Open Letter to Confused Catholics Quotes

“This is why I persist, and if you wish to know the real reason for my persistence, it is this. At the hour of my death, when Our Lord asks me: "What have you done with your episcopate, what have you done with your episcopal and priestly grace?" I do not want to hear from his lips the terrible words "You have helped to destroy the Church along with the rest of them." (p. 163)”
― Marcel Lefebvre, Open Letter to Confused Catholics

“God does not punish, just as the Church no longer condemns, except those who stay faithful to Tradition. (p. 61)”
― Marcel Lefebvre, Open Letter to Confused Catholics

“From such an extravegent summary, we can draw only one conclusion: either we must condemn the Second Vatican Council which authorized it, or we must condemn the Council of Trent and all the Popes who, since the sixteenth century, have declared Protestantism heretical and schismatic.”
― Marcel Lefebvre, Open Letter to Confused Catholics

“This is why I persist, and if you wish to know the real reason for my persistence, it is this. At the hour of my death, when Our Lord asks me: “What have you done with your episcopate, what have you done with your episcopal and priestly grace?” I do not want to hear from His lips the terrible words “You have helped to destroy the Church along with the rest of them.”
― Marcel Lefebvre, Open Letter to Confused Catholics

“La Vérité, d’ailleurs, ne se fait pas dans le nombre, le nombre ne fait pas la Vérité.”
― Marcel Lefebvre, Open Letter to Confused Catholics

“Tous les papes ont refusé le mariage de l’Eglise avec la révolution, qui est une union adultère et d’une union adultère ne peuvent venir que des bâtards.”
― Marcel Lefebvre, Open Letter to Confused Catholics

“La foi s’établissait sur des certitudes. En ébranlant celles-ci, on a semé la perplexité.”
― Marcel Lefebvre, Open Letter to Confused Catholics

“Our Lord said “Go, teach all nations and convert them.” He did not say “Hold dialogue with them but don’t try to convert them.”
― Marcel Lefebvre, Open Letter to Confused Catholics

“The devil’s greatest victory is to have undertaken the destruction of the Church without making any martyrs.”
― Marcel Lefebvre, Open Letter to Confused Catholics

“L’obéissance aveugle n’est pas catholique ; nul n’est exempt de responsabilité pour avoir obéi aux hommes plutôt qu’à Dieu, en acceptant des ordres d’une autorité supérieure, fût-ce du pape, s’ils se révèlent contraires à la volonté de Dieu telle que la Tradition nous la fait connaître avec certitude.”
― Marcel Lefebvre, Open Letter to Confused Catholics