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502 4 | the progress of science showed later that that conception
503 3 | Peter, and how the praises showered on that distinguished name
504 9 | preservation of that Faith shown by Dante pre-eminently as
505 4 | creating and preserving sign of Omnipotent God, who moves
506 10| that is from the state of sin, "and lead them to the state
507 | since
508 11| to call the most eloquent singer of the Christian idea. The
509 8 | enjoyable, Dante has the singular merit that while he fascinates
510 1 | of Dante Alighieri, the sixth centenary of whose death
511 3 | necessarily redound in no small measure to the honour of
512 4 | of individuals and human society. It is thus that, according
513 6 | religious hearts must needs be soiled" (St. Leo M. S. IV de Quadrag),
514 4 | surely desire that this solemn commemoration should take
515 | sometimes
516 1 | centenary of whose death will soon be recorded. Never perhaps
517 7 | structure of his poem on these sound religious principles, no
518 4 | sure foundation, that the spheres imagined by our ancestors
519 4 | the purgation of the good spirits and the eternal happiness
520 5 | the Prophet says, contain 'spiritual teachings transcending human
521 9 | passionately loved in all the splendour of their beauty, feeling
522 11| and the stronger and more spontaneous your devotion to the Catholic
523 1 | are ever in debt, highest stands the name of Dante Alighieri,
524 4 | course of the planets and stars, are not indeed as they
525 6 | increase his feeling, false statements were being made by his political
526 6 | Italian Cardinals during the stay at Avignon: "To us who confess
527 4 | with the imprint of the strict scholastic method. Amid
528 6 | must not be understood so strictly as to mean that the Roman
529 11| splendours of truth, and the stronger and more spontaneous your
530 7 | Thus, as he based the whole structure of his poem on these sound
531 8 | less the profit for the student making more perfect his
532 6 | this mortal happiness is subjected in certain measure to immortal
533 6 | truths, is owing perfect submission in matters of faith and
534 4 | and handed them on to the succeeding ages with the imprint of
535 9 | What We have said above suffices to show how opportune it
536 9 | Christian poet, to have sung with Divine accents those
537 9 | by Dante pre-eminently as support of learning and the arts.
538 4 | of the world rested on no sure foundation, that the spheres
539 4 | whatever be the order that sustains it in its parts, is the
540 4 | Divina, while it uses various symbolic images and records the lives
541 10| Deplorable indeed is the system prevalent today of educating
542 8 | more perfect his artistic taste and more keen his zeal for
543 5 | if he has seen he has not tasted" (Mon. III, 3).~
544 10| may be for the pupils the teacher of Christian doctrine, he
545 5 | says, contain 'spiritual teachings transcending human reason,'
546 4 | distinguished for angelic temper of intellect, Saint Thomas
547 9 | the great classics it was tempered even more gloriously, as
548 3 | promoted the restoration of the temple where the ashes of the poet
549 11| you are doing to love and tend the noble poet whom We do
550 | themselves
551 7 | Christian philosophy and theology, but the compendium of the
552 5 | as in his other works We think that these things may serve
553 4 | temper of intellect, Saint Thomas Aquinas. From him he gained
554 | thou
555 4 | in Florence to which his thoughts turned during the last years
556 | throughout
557 8 | Catholic Faith and finished by throwing themselves with enthusiasm
558 4 | which deservedly earned the title of Divina, while it uses
559 6 | to see this as to see the tragedy of heresy" (Epist. VIII).
560 5 | contain 'spiritual teachings transcending human reason,' given 'by
561 7 | wonder that we find in it a treasure of Catholic teaching; not
562 4 | drew when he set himself to treat in verse of things so vast
563 6 | your salvation. He felt the troubles of the Church as his own,
564 4 | these three dogmas with truly wrought design. If the progress
565 4 | Florence to which his thoughts turned during the last years of
566 4 | whose glory risplende in una parte piu e meno altrove;
567 6 | this truth "must not be understood so strictly as to mean that
568 1 | can boast who have left undying fruits in literature and
569 4 | ancestors, witness of their unhappy fall, as too of the Redemption
570 3 | than before the intimate union of Dante with this Chair
571 2 | cannot be absent from this universal consensus of good men; rather
572 8 | Catholic poets who combine the useful with the enjoyable, Dante
573 4 | title of Divina, while it uses various symbolic images
574 9 | the Divina Commedia to a vague ideology without basis of
575 8 | the reader with wonderful variety of pictures, with marvellously
576 4 | treat in verse of things so vast and deep. So that while
577 9 | is covered with the same veil, "the truth given to us
578 5 | reverence he pays to "those venerable Great Councils the presence
579 4 | set himself to treat in verse of things so vast and deep.
580 6 | laid down as rule for his views "the reverence which a good
581 3 | letters under the maternal vigilance of the Church, to show even
582 6 | tragedy of heresy" (Epist. VIII). For him the Roman Church
583 8 | and more keen his zeal for virtue, as long as he keeps his
584 6 | Church. Hence the outspoken warning to Christians: You have
585 4 | marvellous how he was able to weave into all three poems these
586 | whatever
587 | whereas
588 | wherever
589 6 | blood as Apostolic See - now widowed and desolate; to us it is
590 9 | Fathers which gave him the wings on which to rise to a higher
591 6 | III, 16). Excellent and wise principle indeed which,
592 7 | religious principles, no wonder that we find in it a treasure
593 6 | breaks out sometimes into words of excessive blame, the
594 5 | Alighieri as in his other works We think that these things
595 6 | through mortal infirmity, "by worldly dust even religious hearts
596 5 | that "Though many are the writers of the Divine Word nevertheless
597 6 | might inveigh, rightly or wrongly, against ecclesiastical
598 6 | against its Supreme Head he wrote as follows to the Italian
599 4 | three dogmas with truly wrought design. If the progress
600 11| Our Pontificate. ~BENEDICT XV~ ~
601 11| April 30, 1921, the seventh year of Our Pontificate. ~BENEDICT
602 4 | thoughts turned during the last years of his life with the desire
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