Pope Pius IX Quotes

If a future Pope teaches anything contrary to the Catholic Faith, do not follow him.

Liberal Catholics are the worst enemies of the Church.

Give me an army saying the Rosary and I will conquer the world.

Socialism, Communism, clandestine societies, Bible societies... pests of this sort must be destroyed by all means.

It is error to believe that Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true.

I have always condemned Liberal Catholicism and I will condemn it again forty times over if it be necessary.

The Church is built on the rock of Peter, and he who eats the Lamb outside this holy dwelling is reprobate .. .He who eats the Lamb outside this Apostolic See has no part with God!

Nothing can ever pass away from the words of Christ, nor can anything be changed in the doctrine which the Catholic Church received from Christ to guard, protect, and preach.

The state (the U.S. Constitution) has not the right to leave every man free to profess and embrace whatever religion he may desire.

The chisel is the pen of the sculptor.

Neither the true faith nor eternal salvation is to be found outside the Holy Catholic Church.

The Roman Pontiffs have always...held that all those rites should be preserved which deviate neither from accuracy in matters of faith, nor from what is fitting.