Online text: “The Liberty of the Church: Source, Scope and Scandal”, by Prof. Patrick McKinley Brennan

See this online text:

• “The Liberty of the Church: Source, Scope and Scandal”, by Professor Patrick McKinley Brennan (2013). Working Paper Series. 188. Forthcoming in Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues (2013). Available in pdf format on this page of the Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law and linked by Expert Gallery Press . The text, numbered as Villanova University School of Law Public Law and Legal Theory Working Paper No. 2013-3062, is also available at Social Science Research Network (SSRN).

See also the texts listed on–

• the page “Society and Social Teaching”,
• the 28 January 2020 post “Free ebook: Church and State in the Formation of Christendom, by T.W. Allies”,
• the 04 July 2020 post “Online ebook: “Catholic Reflections on the American Proposition”, by John Courtney Murray, S.J.“,
• the 21 October 2020 post “Online text: “Moral Duties Concerning Voting”, by Colin B. Donovan“,
• the 04 July 2021 post “Online text: “Catholicism and the Declaration of Independence”, by Dr. Robert Kraynak“; and
• the 30 December 2021 post “Online text: “Principles Fundamental of the Church-State Controversy”, by Dr. James A. O’Donohoe“

–as well as

Worth-it ebook: “The Christian Structure of Politics” by Dr. William Alvin McCormick II, S.J.

See this worth-it book and ebook:

• The Christian Structure of Politics: On the De Regno of St. Thomas Aquinas, by Prof. Dr. William Alvin McCormick II, S.J. (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2022). The ebook and printed book may be purchased at the Catholic University of America Press. The printed book may be purchased at Barnes & Noble and Amazon.
  • This appears to be an updated version of the following text: On the De Regno of St. Thomas Aquinas, by Prof. Dr. William Alvin McCormick II, S.J., (2013). Dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin, May 2013. Available in pdf format at Texas ScholarWorks.

On the Feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ the King in the Roman Rite; and in remembrance of Louis-Honoré Mercier (+30 October 1894), defender of French Canadian and Catholic liberty. For other texts and ebooks, you may access the List of Free eBooks (Arranged by Title), the List of Free eBooks (Grouped by Subject), the List of Worth-It Catholic Books & eBooks, and the main page of the Catholic eBooks Project. Vive le Christ roi! Viva Cristo Rey!

Online text: “1492-1992: 500th Anniversary of the Discovery of the Americas”

See this online text:

• International Review of the Red Cross, No. 290 (September-October 1992). Special: 1492-1992: 500^th Anniversary of the Discovery of the Americas. Contains the following articles:
  • “The Spanish School of the New Law of Nations”, by Sergio Moratiel Villa;
  • “Diálogos militares by Diego García de Palacio: The first American work on the law of nations” by Alejandro Valencia Villa;
  • “The defence of human dignity in the New World, by  Fernando Murillo Rubiera;
  • “Milestones in the defence of dignity and basic human rights in America”; and
  • “Charter of rights of the Indians according to the School of Salamanca” by Luciano Pereña Vicente.

See also the ebooks and texts listed on the pages “Online text: “The Law of War in Francisco Suárez”, by Dr. Paulo Borges de Macedo“, “Online text: “The Thomism of Bartolomé de Las Casas and the Indians of the New World”, by Dr. Thomas Francis Xavier Varacalli“, and

Online text: ““The Cooperation of Church and State”, by Dr. John P. Hittinger

See this online text:

• “The Cooperation of Church and State: Maritain’s Argument from the Unity of the Person”, by Prof. John P. Hittinger, Ph.D., in Reassessing the Liberal State: Reading Maritain’s Man and the State, edited by Timothy Fuller and John P. Hittinger ( 2001): pp. 179-201. Available in pdf format through the volume page of the American Maritain Association at the Jacques Maritain Center.

See also the texts indexed in the sub-list IX.B. Church and State on the page Church and Ecclesiology, on the page Society and Social Teaching, and on the posts–

• ‘Online ebook: “Maritain and America”, edited by Christopher Cullen & Joseph Allan Clair‘,
• ‘Online ebook: “The Person and the Common Good”, by Jacques Maritain‘,
• ‘Online text: “Charlemagne & Kingship: The Responsibility of Absolute Power”, by Jane Swotchak Ourand‘,
• ‘Free ebook: Church and State in the Formation of Christendom, by T.W. Allies‘, and
• ‘Free ebook: Church and State in the Formation of Christendom, by T.W. Allies‘,

–as well as the following:

• On the De Regno of St. Thomas Aquinas, by Prof. Dr. William Alvin McCormick II, S.J., (2013). Dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin, May 2013. Available in pdf format at Texas ScholarWorks.
  • The ebook and printed book of what appears (from the Introduction) to be a version modified for publication is available for purchase: The Christian Structure of Politics: On the De Regno of St. Thomas Aquinas (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2022). The ebook and printed book may be purchased at the Catholic University of America Press. The printed book may be purchased at Barnes & Noble and Amazon.

On the Feast of Saint Henry II in the Roman Rite, and of Saint Vladimir. For other texts and ebooks, you may access the List of Free eBooks (Arranged by Title), the List of Free eBooks (Grouped by Subject), the List of Worth-It Catholic Books & eBooks, and the main page of the Catholic eBooks Project.

Online Text: “Influences of St. Bonaventure’s Critical Retrieval of Joachim of Fiore on Joseph Ratzinger”, by William L. Patenaude

See this online text:

• “Loving in the Present: The Theological and Pastoral Influences of St. Bonaventure’s Critical Retrieval of Joachim of Fiore on Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI”, by William L. Patenaude. Graduate Thesis, Providence College, Spring 2013. Available in pdf format at Providence College Digital Commons.

See also the texts listed on the post ‘Online ebook: “Saint Bonaventure”, by Fr. Laurence Costelloe‘, as well as the following:

• “Bonaventure’s Three-Fold Way to God” by Professor R.E. [Rollen Edward] Houser, Ph.D. in Medieval Masters: Essays in Memory of E.A. Synan, edited by R.E. Houser (Houston: University of St. Thomas – Center for Thomistic Studies 1999): pp. 91–145. Available in pdf format at the University of St. Thomas.

On the Feast of Saint Bonaventure in the Latin Church (Roman Rite), and on the secular observance of Bastille Day in the French Republic. For other texts and ebooks, you may access the List of Free eBooks (Arranged by Title), the List of Free eBooks (Grouped by Subject), the List of Worth-It Catholic Books & eBooks, and the main page of the Catholic eBooks Project.

Online text: “The Sino-Vatican Faith Diplomacy”, by Professor Juyan Zhang

See this online text:

• “The Sino-Vatican Faith Diplomacy: Mapping the Factors Affecting Bilateral Relations”, by Professor Juyan Zhang, Ph.D., April 2017 (Los Angeles: Figueroa Press, 2017). Available at ResearchGate.net.

See also the texts listed on the page “Selected commentaries on the China-Vatican Agreement“, as well as these other texts on the confidential agreement between the Holy See and the People’s Republic:

• “Sino-­Vatican Relations: A Conflict Transformation Perspective”, by Kaitlin Austermiller. Master’s Thesis, China and International Relations, Aalborg University and University of International Relations, 20 May 2013. Available in pdf format at Aalborg Universitet Project Library.
• “True Catholic and Authentic Chinese: The Theologico-Political Polemic in China”, by Wing Kwan Anselm Lam, International Journal of China Studies, Vol. 11, No. 2 (December 2020): pp. 257-276. Available in pdf format at the Institute China Studies University of Malaysia.
• ‘The Vatican Accord with China: Riding the Dragon’: Testimony Before the Congressional-Executive Committee on China, November 28, 2018, by Thomas F. Farr, Available in pdf format at the  Congressional-Executive Committee on China.

See the texts listed on the page “Online text: Letter to Catholics in China, by Pope Benedict XVI” and these other texts on Catholic Christians in China:

• Annual Report of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, 2020. Available in pdf format at the US Department of Justice.
• “China: the Country Has Changed, Religious Policy Has Not”, by Gianni Criveller (2012). Presented at the Conference Seed of the Church: Telling the Story of Today’s Christian Martyrs, University of Notre Dame, South Bend IN, November 4-6, 2012. Available in PDF format (on this page) at the Institute for Church Life.
• “China’s Modern Martyrs: From Mao to Now”, by Anthony E. Clark (2014). May be read online in 4 parts at the Catholic World Report: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4. Also available in pdf format at Whitworth Digital Commons under the citation History Faculty Scholarship, Paper 37 (2014): Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.
• “Homily to Chinese Catholics at a Mass Celebrated for the Catholics of China in the Church of the Queen of the Angels and Queen of Martyrs”, by Ignatius Cardinal Kung Pin-Mei, Rome, June 30, 1991. Available in pdf format on this page of the Cardinal Kung Foundation.
• Submission to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief (seeking the release of Bishop James Su Zhimin and Bishop Cui Tai). Available in pdf format at Christian Persecution News.

On the Memorial of the Martyr Saints of China in the Revised Roman Rite. For other texts and ebooks, you may access the List of Free eBooks (Arranged by Title), the List of Free eBooks (Grouped by Subject), the List of Worth-It Catholic Books & eBooks, and the main page of the Catholic eBooks Project.

Online text: “Charlemagne & Kingship: The Responsibility of Absolute Power”, by Jane Swotchak Ourand

See this online text:

• Charlemagne and Kingship: The Responsibility of Absolute Power (M.A. Thesis), by Jane Swotchak Ourand, Graduate School of the University of Massachusetts (1988). Available in pdf format through ScholarWorks@UMassAmherst. [Note: Although it is not certain if this text was written by a Catholic Christian, it provides a useful introduction to the political ideas of Western Christendom’s foremost prince and, we believe, an appropriate model for other Christians in political life.]

See also the texts and ebooks listed on the pages History and Biography, Secular Law and Society and Social Teaching; under sub-list IX.B. Church and State on the page Church and Ecclesiology; and on the post “Free ebook: Church and State in the Formation of Christendom, by T.W. Allies“; as well as the following:

• Augustine and the Art of Ruling in the Carolingian Imperial Period: Political Discourse in Alcuin of York and Hincmar of Rheims, by Sophia Moesch, Ph.D. (London, New York: Routledge, 2020). Available in pdf format on this page at OAPEN. The text states: ““The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.” [Note: It is not certain if this text was written by a Catholic Christian. Nonetheless, the text is of value to researchers interested in the Christian civilisation of Latin Europe.]
• De l’Union Intime de la Foi Catholique et de la Foi Monarchique en France, par Ch. De Caqueray (Paris: Allouard et Kaeppelin, 1850). Disponible en Internet Archive et Open Library.

In belated remembrance of Charles the Great / Charlemagne, King of the Franks, Emperor of the Romans, Defender of Christendom. For other texts and ebooks, you may access the List of Free eBooks (Arranged by Title), the List of Free eBooks (Grouped by Subject), the List of Worth-It Catholic Books & eBooks, and the main page of the Catholic eBooks Project. From the text:

“[T]he most important factor that explains Charlemagne’s success and his enduring reputation lies in his conception of kingship… distinguished… by an awareness that power implies responsibility… The king’s power comes directly from God and elevates him to a status above all others, but, by its very nature, such power is limited by the king’s accountability to God for its proper exercise… [H]e saw himself as father to his people, with responsibility for their spiritual and physical well-being… [which] enjoined him to assume as his special concern the welfare of widows, orphans, the poor- all those least able to protect themselves.”

Online text: “Principles Fundamental of the Church-State Controversy”, by Dr. James A. O’Donohoe

See this online text:

• “Principles Fundamental of the Church-State Controversy”, by the Rev. Professor James A. O’Donohoe, J.C.D., The Catholic Lawyer, Volume 8, Number 3 (Summer 1962): pp. 206-213. Available in pdf format through the issue’s table of contents at The Catholic Lawyer.

See also the texts listed on–

• the page “Society and Social Teaching”,
• the 28 January 2020 post “Free ebook: Church and State in the Formation of Christendom, by T.W. Allies”,
• the 04 July 2020 post “Online ebook: “Catholic Reflections on the American Proposition”, by John Courtney Murray, S.J.“,
• the 21 October 2020 post “Online text: “Moral Duties Concerning Voting”, by Colin B. Donovan“, and
• the 04 July 2021 post “Online text: “Catholicism and the Declaration of Independence”, by Dr. Robert Kraynak“;

–as well as the following texts and media, which take differing positions on the metaphysical, ethical, and juridical relationship of the one true and Catholic religion, the civil polity, and non Catholic (and therefore false, albeit varyingly erroneous) belief systems:

Online text: “On Making the Case for Life”, by Dr. Francis J. Beckwith

See this online text:

• “On Making the Case for Life: St. Peter’s Counsel to Always Be Ready”, by Prof. Francis J. Beckwith, Ph.D., The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, Volume 13, Issue 4 (Winter 2013): pp. 601-609. Available in pdf format at the Baylor University for Studies of Religion.

See also these related texts specifically discussing the mortal sin and unspeakable crime of abortion:

Texte en ligne: Instruction sur la Liberté Chrétienne et la Libération, de la Congrégation pour la Doctrine de la Foi

Voir ce texte en ligne:

• Instruction “Libertatis Conscientia” sur la Liberté Chrétienne et la Libération, de la Congrégation pour la Doctrine de la Foi, 22 mars 1986. Disponible dans le Saint-Siege.

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O Clavis David, et sceptrum domus Israel; qui aperis, et nemo claudit; claudis, et nemo aperit: veni, et educ vinctum de domo carceris, sedentem in tenebris, et umbra mortis. (Texte de website Aleteia)

(And if the grammar is wrong, please correct me. Merci!)