“One triumphs completely over an enemy when one penetrates into his realm, even into his own house, and takes away his throne and his possessions.” Image: Follower of Bosch, Christ in Limbo (Wiki Commons) Translator’s Introduction The following text is an edited translation of the third chapter of Fr. Anselm Stolz’s work Theology of Mysticism. …
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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 …
St John the Baptist’s sufferings teach us about Christ’s Kingdom – here’s how (Fr Coleridge, 1882)
“Would He drive away the Herodian princes as He had scattered the money-changers?” Image from Wiki Commons. Some line breaks added below, with some headings taken from the original Table of Contents. Fr Coleridge’s book on St John the Baptist takes us up to the close of the saint’s ministry, but not his life. Nonetheless, …
John Henry Newman, Anti-Ecumenist
“Catholics and Protestants, as bodies, hold nothing in common in religion, however they may seem to do so.” Image: Newman kneeling before Fr Dominic Barberi, who received him into the Church in Littlemore in 1845. From the parish of Littlemore. Editors’ Notes What follows is an extract from the fifth of Newman’s series of discourses …
John Henry Newman, Anti-Modernist – Part III
“Nothing is easier than to use the word, and mean nothing by it.” Image: Bust of Newman at Trinity College, Oxford where he was an undergraduate, and where one of our editors lived for a term. Wiki Commons, Public Domain Editors’ Notes This is the third part of Discourse II (‘Theology a Branch of Knowledge’) of John …
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John Henry Newman, Anti-Modernist – Part II
“Faith is an intellectual act, its object truth, and its result knowledge.” Image: Wiki Commons, Public Domain Editors’ Notes This is the second part of Discourse II (‘Theology a Branch of Knowledge’) of John Henry Newman’s The Idea of a University, in which he considers the arguments of those who would exclude the teaching of …
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John Henry Newman, Anti-Modernist – Part I
“It is very plain, that a Divine Being and a University so circumstanced cannot co-exist.” Image: Wiki Commons, Public Domain Editors’ Notes In Discourse II (‘Theology a Branch of Knowledge’) of his The Idea of a University, John Henry Newman considers the arguments of those who would exclude the teaching of theology from university – …
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St John the Baptist and recent devotions – Fr H.J. Coleridge SJ, 1882
“… a sign of danger, secret pride, or coldness of charity.” Murillo, Wiki Commons. Some line breaks added below, with some headings taken from the original Table of Contents. The following extract from Fr Coleridge’s book on the ministry of St John the Baptist sheds an interesting light on more “recent” devotions adopted by the …
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When Our Lady became the Mother of Sorrows – Fr H.J. Coleridge SJ, 1885
“Now for the first time she is raised to that pre-eminent throne of suffering.” Murillo’s Virgen Dolorosa – CC Wiki Commons. Some line breaks added below, with some headings taken from the original Table of Contents. FromThe Thirty YearsOur Lord’s Infancy & Hidden LifeFr Henry James Coleridge1885 Burns and Oates, London, 1915154-63 The change of …
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The Annunciation: Why did Isaias prophesy that “a Virgin shall be with Child”? – Fr H.J. Coleridge SJ, 1885
“In abandoning your House, he would be abandoning his own promises.” Image: Wiki Commons Public Domain. Some line breaks added below, with some headings taken from the original Table of Contents. Editors’ Notes To mark the feast of the Annunciation, we are sharing the below extracts from Fr Henry James Coleridge, who asks a question …