Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
435
AUTHOR:
Pius XI (18571939)
QUOTATION:
When there is question of saving souls, or preventing greater harm to souls, We feel the courage to treat with the devil in person.
ATTRIBUTION:
Pope PIUS XI, speech to the students of the Mondragone college, May 14, 1929. Unverified but recounted in Robert A. Graham, Vatican Diplomacy, p. 351 (1959).