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501 10 | upon France, for more than fifteen years upon England, and
502 3 | the town of Lourdes, the fiftieth anniversary of whose origin
503 22 | trials and toils of hard fighting, far from shaking, only
504 16 | 16. By this figment of false philosophy and
505 48 | the word of God with the figments of the philosopher" (Gregor.
506 28 | much, and in a manner to "fill up what is wanting of the
507 9 | troubles of all kinds. Thus, finding England full of hatred and
508 38 | in earthly societies, and finds no explanation of it in
509 50 | Grammatico," cap. 21 sub finem). ~
510 13 | nourished and cherished as her first-born, her flower and her strength,
511 55 | while many, before being fitted or prepared, presume to
512 39 | more intimate and cordial, fixing our gaze not on human considerations
513 13 | with treacherous cunning or flagrantly perpetrated in violation
514 9 | powerful, neither by the flame of fire or the force of
515 25 | to the mighty Prince of Flanders: "As you are my Lord and
516 33 | an office. I would fain flee from the insupportable anxiety
517 13 | cherished as her first-born, her flower and her strength, in their
518 53 | answered in the words that follow: "It must be shown to them
519 55 | them the Doctor of Aquin, followed, developed, illustrated
520 13 | hesitate in their brazen folly to taunt her with her powerlessness
521 16 | deadly infection is further fomented by a spirit of incredulity
522 42 | themselves to be wise they became fools" (Rom. i. 21, 22). ~
523 13 | for her maternal care and forethought. We say nothing of many
524 17 | recognize one of the many forms of the eternal war waged
525 34 | contemporaries of his who fought for the liberty and doctrine
526 28 | herself the life of her Divine Founder who suffered so much, and
527 54 | is not for the purpose of founding on them their faith, which
528 24 | which is the deplorable fount of anarchy, corruption,
529 57 | 1). "Hence We beg your fraternity to implore God assiduously
530 25 | God wills His Spouse to be free and not a slave. Those who
531 16 | are seized by the blind frenzy for novelty consider that
532 41 | the many mistakes and the frequent contradictions made by the
533 25 | Jerusalem: "As your faithful friend, I pray, admonish, and conjure
534 9 | up a life of peace, the friendship of the great ones of the
535 17 | faith, and the spirit of a frivolous world with the dignity and
536 39 | this noble effort we shall fulfill ever better our sublime
537 38 | reasonings, seeing that it is the fulfillment of Christ's sublime prayer
538 53 | different is the proper function of Christian theology, which
539 53 | sufficiently clearly at the functions of reason in the things
540 12 | reflection on them will also furnish Us with strength and consolation
541 5 | their virtue and wisdom the fury of persecution against the
542 55 | our own time nor in the future do we ever hope to see their
543 3 | earth, and eternal salvation gained for men. ~
544 30 | themselves with the idea of gaining an ephemeral peace by cloaking
545 12 | be formed" in all souls (Galat. iv. 19), and especially
546 36 | His heritage and that the gates of hell shall not prevail
547 19 | accomplished for the provinces of Gaul which a few centuries before
548 19 | within and wars without gave rise to looseness of discipline
549 1 | Amid the general troubles of the time and
550 16 | a cancer among the young generations which are naturally the
551 1 | now been called forth so generously by the advent of misfortune,
552 55 | concerning which a more modest genius would be glad to use instead
553 24 | of those "whom the Holy Ghost has placed to rule the Church
554 54 | not cease to impart the gifts of grace in his Church,
555 55 | more modest genius would be glad to use instead the respectful
556 33 | realized in each one of us: "Gladly will I glory in my infirmities
557 15 | of Christ for the empty glamour of a new culture, falsely
558 9 | tent into the dust and the glare of the highway. For, as
559 56 | teachings, imitated his glorious example, and, above all,
560 56 | at times as far as words go they are lavish of promises
561 32 | act of falling, it never goes so far as to lose the equilibrium
562 7 | a despicable and unknown goodfor-nothing, a man of no parts, sinful
563 26 | better, because God in His goodness is wont to bring to perfection
564 58 | and in testimony of Our goodwill, on all of you, venerable
565 13 | difficult, especially by gradually removing them from the instruction
566 50 | exercise in controversy" ("De Grammatico," cap. 21 sub finem). ~
567 43 | But unfortunately their grandiloquent phrases and their promises
568 16 | continues to be a most grave and deep evil. It lurks
569 55 | with firmness in the faith, gravity of conduct and of wisdom,
570 48 | figments of the philosopher" (Gregor. IX, Epist. Tacti dolore
571 33 | these anxieties and in the grief he felt at seeing himself
572 13 | equity and justice. Most grievous, too, is the thought that
573 15 | frequently puts us on our guard: "Beware lest any man cheat
574 32 | the Supreme Pontiff to the guilty, he adds: "As regards the
575 30 | Christ and Belial. This hallucination is as old as the world,
576 57 | liberated from the dangers that hang over her, with the mercy
577 50 | against them; should that happen you will not deny at least
578 46 | questions of the faith. Thus it happens that while against all right
579 55 | Predecessor Leo XIII, of happy memory (Encyclical "Aeterni
580 29 | various storms of persecution, harassed by the divers perversities
581 8 | there existed a wonderful harmony between qualities which
582 | hast
583 26 | corrected in them that you hasten to make the correction" (
584 13 | the day, which is being hastened by ever more iniquitous
585 13 | slaveries and bring the people headlong to their ruin - "for sin
586 Ben | Venerable Brethren, Health and the Apostolic Benediction. ~
587 57 | to attack discipline, to heap contempt on venerated customs, "
588 26 | paternal of Anselm: "Whenever I hear anything of you displeasing
589 24 | High has made His voice heard" (Psalmus xvii. 14), in
590 24 | though they were to find no hearing by reason of the decay of
591 56 | whose lips one so often hears the fair words of sincerity,
592 57 | God, and We embrace you heartily in the love of Christ, holding
593 7 | his enemies and win the hearts of those who were enraged
594 55 | incautious levity, when heated, as so often is the case,
595 58 | the Lord, as a pledge of heavenly grace and in testimony of
596 33 | was, should suffer such heavy tribulation, in order that
597 24 | seek one that is to come (Hebr. xiii. 14), but, also, a
598 16 | the most inexperienced and heedless. It is not the result of
599 41 | destroy the counsels and every height that exalteth itself against
600 50 | reached all at once the heights of theological and philosophical
601 36 | heritage and that the gates of hell shall not prevail against
602 13 | affecting souls, is not less helpful for their eternal salvation
603 12 | the salvation of souls, helping Us never to fail in our
604 57 | destroy which is a species of heresy" in the phrase of St. Anselm,
605 57 | pressing assaults of the heretics, and lead these from their
606 | herself
607 56 | ascending to the intelligence of higher truths, but often enough
608 46 | rise presumptuously to the highest questions of the faith.
609 9 | dust and the glare of the highway. For, as We have already
610 56 | are removed is the mind hindered from ascending to the intelligence
611 9 | For, as We have already hinted, Anselm fell on difficult
612 53 | confines proper to each, and hints sufficiently clearly at
613 24 | all the great truths which history confirms by its great and
614 56 | 56. Nor do they hold in greater account the authority
615 29 | possible difficulties" (Hom. iii. 22). ~
616 4 | confidence, and plans and hopes are all designed to lead
617 16 | springs of doctrine. This hot-bed of error and perdition (
618 9 | within the walls of his own household or within the limits of
619 38 | and more close amid the hurtling of the storms that have
620 30 | deceive themselves with the idea of gaining an ephemeral
621 27 | the promotion of right ideas and right living, and the
622 56 | first the eyes are to be illuminated by the observance of the
623 5 | succeed to the Fathers to illumine the Church, and among these
624 43 | knowledge, of their aims, their illusions, their erroneous and disastrous
625 55 | Aquin, followed, developed, illustrated and perfected to the great
626 51 | reason was the slave of the imagination and of vanity ("De fide
627 52 | so mixed up with corporal imaginations that it is impossible to
628 56 | understood his holy teachings, imitated his glorious example, and,
629 12 | examples for our admiration and imitation; nay, reflection on them
630 46 | For there are some who immediately they have begun to grow
631 33 | lofty place, burdened by an immense weight, I gain no fruit
632 44 | are more serious and more imminent in our own days, they are
633 54 | the Lord does not cease to impart the gifts of grace in his
634 13 | though it concealed some impending danger for society, whereas
635 36 | not content himself with imploring pitiful aid and comfort;
636 9 | the most varied and most important occupations even those affecting
637 46 | and dialectics. In their inane fallacy, which they called
638 5 | Primate in England. It is not inappropriate, We think, after the Jubilee
639 57 | grace We implore of God with incessant prayers, interposing the
640 13 | promote good of any kind, that incites them to this bitter war,
641 9 | justice and truth. Naturally inclined though he was to a life
642 33 | abandoned culpably by many, even including his brethren in the episcopate,
643 57 | light of Christian wisdom, incorrupt guardian and valiant defender
644 27 | this have been enormously increased so that there is, in truth,
645 16 | fomented by a spirit of incredulity and of rebellion against
646 25 | case among the good, would incriminate us too, let every one of
647 1 | hostile to religion, who are indebted for whatever vestiges of
648 6 | 74 et 42), which easily induced the Pontiff to accede to
649 13 | reduced to powerlessness and inertia; the paths to knowledge
650 16 | which are naturally the most inexperienced and heedless. It is not
651 40 | as We have said, become infected by the pestilential atmosphere,
652 16 | discussing them. And this deadly infection is further fomented by a
653 13 | background as belonging to an inferior and outcast class, until
654 42 | doctrines springing from an infinite series of systems in discord
655 17 | covering of fictitious piety, ingenuous candor, and earnestness,
656 51 | the incautious, and the injuries done by the quarrelsome
657 13 | nothing of many other things injurious to the Church, devised with
658 37 | own letters and your other innumerable proofs of devotion, venerable
659 40 | that poison which has been inoculated into many even among the
660 43 | pernicious masters of an insane knowledge, of their aims,
661 13 | 44), and raging with hate insatiable against God and the human
662 13 | which with wily art they insinuate into the ears and the minds
663 55 | of the Church. If We have insisted so willingly on this distinction
664 13 | perfect society that she is, instituted by Christ Himself, the Redeemer
665 55 | head remember always the instructions of Our Predecessor Leo XIII,
666 34 | sense of their individual insufficiency, to preserve with greater
667 33 | would fain flee from the insupportable anxiety and leave the burden
668 55 | serious studies and of the integrity of doctrine. Because, puffed
669 6 | speech, a man of splendid intellect" ("In Epitaphio") whose
670 45 | twofold excess to which the intellects of the time were prone. ~
671 41 | the part of many weak and intemperate minds. But these should
672 5 | affectionate union, varying in intensity according to time and place,
673 54 | admonishes us to extend intention to understanding, when it
674 26 | bring to perfection good intentions and good effort, and to
675 57 | august Mother of God and the intercession of the blessed citizens
676 12 | venerable brethren, with special interest during the solemn commemoration
677 57 | with incessant prayers, interposing the most powerful patronage
678 15 | another species of war, intestine and domestic, and all the
679 39 | and render it ever more intimate and cordial, fixing our
680 41 | pretext for a display of intolerable arrogance towards divinely
681 20 | courageous Gregory VII, the intrepid champion of justice, unswerving
682 55 | one rashly plunge into the intricate questions of divine things
683 1 | possess to the civilization introduced by Christ, which they have
684 53 | attributing to it the right to invade the domain of theology.
685 54 | Scripture invites us to investigate reason, in the one in which
686 38 | it is the glory and the invincible bulwark of the Church. But
687 12 | the Spouse of Christ, the inviolability of her divine rights, and
688 54 | which the Sacred Scripture invites us to investigate reason,
689 33 | the Church, his Mother, invoking from the Roman Pontiff pitiful
690 42 | doubt on everything has involved them in darkness: hence
691 3 | presented by the most noble island of Britain in the restored
692 19 | the Normans, and by the islands of Britain which only a
693 10 | sanctity, who, rising here in Italy, shone for over thirty years
694 48 | the philosopher" (Gregor. IX, Epist. Tacti dolore cordis
695 25 | powerful Baldwin, King of Jerusalem: "As your faithful friend,
696 5 | Church, Gregory the Great and John Chrysostom, one the light
697 16 | and fallacious erudition, joined with a most audacious system
698 24 | receive instruction, you that judge the earth. Serve the Lord
699 8 | which the world falsely judges to be irreconcilable and
700 48 | ad theologos Parisien, 7 Jul. 1228), so too it condemns
701 33 | would not hide Our very keen sense of the danger which
702 13 | into ridicule, persecuted, kept in the background as belonging
703 19 | behalf Anselm especially labored, either by his teaching
704 44 | that we may find in his labors as Doctor almost the same
705 46 | their intelligence, their lack of intelligence brings them
706 55 | the like principles Anselm laid the foundations of the true
707 16 | themselves at what port they must land; others, wasting both time
708 20 | men of the time, such as Lanfranc, Anselm's master and later
709 23 | words. He recommends it in language strong and sweet to his
710 10 | brethren, that We, after a lapse of eight centuries, should
711 5 | of teaching applied and largely promoted by him, by his
712 24 | that "we have not here a lasting city, but we seek one that
713 56 | far as words go they are lavish of promises of submission
714 31 | our rights as far as may lawfully be done and as the good
715 18 | clergy who had grown lax or lawless in their conduct, inasmuch
716 13 | confusion by their words, and to lay snares for the ears of the
717 13 | thwarted; distinguished laymen who openly profess their
718 31 | constituted to be the pastors and leaders of the Christian people,
719 56 | we must become small to learn wisdom . . . and not only
720 3 | brethren, and of Our own Legate; and in France where the
721 43 | We have spoken at great length in Our Encyclical Letter
722 55 | instructions of Our Predecessor Leo XIII, of happy memory (Encyclical "
723 24 | bringing home to us the hard lesson that all but the eternal
724 43 | length in Our Encyclical Letter of September 8, 1907, "Pascendi
725 13 | of his own, for he is a liar" (Ioan. viii. 44), and raging
726 57 | like you she may even be liberated from the dangers that hang
727 18 | treading upon the most sacred liberties, to eradicate the vices,
728 57 | wrote to him during his lifetime: "Since the sweet odor of
729 46 | was at the time a class of lightminded and vain men, fed on a superficial
730 33 | Church of passing the just limit either of indulgence or
731 26 | up with earthly greatness lives unmindful of his mother,
732 28 | comfort for us: the Lord liveth and "He will make all things
733 38 | storms that have been let loose on Christianity through
734 19 | wars without gave rise to looseness of discipline both among
735 27 | given by Anselm even to the lords and kings of the world,
736 55 | clearly proves every day the loss and the ruin ensuing from
737 3 | especially in the town of Lourdes, the fiftieth anniversary
738 33 | bishop. While I was in a lowly position, I seemed to be
739 13 | this man reign over us" (Luc. xix. 14). Thus the religious
740 31 | tendency of modern society to lull itself in a shameful indolence
741 16 | grave and deep evil. It lurks like poison in the vitals
742 13 | by the rule of vices and lusts the triumph of the worst
743 24 | voice like a trumpet" (Isai. lviii. I), and all the more that "
744 13 | reign of license under the lying name of liberty. And to
745 13 | is being prepared by dark machinations. For there is a movement
746 13 | hatred which feeds their mad plan to weaken the Church
747 8 | greatness, humility and magnanimity, strength and gentleness,
748 13 | plain truth is that it is mainly from Christ through the
749 35 | warmth and fidelity he ever maintained perfect union with the Apostolic
750 12 | hope of the priesthood, of maintaining unswervingly the doctrine
751 33 | 33. In making our own these words of Our
752 29 | because the influence of malign spirits is constantly opposed
753 25 | princes that attack and maltreat her, what do they gain by
754 43 | young men, as those of the Manicheans found favor with Augustine,
755 3 | and, as it were, a public manifestation of due honor to Christ and
756 13 | anything for the benefit of mankind or human government. From
757 23 | vigorous resistance and in manly patience; and he defends
758 7 | such gentle and pleasing manners that he was able to calm
759 19 | assiduous vigilance and many-sided activity as Archbishop and
760 13 | ears and the minds of the masses, spying and travestying
761 41 | of positive science and material prosperity, gives occasion
762 13 | contempt shown even for her maternal care and forethought. We
763 26 | example, he wrote to Queen Matilda of England: "If you wish
764 31 | with me is against me" (Matt. xii. 30). Not indeed that
765 29 | commentary on the passage of St. Matthew: " Jesus constrained His
766 4 | Encyclica diei 4 Octobris MDCCCCIII.), and many times since
767 5 | solemnly celebrated. We mean the Doctor Anselm of Aosta,
768 35 | my mind, according to the measure of its power, clings in
769 44 | that if the dangers We have mentioned are more serious and more
770 26 | according to the power mercifully communicated to them, to
771 32 | if the one standing erect merely holds out his hand to a
772 9 | 9. Nor was this double merit of Anselm confined within
773 51 | a position in which his merits were not dimmed by the glory
774 43 | from heaven, and of new methods of thought, have found favor
775 48 | 48. Midway between these two excesses
776 28 | Hence her condition as militant on earth divinely constrains
777 9 | went forth thence as from a military tent into the dust and the
778 30 | to private interests, by minimizing them unjustly, by truckling
779 24 | that "sin makes the nations miserable" (Prov. xiv. 34), "that
780 16 | they are being tossed about miserably on the waves of doubt, knowing
781 24 | corruption, and endless misery for the individual and for
782 1 | generously by the advent of misfortune, has its one true cause
783 40 | We made mention of those misguided persons who are trying by
784 13 | hate spring the cunning misrepresentations or the utter silence concerning
785 39 | ever better our sublime mission which is that of continuing
786 41 | rather remember the many mistakes and the frequent contradictions
787 36 | praying God assiduously to mitigate your evil days, till the
788 27 | and right living, and the mitigation of the evils which weigh
789 52 | all that is in man, is so mixed up with corporal imaginations
790 5 | place, and differing in its mode of expression, seems in
791 8 | singularly esteemed by all as a model of sanctity and doctrine" (
792 16 | to be known commonly as modernism from its craving for unhealthy
793 55 | concerning which a more modest genius would be glad to
794 5 | of the Church, first as Monk and Abbot in France. and
795 15 | according to the tenets of monstrous systems, in short to deface
796 9 | defender of the faith and morals, of the discipline and liberty,
797 54 | can never be exhausted by mortals; and the Lord does not cease
798 29 | remained on the summit of the mountain; for ever since the Savior
799 53 | heart and confesses with the mouth, but even holding beyond
800 9 | disturbed by threats nor moved by promises" (In lib. iii.
801 55 | order to have a new and much-desired occasion, venerable brethren,
802 24 | vices of society are being multiplied, when the sin of rulers
803 3 | the presence of a dense multitude, and with a crown formed
804 13 | their father, who "was a murderer from the beginning, and
805 53 | proposing to us the profoundest mysteries, which with all signs of
806 29 | point: "The words in their mystical sense summarize the state
807 16 | their own caprice a vague, naturalistic individual religiosity,
808 25 | so clear that there is no need to say it" (Epist., lib.
809 30 | down their arms or open negotiations with the enemy, who is the
810 15 | Waged by unnatural children, nestling in the very bosom of the
811 31 | religion, seeking a cowardly neutrality made up of weak schemes
812 | none
813 52 | concerning the rays of the sun at noon, against eagles who gaze
814 19 | fallen into the hands of the Normans, and by the islands of Britain
815 3 | celebrations with which dioceses in North America have commemorated
816 45 | distant age, there was a notable danger in a twofold excess
817 19 | was the state of things notably in those countries on whose
818 44 | 44. Here it is well to note that if the dangers We have
819 13 | children whom the Church has nourished and cherished as her first-born,
820 57 | succor us" (S. Anselm, "De nuptiis consanguinerorum," cap.
821 34 | Divine sentence that "the obedient man will sing victory" (
822 34 | shines out for all those who obey Christ in His Vicar in all
823 38 | makes it all the more an object of envy to the demon and
824 34 | way connected with these objects: since "upon the authority
825 53 | faith and the consequent obligation of believing the divine
826 31 | and human rights, to the oblivion of Christ's clear sentence: "
827 56 | to be illuminated by the observance of the precepts of the Lord . . .
828 52 | Against these latter he observes that "while all are to be
829 9 | varied and most important occupations even those affecting the
830 4 | Cathedra" (Encyclica diei 4 Octobris MDCCCCIII.), and many times
831 57 | lifetime: "Since the sweet odor of your good works has reached
832 33 | the other hand, I fear to offend God. The fear of God obliged
833 9 | friendship of the great ones of the world, the favors
834 30 | treacherous, and at the first onset ready to throw down their
835 53 | elsewhere, the perverse opinion of those who conceded too
836 50 | overthrowing ours and establishing opinions against them; should that
837 26 | 26. Equally opportune are other admonitions addressed
838 29 | malign spirits is constantly opposed to her to prevent her from
839 29 | to submerge her under the opposing waves of the world, stirring
840 25 | her, are clearly acting in opposition to God. God wills His Spouse
841 13 | 14). Thus the religious Orders, always the strong shield
842 Ded | archbishops, bishops, and other ordinaries~in peace and communion with
843 3 | fiftieth anniversary of whose origin We have also been rejoiced
844 13 | when they are to be utterly ostracized from public affairs. And
845 26 | fear God nor love you as I ought" (Ibid. Lib. iv. ep. 52).
846 | ours
847 55 | 1879), and those We have Ourself given more than once, and
848 13 | belonging to an inferior and outcast class, until the coming
849 23 | severity to those princes who outraged it to the great injury of
850 6 | of the episcopate, a man outranking all the great men" of his
851 14 | Concerning this war from outside, waged by the enemy without, "
852 50 | weighty arguments succeed in overthrowing ours and establishing opinions
853 56 | taken away and faith is overthrown, when right conscience is
854 46 | to grow the horns of an overweening knowledge - not knowing
855 52 | Fathers, just as if bats and owls who see the heaven only
856 48 | dolore cordis ad theologos Parisien, 7 Jul. 1228), so too it
857 29 | Anselm's commentary on the passage of St. Matthew: " Jesus
858 33 | pastors of the Church of passing the just limit either of
859 13 | powerlessness and inertia; the paths to knowledge and to the
860 23 | resistance and in manly patience; and he defends it by his
861 Ded | our venerable brethren the patriarchs,~primates, archbishops,
862 57 | and error, to waste the patrimony of the sacred doctrine of
863 55 | memory (Encyclical "Aeterni Patris," diei 4 Augusti, an. 1879),
864 57 | interposing the most powerful patronage of the august Mother of
865 33 | and that the sentence of Paul might be realized in each
866 36 | describes as "written with the pen of charity" (In lib. iii.
867 22 | live I would rather undergo penury in exile, rather than see
868 16 | This hot-bed of error and perdition (which has come to be known
869 55 | developed, illustrated and perfected to the great honor and protection
870 26 | goodness is wont to bring to perfection good intentions and good
871 33 | reason of my sins I do not perform the office of a bishop.
872 | perhaps
873 24 | the Lord be angry, and you perish from the just way." More
874 30 | themselves and the Church a permanent state of perfect tranquillity,
875 25 | for your own welfare. Nor permit yourself to believe, like
876 33 | ep. 37); God, perhaps, permitted that this great man, full
877 43 | road. But concerning such pernicious masters of an insane knowledge,
878 13 | treacherous cunning or flagrantly perpetrated in violation of all public
879 13 | been turned into ridicule, persecuted, kept in the background
880 6 | strong faith, his pious and persevering zeal, his authority in religion
881 32 | charity and through your persistent prayers that the Divine
882 40 | mention of those misguided persons who are trying by their
883 50 | with all his learning and perspicacity, never published any writings
884 29 | harassed by the divers perversities of the wicked, and in many
885 57 | part of it, so deadly a pest. This grace We implore of
886 16 | intellectual pride and of the pestiferous atmosphere that prevails
887 40 | become infected by the pestilential atmosphere, in their unbridled
888 48 | with the figments of the philosopher" (Gregor. IX, Epist. Tacti
889 52 | he ridicules those false philosophers, "who because they are not
890 43 | unfortunately their grandiloquent phrases and their promises of a
891 56 | the whole Church in its pilgrimage on earth . . . has entrusted
892 36 | your evil days, till the pit be dug for the sinner. And
893 13 | of this war, cunning and pitiless as it is, boast that they
894 58 | year of Our Pontificate. ~PIUS X~
895 13 | for society, whereas the plain truth is that it is mainly
896 54 | will not understand, it plainly admonishes us to extend
897 13 | hatred which feeds their mad plan to weaken the Church and
898 4 | look with confidence, and plans and hopes are all designed
899 26 | consideration that Queen whom He was pleased to select for His Spouse
900 7 | blended with such gentle and pleasing manners that he was able
901 10 | at the same time, it is a pleasure for Us to be able to exhort
902 58 | affection in the Lord, as a pledge of heavenly grace and in
903 14 | now by cunning and by wily plots," We have frequently warned
904 24 | that decide and govern the policy of nations, to make known
905 38 | no explanation of it in political and human reasonings, seeing
906 3 | paid with such wonderful pomp within its confines to the
907 15 | contempt for all authority, pontifical as well as episcopal, to
908 35 | in the words he wrote to Pope Paschal: "How earnestly
909 41 | progress, good in itself, of positive science and material prosperity,
910 1 | vestiges of charity they may possess to the civilization introduced
911 21 | descendants of that most potent prince, and by the other
912 22 | See. "I fear no exile, or poverty or torments or death, because,
913 48 | excesses stands the Catholic practice. which. while it abhors
914 7 | whom his cause was hostile" praised him because he was good ("
915 36 | faithful, we never cease praying God assiduously to mitigate
916 56 | by the observance of the precepts of the Lord . . . and first
917 49 | and celebrated as their precursor. ~
918 24 | men or the blindness of prejudice. To Us, as you know well,
919 46 | rules they endeavor to rise prematurely by their intelligence, their
920 53 | return thanks, let him not prepare his horns for attack, but
921 3 | Blessed Eucharist, in the presence of a dense multitude, and
922 3 | Church; the splendid sight presented by the most noble island
923 46 | faith, are wont to rise presumptuously to the highest questions
924 36 | gates of hell shall not prevail against it" (In libro ii.
925 29 | constantly opposed to her to prevent her from reaching the port
926 33 | times, he found himself a prey to the most tormenting solicitude
927 12 | which are the hope of the priesthood, of maintaining unswervingly
928 13 | her reign, which, although primarily and directly affecting souls,
929 Ded | brethren the patriarchs,~primates, archbishops, bishops, and
930 13 | social life, which makes them proclaim her as dead, while they
931 46 | one or other of the dogmas professed by Catholic faith . . .
932 42 | their thoughts . . . for professing themselves to be wise they
933 53 | authority proposing to us the profoundest mysteries, which with all
934 54 | requires that we believe the profundities of the faith before we presume
935 4 | which We announced as the programme of Our Pontificate both
936 25 | the heritage and the dower promised to her" (Ibid. ep. 8). Thus
937 13 | noble aim, or desire to promote good of any kind, that incites
938 5 | teaching applied and largely promoted by him, by his disciples,
939 27 | suppression of abuses, the promotion of right ideas and right
940 13 | ornament of the Church, and the promotors of the most salutary works
941 33 | Roman Pontiff pitiful and prompt aid and comfort (Epistol.
942 45 | intellects of the time were prone. ~
943 37 | and your other innumerable proofs of devotion, venerable brethren,
944 39 | is that of continuing and propagating the work of Christ, and
945 53 | believing the divine authority proposing to us the profoundest mysteries,
946 21 | recommended by God as to protectors who would defend her, with
947 50 | those he did publish he protests that "if there is anything
948 35 | to the Apostolic See, is proved by the many and most painful
949 19 | especially accomplished for the provinces of Gaul which a few centuries
950 56 | it may be examined by his prudence" (Ibid. cap. 2). And would
951 24 | with the admonition of Psalm ii.: "And now, ye kings,
952 24 | has made His voice heard" (Psalmus xvii. 14), in the trembling
953 50 | authority, and in those he did publish he protests that "if there
954 50 | and perspicacity, never published any writings except such
955 47 | danger of the science that puffeth up, went so far as to exclude
956 41 | realize that human pride is punished by never being able to be
957 52 | things that it alone and pure should contemplate" (Ibid.
958 13 | of real liberty and the purest civilization has been derived. ~
959 56 | First the heart is to be purified by faith, and first the
960 54 | faith, it is not for the purpose of founding on them their
961 55 | these studies, or from the pursuit of them without a clear
962 8 | wonderful harmony between qualities which the world falsely
963 51 | the injuries done by the quarrelsome and the sophistical, "the
964 13 | against God and the human race. Brazen-faced men these,
965 13 | and her strength, in their rage turning their weapons against
966 33 | shipwreck, and while the storm raged round him, he took refuge
967 13 | liar" (Ioan. viii. 44), and raging with hate insatiable against
968 24 | out give yourself no rest, raise your voice like a trumpet" (
969 41 | made by the followers of rash novelties in those questions
970 55 | made by him: "Let no one rashly plunge into the intricate
971 47 | philosophy, if not of all rational discussion of the sacred
972 52 | to dispute concerning the rays of the sun at noon, against
973 29 | her to prevent her from reaching the port of salvation, striving
974 32 | 32. Thus we read how it was verified in the
975 30 | and at the first onset ready to throw down their arms
976 41 | most vital for man; and realize that human pride is punished
977 31 | Christ. But this is only a reasonable condescension, which can
978 53 | philosophy is to show us the reasonableness of our faith and the consequent
979 53 | It must be shown to them reasonably how unreasonable is their
980 38 | it in political and human reasonings, seeing that it is the fulfillment
981 54 | and the faithful ask for reasons concerning our faith, it
982 26 | his mother, or hostile or rebellious to her, then remember that: "
983 37 | but because they serve to recall your own letters and your
984 12 | 12. Recalling all these things, venerable
985 24 | now, ye kings, understand; receive instruction, you that judge
986 30 | unanimous and uncontested recognition of her sacred authority.
987 17 | this it is not difficult to recognize one of the many forms of
988 6 | him also wrote Urban II recognizing "his distinction in religion
989 55 | Anselm, We repeat the strong recommendations made by him: "Let no one
990 6 | esteem and affection and "recommending the Catholic Church and
991 23 | writings, his words. He recommends it in language strong and
992 17 | factious men who use them to reconcile things that are absolutely
993 30 | v. 19) on the pretext of reconciling the followers of novelties
994 22 | difficulties. And if he has recourse to the Chair of Peter for
995 32 | lose the equilibrium of rectitude" (In lib. iii. Epist. S.
996 13 | instituted by Christ Himself, the Redeemer of our nature, and to destroy
997 13 | wherever that was possible, reduced to powerlessness and inertia;
998 56 | his is it to be rightly referred for correction, and to no
999 32 | entrusted to your care." And referring to the paternal indulgence
1000 12 | admiration and imitation; nay, reflection on them will also furnish
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