tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-128777612009-12-21T00:56:28.598-05:00An Electronic Studium for the discussion of Scholastic Philosophy and Theology: with a special focus on the Book of Sentences of Master Peter Lombard, and his great commentators, e.g. St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Bonaventure, Bl. John Duns Scotus, etc..Br. Alexis Bugnolohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07268796826518693583noreply@blogger.comBlogger89125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12877761.post-1169399671370712662007-01-21T12:11:00.000-05:002007-04-07T12:39:26.696-04:00

I recently completed the first English translation of St. Bonaventure's Commentaries on the First Book of Sentences of Master Peter Lombard.You can obtain a copy of the work, with the original Latin texts on a CD-R for $25. For more information see:http://www.franciscan-archive.org/publications.html

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Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,The season of Christmas is nearly upon us, and I beg you to consider helping some poor franciscans who have no place to live.I am speaking about the franciscans and the vocations who want to live the traditional observance of the Rule of St. Francis, but who cannot do so in the Order of Friars minor because this is a very hateful thing to the superiors of the

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(POSTED Nov. 20, 2006, www.RemnantNewspaper.com) For traditionalist Catholics nothing is more symptomatic of the crisis in the Church than the deliberate mistranslation of pro vobis et pro multis—for you and for many—as “for you and for all” in vernacular renderings of the Latin typical edition of the Mass of Paul VI by local episcopal conferences and the ICEL. This error, which falsely suggests

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There is a very great misunderstanding today about what constitutes an authentic miracle, sufficient for the determination of whether a deceased Catholic is a saint.A miracle strictly speaking is any divine intervention which manifests itself as such by the accomplishement of that which is beyond the order of nature. There are miracles which are beyond the order of nature, inasmuch as they

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The recent assault upon Limbo's existence is at its root an attack upon the Primacy of Christ.At first sight it does not appear thus.The Modernists want to overthrow the exclusivity of salvation proposed by authentic Catholic Doctrine, because they hold, according to St. Pius X (Pascendi Dominici gregis) a notion of the supernatural which is in fact a interior religious sense, that is a natural

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In 1939 Hans urs Von Valthasar, S. J., published "Patristik, Scholastik und wir": Theologie der Zeit (English translation by Edward T. Oakes, S.J. : Communio, n. 24, September 1997). In it he set forth his own theory of theological historicism, in which he undermined the objective basis of theological inquiry taught by the Fathers and great Scholastic Theologians, so as to advance the cause of

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by Father Garrigou Lagrange O.P.,professor of Dogmatic and Mystical Theology at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas, Rome, writing in his book, The Three Ages of the Interior Life, translated from the Italian version published by LICE, Turin, 1949, vol. 1, p. 180, footnote 2, in his discourse on the Theological Virtue of Charity:"There in fact exits a false charity, which arises from culpable

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The Pope has stunned the world, by telling the theologians who are working to do away with Limbo, that their duty is to keep their mouths shut, rather than speak anything contrary to the Faith.VATICAN CITY, OCT 6, 2006 (VIS) - This morning in the Redemptoris Mater Chapel, in the Vatican, the Holy Father concelebrated mass with the participants of the International Theological Commission.In this

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The recent article in the Times (see link in title above) puts the heresy of universal salvationism in explicit terms:This week a 30-strong Vatican international commission of theologians, which has been examining limbo, began its final deliberations. Vatican sources said it had concluded that all children who die do so in the expectation of “the universal salvation of God” and the “mediation of

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A. D. Sept. 12, 2006Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen,It is a moving experience for me to stand and give a lecture at this university podium once again. I think back to those years when, after a pleasant period at the Freisinger Hochschule, I began teaching at the University of Bonn. This was in 1959, in the days of the old university made up of ordinary professors. The various chairs had

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Such great saints as St. Thomas and St. Alphonsus, teach that for an action to be morally good, and hence pleasing to God, and thus have value in and for the Social Reign of Jesus Christ, it must have a threefold goodness: it must be an act that is not evil in itself, good in its end, and not evil in its circumstances.It must be not evil in itself:Every moral action can be classified as to its

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by Frank M. Rega"Science, my son, for all its greatness, is still an inferior thing; it is less than nothing when compared to the formidable mystery of Divinity." (St. Padre Pio)In an address by Pope John Paul II to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences on October 22, 1996, entitled "Truth Cannot Contradict Truth," 1 the Holy Father made this controversial statement: "...new knowledge has led to the

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There have been controversies in the USA since the time before Father Leonard Feeney, S.J., about the necessity of baptism. I present here my translation of part of St. Alphonsus's tract on Baptism, which clearly shows why that which Father Feeney opposed was itself erroneous (namely that Baptism was not necessary for salvation), and therefore was justly opposed, but also how Father Feeney

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Papal Authority and Vatican IIIntroduction:The very grave state of affairs in the Catholic Church and in the world today is asserted by Catholics who accept the Deposit of the Faith in the manner it has been proposed by ecclesiastical tradition, unsullied, from the death of the last Apostle, St. John, until today, as being formally caused by the novelties introduced by the documents of the Second

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One controversy which has reappeared in recent years is that which concerns the thesis that the Earth is the center of the Universe.The Question: What is the center of the Universe? Is it the Earth?Is a question which, like all questions, needs to be clarified as the precise meaning of the terms, before it can be adequately answered.I will omit a discussion of what the term "the Earth" means,

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According to Mr. John Sharpe, editor of IHS publications, in his intervue with Stephen Heiner, Charles Stanton Devas, in the old Catholic Encyclopedia did "quite a nice job of hinting at exactly what Distributists are aiming for" in saying that,“the proper unfolding of human liberty and personality is historically bound up with, and cannot develop where each person is only a sharer in a

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One of the more well known sedevacansits (1) priests in the U.S.A., Fr. Anthony Cekada, recently rebutted the article by the Dominicans of Avrillé, which demonstrated the validity of the new rite of Episcopal Oridinations.Fr. Cekada's argument was based on faulty premises:I: Confusion of the Sacramental form and the sacramental formulaFr. Cekada writes:A. What is a Sacramental Form?In catechism

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Traditioninaction.org, one of the finest Catholic Websites for its historical and theological accuracy,* publishes this quote from St. Thomas, in regard to the recent advocacy of the Distributist position of Chesterton, among American Catholics. While I am not convinced that Chesterton advocated the kind of socialims St. Thomas condemns in the passage below, it is useful to consider what the

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We live in a generation unique among the generations of the sons of Adam: unique not only for its lack of religion, but for its contempt and hatred for it. Hence it is that not a few Catholics are wholly indifferent to the goodness, truth and beauty of the virtue of religion and its supreme and most efficacious act, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. For this reason, it behooves us, if we are to

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To keep The Scholasticism on focus, I will be posting my comments regarding the Social Reign of Jesus Christ and the current errors opposed to it on a new blog.http://www.utregnetchristusiesus.blogspot.com/where my first post is on the Orwellian Transmogrification of the Modern Liberal DemocracyFor those comming from Rorate Caeli, looking for my article on the error in Gaudium et Spes, n. 24,

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On this day, in the year of Our Lord, 1274, during the Second, Sacrosanct and Ecumenical Council of Lyon, after having reconciled the Greeks back to the Church, the glorious seraphic doctor, passed to his eternal reward.You can read more about St. Bonaventure athttp://www.franciscan-archive.org/bonaventuraYou can read an English translation of most of the first Book of St. Bonaventure's

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I wish to call to the attention of the readers of The Scholasticum Blog, a current, very pervasive, false spirit afoot among Bloggers, which is the fruit of the Masonic errors of freespeach and freethinking, which the very nature of the medium of blogging is easily given to.The error of free speech, holds that everyone has a right to publish or say or write whatever he desires to write or publish

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The Recent Vatican Document on Life Issues includes a statement not heard for more than 40 years from the Vatican, 40 years at least in a press release:The philosophical key to moving out of the culture of death, suggests the document, is "an integral understanding of what is human." It explains, "Without a 'meta-anthropology' which touches the being, the substance, the spirit, there can be no

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Here at the Scholasticum, we are celebrating today as the Solemnity of the Angelic Doctor. Today, is the 731st Annivesary of St. Thomas' transitus to Eternal Glory. For this purpose, here is a new English translation of the Saint's Summa contra Gentiles, Bk. 4, ch. 56: On the Necessity of the Sacraments.1. However, because, just as has been said, the Death of Christ is the quasi universal cause

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by Atila S. GuimarãesI have been asked to point out the differences among Liberal Catholics, Modernists, and Progressivists, since these terms have been used in the United States in a way that is inter-changeable and can lead to confusion. Liberalism, Modernism and Progressivism, in a certain sense, are like grandparent, father and son of the same family. Let me explain.The liberal accepts the

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