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Collective Punishment: Open Letter to Latin Mass Catholics – Part I
"Are you not trying to be Catholics in a church which doesn’t want you?"
The doctrinal authority of the episcopal magisterium – what is it? JMA Vacant answers
"The body of the episcopate can never perish or err, but each bishop can fall into error and even separate from his brothers through schism or heresy." Image: Bishops at Vatican II, Wiki Commons As we already noted, the author J.M.A. Vacant was the initial director of the Dictionnaire de Théologie Catholique and was a seminary professor. …
Can the ordinary magisterium create new dogmas or obligations of belief? Fr Vacant explains
"Is a solemn definition by a Pope or a Council necessary to make a doctrine heretical?" Image: The Immaculate Conception, Wiki Commons As we already noted, the author J.M.A. Vacant was the initial director of the Dictionnaire de Théologie Catholique and was a seminary professor. This short work was awarded the prize for the theological competition in La …
What obligations are imposed by the “ordinary magisterium”? – Chapter IVa of Fr J.M.A. Vacant’s nineteenth-century work
"What are the signs that identify a doctrine taught infallibly by the ordinary and universal magisterium?" This is the first half of Vacant's long Chapter IV, which considers again the different ways in which the Church's ordinary magisterium teaches us, and the obligations corresponding to these ways. As we already noted, the author J.M.A. Vacant …
The Great Canon of St Andrew of Crete – Prayers of Repentance for Lent
"The Judge is near, even at the very gate. Life is passing away, as a dream, and as a flower." Image: Cain leads Abel to his Death - Tissot. The incident is mentioned elsewhere in The Great Canon. Wiki Commons. St Andrew of Crete died in the eighth century in Damascus. He became a monk …
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What does Michael Lofton mean by “tradition”?
"It is absurd, and a detestable shame, that we should suffer those traditions to be changed which we have received from the fathers of old." The Decretals, cited by St Thomas AquinasSumma Theologica, Ia-IIae, Q. 97 A. 2Photo by Thays Orrico on Unsplash In this piece...– What is tradition?– Can abandoned or forbidden practices be …
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Power and Humility made Manifest in Christ: An Epiphany Sermon from Cardinal Newman
"His is an omnipotence which can swathe itself in infirmity and can become the captive of its own creatures." Image: Adoration of the Magi, Edward Burne Jones, (Wikipedia Commons: source) Editor's Introduction Today is the great feast of the Epiphany. The word, as many of us know, means an appearance or manifestation. The feast is …
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The Holy Innocents – Liturgical Highlights
"Ye play with your palms and crowns beneath the very altar." There are many moments of beauty and pathos in the Church's year. But few are so equally filled with both bitterness and glory as the feast of the Holy Innocents. It is very noticeable that Christ's coming to the world is marked with blood …
The Holy Innocents – Liturgical Highlights
"Ye play with your palms and crowns beneath the very altar." There are many moments of beauty and pathos in the Church's year. But, in my opinion, few are so equally filled with both bitterness and glory as the feast of the Holy Innocents. It is very noticeable that Christ's coming to the world is …