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“The proximate matter of Baptism is the use of the water […] in such a way that in the common estimation of men an ablution has been performed.” Prümmer, Handbook of Moral Theology 1956, 552.3 (NB: we earn commissions through these Amazon Links) Defects of matter (and related issues) and necessary actions This article is about …
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Introduction In the first three parts of this series, we have seen that: The Catholic Church is a perpetually visible society which must therefore consist of members whose identity is discernible by the senses;The sacrament of baptism is necessary and sufficient for constituting an individual as both a subject and a member of the Catholic …
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“The youth of the Church is eternal and her doctrine infallible – death and corruption shall never destroy the branches and tissues once formed.” What is a Father of the Church? What authority do Doctors and theologians have in the Church? And what of the role of the liturgy? This is the second half of …
Chapter III of Vacant’s work is long, and so the WM Review is publishing it in two parts. This first part addresses the express teaching of the ordinary magisterium, and the second will consider its implicit and tacit teaching acts. This part also describes the ways in which the Church makes use of natural sciences …
The WM Review continues our translation and publication of this nineteenth work on the ordinary magisterium. 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 Controverese, judged by …
We are pleased to present another section from this study by J.M.A. Vacant, in which he addresses the concept and the authority of the ordinary and universal magisterium. We previously published Chapter VI of this work, on the Pope’s personal exercise of this magisterium. Fr Vacant was a professor of the Major Seminary of Nancy, …
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In this part we will examine the second condition of membership, that of public profession of the true faith. In part one of this series, we saw that the Catholic Church could be defined as: “The society of men who, by their profession of the same faith, and by their partaking of the same sacraments, make up, …
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