Saturday, January 5, 2013

Fudge on Hus at Constance

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"He had once argued that the function of canon law was to restrain whatever conflicted with the church and revealed truth.  During his ...
Tuesday, January 1, 2013

"Division is the schism, if schism there be, not interference."

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"If unity lies in the Apostolic succession, an act of schism is from the nature of the case impossible; for as no one can reverse his p...

"If anyone does not confess that Emmanuel is God in truth, and therefore that the holy virgin is the mother of God [(θεοτόκον, Dei genetricem)], . . . let him be anathema."

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"he who existed and was begotten of the Father before all ages is also said to have been begotten according to the flesh of a woman, wi...
Monday, December 31, 2012

"Blessed are you when men revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account."

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"On the whole I conclude as follows:—if there is a form of Christianity now in the world which is accused of gross superstition, of bor...

"The human longing for God, however, persists from age to age."

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"The distinctly modern metaphysical picture of reality is one that makes it possible to regard this world as a cave filled only with fl...
Saturday, December 29, 2012

Not (here) the dangers of holding one another accountable, but the dangers of a disingenuous "repentance"

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"The first and fatal charm of national repentance is, therefore, the encouragement it gives us to turn from the bitter task of repentin...
Friday, December 28, 2012

Newman on the dormition of St. Peter

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"The regalia Petri might sleep, as the power of a chancellor has slept; not as an obsolete, for it never had been operative, but as a ...