Showing posts with label Unity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Unity. Show all posts

Thursday, December 1, 2016

QUOTATION: May They All Be One!

Cardinal Marc Ouellet
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This is precisely what struck me in returning to the prayer of Christ: He does not say “May they all be united” but “May they all be one.” (John 17:21).

--Cardinal Marc Ouellet, Actualité et avenir du Concile œcuménique de Vatican II, 2012

Saturday, April 2, 2011

QUOTATION: The Papacy and Unity

Indeed no true and perfect human society can be conceived which is not governed by some supreme authority. Christ therefore must have given to His Church a supreme authority to which all Christians must render obedience. For this reason, as the unity of the faith is of necessity required for the unity of the church, inasmuch as it is the body of the faithful, so also for this same unity, inasmuch as the Church is a divinely constituted society, unity of government, which effects and involves unity of communion, is necessary jure divino.

--Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum, On the Unity of the Church 1896.

(Note: jure divino= by divine law).

Thursday, March 24, 2011

QUOTATION: Communion

No one, therefore, unless in communion with Peter can share in his authority, since it is absurd to imagine that he who is outside can command in the Church.

Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum, On the Unity of the Church, 1896.

Saturday, December 25, 2010

QUOTATION: Communion with the Pope

They have not the heritage of Peter who have not the see of Peter, rent by their impious division.


--Tertullian, De Poenitentia

Friday, December 24, 2010

QUOTATION: The Church is One

There is one God, and Christ is one, and there is one Church, and one chair founded upon Peter by the word of the Lord. Another altar cannot be constituted nor a new priesthood be made, except the one altar and the one priesthood.

--St. Cyprian, Letters, 39:5