clear,
it is obvious, that all the drama between Econe and Rome is
played out over the problem of the Mass. (June 29, 1976) |
|
January
2 |
We are
living at a time when the divine right, natural and
, comes before positive ecclesiastic rights, when
these latter oppose it instead of serving as its channel. (Luther's
Mass, Feb. 15, 1975) |
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January
1 |
I do not see
how one could found a seminary using the New Mass. I would not
find in it the strength, even with the greatest good will. The
True Mass is the heart of the seminary, of the priest, of the
Church, of the Gospel, of Our Lord. St. Pius V saw this well:
the Mass is also faith's barrier against heresy. (Nov. 23,
1972) |
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