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1 " Vatican I, for example, affirms that the Church herself, by reason of her marvelous extension, her eminent holiness, and her inexhaustible fruitfulness in every good thing, as well as by her Catholic unity and invincible stability, is a great and perpetual motive of belief and an irrefutable witness to her own divine mission. In a word, the Catholic Church has been endowed with all the mark necessary to allow any man of good faith to adhere to her as the true Church. "
― Dominique Bourmaud , One Hundred Years Of Modernism: A Genealogy Of The Principles Of The Second Vatican Council
2 " When man builds a wall around himself through self-love, he condemns himself to death, for, a mere and miserable creature, by himself he is nothing. In his prideful isolation, he starves and poisons himself. He smothers the seed of moral and intellectual life which can sprout only by opening itself to being and the source of life. The same reality, albeit in a far higher order, is reflected in the words of the Gospel: “He who loves his life, will lose it; he who loses his life for My sake, will save "