“What I have seen is terrifying! Will I be the one, or will it be a successor? What is certain is that the Pope will leave Rome and, in leaving the Vatican, he will have to pass over the dead bodies of his priests!” Vision of a future Pope fleeing Rome during great crisis.
“I have seen one of my successors, of the same name, fleeing over the bodies of his brethren. He will take refuge in some hiding place; but after a brief respite, he will die a cruel death.” Suggesting a future Pope Pius.
“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… will bring ruin and oppression.” “Our Apostolic Mandate” letter, cited as possessing prophetic insight.
“This evil is a poison injected into the veins of the Church, which seeks to destroy her from the inside out.” Pius X denounced Modernism prophetically asthe worst heresy of all time—church crisis as chastisement.