"For the Church, evangelizing means bringing the Good News into all  the strata of humanity, and through its influence transforming humanity  from within and making it new: "Now I am making the whole of creation  new." (Rev 21:5)  But there is no new humanity if there are not first of all new  persons renewed by Baptism (Rom 6:4) and by lives lived according to the  Gospel.(Eph 4:24-25) The purpose of evangelization is therefore precisely this  interior change, and if it had to be expressed in one sentence the best  way of stating it would be to say that the Church evangelizes when she  seeks to convert,[49] solely through the divine power of the message she  proclaims, both the personal and collective consciences of people, the  activities in which they engage, and the lives and concrete milieu which  are theirs."

On Evangelization in the Modern World
"Evangelii Nuntiandi"
Apostolic Exhortation  of His Holiness, Pope Paul Vl

Promulgated on December 8, 1975

"One of the primary obligations assigned by Christ to the office divinely committed to us of feeding the Lord's flock is that of guarding with the greatest vigilance the deposit of the faith delivered to the saints, rejecting the profane novelties of words and the gainsaying of knowledge falsely so called.....That We should act without delay in this matter is made imperative especially by the fact that the partisans of error are to be sought not only among the Church's open enemies; but, what is to be most dreaded and deplored, in her very bosom, and are the more mischievous the less they keep in the open. We allude, Venerable Brethren, to many who belong to the Catholic laity, and, what is much more sad, to the ranks of the priesthood itself, who, animated by a false zeal for the Church, lacking the solid safeguards of philosophy and theology, nay more, thoroughly imbued with the poisonous doctrines taught by the enemies of the Church, and lost to all sense of modesty, put themselves forward as reformers of the Church; and, forming more boldly into line of attack, assail all that is most sacred in the work of Christ, not sparing even the Person of the Divine Redeemer, whom, with sacrilegious audacity, they degrade to the condition of a simple and ordinary man......"

"I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word, be urgent in season and out of season, convince, rebuke, and exhort, be unfailing in patience and in teaching. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own likings, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander into myths. As for you, always be steady, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfil your ministry."  2 Tim 4:1-5

ON THE DOCTRINE OF THE MODERNISTS
"PASCENDI DOMINICI GREGIS"

Encyclical of Pope St. Pius X promulgated on September 8, 1907.

. "Jesus Christ, the Liberator of mankind, is the everlasting and ever flowing source of all the good things that come to us from the infinitebounty of God; so that He who has once saved the world is he who will save it throughout all ages; "for there is no other name under heaven given to men whereby We must be saved."[1] If then the human race fall into sin, either through its natural propensities or through the faults of men, it is absolutely indispensable to have recourse to Jesus Christ and to recognize in Him the most powerful and the most sure means of salvation. For so great and so efficacious is its divine virtue that it is at once a refuge from all dangers and a remedy for all evils. And the cure is certain, if mankind returns to the profession of Christian doctrine and to the rules of life laid down by the Gospel."

ON ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI
"AUSPICATO CONCESSUM"

Encyclical of Pope Leo XIII promulgated on September 17, 1882.

"We need the living Christ, whom we can know only through our encounter with Him.  But encounter presumes actual presence -- the Real Presence, which, in turn, requires the Sacrament and the Church that alone is authorized to give us the Sacrament, the Church that Jesus Christ Himself willed into existence and continues to support.  The Eucharist, at each new celebration, must be recognized anew as the core of our Christian life.  But we cannot celebrate the Eucharist adequately if we are content to reduce it to a ritual of, more or less, a half-hour's duration.  To receive Christ means to worship Him.  We welcome Him properly and worthily at the solemn moment of receiving Him only when we worship Him and in worshipping Him learn to know Him, come to understand His nature, and follow Him.   We need to learn once more how to rest peacefully in His gentle presence in our churches, where the Eucharist is likewise always present because Christ intercedes for us before the Father, because He always awaits us and speaks to us.  We must learn again how to draw inwardly close to Him, for it is only thus that we become worthy of the Eucharist.

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger
from ROMAN HOMILIES, October 12th, 1982

I have chosen for my episcopal motto the words, "Christus Veritatis Splendor," "Christ the Splendor of Truth." I have done this for at least two reasons. At the core of the mystery of faith is the person of Christ, the fullness of God's revelation.......Indeed, Christ is the Way, the Truth and the Life. It is he and he alone who leads us to the Father and lays down his life that we might live.......Yet, there is a second reason why I chose this particular episcopal motto. Six years ago, our Holy Father wrote an encyclical entitled, "Veritatis Splendor" in which he reminded the members of the church, and indeed all people of good will, that at the heart of the moral life is the inseparable relation between freedom and truth. We need to learn this lesson well as we prepare as a church to launch a new evangelization for a new springtime of Christianity. We live in a society today where the very existence of truth is called into question. In many quarters of our American culture, from the classrooms of our universities to the chambers of our legislatures to the ordinary person on the street, the question of Pontius Pilate to Jesus at the beginning of our Lord's passion resounds with a haunting familiarity, "What is truth?"
In the face of such questioning, our Christian faith responds with clarity and conviction that "Jesus is The Truth" and in order to be truly free, you and I must surrender ourselves to him without reserve and without any hint of apology or trepidation.....We are told that the last words that St. Ignatius of Loyola spoke to the young Francis Xavier before Francis set out to preach the Gospel to the peoples of the Far East were these, "Francis, leave this place and set the world on fire." As we, the pilgrim people of God, stand poised to cross the threshold of a new millennium, I invite you now to recommit your hearts and lives to Christ, for in loving him who is the Truth of the Father made flesh, you and I will be truly free..... let US leave this place to set the world on fire with the love of Christ. Amen!

Remarks given at his Episcopal Ordination
February 22, In the Year of Our Lord, 1999
by The Most Reverend Robert J. McManus, DD, STD
Auxiliary Bishop of Providence

Homily given at the Episcopal Ordination
of The Most Reverend Robert J. McManus
by The Most Reverend Robert E. Mulvee,
Bishop of Providence
at StS. Peter and Paul Cathedral, Providence, RI
February 22, In the Year of Our Lord, 1999

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