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From Pope St. Pius X's "Our Apostolic Mandate"--Alas! this organization which formerly afforded such promising expectations, this limpid and impetuous stream, has been harnessed in its course by the modern enemies of the Church, and is now no more than a miserable affluent of the great movement of apostasy being organized in every country for the establishment of a One-World Church which shall have neither dogmas, nor hierarchy, neither discipline for the mind, nor curb for the passions, and which, under the pretext of freedom and human dignity, would bring back to the world (if such a Church could overcome) the reign of legalized cunning and force, and the oppression of the weak, and of all those who toil and suffer.

One of the more prophetic quotes and applicable to so many parts of the Church today.

Alas! this organization which formerly afforded such promising expectations, this limpid and impetuous stream, has been harnessed in its course by the modern enemies of the Church, and is now no more than a miserable affluent of the great movement of apostasy being organized in every country for the establishment of a One-World Church which shall have neither dogmas, nor hierarchy, neither discipline for the mind, nor curb for the passions, and which, under the pretext of freedom and human dignity, would bring back to the world (if such a Church could overcome) the reign of legalized cunning and force, and the oppression of the weak, and of all those who toil and suffer.

Compare with this:

This is the finest aspect of the United Nations; it is its most truly human aspect; it is the ideal that mankind dreams of on its pilgrimage through time; it is the world's greatest hope; it is, We presume to say, the reflection of the loving and transcendent design of God for the progress of the human family on earth a reflection in which We see the heavenly message of the Gospel. Here indeed We seem to hear the echo of the voice of Our Predecessors, and particularly of Pope John XXIII, whose message of "Pacem in Terris" received so honourable and significant a response among you. You proclaim here the fundamental rights and duties of man, his dignity, his freedom and above all his religious freedom.

Pope Paul VI's address to the UN 10/04/65

for the establishment of a One-World Church which shall have neither dogmas, nor hierarchy, neither discipline for the mind, nor curb for the passions, and which, under the pretext of freedom and human dignity,

The other day I saw the local N.O. parish bulletin for Ash Wednesday. I could not find anything distinctly Roman Catholic in it. If I did not know, I could have easily mistaken it for a Lutheran or Episcopalian bulletin. The articles inside specifically spoke to "new ways of thanksgiving" instead of "old ways of penance". There was a piece on blessing food and of course, the term "our community" was referred to in place of Church, Faith, parish, etc. The Episcopalian Ash Wednesday letter I saw was slightly more Catholic.

The Christmas Day bulletin was equally bad. The One World Church is coming along nicely.