Catholic Clergy (Criticism)

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,

who put darkness for light

and light for darkness,

who put bitter for sweet

and sweet for bitter! – Isaiah 5:20

The time is sure to come when people will not accept sound teaching, but their ears will be itching for anything new and they will collect themselves a whole series of teachers according to their own tastes; and then they will shut their ears to the truth – 2 Tim. 3:4,5

I fear for you, not so much from the pagans…as from the bad Catholics. Choose for yourselves those whom you may imitate among the people of God. For, if you wish to imitate the crowd, you will not tread the narrow path in the company of the few. – St. Augustine

It must be observed, however, that if the faith were endangered, a subject ought to [charitably] rebuke his prelate even publicly. Hence Paul, who was Peter’s subject, rebuked him in public, on account of the imminent danger of scandal concerning faith, and, as the gloss of Augustine says on Galatians 2:11, ‘Peter gave an example to superiors, that if at any time they should happen to stray from the straight path, they should not disdain to be reproved by their subjects.’ – St. Thomas Aquinas

The Church, which ought to be a place of light, has become a dwelling place of darkness. It ought to be a secure, peaceful family home, but look: it has become a den of thieves! How can we tolerate the fact that predators have entered among us, into our ranks? Many faithful priests behave every day as attentive shepherds, kindly fathers, and sure guides. But some men of God have become agents of the Evil One. They have sought to defile the pure souls of the littlest ones. They have humiliated the image of Christ that is present in every child. – St. Pope Paul VI

that no excuse is admitted for the shepherd if the wolf eats the sheep, and the shepherd does not know it, is certainly inspired by great fear and terror. – Pope Benedict XIV

we wish to make it clear that departure from the Church’s teaching, or silence about it, in an effort to provide pastoral care is neither caring nor pastoral. Only what is true can ultimately be pastoral. – Pope Benedict XVI

Don’t deceive people with the word “mercy”. God forgives sin only if we repent of them – Cardinal Robert Sarah

Tolerance is not a Christian Virtue. Charity, Justice, Prudence, Mercy, Honesty- these are Christian virtues. Tolerating grave evil within a society is itself a form of serious evil. – Archbishop Charles J. Chaput

If the priest is a saint, the people will be fervent;

if the priest is fervent, the people will be pious;

if the priest is pious, the people will at least be decent;

if the priest is only decent, the people will be godless.” — Fr. Jean-Baptiste Chautard