“—With the sole exception of Penance, which demands certain supernatural acts (faith, contrition, etc.) either as quasi-matter, or at least as a necessary condition, the possession of the true faith is not an indispensable requisite for the valid reception of… — 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 the Holy City from the yoke of the Saracens. 30 Among partial indulgences he men tions as the greatest one of seven years. 31 Within the Greek schismatic Church indulgences did not gain nearly as wide… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share
“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. . . . The first was in a shadow and an image, the second is in an image and in truth, and the third [will be] in the truth alone. In the first, life is foreshadowed; in the second… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share
“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 confessor, not the penitent, is the competent judge of the latter's state of conscience and without a close insight into the number and gravity of the sins submitted he cannot decide whether to give or to… — Joseph Pohle Copy Share
“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
