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St. Robert Bellarmine's work in defense of the saints, their place
in heaven, their canonization and veneration, etc., ranks like all
of his works among the classical works of Catholic Theology. In
this work, Bellarmine meets the attack of Protestantism against
Catholic teaching on the saints, firstly on their own ground with
sound Scriptural Exegesis, backed up by the witness of the Greek
and Latin Church. The great counter-reformation doctor begins the
work with a treatise on whether the souls of the saints receive a
particular judgment and go to heaven or await for the end of time
suspended as it were in some hidden place; then what canonization
is, who does it and what is its authority; then lastly, whether the
saints may be venerated and invoked.
St. Alphonsus Liguori s Moral Theology has long been praised and
held in the highest regard by the Church, covering every moral
question of his day. This first ever English translation features
book 4 of the Theologia Moralis, on The first through sixth
commandments. These will cover topics as broad as the sin of
divination, worshiping demons, blasphemy, oaths, vows, and when
they are binding; when you must go to Mass and abstain from work,
as well as considerations on the fourth commandment in regard to
obedience, the fifth in terms of murder, just war and abortion, and
in the 6th, adultery and the various sins against chastity.
In this Theological treatise St. Robert Bellarmine takes on
Protestant as well as Greek Orthodox objections to the Papacy in
five books. In the first, he argues that Christ established the
Primacy of Peter by means of an Ecclesiastical Monarchy, why it is
fitting that the Church's government should be a monarchy;
Exegetical Commentary on the Lord's words in Matthew 16 and John
21, along with copious Patristic testimony. In Book 2 is whether
Peter has successors in the Ecclesiastical Monarchy, wherein
Bellarmine defends the Church's position on the true history of
Peter; that Peter truly went to Rome; that Peter was truly a Bishop
there. In Book 3 Bellarmine shows the Pope is not Antichrist. In
Book 4, Bellarmine argues why the Pope is infallible when he
defines a doctrine on faith and morals and proceeds to defend Popes
whom Protestants and others argued had erred while defining faith.
In book 5, Bellarmine takes up the question of the Popes' power in
civil affairs.
St. Alphonsus Liguori's Moral Theology has long been praised and
held in the highest regard by the Church, covering every moral
question of his day. Mediatrix Press is pleased to bring you the
first English Translation of this excellent work, once widely read
but relegated to obscurity on account of the loss of Latin fluency
in Western Society. Volume 1 embraces the first three Books of
Alphonsus' Moral Theology. Bl. Pope Pius IX declared: "Focusing his
mind on the glory of God and the spiritual salvation of men he
wrote many books, related with holy erudition and piety, whose
opinions were between those embraced by both more lax and rigid
theologians, to fortify the safe path by which the confessors of
Christ's faithful could advance without dashing their foot upon a
stone. [Apostolic Letter Honoring St. Alphonsus with the title of
Doctor of the Church]
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