Pope Leo Xii Quotes

It was truly absurd to maintain that the laws of previous Pontiffs become obsolete, if they are not confirmed expressly by one's successors.

There were plenty of men who had received the Papacy and weren’t worthy of it. There were men such as Stephen VI, Benedict IX, John XII, Clement V, Sixtus IV, Leo X, Alexander VI, and others. These were men who had taken the throne of Saint Peter and turned it into a couch of corruption, greed, dissipation, blood, violence, incest, and heresy.

In 1825, on the occasion of the jubilee, Pope Leo XII. struck a medal, bearing on the one side his won image, and on the other, that of the Church of Rome symbolised as a "Woman," holding in her left hand a cross, and in her right a CUP, with the legend around her, "Sedet super universum," "The whole world is her seat.

The gifts of eternal salvation can only come from Calvary and the redeeming work of the Saviour and Mediator (cf. Jn 19:26). Mary has been granted the task by Almighty God of “bringing us the gifts of eternal salvation”, and is thereby rightly “invoked by the Church” as the “Mediatrix.”211 The footnote to the term, “Mediatrix” in the Council document Lumen Gentium refers to the several official teachings of the Magisterium of Mary’s role as Mediatrix of all graces as previously taught by Pope Leo XIII,212 Pope St. Pius X,213 Pope Pius XI,214 and Pope Pius XII.215 The Council does not diminish, but rather assumes and confirms the rich and repeated papal tradition of the ordinary Magisterium about the Mediatrix of graces that has preceded it.