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Texto en linea: “Conciencia y Verdad”, por Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger

12 Saturday Oct 2019

Posted by Catholic eBooks Project in Apologetics, Article, Conscience, Doctrine, EBooks, Español, Ethics, Faith, Lecture, Religion, Saints, Truth

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  • “Conciencia y Verdad”, por Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Humanitas, 01 Mayo 2005. Discurso presentado en el X Seminario de Obispos, febrero de 1991, en Dallas, Texas. Disponible en esta pagina de Vivir la Fe Catolica; y en  Humanitas, Amigos es decir Testigos, Analisis Digital, y Almudi.org.

The text is also available in English:

  • “Conscience and Truth”, by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger. Keynote address presented at the 10th Workshop for Bishops, February 1991, in Dallas, Texas.
    • The complete text may be read online on this page of the Catholic Education Resource Center (CERC), on this page of the EWTN Library, on this page of the Catholic Information Network (CIN), and, under the heading “If You Want Truth, Respect the Conscience of Every Person: Conscience and Truth”, in the Google Books preview of Faith and Politics: Selected Writings, by Joseph Ratzinger / Benedict XVI, with a Foreword by Pope Francis (San Francisco Ignatius Press, 2018), which is available for sale on this page of Ignatius Press.
    • A substantial selection, “Conscience and Truth”, by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Communio 37 (Fall 2010): pp. 529-538, is available in pdf format (on this page) at Communio: International Catholic Review, reprinted with permission from On Conscience, by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2007), which is available for sale on this page of Ignatius Press, and on this page of the National Catholic Bioethics Center.

Por la Fiesta de Virgen del Pilar y la víspera de la canonización del cardenal John Henry Newman. Para más libros, por favor ingrese a la lista de los libros electrónicos gratis (Ordenados por título) y la lista de los libros gratis (Agrupados por tema).

Desde el texto:

“[P]odemos ahora comprender correctamente el brindis de Newman antes por la conciencia y sólo después por el Papa. El Papa no puede imponer a los fieles católicos ningún mandamiento solo porque él lo quiere o porque lo considera útil… El significado auténtico de la autoridad doctrinal del Papa consiste en el hecho de que él es el garante de la memoria. El Papa no impone desde fuera sino que desarrolla la memoria cristiana y la defiende.

“Por ello, el brindis por la conciencia ha de preceder al Papa, porque sin conciencia no tiene ningún papado. Todo el poder que él tiene es poder de la conciencia: servicio al doble recuerdo, sobre el que se basa la fe y que tiene que ser continuamente purificada, ampliada y defendida contra las formas de destrucción de la memoria, que está amenazada tanto por una subjetividad que ha olvidado el propio fundamento, como por las dificultades de un conformismo social y cultural.”

[And if the grammar is wrong, pray correct me. Gracias!]

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Online ebook: “Maritain and America”, edited by Christopher Cullen & Joseph Allan Clair

04 Thursday Jul 2019

Posted by Catholic eBooks Project in America, Anthropology, Books, Catholic, Christian, Conscience, Democracy, EBooks, Ethics, Freedom, Heaven, Human Rights, Liberalism, Politics, Religion

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  • Maritain and America, edited by Christopher Cullen, S.J. and Joseph Allan Clair (American Maritain Association, 2009). The contents of the work are available in pdf format and listed on this Table of Contents page, accessible through the webpage listing American Maritain Association Publications at the Jacques Maritain Center.

See also these related texts and ebooks:

  • Encyclical “Longinqua” on Catholicism in the United States, by Pope Leo XIII, 06 January 1895. May be read online at the Holy See.
  • Encyclical “Testem Benevolentiae Nostrae” concerning New Opinions, Virtue, Nature and Grace, with regard to Americanism, by Pope Leo XIII, January 22, 1899. May be read online at the on this page at the EWTN Libraries. [N.B., A commentary that views Americanism as a variant of false ecumenism or indifferentism is available at: “Evangelization and Americanism” (article) by Bradley Eli, and “Mic’d Up: Americanism” (podcast) at Church Militant.]
  • Letter to the Bishops of the United States, by Pope John Paul II, 3 April 1983. May be read online at the Holy See.
  • Pastoral letter of the Archbishops and Bishops of the United States Assembled in Conference at the Catholic University of America, September, 1919 (Washington, D.C., The National Catholic Welfare Council, 1920). Available at Open Library and  Internet Archive, with a 2nd copy here. [N.B., This is a restatement of doctrine and an exhortation on all aspects of the Catholic life in the United States.]
  • We Hold These Truths: Catholic Reflections on the American Proposition, by John Courtney Murray, S.J. (Kansas City, MO: Sheed and Ward, 1960). May be read online at Woodstock Theological Library at Georgetown University. [N.B., We have assumed that this work was lawfully made available online by Georgetown University and that links to it may be lawfully made. Kindly advise us if this is incorrect.]

On the Feast of St. Elizabeth of Portugal, and in solidarity with the celebration of Independence Day in the United States of America. For other online texts and legally free ebooks, you may access the List of Free eBooks (Arranged by Title) and the List of Free eBooks (Grouped by Subject).

“The true revolution was not to defy one earthly power, but to declare principles that stand above every earthly power — the equality of each person before God, and the responsibility of government to secure the rights of all.” (President George W. Bush, Remarks at the Rededication of the National Archives)

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Online ebook: “The Chief Sources of Sin”, by Michael V. McDonough

17 Wednesday Apr 2019

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  • The Chief Sources of Sin: Seven Discourses on Pride, Covetousness, Lust, Anger, Gluttony, Envy, Sloth, by Michael V. McDonough [b. 1863] (New York, Baltimore: John Murphy Company, 1910). With Imprimatur. May be read online, and available in pdf, epub, mobi,. And other formats at Internet Archive and Open Library.
    • [N.B., This work appears to be in the public domain under US law. As to other jurisdictions, an online search yielded a date of death of 02 November 1933 for a certain Rev. Michael V, McDonough, chaplain of St. Mary’s Home, New Bedford (vide Anchor, October 29, 2010, p.19). If this is the author, then the work would also have entered the public domain in jurisdictions where the copyright period is reckoned based on the author’s lifetime + 70 years. Advice on this matter would be appreciated.]

See also these related texts:

  • Encyclical Letter “Veritatis splendor”, by Pope St. John Paul II (6 August 1993).  Available at the Holy See and at IntraText. [According to Wikipedia: “The encyclical is one of the most comprehensive and philosophical teachings of moral theology in the Catholic tradition”]
  • Sin and its Consequences, 2nd edition, by Henry Edward Manning (London: Burns and Oates, 1874). Available in various formats at Internet Archive, with a 2nd copy at Internet Archive and Open Library. A microfilm copy of the 3rd edition (London: Burns and Oates, 1876) is available at Internet Archive and Open Library. Another edition (New York, Montreal: D. & J. Sadlier & Company) is available at Internet Archive and Open Library, with a 2nd copy at Internet Archive and Open Library; and yet another edition (New York: P.J. Kenedy & Sons) is available at Internet Archive and Open Library.
  • Some Fundamental Principles of Catholic Morality, by Peter Kreeft. General Editor Father John A. Farren, O.P. (New Haven, Connecticut: Catholic Information Service/Knights of Columbus Supreme Council, 2001). The ebook may be read online and is available in PDF format, and the audiobook may be heard in MP3 format through this page, at the Knights of Columbus Supreme Council, Catholic Information Service.
  • “The Splendour of Truth and Intrinsically Immoral Acts: A Philosophical Defense of the Rejection of Proportionalism and Consequentialism in Veritatis Splendor”, by Professor Josef Seifert. Part I, in Studia Philosophiae Christianae, Vol. 51, No. 2 (2015): pp. 27-67, is available in pdf format (on this page) at The Central European Journal Of Social Sciences And Humanities. Part II, in Studia Philosophiae Christianae, Vol. 51, No. 3 (2015): pp. 7-37, is available in pdf format (on this page) at The Central European Journal Of Social Sciences And Humanities.

On Holy Wednesday (or Spy Wednesday), 2019 in the one true and Catholic Church. For other online texts and legally free ebooks, you may access the List of Free eBooks (Arranged by Title) and the List of Free eBooks (Grouped by Subject).

“If, when I say to the wicked, Thou shalt surely die: thou declare it not to him, nor speak to him, that he may be converted from his wicked way, and live: the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at thy hand. But if thou give warning to the wicked, and he be not converted from his wickedness, and from his evil way: he indeed shall die in his iniquity, but thou hast delivered thy soul.” (Ezechiel iii, 18-19)

“Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, Behold, thou hast recovered thy strength; do not sin any more, for fear that worse should befall thee” (St. John v, 13)

“If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death… and there is a sin not unto death.” (II John v, 16-17 KJV)

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Online ebooks: “A Collection of Cases in Moral and Pastoral Theology”, in 5 volumes

12 Friday Apr 2019

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  • The Casuist: A Collection of Cases in Moral and Pastoral Theology. With Imprimatur.
    • Volume I (New York: J.F. Wagner, 1906) is available in pdf, epub, mobi/kindle, and other formats at Internet Archive, with a 2nd copy at Internet Archive.
    • Volume II (New York: J.F. Wagner, 1908) is available in pdf, epub, mobi/kindle, and other formats at Internet Archive, with a 2nd copy at Internet Archive.
    • Volume III (New York: J.F. Wagner, 1910) is available in pdf, epub, mobi/kindle, and other formats at Internet Archive, with a 2nd copy at Internet Archive., and a 3rd copy at Internet Archive.
    • Volume IV, revised by Rev. Stanislaus Woywod, O.F.M. (New York: J.F. Wagner, 1912) is available in pdf, epub, mobi/kindle, and other formats at Internet Archive.
    • Volume V, prepared and edited by the Rev. J.A. McHugh, O.P. (New York: J.F. Wagner, 1917) is available in pdf, epub, mobi/kindle, and other formats at Internet Archive.

On the Feast of Blessed Angelo Carletti di Chivasso. See also this related ebook: Catholic Moral Teaching and its Antagonists Viewed in the Light of Principle and of Contemporaneous History, by Joseph Mausbach.

“If, when I say to the wicked, Thou shalt surely die: thou declare it not to him, nor speak to him, that he may be converted from his wicked way, and live: the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at thy hand. But if thou give warning to the wicked, and he be not converted from his wickedness, and from his evil way: he indeed shall die in his iniquity, but thou hast delivered thy soul.

“Moreover, if the just man shall turn away from his justice, and shall commit iniquity: I will lay a stumbling-block before him, he shall die, because thou hast not given him warning: he shall die in his sin, and his justices, which he hath done, shall not be remembered: but I will require his blood at thy hand. But if thou warn the just man, that the just may not sin, and he doth not sin: living he shall live, because thou hast warned him, and thou hast delivered thy soul.” (Ezechiel iii, 18-21)

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Online text: The Moral Specification of Human Acts According to Thomas Aquinas, by Dr. Duarte Sousa-Lara

03 Sunday Mar 2019

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  • [The Moral Specification of Human Acts According to Thomas Aquinas]*, by Dr. Duarte Sousa-Lara, translated by Dr. Joseph T. Papa from Dr. Sousa-Lara’s dissertation, A especificação moral dos actos humanos segundo são Tomás de Aquino (Roma: Edizioni Università Santa Croce, 2008). The translated chapters, from this page of Etica e Politica, are:
    • Chapter 1, “The Sources of Aquinas on Human Action”;
    • Chapter 2, “Albert [Magnus] on human action and Aquinas”;
    • Chapter 3, “Human Action and its Morality in Aquinas (2008)”;
    • Chapter 4, “Aquinas on the Object of the Human Act: A Reading in Light of the Texts and Commentators”, in the Josephinum Journal of Theology, Vol. 15, No. 2 (2008): pp. 243-276;
    • Chapter 5, “‘Genus naturae’ and ‘Genus moris’ in Aquinas”;
    • Chapter 6, “‘Materia ex qua’ and ‘Materia circa quam’ in Aquinas”;
    • Chapter 7, “‘Intentio’ and ‘Electio’ in Aquinas”;
    • Chapter 8, “Aquinas on Interior and Exterior Acts: Clarifying a Key Aspect of His Action Theory”, in the Josephinum Journal of Theology, Vol. 15, No. 2 (2008): pp. 277-316;
    • Chapter 9, “‘Circumstantia’ and ‘Conditiones’ in Aquinas”;
    • Chapter 10, “‘Per se’ and ‘Praeter Intentionem’ in Aquinas (2011)”, in the Josephinum Journal of Theology, Vol. 18, No. 2 (2011): pp. 418-453; and
    • Chapter 11, “The Ordo Rationis and the Moral Species”, in the Josephinum Journal of Theology, Vol. 17, No. 1 (2010): pp. 80-125. [Note that the last may not be an exact translation, as the author states that: “This essay was developed from the eleventh chapter”.]
  • [N.B. *The title is supplied for the Project, as a translation of the original Portuguese title of the dissertation.]
  • [N.B.2, The original Portuguese text has an Imprimatur and is available through this page at Etica e Politica. To our knowledge, its Introduction and Conclusion have not been translated into English.]

On the Feast of Saint Thomas Aquinas the Theologian in the Maronite Church: may his prayers be with us. For other online texts and legally free ebooks, you may access the List of Free eBooks (Arranged by Title) and the List of Free eBooks (Grouped by Subject).

“Faith and life are inseparable, for Faith apart from works is dead. The moral law is the work of divine wisdom and leads man to the promised blessedness. Consequently, the ‘knowledge of the divine and natural law is necessary’ to do good and reach this goal. Accepting this truth is essential for all people of good will. For he who dies in mortal sin without repentance will be forever separated from God… The moral law is not a burden, but part of that liberating truth through which the Christian walks on the path of salvation and which may not be relativized.” (Gerhard Cardinal Müller, “Manifesto of Faith“, citations omitted)

 

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