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"So vast is the number of heretics and so great their diversity in dogma, that, though among themselves they differ greatly in opinions and doctrines, in their hatred of us, they are of one accord. Just as Herod and Pilate, for example, who were enemies, made their peace in persecuting Christ, and were more formidable in their amity than their enmity, so the heretics, impiously at variance, league together for still greater impiety."

St. Jerome, Homilies on the Psalms: Homily 62, Psalm 82
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"It is the hope and prayer of all of us who profess the Catholic Faith that heresy be refuted and individuals be converted. Or, if they choose to persist in error, the blame is certainly not to be placed on us…, but rather on those who have preferred falsehood to truth."

St. Jerome, The Dialogue Against the Pelagians, Book I, Preface, paragraph 2
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"Heretics are never constant in their convictions, but are forever changing their opinions, shifting back and forth."

St. Jerome, Homilies on the Psalms: Homily 68, Psalm 90
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Do not be dismayed by this disaster. God chastises every son whom he accepts, so perhaps he has chastised you more because he loves you more. Jerusalem, a city loved by God was destroyed, with the Temple of God, in Babylonian flames. Rome, surrounded by its company of holy apostles and countless martyrs, was devastated by the heathen, but quickly recovered through the goodness of God. Almost the whole of Europe has been denuded with fire and sword by Goths and Huns, but now by God's mercy is as bright with churches as the sky with stars and in them the offices of the Christian religion grow and flourish. Encourage each other, saying, "Let us return to the Lord our God, for he is very forgiving and never deserts those who hope in him."

St. Alcuin of York, Letter to Bishop Higbald concerning the Viking raid on Lindisfarne in 793
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'Let them fall by their own devices.' Excellently said, 'by their own devices,' for heretics change or alter their doctrine from day to day. In fact, if a theologian learned in the Scriptures contends with them, overwhelming them with proof from the Sacred Books, what do they do but straightway look around in search of a new doctrine. They do not seek knowledge for the sake of salvation, but look around for new doctrine to vanquish the opponent; hence, the psalmist said: 'Let them fall by their own devices. Let them fall by their own countless contrivances and let them have but one recourse, You, my God.

St. Jerome, Homilies on the Psalms, Homily 2: Psalm 5
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"For beauty of face, elegance of movement, an affected gait and lisping voice, penciled eyebrows and enamelled cheeks, elaborate braiding and dyeing of hair, costliness of dress, variety of golden ornaments, and the glory of precious stones, the scent of perfumes, and all those other matters to which womankind devote themselves, are enough to disorder the mind, unless it happen to be hardened against them, through much austerity of self restraint."

St. John Chrysostom, On the Priesthood, Book VI, 2
Those who have a difficulty in believing seek a reason in the fact that the Jews do not believe. "Were this so clear," say they, "why did the Jews not believe?" And they almost wish that they had believed, so as not to be kept back by the example of their refusal. But it is their very refusal that is the foundation of our faith. We should be much less disposed to the faith, if they were on our side. We should then have a more ample pretext. The wonderful thing is to have made the Jews great lovers of the things foretold, and great enemies of their fulfilment.

If the Jews had all been converted by Jesus Christ, we should have none but questionable witnesses. And if they had been entirely destroyed, we should have no witnesses at all.

Blaise Pascal, Pensées, Section XII, 745 & 750
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We are told in Holy Scripture to be careful of time, which is the most precious thing and the greatest gift that God bestows upon living man. The Pagans even understood the value of time. Seneca observed that “the value of time is priceless.” . . . Time is a treasure which can be found in this life alone; it is to be found neither in Heaven nor in Hell. This is the lamentation of the lost in hell, “Oh, that an hour were given.” They would give anything for one hour in which they might be able to remedy their ruin, but this hour they will never have. In heaven there are no tears; but if the blessed could weep, this would be a cause for lamentation, that they had lost any time during this life in which they might have acquired greater glory – for such time they now can never have.

St. Alphonsus Liguori, Preparation for Death
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But, as no society can hold together unless some one be over all, directing all to strive earnestly for the common good, every body politic must have a ruling authority, and this authority, no less than society itself, has its source in nature, and has, consequently, God for its Author. Hence, it follows that all public power must proceed from God. For God alone is the true and supreme Lord of the world. Everything, without exception, must be subject to Him, and must serve him, so that whosoever holds the right to govern holds it from one sole and single source, namely, God, the sovereign Ruler of all. “There is no power but from God.” [Romans 13:1]

Pope Leo XIII, Immortale Dei (3)
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"Yet again, the Jews who thus control international finance are at work in many other capacities. . . I may be told that to put an end to this state of affairs is impossible so long as parliamentary government, with its profound corruption, endures; that the only force capable of dealing with the plutocratic evil of alien monopoly upon this scale is a king; and that a king we have not, among modern nations. To which I answer that the parliamentary system will not last for ever. It is already in active dissolution among ourselves, and badly hit elsewhere. The king may not be so far off as people think him to be."

Hilaire Belloc, The Jews, Chapter 4, The General Causes of Friction, pg. 96
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"But let not your fasts be with the hypocrites; (Matthew 6:16) for they fast on the second and fifth day of the week; but fast on the fourth day and the Preparation (Friday). Neither pray as the hypocrites; but as the Lord commanded in His Gospel, thus pray: Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done, as in heaven, so on earth. Give us today our daily (needful) bread, and forgive us our debt as we also forgive our debtors. And bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one (or, evil); for Yours is the power and the glory forever. Thrice in the day thus pray."

The Didache, Chapter 8. Concerning Fasting and Prayer (the Lord's Prayer) [circa 70 AD]
"Fasting is of great benefit to the Christian soul. It humbles the body and with the humiliation of the body, the soul, too, is humbled; but although the body has been reduced to submission, the soul nevertheless suffers its own passions. Now if to the flame of the soul is added the flame of the body, who is able to endure such twofold burning? Prayer frequently extinguishes the fire of the soul, and likewise does trust in the Lord."

St. Jerome, Homily on the Psalms: Homily 33 on Psalm 106
"For the saint, every day is the day of Christ’s Resurrection, and he always feeds on the Lord’s flesh. But days for fasting and gathering together for worship were instituted by prudent men for the sake of those who leave more time for the world than for God, and are unable, or rather unwilling, to congregate in church every moment of their lives, or to put the offering of the sacrifice of their prayers to God ahead of their human activities. For how few people are there who always observe at least these few regulations about the times of prayer or fasting? Thus, we are allowed to fast always, to pray always, and to celebrate unceasingly and joyfully in the Lord’s day by receiving his body."

St. Jerome, Commentary on Galatians 4:10-11: "You observe days, and months, and seasons, and years! I am afraid I have labored over you in vain."
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"By fasting of the body we are prepared for spiritual feasting."

St. Jerome, Commentary on Matthew 9:15
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"I speak the sober truth when I affirm that, for the wrecks of families in our country, woman has a large share of the responsibility. In so many instances she seems to have entirely forgotten, or purposely avoided, the place she is called upon to fill. She looks to material greatness in man as her guiding star. She wishes to do what men have done, and are doing. She enters this field, foreign to all her faculties and her strength, and seems to think she is living up to a higher standard than was ever before permitted to her kind. But if she stopped a moment to consider, could she find a mission more exalted, more noble or more influential than Christian wifehood and motherhood? That makes her the helpmate of her husband, and the guide and teacher of her sons and daughters, rather than a stumbling-block in the way of all."

Cardinal James Gibbons, The Restless Woman
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"God maintained the order of each sex by dividing the business of human life into two parts and assigned the more necessary and beneficial aspects to the man and the less important, inferior matters to the woman."

St. John Chrysostom, Quales Ducendae Sint Uxores [The Kind of Women Who Ought to Be Taken as Wives]
"One of the most evil and strongest influences that is felt here, perhaps the strongest and the most evil, is that of the Jews."

Pope Pius XI, 1919 Report to Cardinal Gasparri
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"After creating man, God created woman and determined her mission, namely, that of being man's companion, helpmeet and consolation... It is a mistake, therefore, to maintain that woman's rights are the same as man's. Women in war or parliament are outside their proper sphere and their position there would be the desperation and ruin of society. Woman, created as man's companion, must so remain under the power of love and affection, but always under his power. How mistaken, therefore, is that misguided feminism which seeks to correct God's work. It is like a mechanic trying to correct the signs and movements of the universe. Scripture, and especially the three epistles of St. Paul, emphasizes woman's dependence on man, her love and assistance, but not her slavery to him."

Pope St. Pius X, 1909 Address to a Delegation of the Union of Italian Catholic Women
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"Many Englishmen, and I am one of them, do think that the international and largely secret power of the great Jewish houses is a problem and a peril."

GK Chesterton, To the Editor of The Nation, "The Jews in Modern Life"
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"Just as the Lord has His chosen saints, so does the Devil have his elect. Think of the chief heretics and you will have no doubt about his chosen band."

St. Jerome, Homilies on the Psalms, Homily 51, Psalm 140