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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.
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. Robert Bellarmine's treatises on the main controversies in
Theology between Catholics and Protestants is unparalleled in its
breadth and depth of scholarship and argumentation-4 centuries
later. In the second installment of the Controversies, Bellarmine
takes up the Controversies on Councils, the Church Militant, and
the Marks of the Church so as to present the totality of the
Catholic teaching on Ecclesiology and refute the arguments of the
Protestants of his day, preeminently Luther, Calvin and Ochenius,
and in addition, Greek Orthodox objections. Bellarmine's work in
this area was not only standard reading, but the foundation of all
subsequent treatises on Ecclesiology. For the first time, these
treatises are available in English.
This catechism can be considered as a valid and effective
catechetical tool for the work of the evangelization, a work which
has to be realized with a new missionary zeal towards those who
don't know the Catholic faith and as well towards those who know it
defectively and insufficiently. May those who will read this
catechism and those who will use it in the noble and meritorious
work of teaching Christian doctrine, may be equipped with the sure
and sacred doctrine of the Catholic faith, in order to stand,
having their loins girt about with truth. -Bishop Athanasius
Schneider This is the first English translation of St. Robert
Bellarmine's Long Catechism, which follows a traditional question
and answer model but gives deep meditations on the truths of faith.
It was written for students with some education as well as for
those who would teach Catechism. It was explicitly approved by Pope
Clement VIII and praised by Pope Benedict XIV and Pius XI. St.
Robert Bellarmine is a doctor of the Church.
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