A Full Catechism of the Catholic Religion; Preceded by a Short History of Revealed Religion, from the Creation to the Present Time, 6th American edition, with questions for examination, by Rev. Joseph Deharbe, S.J., translated by Rev. John Fander, revised, enlarged, and edited by the Right Rev. P.N. Lynch, D.D. (New York: Catholic Publication Society, 1889). With Imprimatur. Available in various formats at Internet Archive. The 11th American edition (1889) is available at Internet Archive.
“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)
“Now this is life everlasting, that they may know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent… I have given them thy word, and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world: as I also am not of the world. I do not ask that thou take them away out of the world, but that thou preserve them from evil. They are not of the world: as I also am not of the world. Sanctify them in truth. Thy word is truth.” (St. John xvii, 3, 14-17)
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“I am alpha and omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end. Blessed are they that wash their robes in the blood of the Lamb: that they may have a right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city. Without are dogs, and sorcerers, and the unchaste, and murderers, and those that serve idols, and every one that loveth and maketh a lie. I, Jesus, have sent my Angel, to testify to you these things in the churches. I am the root and stock of David, the bright and morning star.” (Apocalypse xxii, 13-16)
Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes: Crimes and Other Gross and Large Scale Human Rights Violations Committed during the Reign of Totalitarian Regimes in Europe: Cross-National Survey of Crimes Committed and of Their Remembrance, Recognition, Redress, and Reconciliation: Reports and Proceedings of the 8 April European Public Hearing on “Crimes Committed by Totalitarian Regimes”, Organised by the Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the European Union (January–June 2008) and the European Commission, edited by Peter Jambrek (Ljubljana: Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, 2008). The “draft before final editing” is available in pdf format at the Republic of Slovenia Ministry of Justice, at Academia.edu, and at the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.
See also these texts on communist oppression:
Albanian Catholic Bulletin (Buletini Katholik Shqiptar), Vol. 6 (Santa Clara, California: Albanian Catholic Information Center, 1985). In 108 pages. Available at the Gleeson Library Digital Collections. [N.B., This issue commemorates the 40th anniversary of the Communist persecution of Catholic Albanians.]
Chronicle of the Catholic Church in Lithuania, No. 10: Struggle for Survival (Maspeth, Long Island, New York: The Lithuanian Roman Catholic Priests’ League). With a letter to the Lithuanian people from Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty dated “75 02 22” or 22 February 1975, which only appears on the pdf copy. May be read online on this page and available in pdf format on this page at Chronicle of the Catholic Church in Lithuania. [N.B., The title of the Chronicle in Lithuanian appears to be Lietuvos Katalikų Bažnyčios Kronika. In English it contains the subtitle: Translation of Authentic First-Hand Reports from Soviet-Occupied Lithuania.]
“Communist Interrogation and Indoctrination of ‘Enemies of the State’: Analysis of Methods Used by the Communist State Police (A Special Report)”, by Lawrence E. Hinkle Jr., M.D. and Harold G. Wolff, M.D. Reprinted from the AMA [American Medical Association ] Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry, vol. 76, no. 2 (1956), pp.: 115-174. Available in pdf format (on this page) at the Central Intelligence Agency Library (“Approved For Release 2000/09/06”) [N.B., This is evidently not a Catholic Christian source, but it contains information on methods used against Catholics like Cardinal Mindszenty, and notes that Catholics were particularly targeted by Communist regimes.]
Crimes against Humanity under Communist Regimes: Research Review, by Klas-Göran Karlsson and Michael Schoenhals (Stockholm: Forum for Living History, 2008). Available in pdf format at the Forum for Living History (Forum för levande historia).
“The Crimes of the Communist Regime in Hungary: National Report”, compiled by János M. Rainer. Available in pdf format (through this page) at the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes. Part of the larger work Crimes of the Communist Regimes: Proceedings of an International Conference Held in Prague, 24-26 February 2010, indexed below.
Crimes of the Communist Regimes: Proceedings of an International Conference Held in Prague, 24-26 February 2010, by Jiří Liška et al., edited by David Svoboda and Cóílín O’Connor, translated by Cóílín O’Connor, Ian Willoughby, Neela Winkelmann-Heyrovská, and Markéta Hofmannová (Prague: Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, 2011). The ebook is available in pdf format (here) through this page of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes; and the individual chapters are available in pdf format at the Central and Eastern European Online Library (requires registration). The audio recordings of the proceedings (in the original languages) are available in mp3 through this page of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, which also contains the text of the Declaration on Crimes of Communism issued by the participants at the Conference.
Encyclical Letter “Iniquis Afflictisque” on the Persecution of the Church in Mexico, by Pope Pius XI (18 November 1926). Available at the Holy See.
“Reflections on Communism Twenty Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall”, by Paul Hollander (Development Policy Analysis No. 11, November 2, 2009) (Washingto, D.C.: Cato Institute, 2009). Available in pdf format (on this page) at the Cato Institute.
“Your nation now faces probably the hardest ordeal of its history. Do not lose heart. Injustice, wrong and crime will never be transformed into justice, right and blessings merely by the fact that a long interval has elapsed. Have confidence, pray and renew yourselves spiritually and your country and your nation will be restored to freedom and dignity. Do not hate; the more and better we pray for our persecutors, the sooner will their hearts be converted to what we pray for.” (Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty, Letter to the Lithuanian People, 1975)
Encyclical “Insignes” on the Hungarian Millennium, by Pope Leo XIII (1 May 1896). May be read at Papal Encyclicals Online. The same text with section headings supplied may be read at Catholic News Agency.
See also this related text:
Saint Étienne: Roi Apostolique de Hongrie, par Emile Horn (Paris: V. Lecoffre, 1899). Disponible dans Internet Archive et Open Library.
Saint Clare of Assisi: Her Life and Legislation, by Ernest Gilliat-Smith (London, Toronto: J.M. Dent & Sons, Ltd.; New York, E.P. Dutton & Co., 1914). With Imprimatur. May be read online, and available in pdf, epub, mobi, and other formats, at Internet Archive, with a 2nd copy at Internet Archive, and a 3rd copy at Internet Archive, and a 4th copy at Internet Archive. Available at the HathiTrust Digital Library, with a 2nd copy at HathiTrust Digital Library. [Note: We believe this work is in the public domain in most jurisdictions that reckon copyright based on the lifetime of the author, who passed away in 1935 according to WikiSource, Ancestry, and GENi. If this is incorrect, kindly advise us on the comments. Thank you]
On the Feast of Saint Clare of Assisi in the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite. See also these related texts:
Instrução “Verbi Sponsa” sobre a Vida Contemplative e a Clausura das Monjas, pelo Congregação para os Institutos de Vida Consagrada e Sociedades de Vida Apostólica, 13 de Maio 1999. Disponível em Site da Santa Sé.
The Mission of the Contemplative Orders (Techny, Illinois: Society of the Divine Word). With 1912 Imprimatur. Distributed by the Monastery of Poor Clares, West Park, Ohio. Available in various formats (pdf, epub, mobi/kindle, etc.) at Internet Archive.
On Prayer and the Contemplative Life, by St. Thomas Aquinas, translated by the Very Rev. Hugh Pope, with a Preface by the Very Rev. Vincent McNabb (London, Manchester, Birmingham, and Glasgow: R. & T. Washbourne, Ltd., 1914). With Imprimatur. Available in multiple formats at Many Books.net, and Project Gutenberg, as well as at Internet Archive and Open Library, with a second copy at Internet Archive and Open Library.
The Princess of Poverty: Saint Clare of Assisi and the Order of Poor Ladies, by Father Marianus Fiege, O.M.Cap. (Evansville, Indiana: Poor Clares of the Monastery of S. Clare, 1900/1901). With Imprimatur. Available in multiple formats at Internet Archive as linked from the Catholic Research Resources Alliance.
The Rule of the Holy Virgin Saint Clare, Permissu Superiorum, 1621; to which is Added, Constitutions for the Convent in its Present State Approved by the Most Rev. Doctor Troy; with Short Notes on the Dispensations by the Rev. M.P. Kinsella (Dublin: Browne & Nolan, 1856). May be read online, and available in pdf, epub, mobi, and other formats, at Internet Archive.
“Inter Homines Esse: The Foundations of International Criminal Law and the Writings of Ambrose, Augustine, Aquinas, Vitoria and Suárez”, by Judge Dr. Hanne Sophie Greve, in Philosophical Foundations of International Criminal Law: Correlating Thinkers, edited by Morten Bergsmo and Emiliano J. Buis (Brussels: Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher, 2018): pp. 111-164. The text is available in pdf format on this page of the ICC Legal Tools Database (linked from Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher); and may be read as part of the larger work at Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher.
Notes on the text:
According to the text, its author Dr. Greve is Vice President of the Gulating High Court, Norway, and member of the International Commission against the Death Penalty, and was previously Judge at the European Court of Human Rights.
Catholic Christians without adequate theological formation are cautioned against perusing other essays in the larger work, as they are mainly texts written from non-Catholic perspectives.
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Media are also available of Dr. Greve’s lecture on the subject, which necessarily abbreviates the discussion in the text: “The Foundations of International Criminal Law and the Writings of Ambrose, Augustine, Aquinas, Vitoria and Suarez” (lecture), by Judge Dr. Hanne Sophie Greve, delivered on 25 August 2017 at the Indian Law Institute, New Delhi.
The audio/podcast is available at the Centre for International Law Research and Policy. (To find the said audio, search on the page for “Hanne Sophie Greve”, which will show 3 talks by Judge Greve, or “The Foundations of International Criminal Law and the Writings of Ambrose, Augustine, Aquinas, Vitoria and Suarez”)
“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.
“Must it be the sinners still, Lord, the sinners still that triumph? … See, Lord, how they crush down thy people, afflict the land of thy choice, murder the widow and the stranger, slay the orphan! And they think, The Lord will never see it, the God of Israel pays no heed. Pay heed, rather, yourselves, dull hearts that count among my people; fools, learn your lesson ere it is too late. Is he deaf, the God who implanted hearing in us; is he blind, the God who gave us eyes to see? He who gives nations their schooling, who taught man all that man knows, will he not call you to account?” (Psalm xciv, 3, 5-10)
Saint Bonaventure: The Seraphic Doctor; Minister-General of the Franciscan Order; Cardinal Bishop of Albano, by the Rev. Fr. Laurence Costelloe, O.F.M. (New York: London, Bombay and Calcutta: Longmans, Green and Co., 1911). With Imprimatur. Available at Internet Archive, ManyBooks.net, and Project Gutenberg.
See also these texts by and about the Seraphic Doctor (very incomplete list):
Address at a Meeting with the Local People during a Pastoral Visit to Viterbo and Bagnoregio, by Pope Benedict XVI, 6 September 2009. May be read online at the Holy See. [N.B., The address concerned Saint Bonaventure of Bonaventure.]
The Life of St. Francis of Assisi; from the ‘Legenda Santi Francisci’ of S. Bonaventure, edited and with a preface by the Archbishop of Westminster, Henry Edward [Manning] (London: R. Washbourne, 1868]. May be downloaded in PDF format through the Saints’ Books index. May be read online, and available in pdf, epub, mobi, and other formats, at Internet Archive.
Loving in the Present: The Theological and Pastoral Influences of St. Bonaventure’s Critical Retrieval of Joachim of Fiore on Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI (Theology Graduate Thesis), by William L. Patenaude (2013). Available in pdf format at Providence College Digital Commons.
“St Bonaventure and the History of Salvation”, by Pope Benedict XVI (Preface of the second volume of Gesammelte Schriften by Joseph Ratzinger). Taken from: L’Osservatore Romano, Weekly Edition in English, 23 September 2009, page 7. May be read on this page of the EWTN Libraries.
Théologie Séraphique: Extraite et Traduite des Oeuvres de Saint Bonaventure; Contenant “L’Itineraire de l’Ame vers Dieu”, “Le Traité du Mepris du Monde”, “L’Ecuelle d’Or des Vertus”, “Le Bouquet Spirituel”, “Le Traité des Vertus”, et “L’Incendie de l’Amour”, par l’Abbé Celeste Alix, et par Acc. Alix (Paris: Jacques LeCoffre et Cie., 1853). Disponible à Internet Archive.
[Three Discourses on Saint Bonaventure] by Pope Benedict XVI: (1) General Audience of 3 March 2010 The text may be read at the Holy See, and the video address may be viewed at Youtube; (2) General Audience of 10 March 2010. The text may be read at the Holy See, and the video address entitled “St. Bonaventure and [the] Theology of history” may be viewed at Youtube; and (3) General Audience on 17 March 2010. The text may be read at the Holy See, and the video address may be viewed at Youtube.
Mary in the Gospels; or Lectures on the History of Our Blessed Lady, as Recorded by the Evangelists, 2nd edition, by Very Rev. J. Spencer Northcote [1821-1907] (London, New York: Burns and Oates, 1885). May be read online, and available in pdf, epub, mobi, and other formats, at Internet Archive. The 1st edition (London: Burns, Lambert, & Oates, 1867) is available at Internet Archive, with another copy at Internet Archive.
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.
And Mary said:
My soul doth magnify the Lord: And my spirit hath rejoiced in God, my Saviour. Because he hath regarded the humility of his handmaid: for behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed. For he that is mighty hath done great things to me: and holy is his name. And his mercy is from generation to generations, to them that fear him. (St. Luke i, 41-50)
Manual of the Confraternity of Our Lady of Perpetual Help and Saint Alphonsus (New York, N.Y.: Redemption Fathers). With 1926 Imprimatur. May be read online, and available in pdf, epub, mobi, and other formats, at Internet Archive.
“Redemptorists as Promoters of the Devotion to Our Mother of Perpetual Help”, by Maciej Sadowski, C.SS.R., SHCSR, vol. 64 (2016): pp. 119-136. Available in pdf format (on this page) at Sant’Alfonso e dintorni.
Sketch of the Miraculous Image and the Confraternity of Our Lady of Perpetual Help and St. Alphonsus; Also a Practical Method of Making a Novena, compiled from approved sources by Rev. Jos. A. Chapoton, C.Ss.R. (Omaha, Nebraska: Colonial Press). With 1927 Imprimatur. May be read online, and available in pdf, epub, mobi, and other formats, at Internet Archive.
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“O HOLY Virgin Mary, whom we love to call Our Mother of Perpetual Help, show us that thou dost merit this beautiful title by continually shielding the Church and its august Head with thy protection. Through the infinite merits of Jesus Christ, which we offer by thee to the Eternal Father, do thou obtain for sinners the grace of a sincere repentance, for the dying, the grace of a holy death, for the souls of our deceased relations, the grace of deliverance from the flames of Purgatory, and for all of us the grace of pardon and abundant mercy. Amen.” (from Sketch of the Miraculous Image and the Confraternity of Our Lady of Perpetual Help and St. Alphonsus, by Fr. Joseph A. Chapoton, C.Ss.R.)
Lectures on the Holy Eucharist, by Charles Coupe, S.J., M.A., edited with notes and references by Hatherley More (London: R. & T. Washbourne; New York, Cincinnati, Chicago: Benziger Brothers, 1906). Available in pdf, mobi/kindle, epub, and other formats at Internet Archive; also available at Forgotten Books (with some copies limited to members).
The Sacraments: A Dogmatic Treatise. Volume II,The Holy Eucharist, 2nd revised edition by Rt. Rev. Msgr. Joseph Pohle, adapted and edited by Arthur Preuss (London, St. Louis, Mo.: B. Herder, 1917). Book IX of the Pohle-Preuss Dogmatic Theology series. With Imprimatur. Available on multiple formats at Internet Archive and Open Library, with a 2nd copy at Internet Archive and Open Library, with a 3rd copy at Internet Archive and Open Library.
On the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, see the following books and texts:
How Christ said the First Mass, or, The Lord’s Last Supper: The Rites and Ceremonies, the Ritual and Liturgy, the Forms of Divine Worship Christ Observed, when He Changed the Passover into the Mass, 2nd edition, by Rev. James L. Meagher (New York: Christian Press Association, 1908). Available in various formats at Internet Archive and Open Library. The 1st edition (New York: Christian Press Association, 1906) is also available at Internet Archive and Open Library.
The Sacrifice of the Mass: An Explanation of its Doctrine, Rubrics and Prayers; with an Introductory Chapter, 5th edition, revised, enlarged, and corrected, by the Rev. M. Gavin, S.J. (London: Burns and Oates; New York, Cincinnati, Chicago: Benziger Brothers, 1906). With Imprimatur. Available at the HathiTrust Digital Library; and in pdf, epub, mobi, and other formats at Open Library and Internet Archive.
“The tradition which I received from the Lord, and handed on to you, is that the Lord Jesus, on the night when he was being betrayed, took bread, and gave thanks, and broke it, and said, Take, eat; this is my body, given up for you. Do this for a commemoration of me. And so with the cup, when supper was ended, This cup, he said, is the new testament, in my blood. Do this, whenever you drink it, for a commemoration of me. So it is the Lord’s death that you are heralding, whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, until he comes.”
“And therefore, if anyone eats this bread or drinks this cup of the Lord unworthily, he will be held to account for the Lord’s body and blood. A man must examine himself first, and then eat of that bread and drink of that cup; he is eating and drinking damnation to himself if he eats and drinks unworthily, not recognizing the Lord’s body for what it is.” (I Corinthians xi, 23-29)
