St. Robert Bellarmine Parish 11802 Pacific Street, Omaha, NE 68154 | Phone: 402-333-8989 | [email protected] Request Parish communication or site assistance For a free PDF copy of an English translation of Bellarmines class, download De Controversiis. But to whom much is given much is always expected and in these expectations St. Robert Bellarmine did not disappoint. He is also widely remembered for his role in the Giordano Bruno affair,[2][3] the Galileo affair, and the trial of Friar Fulgenzio Manfredi.[4]. He is the patron saint of catechists. The reasonableness and fairness of this great post-Tridentine theologian is demonstrated by his sympathetic interest in Galileo and his scientific views that were harshly rejected as unbiblical by other Roman theologians of the day. Not since St. Thomas Aquinas and even the voluminous St. Augustine had a theologian produced such a body of work. Though it was reintroduced on several occasions (1675, 1714, 1752, and 1832), and though on each occasion the great preponderance of votes was in favour of the beatification, a successful issue came only after many years. The quarrel led to a war of pamphlets in which the part of the Republic was sustained by John Marsiglio and an apostate monk named Paolo Sarpi, and that of the Holy See by Bellarmine and Baronius. If, as was undoubtedly the case then with Galileo's heliocentric theory, a scientific theory is insufficiently proved, it should be advanced only as an hypothesis; but if, as is the case with this theory now, it is solidly demonstrated, care must be taken to interpret Scripture only in accordance with it. The difficulty was how to substitute a more correct edition without affixing a stigma to the name of Sixtus, and Bellarmine proposed that the new edition should continue in the name of Sixtus, with a prefatory explanation that, on account of aliqua vitia vel typographorum vel aliorum which had crept in, Sixtus had himself resolved that a new impression should be undertaken. [15][16], According to some of his letters, Cardinal Bellarmine believed that a demonstration for heliocentrism could not be found because it would contradict the unanimous consent of the Fathers' scriptural exegesis, to which the Council of Trent, in 1546,[17] defined all Catholics must adhere. We end with the oration for his feast in the traditional rite. Saint Robert Bellarmine; Robert Bellarmine. [13] Galileo agreed to do so. Even the Protestant King James I of England engaged in controversy with him. 9. His remains, in a cardinal's red robes, are displayed behind glass under a side altar in the Church of Saint Ignatius, the chapel of the Roman College, next to the body of his student, Aloysius Gonzaga, as he himself had wished. But he was certainly not what we would call a papolator one who exaggerated the papal office, as the following anecdote, courtesy of Father John Hardon, S.J., will show: In this treatise [on Purgatory] he relates the story of a German mystic, St. Lutgardis, a religious who lived during the reign of Pope Innocent III, one of the most famous popes in the history of the Church. We hope that Catholic adults, teen groups, school children, and religious education classes will learn about the real presence of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Eucharist and will have an opportunity to spend time in Adoration before Him after they visit the exhibit, Please make the request for two consecutive weeks, THANK YOU!
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