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The Duty of Pastors

No priest of the Lord is free to be ignorant of the statutes of the Apostolic See.

- St. Siricius, Letter to Bishop Himerius of Tarragona, February 11, 385

Carefully investigate the directors given charge of boys and young men in seminaries and colleges, and the courses they are to follow, the teachers chosen for secondary schools, and the schools which are to be run. Keep out the ravening wolves who do not spare the flock of innocent lambs, and expel them if necessary by the way they entered.

- Pius VII, iu Satis, May 15, 1800

Remember that your duty is not the extension of a human realm, but of Christ's; and remember that your goal is that acquisition of citizens for a heavenly fatherland, and not for an earthly  one.

- Benedict XV, maximum Illud, 1919