Papal Loyalty

From SSPXWatch

Pope St. Pius X, to the priests of the Apostolic Union, 1912:

"How ought the Pope to be loved? "Not in word, nor in tongue, but in deed, and in truth." (1 John 3:18). When one loves a person, one seeks to conform in all respects to his thoughts, to carry out his commands, to anticipate his desires. And if our Lord Jesus Christ said of Himself: "If any one love me, he will keep my word" (John 14:23), even so to demonstrate our love for the Pope, it is necessary to obey Him. Hence, if one loves the Pope, one does not raise discussions as to what he ordains or demands, or as to how far obedience must go ­ and in what things obedience is due; when one loves the Pope, one does not say that he has not spoken with sufficient clearness, as if he were obliged to repeat to the ear of each person that desire which has been expressed clearly, so many times, not by word of mouth only but by letters and other public documents; one does not call in question his orders, by resorting to the facile pretext of those who do not wish to obey, that it is not the Pope who commands, but those who surround him; one does not oppose to the authority of the Pope that of other persons however learned who dissent from the Pope, since these if they are learned are not holy, for those who are holy cannot dissent from the Pope."