Locating a Spousal Meaning of the Body in the Summa Theologiae: A Comparison of a Central Idea Articulated in the Theology of the Body by Pope John Paul II with the Mature Work of St. Thomas Aquinas (Dissertation), by Thomas Petri, S.T.D. (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America, 2010). 452 pages. Copyright and All Rights Reserved by Thomas Petri. Available in pdf format (on this page) at the Catholic University of America University Libraries.
A Treatise of Spiritual Life: Leading Man by an Easy and Clear Method from the Commencement of Conversion to the Very Summit of Sanctity, 2nd revised edition, translated from the Latin of Mgr. Charles Joseph Morrozo, by Rev. D. A. Donovan, O.Cist. (New York and Cincinnati, Fr. Pustet & Co., 1901). With Imprimatur. Available in various formats at Internet Archive and at the HathiTrust Digital Library. An earlier edition (Poplar Bluff, Mich.: published by the author, 1893) is available in pdf, epub, mobi, and other formats at Internet Archive, with a 2nd copy at Internet Archive.
[N.B., Although the text attributes the Latin original of the work to the abbot and bishop Mgr. Charles Joseph Morrozo (Carlo Giuseppe Morozzi), HathiTrust Digital Library cites a scholar who states that the author of the work was Giovanni Bona, whom we assume to have been Giovanni Cardinal Bona.]
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.
“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)
“Martyrdom for the Faith in Our Times”, address by His Eminence Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke on 7 May 2016, delivered at the Rome Life Forum organized by the Voice of the Family.
“Catholic Faith and Martyrdom”, lecture by the Most Rev. Athanasius Schneider, Auxiliary Bishop of Astana, Kazakhstan. The audio of the lecture, together with the question-and-answer session that followed, is available at Soundcloud, posted by Radio Maria; and the text of the lecture be read online at Echt Katholiek.
“Conceptual Foundations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Human Rights, Human Dignity and Personhood”, by Dr. Thomas Finegan, Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy, Vol. 37 (2012), pp. 182-218. Available in pdf format at the Australasian Legal Information Institute.
“Natural Human Rights: The Perspective of the Ius Commune,” by Richard. H. Helmholz, Catholic University Law Review, Vol. 52 (2003): 301-326. Available in pdf format at Chicago Unbound Collections.
See also these texts related to the authority of Our Lord in Church and over State, over reason and will, amid temporal enemies unto its everlasting triumph:
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”]
“Yours is to be the same mind which Christ Jesus shewed. His nature is, from the first, divine, and yet he did not see, in the rank of Godhead, a prize to be coveted; he dispossessed himself, and took the nature of a slave, fashioned in the likeness of men, and presenting himself to us in human form; and then he lowered his own dignity, accepted an obedience which brought him to death, death on a cross. That is why God has raised him to such a height, given him that name which is greater than any other name; so that everything in heaven and on earth and under the earth must bend the knee before the name of Jesus, and every tongue must confess Jesus Christ as the Lord, dwelling in the glory of God the Father.” (Philippians 2:5-7)
“If to Christ our Lord is given all power in heaven and on earth; if all men, purchased by his precious blood, are by a new right subjected to his dominion; if this power embraces all men, it must be clear that not one of our faculties is exempt from his empire. He must reign in our minds, which should assent with perfect submission and firm belief to revealed truths and to the doctrines of Christ. He must reign in our wills, which should obey the laws and precepts of God. He must reign in our hearts, which should spurn natural desires and love God above all things, and cleave to him alone. He must reign in our bodies and in our members, which should serve as instruments for the interior sanctification of our souls, or to use the words of the Apostle Paul, as instruments of justice unto God.” (Pope Pius XI, Encyclical “Quas Primas”)
“How U.N. Conventions on Women’s and Children’s Rights Undermine Family, Religion, and Sovereignty”, by Patrick F. Fagan, William L. Saunders, Michael A. Fragoso, Insight (May 2009). Available in pdf format at the Family Research Council. [Probably written by non-Catholic Christians, but enunciating viewpoints consistent with natural moral law]
“[W]e are confronted by… a veritable structure of sin… characterized by the emergence of a culture which denies solidarity and in many cases takes the form of a veritable “culture of death”. This culture is actively fostered by powerful cultural, economic and political currents which encourage an idea of society excessively concerned with efficiency… [I]t is possible to speak in a certain sense of a war of the powerful against the weak… A person who, because of illness, handicap or, more simply, just by existing, compromises the well-being or life-style of those who are more favoured tends to be looked upon as an enemy to be resisted or eliminated…
“[W]e are in fact faced by an objective “conspiracy against life”, involving even international Institutions, engaged in encouraging and carrying out actual campaigns to make contraception, sterilization and abortion widely available. Nor can it be denied that the mass media are often implicated in this conspiracy, by lending credit to that culture which presents recourse to contraception, sterilization, abortion and even euthanasia as a mark of progress and a victory of freedom, while depicting as enemies of freedom and progress those positions which are unreservedly pro-life.” (St. John Paul the Great, Encyclical “Evangelium Vitae”, 12, 17)
“Up, then, gird thee like a man, and speak out all the message I give thee. Meet them undaunted, and they shall have no power to daunt thee. Strong I mean to make thee this day as fortified city, or pillar of iron, or wall of bronze, to meet king, prince, priest of Juda, and common folk all the country through; impregnable thou shalt be to their attack; am I not at thy side, the Lord says, to deliver thee?” (Jeremias i, 17-19)
“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.
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 3rd 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)
On the Feast of the Dedication of the Archbasilica of the Most Holy Saviour (Lateran Basilica) in the Roman Rite; and in solidarity with the observance of World Freedom Day in the United States of America.
“It is about the core belief that culture defines politics; that religion defines culture; that freedom comes from faith; and that no government has the right to get between you and God” (Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the US House of Representatives, speaking on his film about St. John Paul the Great, “Nine Days that Xhanged the World“)
