Amoris Laetitia, two of his close collaborators are suggesting that he has indeed opened the door to the possibility of granting Communion to remarried divorcees – a practice condemned by previous popes as a violation of Scripture
now discredited charge that he had poisoned the Pisan pope. Alexander lived long enough to disappoint the hopes his election inspired. His legitimacy was soon questioned and the world was chagrined to find that instead of two popes it now had three. His ardour for reform diminished. Generous to...
Popes, Chronological Lists of Popes, Election of Popes, List of Poppo, Saint Popular Devotions Population, Theories of Porch Pordenone, Giovanni Antonio Pordenone, Odoric of Pormort, Venerable Thomas Porphyreon Porphyrius, Saint Porrecta, Serafino ...
The compiler of the first part made use of two ancient catalogues or lists of the popes, taking from them the order of succession, the chronological data, and also certain historical notes; these lists were: (a) the so-called “Catalogus Liberianus”, and (b) a list of the popes that...
Popes and Saints in defense of the Salvation Dogma - - - Chronological listing of Salvation Dogma defense Introduction_Part-A: Original Sin ... Old Testament scriptures. Fifteen (15) scriptures that Original Sin closed Heaven for all men (temporarily) ... including five (5) that we are co...
Rather, he started with the fallacy of poisoning the well: “In the realm of Catholic apologetics, one of the more common Protestant objections to the Church’s authority is the claim that the Magisterium once condoned slavery. And so why should Catholics trust the teachings of p...
but popes don’t really have free time, which means hemadethe time to do this. That’s how close this project was to his heart, and his compelling need to complete the project indicates its value. Representing Benedict’s mature thought, the volumes offer page after page of insightful comm...
The popes were not alone the first to establish museums, but they have also by their example spurred all other governments of Europe to imitation, and thereby performed a great service in the refining of artistic taste among all modern nations. For the Vatican museums, in contrast to so many...
Following is a brief chronological summary of the historical developments and Magisterial pronouncements in connection with the Church’s teaching on the universe: 1564 – Council of Trent (Session IV, April 8): the Council infallibly teaches that no one could “in matters of faith and of mora...
But this merely chronological connotation empties the term of useful meaning and is not really the sense in which the term is used today—at least not by those who publicly oppose what they label “the new apologetics.” Of course, not everyone uses the term pejoratively; in these remarks I...