Free ebook: “The Creed Explained”, by Rev. Arthur Devine

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• The Creed Explained; or, An Exposition of Catholic Doctrine According to the Creeds of Faith and the Constitutions and Definitions of the Church, 4th edition, by the Rev. Arthur Devine, 1849-1919 (London: R. & T. Washbourne; Dublin: M.H. Gill & Son; New York, Cincinnati, Chicago, 1903). With Imprimatur. Available in pdf, epub, mobi, and other formats at Internet Archive and Open Library. The 2^nd edition (1897) is available in pdf, epub, mobi, and other formats at Internet Archive and Open Library, with a second copy at Internet Archive.

On the Memorial of Saints Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen in the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite. For other online 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 you continue in my word, you shall be my disciples indeed: And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (St. John viii, 31-32)

“How then shall they call on him, in whom they have not believed? Or how shall they believe him, of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear, without a preacher? And how can they preach, unless they be sent?… Faith then cometh by hearing: and hearing by the word of Christ.” (Romans x, 14-15, 17)

“God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth: Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.” (II Thessalonians ii, 13-15 KJV)

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Online ebook & audiobook: “Mary”, by Peter Kreeft

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• Mary, by Peter Kreeft (New Haven: Connecticut: Knights of Columbus Supreme Council, 2001). With Imprimatur. Part of the Luke E. Hart Series: Basic Elements of the Catholic Faith (General Editor, Father John A. Farren, O.P.). The audiobook may be listened to, and is available in mp3 format, and the ebook may be View Online and is available in pdf format, at the Catholic Information Service of the Knights of Columbus.

On the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, in the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite; and on New Year’s Day, 2019. For other legally free ebooks, you may access the List of Free eBooks (Arranged by Title) and the List of Free eBooks (Grouped by Subject). Sancta Maria, mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus!

“And in the sixth month, the Angel Gabriel was sent from God… To a virgin… and the name of the virgin was Mary. And the Angel… said to her: Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee: Blessed art thou among women… Behold thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and shalt bring forth a Son, and thou shalt call his name, Jesus. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the most High… The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the most High shall overshadow thee. And therefore also the Holy which shall be born of thee, shall be called the Son of God… And Mary said: Behold the handmaid of the Lord, be it done to me according to thy word. 

“And it came to pass, that when Elizabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the infant leaped in her womb: and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost: And she cried out with a loud voice, and said: Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb. And whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For behold as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in my ears, the infant in my womb leaped for joy. And blessed art thou that hast believed, because those things shall be accomplished that were spoken to thee by the Lord.” (St. Luke I, 26, 27, 28, 31-32, 35, 38, 41-45, formatting supplied)

Online text: “On Chastity, Marriage, the Family, and Virginity”, by the Vatican II Preparatory Commission

Fresco of Marriage at Cana, Annunciation Cathedral (Jerusalem). Photo by See The Holy Land. Image from Wikimedia Commons

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• Draft of a Dogmatic Constitution on Chastity, Marriage, the Family, and Virginity, by the Preparatory Theological Commission for the Second Vatican Council, translated by Fr. Joseph A. Komonchak (2012). Available in pdf format (on this page) at In Verbo Veritatis.

On the Feast of St. Egwin of Evesham.

“To the unmarried, and to the widows, I would say that they will do well to remain in the same state as myself, but if they have not the gift of continence, let them marry; better to marry than to feel the heat of passion. For those who have married already, the precept holds which is the Lord’s precept, not mine; the wife is not to leave her husband, (if she has left him, she must either remain unmarried, or go back to her own husband again), and the husband is not to put away his wife.” (I Corinthians vii, 8-11)

Online ebook: “Confraternity Bible: New Testament and Supplemental Commentary”

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• Confraternity Bible: New Testament and Supplemental Commentary; featuring The New Testament of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ: a Revision of the Challoner-Rheims Version (1941), also known as The New Testament, Confraternity Edition, and its companion work by the Catholic Biblical Association, A Commentary on the New Testament (1942). May be read online on this page of Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine (28 December 2017 snapshot of the sadly defunct website Confraternity Bible), which states: “This transcription was made with the understanding that the original copyrights for these two works were not renewed and that they have since entered the Public Domain.”
  • [N.B., Although there are other editions of the Confraternity Bible online, we have not indexed links to them as we are uncertain of their copyright status.]

On the Feast of Pope St. Damasus I in the Roman Rite. 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).

“Then there are other assailants of Holy Scripture who misuse principles… in order to overturn the fundamental truth of the Bible and thus destroy Catholic teaching handed down by the Fathers… They refuse to allow that the things which Christ said or did have come down to us unchanged and entire through witnesses who carefully committed to writing what they themselves had seen or heard…; yet of it one wrote: “He who saw it has borne witness, and his witness is true; and he knows that he tells the truth, and you also may believe” (Jn. 19:35).” (Pope Benedict XV, Encyclical “Spiritus Paraclitus”, 26-27)

“Those divinely revealed realities which are contained and presented in Sacred Scripture have been committed to writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. For holy mother Church, relying on the belief of the Apostles (…), holds that the books of both the Old and New Testaments in their entirety, with all their parts, are sacred and canonical because written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, they have God as their author and have been handed on as such to the Church herself.” (Second Vatican Council, Dogmatic Constitution “Dei Verbum”, 11)

Free ebook: “The Immaculate Conception of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God”, by J.D. Bryant

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• The Immaculate Conception of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God: A Dogma of the Catholic Church, by J.D. Bryant, M.D. (Boston: P. Donahoe, 1855). With episcopal approbation. [N.B., The index page states the author’s full name to be John Delavan Bryant.] May be read online, and available in various formats (mobi/kindle, epub, pdf, etc.), at Internet Archive and Open Library, with a 2^nd copy at Internet Archive and Open Library. Also available on this page at Hathi Trust Digital Library.

On the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception in the one true Church. For other legally free ebooks, you may access the List of Free eBooks (Arranged by Title) and the List of Free eBooks (Grouped by Subject). 

“And the Lord God said to the serpent… I will establish a feud between thee and the woman, between thy offspring and hers; she is to crush thy head, while thou dost lie in ambush at her heels.” (Genesis iii, 14-15)

Online media: “Mary’s Victory over All Heresies”, by Bishop Athanasius Schneider

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• “Mary’s Victory over All Heresies”, lecture by the Most. Rev. Athanasius Schneider, O.R.C., Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Astana, Kazakhstan, delivered on 20 October 2016 in Washington, D.C.
  • The text of the lecture is available in pdf format (on this page) at The Paulus Institute for the Propagation of the Sacred Liturgy.
  • The following videos may be viewed at the LifeSiteNews Youtube channel: the complete lecture (45:05), the highlights of the lecture (7:37), and the Q&A of Bishop Schneider at the event (23:25).

Posted on the Memorial of Pope Leo I (St. Leo the Great) in the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite, and belatedly for the anniversary of the opening of the 3^rd Council of Constantinople (7 November 680 AD).

“The Catholic faith is indeed not the private property of the pastor of a parish, nor of the bishop of a diocese, and not even of a pope… The Catholic faith is greater. It precedes and it transcends the pastors of the Church because they also are the first ones who have to obey the faith–exemplarily… The Catholic faith belongs to all times, to all places, and to all generations of Catholics, starting with the Apostles and going through all the Fathers, the Doctors of the Church, and all the saints we know…

“Nowadays we can [see] the introduction of some changes and ruptures in the presentation of the truths regarding doctrine and morals… To hide and to mask such changes, there are used such seductive expressions as ‘paradigm shift’ or ‘hermeneutic of continuity,’ even when the obvious sense of the changes contradicts the constant belief and the constant practise of the Church… In such situations, you should say ‘I know my Catholic faith. I will not permit [myself] to be confused by whomever. For the sake of this faith, I am willing to die’”

“The Catholic faith cannot admit a change, or a rupture, or a reinterpretation into another signification than it has been constantly believed and taught throughout 2000 years… Our paradigm is Christ–the same yesterday, today and forever. There is no shift of paradigm…” (Bishop Athanasius Schneider, from the LifeSiteNews highlights of his prerecorded video lecture at the 2018 Catholic Identity Conference)

Free ebook: “Biblical Treasury of the Catechism”, compiled by Rev. Thomas E. Cox

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• Biblical Treasury of the Catechism, 3^rd edition, compiled and arranged by the Rev. Thomas E. Cox (New York: William H. Young & Company, 1900). With Imprimatur. May be read online, and available in various formats (pdf, epub, mobi/kindle, etc.), at Internet Archive and Open Library, with a second copy at Internet Archive and Open Library, and a third copy at Internet Archive and Open Library. Also available at Forgotten Books (with some pages accessible only to members).

On the Feast of Saint Charles Borromeo in the Roman Rite. Blessed be God in His angels and in His saints!

Online text: “Spiritual Warfare: The Occult Has Demonic Influence”, by Bishop Donald W. Montrose

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• Spiritual Warfare: The Occult Has Demonic Influence, A Pastoral Letter by the Most Rev. Donald W. Montrose, D.D., Bishop of Stockton, CA. May be online on this page of Catholic Culture; on this page of the EWTN Library; and at Pride Women Conference.

On the Feast of Saints Cyprian and Justina in the Latin church. For other legally free ebooks, you may access the List of Free eBooks (Arranged by Title) and the List of Free eBooks (Grouped by Subject).

 

“[I]t is not called divination, if a man foretells things that happen of necessity, or in the majority of instances, for the like can be foreknown by human reason: nor again if anyone knows other contingent future things, through divine revelation: for then he does not divine, i.e. cause something divine, but rather receives something divine. Then only is a man said to divine, when he usurps to himself, in an undue manner, the foretelling of future events: and this is manifestly a sin.” (Saint Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, 2a 2ae, q. 95, a1c)

“In things done for the purpose of producing some bodily effect we must consider whether they seem able to produce that effect naturally: for if so it will not be unlawful to do so, since it is lawful to employ natural causes in order to produce their proper effects. But, if they seem unable to produce those effects naturally… they come under the head of ‘compact by tokens entered into with the demons’… [I]f in addition there be employed certain characters, words, or any other vain observances which clearly have no efficacy by nature, it will be superstitious and unlawful.” (Saint Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, 2a 2ae, q. 96, a2c et ad1)

Free ebook: “A Dogmatic Catechism”, from the Italian of Frassinetti

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• A Dogmatic Catechism, from the Italian of [Giuseppe] Frassinetti, revised and edited by the Oblate Fathers of St. Charles, with a Preface by the Archbishop of Westminster [Henry Edward Manning] (London: R. Washbourne, 1872). [N.B., The text appears to have been translated from the 6^th Italian edition.] May be read online, and available in various formats (pdf, epub, mobi/kindle, etc.), at Internet Archive and Open Library. Also available at Hathi Trust Digital Library and Google Books (though the latter appears to require logging in).

On the Memorial of Saint Robert Bellarmine in the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite. For other legally free ebooks, you may access the List of Free eBooks (Arranged by Title) and the List of Free eBooks (Grouped by Subject).

Online text: ‘Newman on Infallibility’, by Avery Dulles, S.J.

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• ‘Newman on Infallibility’, by Avery Dulles, S.J., Theological Studies, vol. 51, issue 3 (1990): pp. 434-449. Available in pdf format at Theological Studies.

Posted on the Feast of Saints Cornelius and Cyprian, and on the anniversary of the close of the Third Council of Constantinople (16 September 681). For other legally free ebooks, you may access the List of Free eBooks (Arranged by Title) and the List of Free eBooks (Grouped by Subject).

‘He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer greatly and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and rise after three days. He spoke this openly. Then Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. At this he turned around and, looking at his disciples, rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan. You are thinking not as God does, but as human beings do.”‘ (St. Mark viii, 31-33, from the gospel reading for 16 September 2018)