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1001 18 | barbarism and often enough refractory to the educating influence
1002 33 | raged round him, he took refuge in the bosom of the Church,
1003 53 | the domain of theology. In refuting this foolish theory he defines
1004 32 | the guilty, he adds: "As regards the great indulgence We
1005 27 | while unbridled license reigns supreme the Church is obstinately
1006 16 | thoughts" (Rom. i. 1), "having rejected good conscience they have
1007 21 | describe himself as his relation by blood and affection: "
1008 57 | implore God assiduously to relieve the Church and Us who govern
1009 16 | naturalistic individual religiosity, borrowing the name and
1010 29 | of the sea, while Jesus remained on the summit of the mountain;
1011 24 | of mercy and of wholesome reminder to the erring nations. In
1012 56 | to the commandments are removed is the mind hindered from
1013 15 | of the Church in order to rend it in silence, this war
1014 39 | preserve this divine union and render it ever more intimate and
1015 13 | either closed to them or rendered extremely difficult, especially
1016 13 | clergy of being behindhand in rendering assistance after the calamity,
1017 53 | of divine revelation and renders more solid in the faith
1018 28 | Christ is destined ever to renew in herself the life of her
1019 37 | comfort not only in the renewal of the memory of a Saint
1020 26 | should imitate Anselm by renewing Our prayers, counsels, admonitions "
1021 27 | of the world, may well be repeated by the pastors and princes
1022 21 | the law of God are surely reputed the enemies of God" (Epist.
1023 6 | Pontiff to accede to his requests and made him not hesitate
1024 26 | more vigorously does He require them, according to the power
1025 13 | patriotism - in this lie too resembling their father, who "was a
1026 3 | Christ and His Church, by the respect shown to him whom the Lord
1027 55 | glad to use instead the respectful words of Anselm: "Neither
1028 5 | than theirs. Nay, in some respects it might be said even more
1029 33 | in upon them the terrible responsibility of the government of souls
1030 33 | of God constrains me to retain the same burden. Now, since
1031 43 | with Augustine, and have returned these aside, more or less
1032 3 | centenary of their foundation, returning everlasting thanks to god
1033 54 | foundation the authority of God revealing; yet, as Anselm puts it, "
1034 53 | based on the fact of divine revelation and renders more solid in
1035 6 | Paschal 11 extolled his "reverent devotion, strong faith,
1036 19 | the convulsions caused by revolutions within and wars without
1037 24 | to the powerful and the rich, to them that decide and
1038 13 | faith have been turned into ridicule, persecuted, kept in the
1039 52 | words of his in which he ridicules those false philosophers, "
1040 24 | Lord shaking the earth," ringing in our ears a terrible warning
1041 50 | wisdom of these last did not ripen but with time and the collaboration
1042 10 | doctrine and sanctity, who, rising here in Italy, shone for
1043 21 | Strong in their example and rivaling them in their zeal, Anselm
1044 58 | to each of you. ~Given at Rome at St. Peter's on the Feast
1045 27 | there is, in truth, hardly room to stand without difficulty
1046 15 | more directly at the very root and the soul of the Church.
1047 22 | far from shaking, only rooted deeper Anselm's love for
1048 18 | influence of the Church, to rouse a part of the clergy who
1049 46 | while against all right rules they endeavor to rise prematurely
1050 3 | world on the occasion of Our sacerdotal jubilee. Most grateful have
1051 3 | brilliant triumphs of the August Sacrament, especially in the town
1052 23 | it with sighs, prayers, sacrifices; he works for it with all
1053 30 | interests of the Church, by sacrificing them to private interests,
1054 49 | words, and his writings, the safe road, to unseal for the
1055 44 | help and comfort for the safeguarding of the truth as we found
1056 12 | and the plenitude of those safeguards which the protection of
1057 34 | does God bring home even to saintly men their natural weakness,
1058 5 | examples of this in the Saints of other centuries, whom
1059 24 | for them that bear rule" (Sap. vi. 7), with the admonition
1060 29 | mountain; for ever since the Savior ascended to heaven holy
1061 26 | to inculcate that other saying so noble and so paternal
1062 36 | Lord will not leave the scepter of sinners over the heritage
1063 31 | neutrality made up of weak schemes and compromises to the injury
1064 5 | letters according to the scholastic method" (Breviar. Rom.,
1065 55 | learned men, the princes of scholasticism, and chief among them the
1066 29 | waves in the midst of the sea, while Jesus remained on
1067 54 | therefore, theologians search and the faithful ask for
1068 30 | the whole of which is seated in wickedness" (I Ioan.
1069 16 | criticism, some have been seduced and "become vain in their
1070 57 | obstinately to scatter the seeds of dissension and error,
1071 | seem
1072 16 | God, so that those who are seized by the blind frenzy for
1073 26 | Queen whom He was pleased to select for His Spouse in this world. . .
1074 18 | not unfrequently they were selected arbitrarily and according
1075 16 | borrowing the name and some semblance of Christianity but with
1076 33 | 10). Such indeed are the sentiments which Anselm expressed to
1077 35 | nothing which could ever separate me. Therefore do I desire,
1078 43 | Our Encyclical Letter of September 8, 1907, "Pascendi dominici
1079 42 | springing from an infinite series of systems in discord with
1080 14 | assailed on all sides, now in serried and open battle, now by
1081 25 | that you may use her as a servant, but remember that she has
1082 21 | loved and counseled and served by him. ~
1083 5 | night while some stars are setting others rise to light the
1084 32 | conflicts. And when he had settled at last the long contest
1085 | several
1086 24 | xiv. 34), "that a most severe judgment shall be for them
1087 16 | false philosophy and this shallow and fallacious erudition,
1088 5 | them in their course, and sheds abroad a light of doctrine
1089 13 | Orders, always the strong shield and the ornament of the
1090 6 | contemporaries Anselm seemed to shine as a luminary of sanctity
1091 34 | hope of the same reward shines out for all those who obey
1092 57 | St. Anselm especially, shining light of Christian wisdom,
1093 29 | the end of the world. The ship, then, was buffeted by the
1094 15 | of monstrous systems, in short to deface all the beauty
1095 54 | filius," cap 4). For, as he shows elsewhere, "although since
1096 41 | suffering shipwreck without ever sighting the port of truth. They
1097 4 | being, with God's help, a sign of the return of the Nations
1098 53 | mysteries, which with all signs of credibility that testify
1099 5 | studies, and there is a closer similarity with our own days in the
1100 13 | snares for the ears of the simple. No, it is not patriotism,
1101 8 | irreconcilable and contradictory: simplicity and greatness, humility
1102 46 | themselves to be led away by a simulacrum of philosophy and dialectics.
1103 7 | this great modesty and most sincere humility detract in the
1104 56 | hears the fair words of sincerity, conscience, religious experience,
1105 7 | goodfor-nothing, a man of no parts, sinful in his life. Nor did this
1106 34 | that "the obedient man will sing victory" (Prov. xxi. 28).
1107 8 | his religious life "he was singularly esteemed by all as a model
1108 36 | till the pit be dug for the sinner. And although He seems to
1109 36 | not leave the scepter of sinners over the heritage of the
1110 33 | because by reason of my sins I do not perform the office
1111 13 | triumph of the worst of all slaveries and bring the people headlong
1112 13 | their words, and to lay snares for the ears of the simple.
1113 38 | similar to it in earthly societies, and finds no explanation
1114 30 | world so long as there are soldiers who are timid or treacherous,
1115 22 | protection and help, the sole reason is: "Lest through
1116 12 | special interest during the solemn commemoration of the great
1117 3 | witness commemorated with such solemnity. In these and other facts
1118 5 | centenary of his death is being solemnly celebrated. We mean the
1119 33 | prey to the most tormenting solicitude and anxiety, and chief of
1120 33 | When he was torn from the solitude of the studious life of
1121 51 | the quarrelsome and the sophistical, "the heretical dialecticians"
1122 55 | the manifold twistings of sophistry he fall into the toils of
1123 37 | similar conflicts and similar sorrows. ~
1124 21 | prince, and by the other sovereigns and peoples who were so
1125 16 | the stupid presumption of speaking about and discussing them.
1126 54 | which the Vatican Council speaks (Constit. "Dei filius,"
1127 12 | venerable brethren, with special interest during the solemn
1128 1 | still continues to be "a spectacle to the world and to angels
1129 41 | in those questions of a speculative and practical order most
1130 6 | and good and brilliant in speech, a man of splendid intellect" ("
1131 29 | the influence of malign spirits is constantly opposed to
1132 43 | disastrous systems, We have spoken at great length in Our Encyclical
1133 22 | But persecution, exile, spoliation, the trials and toils of
1134 42 | with other absurd doctrines springing from an infinite series
1135 31 | be charged to you who are spurred on by the charity of Christ.
1136 13 | the minds of the masses, spying and travestying everything
1137 40 | essence of the Church, to stain the purity of her doctrine,
1138 27 | in truth, hardly room to stand without difficulty and danger.
1139 32 | were down. For if the one standing erect merely holds out his
1140 48 | between these two excesses stands the Catholic practice. which.
1141 5 | of the night while some stars are setting others rise
1142 26 | but the advocate, not the step-son but the real son of the
1143 29 | opposing waves of the world, stirring up against her all possible
1144 32 | Besides, although this act of stooping may seem like the act of
1145 25 | themselves not children but strangers to her, and are therefore
1146 13 | in countries in which the stream of civilization has been
1147 25 | weaken yourself when you strengthen her. Look round you and
1148 22 | death, because, while God strengthens me, for all these things
1149 12 | the Church, of defending strenuously the liberty of the Spouse
1150 57 | foundations, then all the more strictly must we watch, venerable
1151 3 | Our gratitude for the many striking demonstrations of affection
1152 33 | but it is to be seen most strikingly in the life of Anselm. When
1153 18 | people, not yet entirely stripped of their old barbarism and
1154 29 | reaching the port of salvation, striving to submerge her under the
1155 5 | designs of Providence to grow stronger as the times grow more difficult
1156 33 | from the solitude of the studious life of the cloister, to
1157 16 | religion, united with the stupid presumption of speaking
1158 50 | De Grammatico," cap. 21 sub finem). ~
1159 29 | of salvation, striving to submerge her under the opposing waves
1160 56 | are lavish of promises of submission as long as they can hope
1161 25 | s law and in all things submit your will to the will of
1162 16 | off either openly or by subterfuge the entire yoke of divine
1163 1 | which they have not yet succeeded in throwing off entirely
1164 48 | phrase of Gregory XIV in the succeeding age) "went beyond the true
1165 21 | had been treasured by the successor and the descendants of that
1166 57 | with the mercy of Christ to succor us" (S. Anselm, "De nuptiis
1167 33 | sanctity as he was, should suffer such heavy tribulation,
1168 28 | of her Divine Founder who suffered so much, and in a manner
1169 41 | coherent with itself and by suffering shipwreck without ever sighting
1170 28 | up what is wanting of the sufferings of Christ" (Coloss. i. 24).
1171 20 | Pontiffs, among whom it will suffice to mention here the courageous
1172 16 | consider that they are all sufficient for themselves, and that
1173 53 | proper to each, and hints sufficiently clearly at the functions
1174 29 | in their mystical sense summarize the state of the Church
1175 29 | while Jesus remained on the summit of the mountain; for ever
1176 46 | lightminded and vain men, fed on a superficial erudition, who became incredibly
1177 38 | sublime prayer at the Last Supper. ~
1178 13 | kinds are being made to supplant the kingdom of God by a
1179 58 | 58. Supported by this great protection,
1180 27 | correction of the erring, the suppression of abuses, the promotion
1181 53 | that testify to them, are supremely worthy of being believed.
1182 4 | first Apostolic Letters "E supremi Apostolatus Cathedra" (Encyclica
1183 55 | them without a clear and sure method; while many, before
1184 13 | our services a cause of suspicion which with wily art they
1185 48 | philosopher" (Gregor. IX, Epist. Tacti dolore cordis ad theologos
1186 56 | intelligence that has been given is taken away and faith is overthrown,
1187 49 | Catholic teachers who after him taught "the sacred letters by the
1188 13 | in their brazen folly to taunt her with her powerlessness
1189 5 | theologians who were to teach sacred letters according
1190 18 | the Church alone was the teacher and the defender among the
1191 49 | and rule of those Catholic teachers who after him taught "the
1192 54 | to understanding, when it teaches us how we are to advance
1193 56 | Anselm, understood his holy teachings, imitated his glorious example,
1194 50 | connected with the faith, he tells his disciple: "you must
1195 46 | authority, dared with impious temerity to dispute one or other
1196 55 | fall into the toils of some tenacious error" (Ibid.). And this
1197 31 | strength this most fatal tendency of modern society to lull
1198 15 | principles, according to the tenets of monstrous systems, in
1199 9 | thence as from a military tent into the dust and the glare
1200 47 | timid nature, who in their terror at the many cases of those
1201 53 | signs of credibility that testify to them, are supremely worthy
1202 56 | humble obedience to the testimonies of God we must become small
1203 58 | of heavenly grace and in testimony of Our goodwill, on all
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1205 54 | say nothing of the other texts in which the Sacred Scripture
1206 5 | example not less salutary than theirs. Nay, in some respects it
1207 | thence
1208 48 | Tacti dolore cordis ad theologos Parisien, 7 Jul. 1228),
1209 53 | In refuting this foolish theory he defines well the confines
1210 50 | circumstances, or when compelled thereto by some authority, and in
1211 7 | the least from his high thinking, whatever may be said to
1212 46 | knowing that when a person thinks he knows something, he does
1213 10 | in Italy, shone for over thirty years upon France, for more
1214 | thou
1215 27 | constantly being invented to thwart the work of yourselves and
1216 13 | public utility have been thwarted; distinguished laymen who
1217 | thy
1218 36 | mitigate your evil days, till the pit be dug for the sinner.
1219 16 | concerning the faith" (I Tim. i. 19), they are being
1220 | together
1221 33 | himself a prey to the most tormenting solicitude and anxiety,
1222 22 | no exile, or poverty or torments or death, because, while
1223 33 | life of Anselm. When he was torn from the solitude of the
1224 16 | i. 19), they are being tossed about miserably on the waves
1225 55 | the passions, proves the total ruin of serious studies
1226 10 | upon the whole Church, as a tower of strength and beauty. ~
1227 3 | Sacrament, especially in the town of Lourdes, the fiftieth
1228 15 | deceit, according to the traditions of men, according to the
1229 30 | permanent state of perfect tranquillity, universal prosperity, and
1230 13 | of the masses, spying and travestying everything said or done
1231 18 | themselves the right of treading upon the most sacred liberties,
1232 21 | that his words had been treasured by the successor and the
1233 24 | Psalmus xvii. 14), in the trembling of nature and in tremendous
1234 24 | trembling of nature and in tremendous calamities: "the voice of
1235 33 | be seen in the anxieties, trepidations, and tears of most holy
1236 7 | unconquerable constancy, tried in so many ways by troubles,
1237 16 | investigation of abstruse trifling, and thus grow estranged
1238 21 | and His Beloved Spouse, is trodden underfoot by bad princes,
1239 30 | minimizing them unjustly, by truckling to the world, "the whole
1240 24 | raise your voice like a trumpet" (Isai. lviii. I), and all
1241 33 | one great comfort was his trust in God and in the Apostolic
1242 58 | this great protection, and trusting in your co-operation, We
1243 9 | be drawn into the worst turmoils of his agitated age. With
1244 13 | Catholic faith have been turned into ridicule, persecuted,
1245 13 | strength, in their rage turning their weapons against the
1246 55 | levity amid the manifold twistings of sophistry he fall into
1247 45 | was a notable danger in a twofold excess to which the intellects
1248 26 | you displeasing to God and unbecoming to yourselves, and fail
1249 52 | eagles who gaze at the sun unblinkingly" (Ibid.). ~
1250 25 | Ibid. ep. 8). Thus did he unbosom his heart so full of love
1251 55 | lest while discussing with uncautious levity amid the manifold
1252 13 | science and civilization among uncivilized and civilized peoples, have
1253 7 | still, greatness of soul and unconquerable constancy, tried in so many
1254 43 | these aside, more or less unconsciously, from the right road. But
1255 30 | practical, unanimous and uncontested recognition of her sacred
1256 18 | the vices, ignorance, and uncouthness of the people, not yet entirely
1257 21 | Beloved Spouse, is trodden underfoot by bad princes, how she
1258 7 | says that "the animal man understandeth not the things of the spirit
1259 56 | their lessons from Anselm, understood his holy teachings, imitated
1260 9 | difficult days and had to undertake fierce battles in defense
1261 13 | education of youth; Catholic undertakings of public utility have been
1262 46 | incredibly puffed up with their undigested culture, and allowed themselves
1263 16 | modernism from its craving for unhealthy novelty) although denounced
1264 30 | of perfect tranquillity, universal prosperity, and practical,
1265 30 | interests, by minimizing them unjustly, by truckling to the world, "
1266 7 | was but a despicable and unknown goodfor-nothing, a man of
1267 | unless
1268 16 | denounced several times and unmasked by the very excesses of
1269 26 | earthly greatness lives unmindful of his mother, or hostile
1270 53 | shown to them reasonably how unreasonable is their contempt of us" (
1271 49 | writings, the safe road, to unseal for the common good the
1272 28 | Divine Wisdom and such "His unsearchable ways" (Ib. xi. 33) in the
1273 13 | forced upon Us. Even in the unspeakable sorrow We felt in the recent
1274 12 | priesthood, of maintaining unswervingly the doctrine of the Church,
1275 5 | Feasts, celebrated with unwonted splendor, of two other Doctors
1276 57 | Us who govern it, albeit unworthily, from the pressing assaults
1277 21 | have usurped for their own uses the things that belong to
1278 25 | this he explains with his usual force and gentleness to
1279 21 | what presumption they have usurped for their own uses the things
1280 9 | resistance to kings and princes, usurpers and tyrants over the Church
1281 13 | Catholic undertakings of public utility have been thwarted; distinguished
1282 52 | warned to enter with the utmost circumspection upon questions
1283 13 | misrepresentations or the utter silence concerning the most
1284 13 | laws, when they are to be utterly ostracized from public affairs.
1285 30 | in wickedness" (I Ioan. v. 19) on the pretext of reconciling
1286 16 | according to their own caprice a vague, naturalistic individual
1287 9 | to plunge into the most varied and most important occupations
1288 29 | in the world, buffeted by various storms of persecution, harassed
1289 5 | This affectionate union, varying in intensity according to
1290 16 | reason and faith (Concil. Vatic., Constit. Dei filius, cap.
1291 54 | intelligence of which the Vatican Council speaks (Constit. "
1292 57 | discipline, to heap contempt on venerated customs, "to destroy which
1293 32 | Thus we read how it was verified in the cause of Anselm,
1294 1 | are indebted for whatever vestiges of charity they may possess
1295 24 | them that bear rule" (Sap. vi. 7), with the admonition
1296 34 | those who obey Christ in His Vicar in all that concerns the
1297 10 | 10. In view of all this, it is only
1298 20 | the rights of the Church, vigilant guardian and defender of
1299 26 | necessary correction the more vigorously does He require them, according
1300 21 | with which they despise and violate religion and her law. Disdaining
1301 13 | flagrantly perpetrated in violation of all public right and
1302 41 | and practical order most vital for man; and realize that
1303 16 | lurks like poison in the vitals of modern society, estranged
1304 17 | absolutely irreconcilable, viz., the extravagances of a
1305 13 | is, boast that they are waging it through love of liberty,
1306 31 | is not well at times to waive our rights as far as may
1307 9 | Anselm confined within the walls of his own household or
1308 33 | I know not what to do, I wander about in sighs, and know
1309 56 | would to God that these poor wanderers on whose lips one so often
1310 28 | manner to "fill up what is wanting of the sufferings of Christ" (
1311 38 | become so unanimous and so warm that its divine character
1312 39 | prayer, which is also the warmest aspiration of Our heart: "
1313 35 | in this virtue, with what warmth and fidelity he ever maintained
1314 24 | ringing in our ears a terrible warning and bringing home to us
1315 26 | carefully and if your conscience warns you that there is something
1316 19 | by revolutions within and wars without gave rise to looseness
1317 57 | dissension and error, to waste the patrimony of the sacred
1318 16 | they must land; others, wasting both time and study, lose
1319 57 | the more strictly must we watch, venerable brethren, and
1320 34 | saintly men their natural weakness, in order the better to
1321 27 | mitigation of the evils which weigh on the Church. ~
1322 33 | burdened by an immense weight, I gain no fruit for myself,
1323 50 | obstinately, when others with more weighty arguments succeed in overthrowing
1324 56 | almost bars the way of all wellfounded hope of the conversion of
1325 5 | Chrysostom, one the light of the Western, the other of the Eastern
1326 | where
1327 | whereas
1328 56 | government of His Church; wherefore when anything arises in
1329 | wherever
1330 29 | divers perversities of the wicked, and in many ways assailed
1331 30 | whole of which is seated in wickedness" (I Ioan. v. 19) on the
1332 55 | If We have insisted so willingly on this distinction of Anselm,
1333 25 | in opposition to God. God wills His Spouse to be free and
1334 7 | passions of his enemies and win the hearts of those who
1335 46 | they have grown spiritual wings through firmness in the
1336 30 | faith during the storm, wishing for themselves and the Church
1337 3 | have also been rejoiced to witness commemorated with such solemnity.
1338 13 | unnatural sight could be witnessed than that of some of those
1339 27 | clergy, so that it is no wonder that "you are not able to
1340 48 | reason adulterating the word of God with the figments
1341 30 | authority. But the error is worse when men deceive themselves
1342 13 | recent public disasters, Our wounds were opened afresh by the
1343 13 | for sin makes peoples wretched" (Prov. xiv. 34) - the cry
1344 21 | lamented the same evils, writing thus to a prince of his
1345 28 | unsearchable ways" (Ib. xi. 33) in the present order
1346 13 | man reign over us" (Luc. xix. 14). Thus the religious
1347 5 | in brightness" (I. Cor. xv. 41) from them, yet compares
1348 24 | the Church of God" (Act. xx 28) - timely even though
1349 34 | will sing victory" (Prov. xxi. 28). The hope of the same
1350 | ye
1351 58 | 21, 1909, in the eighth year of Our Pontificate. ~PIUS
1352 54 | vision, for which we all yearn" ("De fide Trinitatis,"
1353 23 | is ever in his mind; he yearns for it with sighs, prayers,
1354 16 | by subterfuge the entire yoke of divine authority, fashioning
1355 13 | it is not patriotism, or zealous care for the people, or
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