"... It becomes obvious that we have continual though silent record of decisions and acts of St Joseph." Photo by Saint John's Seminary on Unsplash. Some line breaks added below, with some headings taken from the original Table of Contents. Editors' Notes It is sometimes suggested that the Gospels have relatively little to say about …
"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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"In default of the Roman clergy the right will belong to the Church universal." Image: Cardinal Journet, by Armand Niquille, Wiki Commons. Editor's Notes Continuing the series on papal elections in the absence of the Cardinals, we are now publishing (in two parts) Charles Journet’s treatment of papal elections, and of the state of the …
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"Another feature of persecution is the great apparent success which is sometimes allowed to it." Image: WikiCommons. Some line breaks added below, with some headings taken from the original Table of Contents. Editors' Notes As usual, we wanted to include some notes and commentary, but this is already a long text. We have published these …
Continue reading What are the effects of persecution? Fr H.J. Coleridge SJ, 1885
"It represented the effects of the blood of the lamb with which the doorposts of the Israelites were marked." FromThe Thirty YearsOur Lord's Infancy & Hidden LifeFr Henry James Coleridge1885 Burns and Oates, London, 1915112-120 Image: Wiki Commons Public Domain. Some line breaks added below, with some headings taken from the original Table of Contents. …
Continue reading Candlemas, Passover and the buying-back of the firstborn – Fr H.J. Coleridge, 1885
"The true Church of God must be united, fastened and joined together in one same doctrine and belief" Over the last months, we have made the visible unity of the Church's faith a central theme of a number of essays. In short, the Church is essentially united in her external profession of faith. This is an essential aspect of the property of unity itself. As one of the four notes of the Church recited in the Creed, this unity of faith is a "negative" property in the sense that the true Church of Christ can never lack it. Any society claiming to be the Church of Christ shows itself to be a false claimant if it lacks this unity of faith.
"He that could have transgressed, and hath not transgressed, and could do evil things, and hath not done them." Photo by Fernando Santander on Unsplash Editor's Notes In a previous essay about the kind of heresy that separates a man from the Church, I wrote: Discussions about heresy and membership become confused due to a …
"I finish by declaring before God and ready to appear before Him, that I do not reproach myself for any of the crimes which are brought against me." Image: Funerary monument of Louis XVI & Marie-Antoinette. Wiki Commons As many know, January 21st marks the anniversary of France’s regicide. King Louis XVI of France was …
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"Do not seek the malicious satisfaction of having discovered an additional enemy to the Church." Editors' Notes In his Apology, the early Christian writer Tertullian imagined pagans looking at Christians and marvelling at our mutual love: "'See,' they say, 'how they love one another' – for the pagans themselves are animated by mutual hatred. 'See …
"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 …
Continue reading Power and Humility made Manifest in Christ: An Epiphany Sermon from Cardinal Newman