Crucial Truths to Save Your Soul Quotes

“Our Lady said that to alter the Liturgy would be suicide for the Church.”
― Father Nicholas Gruner, Crucial Truths to Save Your Soul

“I had spoken about the dogma of Faith being under attack even from within the Church, and I had made reference to some examples of Church teachings which were losing acceptance among many "Protestantized" Catholics. One of the seminarians of this group brought that point up again and told me that he, for one, did not believe in what I had said was the Church's teaching. It was enough for him to know that a certain Cardinal had said the opposite. "I follow the living magisterium," this seminarian told me!

I could hardly believe my own eyes and ears. This was a seminarian who was preparing to become a priest to say only the traditional Latin Mass, and who had supposedly had a traditional seminary formation. As best I could tell from the discussion that followed, the superior of the group shared this seminarian's understanding of the Church's Magisterium - basically, that a "magisterial teaching" is whatever happens to be the latest word from Vatican officials, no matter how contradictory this might be to the prior constant and defined teachings of the Church!”
― Father Nicholas Gruner, Crucial Truths to Save Your Soul

“It is such a pathetic illusion for priests to think that they will preserve anything by staying under the radar in not learning, defending and promoting the Message of Fatima in all its fullness to the extent that they are able. If we don't stand up and act on the truth of the Fatima Message very quickly, we are all going to lose our necks, beyond our positions and salaries and insurance policies!”
― Father Nicholas Gruner, Crucial Truths to Save Your Soul

“The sheep can pretty easily distinguish a true shepherd from all the hirelings, especially when times are bad- there is just no other reason to explain why he [Fr. Gruner] would stay in the fight and allow the wolves to tear at him.”
― Father Nicholas Gruner, Crucial Truths to Save Your Soul

“So many Catholics seem to have the idea, ‘if the Pope said, you have to obey. Period.’ No, if the Pope commands something within his jurisdiction, we have to obey. There is a limit to the Pope’s authority.”
― Father Nicholas Gruner, Crucial Truths to Save Your Soul

“The authority given to the Pope and to the bishops is not a power to confine the Gospel, but to preach the Gospel.”
― Father Nicholas Gruner, Crucial Truths to Save Your Soul