"From today's crisis, a church will emerge tomorrow that will have lost a great deal... She will be small and, to a large extent, will have to start from the
beginning. She will no longer be able to fill many of the buildings
created in her period of great splendor. Because of the smaller number
of her followers, she will lose many of her privileges in society. It will make her poor and a church of the little people ... All this will require time. The process will be slow and painful."
- Fr. Joseph Ratzinger, 1969
"It is not by the display of power and pomp, cavalcades of retainers, and richly-houseled palfreys, or by gorgeous apparel, that the heretics win proselytes; it is by zealous preaching, by apostolic humility, by austerity, by seeming, it is true, but by seeming holiness. Zeal must be met by zeal, humility by humility, false sanctity by real sanctity, preaching falsehood by preaching truth."
- Fr. Dominic de Guzeman
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