St. Robert Bellarmine - Preacher

St. Robert Bellarmine - Preacher

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St. Robert Bellarmine, as a Saint, scholar and Doctor of the Church, needs no introduction to Catholic readers. When Clement VIII appointed him to the College of Cardinals, he is reported to have said: “We elect this man because he has not his equal for learning in the Church of God.” Shortly before his canonization in 1930, the semiofficial organ of the Holy See, Osservatore Romano, identified Bellarmine with Saints Francis de Sales and Alphonsus Ligouri as one of the three great “masters of Catholicism in modern times.”

St. Robert Bellarmine’s Treatment of the Five Opinions

Defection from the Faith & the Church - Faith , Heresy, and Loss of Office  - An Exposé of the Heresy of John Salza & Robert Siscoe Part III

Fr. Paul Kramer B.Ph., S.T.B., M.Div., S.T.L. (Cand.)

THE FIVE OPINIONS ON A HERETICAL POPE

SECTION THREE

St. Robert Bellarmine’s Treatment of the Five Opinions 

     I have presented St. Robert Bellarmine’s exposition on the First Opinion, that a pope cannot be a heretic, in the previous section, and also presented my own argument proving this opinion to be the correct one. Bellarmine says of this opinion, “such an opinion is probable, and can easily be defended”, but, he adds, “it is not certain”. As has been pointed out already, the then more common belief that a pope could fall into heresy had its origin in the spurious Canon Si papa, which heavily influenced the medieval canonists and even held sway among the majority of theologians and canonists in Bellarmine’s day.

St. Robert Bellarmine's De Romano Pontifice: Salza & Siscoe Heresy

 St. Robert Bellarmine's De Romano Pontifice: Salza & Siscoe Heresy

Fr. Paul Kramer

Here is Chapter 30 of St. Robert Bellarmine's De Romano Pontifice. By a careful reading of this chapter one concludes that my understanding of it, (which is in unanimous agreement of it with the interpretation of all modern scholars), is the only orthodox solution to the question of a papal loss of office due to heresy. 

Fr. Kramer: Chapter XXX of De Romano Pontifice by St. Robert Bellarmine

Fr. Kramer: Chapter XXX of De Romano Pontifice by St. Robert Bellarmine

 This is Chapter XXX of De Romano Pontifice by St. Robert Bellarmine. I first read this chapter about 25 years ago in Fr. Gruner's library. He had a 19th Century edition in very good condition. I read through Chs. 29 & 30 very carefully, because Fr. Gruner wanted to discuss the doctrine of those two chapters with me. Afterwards we discussed the content of the chapters and were in full agreement on their meaning.

The Art Of Dying Well by St. Bellarmine

The Art Of Dying Well by St. Bellarmine

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Being now free from Public business and enabled to attend to myself, when in my usual retreat I consider, what is the reason why so very few endeavour to learn the "Art of dying Well," (which all men ought to know,) I can find no other cause than that mentioned by the Wise man: The perverse are hard to be corrected, and the number of fools is infinite (Ecclesiastes, i. 15)." For what folly can be imagined greater than to neglect that Art, on which depend our highest and eternal interests; whilst on the other hand we learn with great labour, and practise with no less ardour, other almost innumerable arts, in order either to preserve or to increase perishable things?