This contempt almost bars the way of all wellfounded hope of the conversion of the erring; while they refuse obedience to him to whom Divine Providence as to the Lord and Father of the whole Church in its pilgrimage on earth . . . has entrusted the custody of Christian life and faith and government of His Church; wherefore when anything arises in the Church against the Catholic faith to no other authority but his is it to be rightly referred for correction, and to no other with such certainty as to him has it been shown what answer is to be made to error in order that it may be examined by his prudence

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Pope St. Pius X

Communium Rerum, #56

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