Socialism, Communism, clandestine societies, Bible societies... pests of this sort must be destroyed by all means.
Pope Pius IXNow you know well that the most deadly foes of the Catholic religion have always waged a fierce war, but without success, against this Chair [of St. Peter]; they are by no means ignorant of the fact that religion itself can never totter and fall while this Chair remains intact, the Chair which rests on the rock which the proud gates of hell cannot overthrow and in which there is the whole and perfect solidity of the Christian religion.
Pope Pius IXNeither the true faith nor eternal salvation is to be found outside the Holy Catholic Church.
Pope Pius IX