Online text: “The Foundations of International Criminal Law”, by Judge Hanne Sophie Grev (with video & audio)

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• “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.
  • The larger work states that it “may be openly accessed and downloaded through the web site http://www.toaep.org … All rights are reserved. You may read, print or download this publication or any part of it from http://www.toaep.org for personal use, but you may not in any way charge for its use by others, directly or by reproducing it, storing it in a retrieval system, transmit-ting it, or utilising it in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photo-copying, recording, or otherwise, in whole or in part, without the prior permission in writing of the copyright holder.”
• 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 video may be viewed at the Centre for International Law Research and Policy.
  • 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”)

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• “The Catholic Neo-Scholastic Contribution to Human Rights: The Natural Law Foundation”, by Robert John Araujo, S.J., Ave Maria Law Review, Volume 1, No. 1 (2003): pp. 159-174. Available in PDF format at Loyola University.
• Catholic Social Doctrine and Human Rights (Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences Acta 15: Proceedings of the 15th Plenary Session, 1-5 May 2009), edited by Roland Minnerath, Ombretta Fumagalli Carulli, and Vittorio Possenti (Vatican City: Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, 2010). 630 pages. Available in PDF format on this page of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.
• “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.
• “The Influence of Catholic Social Doctrine on Human Rights”, by Professor Mary Ann Glendon, in Catholic Social Doctrine and Human Rights (Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, Acta 15: Proceedings of the 15th Plenary Session, 1-5 May 2009), edited by Roland Minnerath, Ombretta Fumagalli Carulli, and Vittorio Possenti (Vatican City: Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, 2010). The essay is available in PDF format (here) and the entire volume is available in PDF format on this page at the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. The essay was reprinted in the Journal of Catholic Social Thought, Vol. 10, No. 1 (2013), pp. 69-84, available in PDF format (on this page) at Villanova University.
• “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.
• “The ‘New’ Evangelization in the Americas: On the Catholic Origins of Human Rights”, by David Lantigua, Ph.D., Church Life: A Journal for the New Evangelization (Fall 2012): pages 75-84. Available in pdf format (on this page) at the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy.
• “Our Debt to De Vitoria: A Catholic Foundation of Human Rights”, by Robert John Araujo, S.J., Ave Maria Law Review 10:2 (2012), pages 313-329. Available in PDF format on this page of the Ave Maria School of Law—Law Review.
• “Retrieving a Catholic Tradition of Subjective Natural Rights from the Late Scholastic Francisco Suárez, S.J.”, by Steven J. Brust, Ph.D., Ave Maria Law Review, Vol. 10, Issue 2 (Spring 2012). Available in pdf format through the index of issues at Ave Maria Law Review.
• Universal Rights in a World of Diversity: The Case of Religious Freedom (Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences Acta 17: Proceedings of the 17th Plenary Session, 29 April-3 May 2011), edited by Mary Ann Glendon and Hans E. Zacher (Vatican City: Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, 2012). 700 pages. Available in PDF format on this page of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. N.B., This corpus includes various scholarly addresses and articles, including “How Christians and Other Native Minorities are Faring in the Unfolding Arab Turmoil of 2011” by Habib C. Malik, “What Is or Should Be the Role of Religiously Informed Moral Viewpoints in Public Discourse (Especially Where Hotly Contested Issues Are Concerned)?” by Vittorio Possenti, and “Fundamentalist and Other Obstacles to Religious Toleration” by Malise Ruthven.]

Posted on the Feast of the Martyrs of Compiegne, Blessed Teresa of St. Augustine and companions; and on the World Day for International Justice. 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).

“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)

Online text: “Retrieving a Catholic Tradition of Subjective Natural Rights from the Late Scholastic Francisco Suárez, S.J.”, by Dr. Steven J. Brust

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• “Retrieving a Catholic Tradition of Subjective Natural Rights from the Late Scholastic Francisco Suárez, S.J.”, by Steven J. Brust, Ph.D., Ave Maria Law Review, Vol. 10, Issue 2 (Spring 2012). Available in pdf format through the index of issues at Ave Maria Law Review.

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In remembrance of Fr. Francisco Suárez, S.J. (+25 September 1617), theologian, philosopher, and founder of international law. 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).

O God, our refuge and our strength, look down with mercy upon the people who cry to Thee; and by the intercession of the glorious and immaculate Virgin Mary, Mother of God, of Saint Joseph her spouse, of the blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, and of all the saints, in Thy mercy and goodness hear our prayers for the conversion of sinners, and for the liberty and exaltation of the Holy Mother the Church. Through the same Christ Our Lord. Amen. (From Sancta Missa)

Online text: “The ‘New’ Evangelization in the Americas: On the Catholic Origins of Human Rights”, by David Lantigua

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• “The ‘New’ Evangelization in the Americas: On the Catholic Origins of Human Rights”, by David Lantigua, Ph.D., Church Life: A Journal for the New Evangelization (Fall 2012): pages 75-84. Available in pdf format (on this page) at the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy.

In remembrance of Fr. Bartolome de las Casas, O.P. (d. 18 July 1566); and in observance of Mandela Day.

O God, our refuge and our strength, look down with mercy upon the people who cry to Thee; and by the intercession of the glorious and immaculate Virgin Mary, Mother of God, of Saint Joseph her spouse, of the blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, and of all the saints, in Thy mercy and goodness hear our prayers for the conversion of sinners, and for the liberty and exaltation of the Holy Mother the Church. Through the same Christ Our Lord. Amen. (From Sancta Missa)

Online text: “Sacred Music”, Vol. 128, No. 4 (Winter 2001)

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• Sacred Music, Vol. 128, No. 4 (Winter 2001). Published by the Church Music Association of America. Includes the articles: “The Easter Triduum in Milan”, by Vincent A. Lenti; “The Mozarabic Chant Books of Cisneros”, by Dr. Angel Fernandez Collado; and “Reflections on the Liturgical Reform”, by Professor Roberto de Mattei. Available in pdf format (on this page) at Musica Sacra.

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On the Feast of Saint Dominic of Silos (Domingo de Silos), O.S.B. 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). 

 

“Not every kind of music can have a place in Christian worship. It has its standards, and that standard is the Logos. If we want to know whom we are dealing with, the Holy Spirit or the unholy spirit, we have to remember that it is the Holy Spirit who moves us to say, “Jesus is Lord” (1 Cor 12:3). The Holy Spirit leads us to the Logos, and he leads us to a music that serves the Logos as a sign of the sursum corda, the lifting up of the human heart. Does it integrate man by drawing him to what is above, or does it cause his disintegration into formless intoxication or mere sensuality? That is the criterion for a music in harmony with logos…” (Joseph Ratzinger / Pope Benedict XVI, as quoted in Catholic Champion)

Free ebooks: “The Complete Works of Saint John of the Cross”, in 2 volumes

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• The Complete Works of Saint John of the Cross, of the Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, translated from the original Spanish by David Lewis; edited by the Oblate Fathers of Saint Charles, with a preface by Cardinal Wiseman (London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864).
  • Volume I may be read online, and is available in multiple formats (pdf, epub, kindle/mobi, etc.),  at Internet Archive and Internet Archive (2nd copy)
  • Volume II is available at Internet Archive and Internet Archive (2nd copy).
  • A microfilm copy containing both Volumes I and II is available at Internet Archive.

On the Feast of St. John of the Cross in the Extraordinary 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).

“There is a man I know who was carried out of himself in Christ, fourteen years since; was his spirit in his body? I cannot tell. Was it apart from his body? I cannot tell; God knows. This man, at least, was carried up into the third heaven. I can only tell you that this man, with his spirit in his body, or with his spirit apart from his body, God knows which, not I, was carried up into Paradise, and heard mysteries which man is not allowed to utter.” (II Corinthians xii, 2-4)

Texte en ligne: “Les Œuvres Spirituelles de Saint Jean de la Croix”

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• Les Œuvres Spirituelles de Saint Jean de la Croix, traduites par le P. Maillard de  la  Compagnie  de Jésus, Nouvelle  Édition, augmentée des Lettres du Père Berthier sur la Doctrine Spirituelle de Saint Jean de la Croix et Précédée  d’une  Lettre  de  M.   Albrand,   Supérieur du Seminaire des  Missions Étrangères (Paris, Bruxelles, Lyons: Librairie Catholique de Perisse Frères (Nouvelle Maison), Régis Ruffet et Cie Successeurs, 1864). Disponible sur cette page de la Bibliotheque de l’Abbaye Saint Benoit de Port-Valais. Cette collection comprend les livres suivants:
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  • La Nuit Obscure de L’ame : Livre I – Livre Ii
  • La Vive Flamme De L’amour Et L’explication Des Cantiques
  • Cantiques Spirituels De L’ame Et De Jésus-Christ Sont Époux
  • Lettres Spirituelles Du Bienheureux Jean De La Croix
  • Précautions Spirituelles dont les Religieux Doivent User Contre Les Ennemis De Leur Ame
  • Sentences Spirituelles
  • Maximes Spirituelles Tirées Des Œuvres Du Bienheureux Jean De La Croix

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Dieu, notre refuge et notre force, regardez le peuple qui crie vers Vous ; et, par l’intercession de la Glorieuse et Immaculée Marie toujours Vierge, Mère de Dieu, avec Saint Joseph, son très chaste Epoux, Saint Michel Archange, Saint Jean Baptiste, Vos Saints Apôtres Pierre et Paul, André, et tous Vos Saints, écoutez avec bienveillance et miséricorde, les prières que nous Vous adressons pour la conversion des pécheurs, pour la liberté et le triomphe de notre Sainte Mère l’Eglise. Par le même Christ notre Seigneur. Amen.

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

Free ebook: “Saint Ignatius Loyola”, by Francis Thompson

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• Saint Ignatius Loyola, 2^nd edition, by Francis Thompson, edited by John Hungerford Pollen, with 100 Illustrations by H.W. Brewer and Others (London: Burns & Oates; New York, Chicago, Cincinnati: Benziger Bros., 1910). With Imprimatur. May be read online, and available in pdf, epub, Kindle/mobi, Daisy, djvu and text formats, on Internet Archive and Open Library.

On the Memorial of St. Ignatius of Loyola in the Roman Rite. For more legally free ebooks, you may access the List of Free eBooks (Arranged by Title) and the List of Free eBooks (Grouped by Subject). St. Ignatius, pray for the Society of Jesus, that it may be restored to the fullness of fidelity to Christ and His Church!

Free e-book: “Letters on the Spanish Inquisition”, by Joseph de Maître

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• Letters on the Spanish Inquisition; a rare work, and the best which has ever appeared on the subject, by Joseph de Maître, translated by T.J. O’Flaherty, S.E.C. (Boston: Patrick Donahoe, 1843). Available in pdf, epub, kindle/mobi, djvu, and text formats at Internet Archive; and may be read at Google Books. [N.B. This work is sometimes entitled Letters to a Russian Gentleman on the Spanish Inquisition, as in the 1851 translation by the Rev. Aeneaus Mcd. Dawson.]

In remembrance of Count Joseph de Maistre (d. 26 February 1821). 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). Blessed be God in His angels and in His saints!

 

 

Online text: “Mondragon: A For-Profit Organization that Embodies Catholic Social Thought”, by David Herrera

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• “Mondragon: A For-Profit Organization that Embodies Catholic Social Thought”, by David Herrera (2004). 13 pages. May be read or downloaded at Scribd and accessed through The Distributist Review. Available in PDF format (19 pages) at the University of St. Thomas and (in a less well-formatted PDF text) at Community-Wealth.org.

In remembrance of Father José María Arizmendiarrieta (d. November 29, 1976), founder of the Mondragon cooperative movement. 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).

“All the faithful held together, and shared all they had, selling their possessions and their means of livelihood, so as to distribute to all, as each had need. They persevered with one accord, day by day, in the temple worship, and, as they broke bread in this house or that, took their share of food with gladness and simplicity of heart, praising God, and winning favour with all the people. And each day the Lord added to their fellowship others that were to be saved.” (Acts 2:44-47)

Free ebook: “The Catholic Neo-Scholastic Contribution to Human Rights”, by Robert John Araujo

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• “The Catholic Neo-Scholastic Contribution to Human Rights: The Natural Law Foundation”, by Robert John Araujo, S.J.  Ave Maria Law Review, Volume 1, No. 1 (2003): pp. 159-174. Available in PDF format at Loyola University.

In remembrance of Francisco De Vitoria, a founder of international law (+ 12 August 1546) and on the anniversary of the signing of the Geneva Conventions (12 August 1949). For more legally free ebooks, you may access the List of Free eBooks (Arranged by Title) and the List of Free eBooks (Grouped by Subject).