“According to Catholic teaching the remote matter of Baptism is natural water; its proximate matter is the act of external washing; while… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
“Bap tism also effects the supernatural concomitants of sanc tifying grace, viz.: the three divine virtues of faith, hope, and charity, the… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
“St. Augustine repeatedly speaks of the power inherent in the desire for Baptism. " I do not hesitate," he says in his… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
“We are compelled to concur in another view of Cardinal De Lugo, namely, that the value of the Mass is dependent on the greater… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
“the scientific development of the doctrine of indulgences. 29 St. Thomas knows but one plenary indulgence, i. e. that granted for the liberation of… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
“The Church has always regarded the admin istration of a Sacrament in the state of mortal sin as a sacrilege, and insists on the… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
“Origen says: " The Church hath received it as a tradition from the Apostles that infants, too, ought to be baptized." 21” — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
“St. Bruno of Asti, who says: " The first tabernacle, therefore, is the Synagogue; the second, the Church; the third, Heaven. . . .… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
“Does the external sign receive from God a peculiar super natural power enabling it physically to produce sanctify ing grace in the soul, either… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
“While it is possible for the con fessor in some cases to obtain such knowledge without confession, this is not the rule, because the… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
“minister begins with an actual intention, but is distracted while administering the Sacrament, he has a virtual in tention. Thirdly, an habitual intention is… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
“The confectio of a Sacrament, i. e. the combina tion of matter and form into the sacramental sign, is not necessarily of itself a… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
“The Second Council of Mileve (416) anath ematized all "who deny that new-born infants should be baptized immediately after birth." n The Tridentine Council… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
“bread and wine." These species must, therefore, be acci dents, and, having by Transubstantiation lost their con natural subjects, which cannot be supplied by… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share Image
