Deus est nobis refugium et virtus,
adiutorium in tribulationibus inventus est nimis.
Propterea non timebimus, dum turbabitur terra,
et transferentur montes in cor maris.
Fremant et intumescant aquae eius, conturbentur montes in elatione eius.
Fluminis rivi laetificant civitatem Dei,
sancta tabernacula Altissimi.
Deus in medio eius, non commovebitur;
adiuvabit eam Deus mane diluculo.
Fremuerunt gentes, commota sunt regna;
dedit vocem suam, liquefacta est terra.
Dominus virtutum [...]
Archive for the ‘Church History’ Category
Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome
Posted in Church History, Feasts of the Church, Liturgy on November 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Romano Amerio on the Role of Public Opinion in the Church
Posted in Church History, Theology on May 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
From the English translation of Iota Unum: A Study of Changes in the Catholic Church in the XXth Century, published in Italy in 1985:
Cardinal Suenens [a Belgian prelate and an influential liberal at the Second Vatican Council] asserted in an interview that “most importantly, after the council there was a recognition of public opinion in [...]
Odds and Ends
Posted in Church History on February 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Sarabite, whom I’ve mentioned before as being a favorite blogger of mine, recently wrote a brief but worthwhile post centered around a quote from Henri Cardinal de Lubac’s book Catholicism: Christ and the Common Destiny of Man. Here’s an excerpt:
There is a danger in many circles to mistake certain traditions for things that are [...]
Love and Truth
Posted in Church History, Jesus, Theology on January 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
“Do not accept anything as the truth if it lacks love. And do not accept anything as love which lacks truth! One without the other becomes a destructive lie.”
-Edith Stein, canonized as St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
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Anyone with more than a passing understanding of recent Church history will readily identify [...]
Klaus Schatz on Priesthood, Canon, and the Development of Doctrine
Posted in Apologetics, Church History, The New Testament, Theology on November 30, 2007 | 3 Comments »
A mistake commonly made by modern Catholic apologists is that of assuming that the early Church looked much like the Catholic church of today. While this notion isn’t totally baseless—I would contend, contra a fair number of Protestants, that neither did the early Church look much like most of today’s Protestant churches in either [...]
Jaroslav Pelikan on Christian Unity
Posted in Church History on November 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
From The Emergence of the Catholic Tradition (100-600):
No passage in Cyprian’s writings has received more detailed attention than the two versions of the exegesis of these words in chapter 4 of his Unity of the Church: one version seems to assert the primacy of Peter as prerequisite to unity among the bishops, while the other [...]
