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2 days ago · The Christian church marked the conversion of Constantine the Great as the final fulfillment of its heavenly victory over the "false gods". [43] : xxxii The Roman state had always seen itself as divinely directed, now it saw the first great age of persecution, in which the Devil was considered to have used open violence to dissuade the growth of Christianity, at an end. [44]
Jun 2, 2024 · that it was the duty of all Christians…to obtain the complete abolition of slavery. This statement was actually a compromise. A radical abolitionist in Virginia had been denouncing his fellow ministers for being slaveholders. The presbytery of Lexington, Va. had disciplined him for his contentiousness.
2 days ago · When speaking to a general audience in 2008, Pope Benedict XVI referred to St. Leo the Great as one of the greatest popes in the history of the Church. “As the nickname soon attributed to him by tradition suggests, he was truly one of the greatest pontiffs to have honored the Roman See and made a very important contribution to strengthening its authority and prestige,” Benedict said.
6 days ago · Roman Catholicism - Scholasticism, Aquinas, Theology: Philosophy, hitherto concerned almost exclusively with logic and dialectic, had stagnated in the late 12th century. It was revived by the gradual arrival from Spain and Sicily of translations of the entire corpus of Aristotle, often accompanied by Arabic and Hebrew commentaries and treatises. Through these works, especially the Metaphysics ...
5 days ago · Roman Catholic Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, 83, who served as the Vatican's ambassador to the United States from 2011 to 2016, was summoned to an extrajudicial trial at the Vatican for "the crime of schism" this week, he announced Thursday on X. "I have been summoned to the Palace of the Holy Office on June 20, in person or represented by a ...
3 days ago · Christianity - 4th, 5th Century, Controversies: Until about 250, most Western Christian leaders (e.g., Irenaeus and Hippolytus) spoke Greek, not Latin. The main Latin theology came primarily from such figures as Tertullian and Cyprian (bishop of Carthage, 248–258) rather than from any figure in Rome. Tertullian wrote Against Praxeas, in which he discussed the doctrines of the Trinity and the ...
1 day ago · Pope Pius IX. Few popes of modern times have presided over so momentous a series of decisions and actions as Pius IX (reigned 1846–78), whose early liberalism was ended by the shock of the Revolutions of 1848. During his reign the development of the modern papacy reached a climax with the triumph of ultramontanism —the viewpoint of those ...
