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1 12 | 12. Recalling all these things,
2 48 | theologos Parisien, 7 Jul. 1228), so too it condemns the
3 13 | 13. For you are aware, venerable
4 32 | Epist. S. Anselmi, ep. 140). ~
5 26 | Ibid. Lib. iii. epist. 142). ~
6 15 | 15. But with no less severity
7 17 | 17. Now in all this it is not
8 18 | 18. But if you see all this,
9 55 | Patris," diei 4 Augusti, an. 1879), and those We have Ourself
10 58 | of St. Anselm, April 21, 1909, in the eighth year of Our
11 20 | 20. Abuses like these were
12 25 | 25. And since silence or indolence
13 26 | 26. Equally opportune are other
14 27 | 27. These and similar admonitions,
15 29 | 29. Anselm's commentary on
16 35 | 35. How Anselm excelled in
17 36 | 36. The same strong constancy
18 38 | 38. Certainly it is a wonderful
19 39 | 39. But, venerable brethren,
20 40 | 40. This effort is necessary
21 43 | 43. But unfortunately their
22 45 | 45. Without entering here in
23 46 | 46. There was at the time a
24 48 | 48. Midway between these two
25 49 | 49. For this defense, it may
26 50 | 50. Not, indeed, that the Doctor
27 51 | 51. Yet Anselm accomplished
28 53 | 53. Hence too he condemns,
29 54 | 54. When, therefore, theologians
30 55 | 55. With these and the like
31 56 | 56. Nor do they hold in greater
32 58 | 58. Supported by this great
33 26 | of the Church" (Ibid. ep. 59). It behooves Us, too, Us
34 6 | 6. In the eyes of the best
35 21 | Epist. lib. iii. epist. 65). Thus wrote Anselm, and
36 22 | Mother," (Ib. lib. iii. ep. 73), he wrote to Our Predecessor
37 36 | just, that He will never abandon His heritage and that the
38 33 | he felt at seeing himself abandoned culpably by many, even including
39 25 | Church, not to think that you abase yourself when you exalt
40 41 | Then again, by a deplorable aberration, the very progress, good
41 48 | practice. which. while it abhors the presumption of the first
42 50 | what we have said as to abide by it obstinately, when
43 55 | than once, and again in the above-mentioned Encyclical "Pascendi dominici
44 5 | their course, and sheds abroad a light of doctrine and
45 48 | true investigation, and the absence of all desire in them "to
46 17 | reconcile things that are absolutely irreconcilable, viz., the
47 16 | in the investigation of abstruse trifling, and thus grow
48 42 | of agnosticism with other absurd doctrines springing from
49 40 | which is drawing them to the abyss and drowning them. ~
50 6 | easily induced the Pontiff to accede to his requests and made
51 51 | treated more clearly and accurately questions already treated
52 55 | things until he has first acquired, with firmness in the faith,
53 25 | to rule her, are clearly acting in opposition to God. God
54 13 | raised to hide the beneficent action of the Church on behalf
55 36 | constancy is shown in all his actions and writings, and especially
56 48 | Epist. Tacti dolore cordis ad theologos Parisien, 7 Jul.
57 3 | thanks to god for having added so many children to the
58 57 | would here, in conclusion, address the same words that Our
59 32 | Pontiff to the guilty, he adds: "As regards the great indulgence
60 16 | the very excesses of its adepts, continues to be a most
61 12 | splendid examples for our admiration and imitation; nay, reflection
62 54 | not understand, it plainly admonishes us to extend intention to
63 24 | Sap. vi. 7), with the admonition of Psalm ii.: "And now,
64 48 | faith by natural reason adulterating the word of God with the
65 1 | forth so generously by the advent of misfortune, has its one
66 55 | happy memory (Encyclical "Aeterni Patris," diei 4 Augusti,
67 13 | utterly ostracized from public affairs. And the authors of this
68 31 | and which does not at all affect the eternal principles of
69 25 | same great Doctor concisely affirmed in the energetic words: "
70 1 | disasters at home which afflict Us, there is surely consolation
71 2 | their public and private afflictions, words can hardly express
72 13 | Our wounds were opened afresh by the shameful charges
73 42 | the present profession of agnosticism with other absurd doctrines
74 13 | people, or any other noble aim, or desire to promote good
75 57 | Church and Us who govern it, albeit unworthily, from the pressing
76 9 | vice of the great and small alike; ever a valiant defender
77 54 | Nor is the last reason he alleges to be neglected: "In the
78 14 | brethren, and especially in the Allocution We delivered in the Consistory
79 46 | undigested culture, and allowed themselves to be led away
80 24 | calamities it behooves us to cry aloud and make known the great
81 18 | necessary to fight for the altar and the home, for the sanctity
82 3 | which dioceses in North America have commemorated the centenary
83 54 | reason of the truth is so ample and so deep that it can
84 24 | the deplorable fount of anarchy, corruption, and endless
85 1 | spectacle to the world and to angels and to men" (I Cor. iv.
86 7 | Scripture says that "the animal man understandeth not the
87 18 | difficulties as it appears in the annals of the Church. Then indeed
88 3 | of Lourdes, the fiftieth anniversary of whose origin We have
89 4 | through the Church, which We announced as the programme of Our
90 9 | you are not deterred from announcing the truth either by the
91 56 | him has it been shown what answer is to be made to error in
92 53 | how far? The question is answered in the words that follow: "
93 33 | myself, and am of no use to anybody. I give way beneath the
94 24 | Christ: that double social apostasy which is the deplorable
95 54 | although since the time of the Apostles many of our Holy Fathers
96 4 | Apostolic Letters "E supremi Apostolatus Cathedra" (Encyclica diei
97 38 | divine character is more apparent than ever before. It is
98 24 | 24. These noble appeals for sacred liberty have
99 18 | full of difficulties as it appears in the annals of the Church.
100 52 | assigns for this is especially applicable now to those who imitate
101 5 | in the method of teaching applied and largely promoted by
102 54 | advance in this the nearer he approaches to the vision, for which
103 52 | contemplate" (Ibid. cap. 2). Appropriate, too, for our own times
104 58 | the Feast of St. Anselm, April 21, 1909, in the eighth
105 55 | among them the Doctor of Aquin, followed, developed, illustrated
106 55 | and abundantly enriched by Aquinas. On this head remember always
107 18 | unfrequently they were selected arbitrarily and according to a perverse
108 Ded | the patriarchs,~primates, archbishops, bishops, and other ordinaries~
109 50 | others with more weighty arguments succeed in overthrowing
110 48 | against the errors that arise on all sides. ~
111 56 | wherefore when anything arises in the Church against the
112 40 | the dangers from within, arising from that second kind of
113 18 | violence of princes who arrogated to themselves the right
114 13 | suspicion which with wily art they insinuate into the
115 29 | for ever since the Savior ascended to heaven holy Church has
116 56 | is the mind hindered from ascending to the intelligence of higher
117 11 | society, all this must be ascribed to his close union with
118 43 | and have returned these aside, more or less unconsciously,
119 54 | search and the faithful ask for reasons concerning our
120 39 | which is also the warmest aspiration of Our heart: "Holy Father,
121 52 | questions." And the reason he assigns for this is especially applicable
122 13 | behindhand in rendering assistance after the calamity, by the
123 7 | so many ways by troubles, attacks, exiles, were in him blended
124 25 | gain by it, what do they attain? It is so clear that there
125 1 | Christ, to Him alone must be attributed all the fruits of it, even
126 53 | too much to philosophy by attributing to it the right to invade
127 16 | erudition, joined with a most audacious system of criticism, some
128 55 | Aeterni Patris," diei 4 Augusti, an. 1879), and those We
129 43 | Manicheans found favor with Augustine, and have returned these
130 55 | they despise the sacred authorities of the Holy Scriptures,
131 13 | public affairs. And the authors of this war, cunning and
132 13 | 13. For you are aware, venerable brethren, and
133 13 | persecuted, kept in the background as belonging to an inferior
134 22 | reason, which for Us is the badge of pastoral dignity and
135 25 | gentleness to the powerful Baldwin, King of Jerusalem: "As
136 9 | although set in the midst of barbarians, you are not deterred from
137 18 | entirely stripped of their old barbarism and often enough refractory
138 56 | protection. This contempt almost bars the way of all wellfounded
139 53 | Christian theology, which is based on the fact of divine revelation
140 52 | Holy Fathers, just as if bats and owls who see the heaven
141 14 | now in serried and open battle, now by cunning and by wily
142 9 | had to undertake fierce battles in defense of justice and
143 24 | judgment shall be for them that bear rule" (Sap. vi. 7), with
144 25 | better than by repeating that beautiful expression. ~
145 36 | when, while still Abbot of Bec, he wrote to Urban II: "
146 57 | consanguinerorum," cap. 1). "Hence We beg your fraternity to implore
147 46 | who immediately they have begun to grow the horns of an
148 13 | against the clergy of being behindhand in rendering assistance
149 30 | darkness, between Christ and Belial. This hallucination is as
150 53 | supremely worthy of being believed. Far different is the proper
151 53 | which the Catholic Church believes with the heart and confesses
152 53 | consequent obligation of believing the divine authority proposing
153 21 | own uses the things that belong to her, the cruelty with
154 13 | kept in the background as belonging to an inferior and outcast
155 51 | treated by him. To Anselm belongs the distinction of having
156 32 | never lift him unless he too bends down a little. Besides,
157 33 | use to anybody. I give way beneath the burden because I am
158 13 | thus the works of Christian beneficence have been weakened and circumscribed
159 13 | obstacles raised to hide the beneficent action of the Church on
160 11 | for the Church and great benefits for society, all this must
161 | Besides
162 58 | in your co-operation, We bestow the Apostolic Benediction
163 15 | frequently puts us on our guard: "Beware lest any man cheat you by
164 48 | class who "puffed up like bladders with the wind of vanity" (
165 7 | attacks, exiles, were in him blended with such gentle and pleasing
166 24 | perversity of men or the blindness of prejudice. To Us, as
167 26 | reign with her in eternal bliss" (Epist., lib. iii. ep.
168 21 | himself as his relation by blood and affection: "You see,
169 13 | cunning and pitiless as it is, boast that they are waging it
170 29 | His disciples to enter the boat," is directly to the point: "
171 50 | supreme masters Thomas and Bonaventure. The later fruits of the
172 16 | individual religiosity, borrowing the name and some semblance
173 18 | princes, and controlled by and bound to these in all things. ~
174 53 | his horns for attack, but bow his head in reverence" ("
175 13 | do not hesitate in their brazen folly to taunt her with
176 13 | God and the human race. Brazen-faced men these, seeking to create
177 6 | Gregory VII wrote him letters breathing esteem and affection and "
178 5 | which, if it "differs in brightness" (I. Cor. xv. 41) from them,
179 46 | their lack of intelligence brings them down to manifold errors" (
180 13 | different form, has either broken out already or is being
181 18 | conflicts that other times have brought upon the Christian people,
182 38 | glory and the invincible bulwark of the Church. But its very
183 33 | something; set in a lofty place, burdened by an immense weight, I
184 54 | Cur Deus homo," lib. i. c. 2). And here Anselm means
185 13 | rendering assistance after the calamity, by the obstacles raised
186 6 | made him not hesitate to call him the most learned and
187 7 | manners that he was able to calm the angry passions of his
188 16 | especially eating its way like a cancer among the young generations
189 17 | fictitious piety, ingenuous candor, and earnestness, in the
190 16 | themselves according to their own caprice a vague, naturalistic individual
191 41 | knowledge of God, and bring into captivity every understanding even
192 26 | think over these things carefully and if your conscience warns
193 12 | consolation amid the pressing cares of the government of the
194 47 | their terror at the many cases of those who had made shipwreck
195 18 | Us, you are not therefore cast down or without all hope.
196 4 | Letters "E supremi Apostolatus Cathedra" (Encyclica diei 4 Octobris
197 3 | and let the enemies of Catholicism be persuaded of it, that
198 19 | countries the convulsions caused by revolutions within and
199 3 | greatly rejoiced Us; the celebrations with which dioceses in North
200 3 | it, that the splendor of ceremonial, and the devotion paid to
201 56 | and to no other with such certainty as to him has it been shown
202 22 | if he has recourse to the Chair of Peter for protection
203 20 | Gregory VII, the intrepid champion of justice, unswerving defender
204 26 | And especially when you chance to meet with some son who
205 38 | so warm that its divine character is more apparent than ever
206 50 | with that great modesty so characteristic of the truly wise, and with
207 31 | this defect can never be charged to you who are spurred on
208 13 | opened afresh by the shameful charges invented against the clergy
209 15 | guard: "Beware lest any man cheat you by philosophy and vain
210 13 | Church has nourished and cherished as her first-born, her flower
211 5 | Gregory the Great and John Chrysostom, one the light of the Western,
212 26 | ears that you treat the churches in your power in a manner
213 40 | still there continues to circulate that poison which has been
214 13 | beneficence have been weakened and circumscribed as far as possible, thus
215 52 | to enter with the utmost circumspection upon questions affecting
216 50 | as were called forth by circumstances, or when compelled thereto
217 57 | intercession of the blessed citizens of the Church triumphant,
218 24 | have not here a lasting city, but we seek one that is
219 13 | civilization among uncivilized and civilized peoples, have been driven
220 50 | disciple: "you must not so cling to what we have said as
221 35 | the measure of its power, clings in reverence and obedience
222 30 | gaining an ephemeral peace by cloaking the rights and interests
223 33 | the studious life of the cloister, to be raised to a lofty
224 13 | office have been either closed to them or rendered extremely
225 12 | never to fail in our duty of co-operating with all our strength in
226 58 | protection, and trusting in your co-operation, We bestow the Apostolic
227 41 | by never being able to be coherent with itself and by suffering
228 50 | ripen but with time and the collaboration of many doctors. Anselm
229 15 | not according to Christ (Colos. ii. 8). ~
230 26 | And especially when it comes to Our ears that you treat
231 56 | faith and obedience to the commandments are removed is the mind
232 5 | especially in these Letters to commemorate, now that the eighth centenary
233 12 | interest during the solemn commemoration of the great Doctor, we
234 29 | 29. Anselm's commentary on the passage of St. Matthew: "
235 49 | road, to unseal for the common good the spring of Christian
236 16 | which has come to be known commonly as modernism from its craving
237 26 | to the power mercifully communicated to them, to think and act
238 Ded | ordinaries~in peace and communion with the Apostolic See.~~~
239 5 | xv. 41) from them, yet compares well with them in their
240 32 | Our great affection and compassion in order that We might be
241 50 | by circumstances, or when compelled thereto by some authority,
242 52 | dialecticians of our time are to be completely debarred from the discussion
243 5 | disciples, by his writings, all composed "in defense of the Christian
244 30 | the Church, as though any composition were possible between light
245 46 | beyond the reach of their comprehension. . . For there are some
246 31 | made up of weak schemes and compromises to the injury of divine
247 53 | perverse opinion of those who conceded too much to philosophy by
248 34 | in His Vicar in all that concerns the guidance of souls, or
249 16 | between reason and faith (Concil. Vatic., Constit. Dei filius,
250 25 | as the same great Doctor concisely affirmed in the energetic
251 57 | to whom We would here, in conclusion, address the same words
252 51 | declined to accept all his conclusions and treated more clearly
253 31 | this is only a reasonable condescension, which can be made without
254 28 | Coloss. i. 24). Hence her condition as militant on earth divinely
255 13 | and how iniquitous the conditions which have been forced upon
256 53 | believes with the heart and confesses with the mouth, but even
257 46 | as impossible, instead of confessing with humble wisdom that
258 4 | this return We look with confidence, and plans and hopes are
259 9 | this double merit of Anselm confined within the walls of his
260 24 | great truths which history confirms by its great and disastrous
261 16 | for there can be no real conflict between reason and faith (
262 33 | sense of the danger which confronts the very best among the
263 16 | prevails of ignorance or confused knowledge of the things
264 13 | these, seeking to create confusion by their words, and to lay
265 57 | S. Anselm, "De nuptiis consanguinerorum," cap. 1). "Hence We beg
266 24 | More bitter shall be the consequences of these threats when the
267 53 | reasonableness of our faith and the consequent obligation of believing
268 39 | fixing our gaze not on human considerations but on those that are divine,
269 46 | and in their foolish pride considered anything they could not
270 14 | Allocution We delivered in the Consistory of December 16, 1907. ~
271 24 | rulers and of the people consists especially in the exclusion
272 2 | movement of those who would console their Father and help their
273 31 | whom Divine Providence has constituted to be the pastors and leaders
274 29 | of St. Matthew: " Jesus constrained His disciples to enter the
275 54 | promises to be until the consummation of the world. And to say
276 52 | it alone and pure should contemplate" (Ibid. cap. 2). Appropriate,
277 36 | the Pontiff he does not content himself with imploring pitiful
278 28 | to live in the midst of contentions, troubles, and difficulties,
279 32 | settled at last the long contest Our Predecessor Paschal
280 57 | 57. But if the erring continue obstinately to scatter the
281 39 | mission which is that of continuing and propagating the work
282 41 | mistakes and the frequent contradictions made by the followers of
283 8 | to be irreconcilable and contradictory: simplicity and greatness,
284 18 | election by the princes, and controlled by and bound to these in
285 50 | of profit for exercise in controversy" ("De Grammatico," cap.
286 56 | wellfounded hope of the conversion of the erring; while they
287 21 | of religion, they surely convict themselves of disobedience
288 19 | Church. In both countries the convulsions caused by revolutions within
289 39 | it ever more intimate and cordial, fixing our gaze not on
290 48 | IX, Epist. Tacti dolore cordis ad theologos Parisien, 7
291 52 | man, is so mixed up with corporal imaginations that it is
292 15 | Church. They are trying to corrupt the springs of Christian
293 24 | deplorable fount of anarchy, corruption, and endless misery for
294 54 | intelligence of which the Vatican Council speaks (Constit. "Dei filius,"
295 25 | pray, conjure, admonish and counsel you, as the guardian of
296 21 | peoples who were so loved and counseled and served by him. ~
297 20 | suffice to mention here the courageous Gregory VII, the intrepid
298 17 | craftily concealed with a covering of fictitious piety, ingenuous
299 31 | against religion, seeking a cowardly neutrality made up of weak
300 17 | fact that its weapons are craftily concealed with a covering
301 13 | Brazen-faced men these, seeking to create confusion by their words,
302 53 | which with all signs of credibility that testify to them, are
303 56 | themselves behind these and gain credit and protection. This contempt
304 16 | most audacious system of criticism, some have been seduced
305 3 | dense multitude, and with a crown formed of Our venerable
306 21 | that belong to her, the cruelty with which they despise
307 33 | seeing himself abandoned culpably by many, even including
308 18 | defender among the nations, to curb the violence of princes
309 56 | has entrusted the custody of Christian life and faith
310 57 | heap contempt on venerated customs, "to destroy which is a
311 21 | tribulation for their eternal damnation by those to whom she was
312 17 | one that is all the more dangerous from the fact that its weapons
313 46 | despised the sacred authority, dared with impious temerity to
314 13 | or is being prepared by dark machinations. For there
315 13 | makes them proclaim her as dead, while they never cease
316 25 | Christian family and so dear to God, as the same great
317 21 | affection: "You see, my dearest Lord, how the Church of
318 52 | time are to be completely debarred from the discussion of spiritual
319 50 | when the question is a debated one, and not connected with
320 24 | hearing by reason of the decay of faith or the perversity
321 15 | you by philosophy and vain deceit, according to the traditions
322 30 | error is worse when men deceive themselves with the idea
323 14 | delivered in the Consistory of December 16, 1907. ~
324 24 | and the rich, to them that decide and govern the policy of
325 51 | Thomas, even when the latter declined to accept all his conclusions
326 21 | Disdaining obedience to the decrees of the Apostolic See, made
327 26 | England: "If you wish in very deed to return thanks rightly
328 22 | from shaking, only rooted deeper Anselm's love for the Church
329 55 | presume to discuss the deepest questions of the faith ("
330 56 | example, and, above all, took deeply to heart those words of
331 15 | monstrous systems, in short to deface all the beauty of the Spouse
332 31 | requires. And certainly this defect can never be charged to
333 53 | faith," he says, "must be defended by reason against the impious" (
334 27 | the Church, as the natural defenders of truth, justice, and religion
335 12 | doctrine of the Church, of defending strenuously the liberty
336 23 | in manly patience; and he defends it by his acts, his writings,
337 53 | refuting this foolish theory he defines well the confines proper
338 14 | especially in the Allocution We delivered in the Consistory of December
339 26 | be corrected, since God demands an account from all not
340 38 | an object of envy to the demon and of hatred to the world,
341 3 | gratitude for the many striking demonstrations of affection and reverence
342 15 | have We been obliged to denounce and to put down another
343 16 | unhealthy novelty) although denounced several times and unmasked
344 3 | Eucharist, in the presence of a dense multitude, and with a crown
345 50 | that happen you will not deny at least that what we have
346 34 | authority of the Holy See depend the directions and the counsels
347 18 | venerable brethren,. and deplore it bitterly with Us, you
348 40 | second kind of war which We deplored above when We made mention
349 55 | fide Trinitatis," cap. 2). Deploring this evil with Anselm, We
350 15 | teaching, to scatter the sacred deposit of the faith, to overthrow
351 7 | to the contrary by men of depraved life and judgment, of whom
352 13 | Christian civilization to deprive the Church of her rights,
353 13 | purest civilization has been derived. ~
354 21 | by the successor and the descendants of that most potent prince,
355 21 | and one who rejoiced to describe himself as his relation
356 36 | Our Predecessor Paschal describes as "written with the pen
357 28 | Church. Such is the wonderful design of the Divine Wisdom and
358 4 | plans and hopes are all designed to lead to it as to a port
359 5 | expression, seems in the designs of Providence to grow stronger
360 7 | in his own eyes was but a despicable and unknown goodfor-nothing,
361 13 | her - nay, after having despoiled her of all liberty, they
362 45 | Without entering here in detail into the intellectual state
363 9 | barbarians, you are not deterred from announcing the truth
364 7 | and most sincere humility detract in the least from his high
365 31 | made without the slightest detriment to duty, and which does
366 55 | Doctor of Aquin, followed, developed, illustrated and perfected
367 39 | thing alone in Christ. By developing this noble effort we shall
368 27 | liberty is mocked, and new devices are constantly being invented
369 37 | the memory of a Saint so devoted to the Apostolic See, but
370 6 | him the most learned and devout of the bishops of England. ~
371 46 | simulacrum of philosophy and dialectics. In their inane fallacy,
372 5 | according to time and place, and differing in its mode of expression,
373 5 | other star which, if it "differs in brightness" (I. Cor.
374 27 | hardly room to stand without difficulty and danger. For while unbridled
375 5 | against the Church and the diffusion of iniquity in the world.
376 25 | that your lofty dignity is diminished if you love and defend the
377 3 | celebrations with which dioceses in North America have commemorated
378 35 | authority in order that it may direct and when necessary correct
379 34 | the Holy See depend the directions and the counsels of the
380 50 | the faith, he tells his disciple: "you must not so cling
381 42 | infinite series of systems in discord with one another and with
382 21 | violate religion and her law. Disdaining obedience to the decrees
383 52 | that it is impossible to disentangle it from these, nor is itself
384 21 | surely convict themselves of disobedience to the Apostle Peter whose
385 5 | of pastoral activity he displayed, in the method of teaching
386 26 | Whenever I hear anything of you displeasing to God and unbecoming to
387 35 | to put all my acts at the disposition of this same authority in
388 57 | to scatter the seeds of dissension and error, to waste the
389 45 | clergy and people in that distant age, there was a notable
390 52 | these, nor is itself able to distinguish from them things that it
391 13 | utility have been thwarted; distinguished laymen who openly profess
392 9 | grace of God you are neither disturbed by threats nor moved by
393 29 | persecution, harassed by the divers perversities of the wicked,
394 46 | dispute one or other of the dogmas professed by Catholic faith . . .
395 48 | Gregor. IX, Epist. Tacti dolore cordis ad theologos Parisien,
396 53 | the right to invade the domain of theology. In refuting
397 15 | species of war, intestine and domestic, and all the more disastrous
398 51 | speculation, of removing the doubts of the timid, the dangers
399 25 | from the heritage and the dower promised to her" (Ibid.
400 48 | of all desire in them "to draw profit from the faith for
401 40 | craving for novelty which is drawing them to the abyss and drowning
402 3 | where the afflicted Church dried her tears to see such brilliant
403 13 | civilized peoples, have been driven out of Catholic countries;
404 40 | drawing them to the abyss and drowning them. ~
405 36 | evil days, till the pit be dug for the sinner. And although
406 9 | a military tent into the dust and the glare of the highway.
407 33 | the power of Christ may dwell in me. For which cause I
408 4 | first Apostolic Letters "E supremi Apostolatus Cathedra" (
409 52 | the sun at noon, against eagles who gaze at the sun unblinkingly" (
410 35 | wrote to Pope Paschal: "How earnestly my mind, according to the
411 17 | piety, ingenuous candor, and earnestness, in the hands of factious
412 5 | Western, the other of the Eastern Church, to fix our gaze
413 16 | Church, and it is especially eating its way like a cancer among
414 22 | account of me the constancy of ecclesiastical devotion and Apostolic authority
415 24 | sacred liberty have a timely echo in our days on the lips
416 10 | Predecessor Paschal, and, echoing his words, return thanks,
417 18 | enough refractory to the educating influence of the Church,
418 13 | from the instruction and education of youth; Catholic undertakings
419 26 | thanks rightly and well and efficaciously to God, take into your consideration
420 10 | that We, after a lapse of eight centuries, should rejoice
421 18 | to a perverse system of election by the princes, and controlled
422 15 | of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according
423 2 | words can hardly express Our emotion and Our gratitude. These
424 15 | Spouse of Christ for the empty glamour of a new culture,
425 9 | truly worthy of that further encomium of Paschal: "Thanks be to
426 4 | supremi Apostolatus Cathedra" (Encyclica diei 4 Octobris MDCCCCIII.),
427 46 | against all right rules they endeavor to rise prematurely by their
428 24 | anarchy, corruption, and endless misery for the individual
429 25 | concisely affirmed in the energetic words: "In this world God
430 53 | those who already profess to enjoy the honor of the name of
431 9 | affection, which he at first enjoyed, of his very brethren in
432 27 | of doing this have been enormously increased so that there
433 7 | hearts of those who were enraged against him, so that the
434 55 | of Aosta and abundantly enriched by Aquinas. On this head
435 55 | day the loss and the ruin ensuing from the neglect of these
436 45 | 45. Without entering here in detail into the
437 38 | all the more an object of envy to the demon and of hatred
438 30 | with the idea of gaining an ephemeral peace by cloaking the rights
439 15 | authority, pontifical as well as episcopal, to put a new form on the
440 33 | prompt aid and comfort (Epistol. lib. iii. ep. 37); God,
441 6 | splendid intellect" ("In Epitaphio") whose reputation was such
442 26 | 26. Equally opportune are other admonitions
443 32 | goes so far as to lose the equilibrium of rectitude" (In lib. iii.
444 13 | contempt of all natural equity and justice. Most grievous,
445 18 | most sacred liberties, to eradicate the vices, ignorance, and
446 32 | For if the one standing erect merely holds out his hand
447 30 | 30. They err greatly, therefore, who
448 43 | their illusions, their erroneous and disastrous systems,
449 40 | the very constitution and essence of the Church, to stain
450 48 | limits in their efforts to establish the faith by natural reason
451 3 | the Kingdom of God may be established on earth, and eternal salvation
452 50 | in overthrowing ours and establishing opinions against them; should
453 6 | wrote him letters breathing esteem and affection and "recommending
454 3 | confines to the Blessed Eucharist, in the presence of a dense
455 3 | their foundation, returning everlasting thanks to god for having
456 41 | counsels and every height that exalteth itself against the knowledge
457 56 | in order that it may be examined by his prudence" (Ibid.
458 35 | 35. How Anselm excelled in this virtue, with what
459 45 | notable danger in a twofold excess to which the intellects
460 48 | the second class in their excessive neglect of true investigation,
461 25 | to her, and are therefore excluded from the heritage and the
462 24 | consists especially in the exclusion of God and in rebellion
463 50 | said has been of profit for exercise in controversy" ("De Grammatico,"
464 54 | deep that it can never be exhausted by mortals; and the Lord
465 10 | pleasure for Us to be able to exhort you to fix your eyes on
466 7 | ways by troubles, attacks, exiles, were in him blended with
467 8 | 8. Thus in him there existed a wonderful harmony between
468 1 | throwing off entirely and expelling from human society. ~
469 25 | ep. 32). And all this he explains with his usual force and
470 38 | societies, and finds no explanation of it in political and human
471 5 | of Aosta, most vigorous exponent of Catholic truth and defender
472 33 | danger to which they are exposed, but it is to be seen most
473 2 | afflictions, words can hardly express Our emotion and Our gratitude.
474 33 | sentiments which Anselm expressed to Urban II.: "Holy Father,
475 54 | plainly admonishes us to extend intention to understanding,
476 6 | affectionate letters Paschal 11 extolled his "reverent devotion,
477 17 | irreconcilable, viz., the extravagances of a fickle human science
478 42 | led them into the other extreme, and their philosophy throwing
479 13 | closed to them or rendered extremely difficult, especially by
480 17 | earnestness, in the hands of factious men who use them to reconcile
481 3 | solemnity. In these and other facts all must see, and let the
482 33 | great an office. I would fain flee from the insupportable
483 55 | twistings of sophistry he fall into the toils of some tenacious
484 16 | philosophy and this shallow and fallacious erudition, joined with a
485 46 | dialectics. In their inane fallacy, which they called by the
486 32 | may seem like the act of falling, it never goes so far as
487 16 | yoke of divine authority, fashioning for themselves according
488 31 | your strength this most fatal tendency of modern society
489 9 | great ones of the world, the favors of the powerful, the united
490 47 | shipwreck of the faith, and fearing the danger of the science
491 3 | as being a profession of fearless faith, and, as it were,
492 58 | Rome at St. Peter's on the Feast of St. Anselm, April 21,
493 5 | think, after the Jubilee Feasts, celebrated with unwonted
494 13 | but blind hatred which feeds their mad plan to weaken
495 9 | have already hinted, Anselm fell on difficult days and had
496 27 | the Church is obstinately fettered, the very name of liberty
497 17 | the extravagances of a fickle human science with divine
498 17 | concealed with a covering of fictitious piety, ingenuous candor,
499 35 | virtue, with what warmth and fidelity he ever maintained perfect
500 9 | days and had to undertake fierce battles in defense of justice
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