Saint Charles Borromeo: “...there is no other fault that God is so greatly offended by, none provokes such indignation as the vice of heresy, and in turn, nothing can bring the provinces and kingdoms to ruin more than that horrid plague can.”

"During his eighteen years of governing the diocese of Milan, Archbishop Borromeo, with the same vigour,  was devoted to combating heresy which he considered the plague of the spirit. According to St. Charles, “there is no other fault that God is so greatly offended by, none provokes such indignation as the vice of heresy, and in turn, nothing can bring the provinces and kingdoms to ruin more than that horrid plague can.” (Conc. Prov. V, Pars I). St. Pius X, citing one of his phrases, describes him as “a model for the flock and the shepherds of modern times, unflagging advocate and counselor of authentic Catholic reform against those innovators of the time, whose intent was not reintegration but rather deformation and destruction of the faith and customs” (Encyclical Edita saepe del 26 May 1910)."

From blog post by Roberto de Mattei, 

"How St. Charles Borromeo braved the epidemic of his time"

 at Rorate Caeli.

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