From Fr Z's Blog
From The Great Roman today:
Why do I keep reading stuff Popes said? Pathetic old Roman Catholic me. I can hear the cobbles in the Piazza screaming at me with the voice of my grandma multiplied by the thousands: “Pray! Fast! We could use some help here!!!”. Maybe I am just going insane.
It seems to me that someone else once said that if the truth would be suppressed, even the stones would cry out.
Would that the following still echoed off the stones of the Piazza San Pietro.
“(…) our doctrine is detached from the errors which circulated and by now flourish in the culture of our time, and which could completely ruin our Christian view of life and history. The Modernism represented the characteristic expression of these errors, and under other terms it is still current. (Cfr. Decr. Lamentabili di S. Pio X, 1907, e la sua Enc. Pascendi; DENZ.- SCH. 3401, ss.) We can therefore comprehend why the Catholic Church, yesterday and today, must give such great importance to the rigorous conservation of authentic Revelation, and considers it inviolable, and must have a conscience so severe about its fundamental duty to defend and to transmit the doctrine of the faith in unequivocal terms; orthodoxy is her first concern; the pastoral magisterium is her primary and providential function; in fact the apostolic teaching secures the canons of her preaching; and the instruction of the Apostle Paul: Depositum custodi (1 Tim. 6, 20;2 Tim. 1, 14) constitutes for her such a responsibility that it would be treason to violate it. The Church as teacher does not invent her doctrine; she is the witness, the guard, the interpreter, the vehicle; and, regarding the truths belonging to the Christian message, she can be called conservative, intransigent; and to those who strive to make her faith easier, more relative to the tastes of the changing mentality of the times, she responds with the Apostles: non possumus, we cannot (Act. 4,20).Paul VI General Audience, 19 Jan 1972
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