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Catholic Saints Who Have Expressed Thoughts Similar to St. Faustina Regarding Chosen Souls
There are at least three places in St. Faustina's Diary where she writes about the world being maintained by chosen souls; see, for example:
926 And the Lord gave me to know who it is that upholds ...
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On a Celebrated Quote of Ven. Fulton Sheen Pertaining to the Laity
I have been trying to find the original source and transcript containing the following famous quote of Ven. Fulton J. Sheen on the laity:
Who’s going to save our Church? It’s not our bishops, it’s ...
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Cyril Lucaris was executed for treason by Sultan Murad IV, is there any evidence that members of any church were directly involved?
The subject of the "calvinist" Patriarch of the Orthodox Church comes up from time to time, with the 2 sides presenting conflicting versions of events.
Here is what I am certain of already.
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Is William Lane Craig’s view still that atheists are at moral fault for not believing?
I recently took the time to re-read the prelusive words of William Lane Craig’s Reasonable Faith. This quote stuck with me:
When a person refuses to come to Christ, it is never just because of lack ...
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Looking for freely available primary source of all St. Philip Neri's Maxims and Sayings, preferably in English
According to the publisher description Oxford Oratory's 2024 edition of The Maxims and Saying of St. Philip Neri:
A collection of the spiritual advice of St Philip Neri, with a maxim for every day of ...
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Source of "A priest can say three heresies in a sermon but must not insist on them"?
I was said that some pope of last centuries wrote a document where he stated this idea:
"A priest can say three heresies in a sermon but must not insist on them." I have a suspicion that I ...
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What is the oldest instance of a Christian theologian saying that an issue is OK to disagree about?
There's an infamous story from early church history of the dispute over the correct date for celebration of Easter, which got so heated that people even called their opponents heretics over it and ...
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A quote attributed to Luther about "issues which deal specifically with your time"
I saw this quote:
“If you preach the gospel in all aspects with the exception of the issues which deal specifically with your time, you are not preaching the gospel at all.” — Martin Luther
What was ...
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Where can I find the source of "I perish today not because of the crime I committed, but because of the pardon I did not accept"?
From a sermon illustration: That quote was the last words of a young man in southern USA (18th century), who was sentenced to be hung for a crime, whose family had interceded with the governor. The ...
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Blessed Solanus Casey---Prophecy Regarding Disappearance of Large Portions of the United States Due to Flooding?
Some number of years ago, I recall having seen (I am sure it was on television and I believe it was in the 1990s) a documentary (I would like to say it was a show called "Unsolved Mysteries,"...
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Harmony of the Gospels (earlier versions)
Following is the introduction to A Harmony of the Gospels, by A.T. Robertson. Does anyone know the titles/authors/publication dates of the previous "old plan" harmonies? Augustine wrote a ...
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Most complete biblical genealogical chart?
Dutripon, Bibliorum Sacrorum Concordantiæ pp. v-xii gives a chronological table divided into six ages, numbered by years of the world (anno mundi) and years before Jesus Christ (ante J. Ch.). He says ...
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St. Mary Magdalene meets Jesus in a garden Jn. 20:15, parallel to Song of Song's garden?
Has any Catholic exegete ever noted the parallel between St. Mary Magdalene's meeting Jesus in a garden (cf. her mistaking Him as a gardener in Jn. 20:15) with the garden of Solomon's Song of Songs? ...
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Who was St. Jane of Chantal's first spiritual director?
Before St. Jane de Chantal met St. Francis de Sales, she had a very strict spiritual director,
a priest at the nearby shrine of the Black Virgin at
Notre-Dame-d’Etang. He undertook her direction by ...
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Proof of sacramental absolution required for marriage in France during the French Revolution?
Proof of sacramental absolution required for marriage in France during the French Revolution?
I remember reading an ecclesiastical works of how the Catholic Church had suffered during the French ...
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