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The Power and the Glory of the Catholic Church

by H. W. Crocker (Author) (edit contributors)

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For 2,000 years, Catholicism—the largest religion in the world and in the United States—has shaped global history on a scale unequaled by any other institution. But until now, Catholics interested in their faith have been hard-pressed to find an accessible, affirmative, and exciting history of... read more

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  • “"The Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone" ... " for respectable people the Anglican Church will do."”
    Oscar Wilde
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  • For the first centuries of the Christian Church, however, it was tradition that was the Church's shield, not Scripture, and it was tradition-minded clerics who sifted through the competing documents to establish the Biblical canon that would be unchallenged for more than a thousand years.
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  • The Catholic Church is not a church reserved exclusively for latter-day saints. Nor is it a church that expects its ministers to be without fault. A universal church must expect trouble from universal sins. Catholics are not an elect, immune from temptation, but strivers after God who inevitably stumble and need forgiveness.
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  • Common to every heresy is the assertion of private judgment, revelation, and choice against the Catholic Church's adherence to the authoritative tradition of Apostolic Christianity.
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  • Constantine's priority was a guarantee of religious freedom, which became known as the Edict of Milan.
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  • THE NEW TESTAMENT writings, however, are not the foundation of the Church, or even, in a manner of speaking, its operating manual. The Church precedes them.
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  • Catholics—members of the universal church, which St. Ignatius, writing in A.D. 110, called the katholike ecclesia, giving Catholics their name—were to be submissive to Church authority, teaching, and tradition, and be stubborn in defense of it.
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  • This teaching—that Christians could learn from pagan Rome, from the Stoics and other virtuous Romans—ensured that Catholicism never narrowed itself intellectually, the way Protestantism later did by relying on the Bible and faith alone, never denied history or history's complexity or its relevance to the faith, never repudiated the wisdom and the talents of the ancients, never limited Christian salvation, as in the theology of Luther and Calvin.
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  • A Christian's ultimate faith cannot be in the City of Man, no matter how mighty its fortunes, for all that is built on dust will return to dust. A Christian's ultimate home is in the City of God, and that is where he should seek his salvation.
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  • In Oscar Wilde's memorable phrase—and Wilde himself was a deathbed convert—” The Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone. For respectable people the Anglican Church will do.”
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  • for Catholics the Christian faith is a marriage. As in a marriage, Catholics are not required to be brilliant, creative, or original—though these talents, in their own sphere, are to be welcomed. What they are charged with is fidelity.
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Pompey's sword was drawn as he entered the Holy of Holies.

Table of Contents edit see section history

PROLOGUE: In hoc signo vinces
1. Fons et Origo
2. Under the Roman Imperium
3. Trial By Fire
4. Constantine
5. The War for The Empire
6. A New Barbarian World Order
7. The Restoration of Catholic Europe
8. The Rise-And Near Fall-of Christendom
9. The Crusades
10. Crusaders In The West
11. Inquisition
12 Fleur-de-lis and Iron Cross
13. Renaissance
14. Turks and Protestants
15. Thrust and Counterthrust
16. A Century of War
17. Religion's Retreat
18. Revolution
19. Revival and the Syllabus of Errors
20. The Century of Martyrs

Glossary edit see section history

  • In hoc signo vinces: In this sign thou shalt conquer
  • Fons et Origo: source and origin
  • imperium: the supreme executive power in the Roman state, involving both military and judicial authority. (britannica.com)
  • the purple: seems to mean Imperial power within the context in this book
  • condottieri: Band of mercenaries
  • fleur-de-lis: a device consiting of a stylized three-petaled iris flower, used as the armorial emblem of the kings of France. (answers.com)
  • Neapolitan: A native or resident of Naples, Italy (answers.com)
  • pontificate: the office or term of office of a pontiff (answers.com)
  • capitulation: the act of surrenduring or giving up (answers.com)
  • antipope: a person claiming to be or elected pope in opposition to the one chosen by church law, as during a schism. (answers.com)
  • intransigent: refusing to moderate a position, especially an extreme position; uncomprimising (answers.com)
  • demagogue: a leader who gains power by means of impassioned appeals to the emotions and prejudices of the populace. (answers.com)
  • portents: An indication of something important or calamitous about to occur (answers.com)
  • tempest: furious agitation, commotion, or tumult; an uproar. (answers.com)
  • brigand: a robber or bandit, especially on of an outlaw band. (anwers.com)
  • episcopal: of or relating to a bishop (answers.com)
  • peasant: a member of the class constituted by small farmers and tenants, sharecroppers and laborers on the land where they form the main labor force in agriculture. (answers.com)
  • concomitant: One that occurs or exists concurrently with another. (answers.com)
  • entrepot: A place where goods are stored or deposited and from which they are distributed. (answers.com)
  • languid: lacking energy or virality; weak (answers.com)
  • sacerdotal: of or relating to priests or the priesthood; priestly (answers.com)
  • efflorescence: The highest point; the culmination. bloom (answers.com)
  • peccadillo: a small sin or fault (answers.com)
  • celerity: swiftness of action or motion; speed (answers.com)
  • nepotism: Favoritsm shown or patronage granted to relatives, as in business (answers.com)
  • proletariat: The class of industrial wage earners who, possessing neither capital nor production means, must earn their living by selling their labor. (answers.com)
  • empyrean: The highest reaches of heaven, believed by the ancients to be a realm of pure fire or light. (answers.com)
  • paterfamilias: a man who is the head of a household or the father of a family (answers.com)
  • connubial: relating to marriage or the married state; conjugal (answers.com)
  • expostulate: to reason earnestly with someone in order to persuade or correct (answers.com)
  • usurper: One who takes or occupies without right (answers.com)
  • katafraktoi: a form of heavy cavalry used in ancient warfare
  • impertinent: Exceeding the limits of propriety or good manners; improperly forward or bold. (answers.com)
  • saracen: a Muslim, especially during the time of the Crusades (answers.com)
  • Plus ca change...: the more that changes, the more it is the same thing (merriam-webster.com)
  • bellicose: warlike or hostile in manner or temperment (answers.com)
  • agent provocateur: a person employed by the police or other entity to act undercover to entice or provoke another person to commit an illegal act. (answers.com)
  • la gloire de France: The soul of France (proz.com)
  • la dolce vita: the good life
  • frisson: a moment of intense excitement; a shudder (answers.com)
  • draconian: exceedingly harsh; very severe (answers.com)
  • eponymous: name-giving (answers.com)
  • saturnalia: a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity (answers.com)
  • dour: cold and forbidding (answers.com)
  • cynosure: 1. an object that serves as the focal point of attention and admiration. 2. Something that serves to guide. (answers.com)
  • modicum: a small, moderate, or token amount (answers.com)
  • asseveration: a solemn affirmation (answers.com)
  • invective: an utterance intended to insult or abuse (answers.com)
  • imprimatur: official approval or license to print or publish, especially under conditions of censorship. (answers.com)
  • polemicist: one who engages in arguments or controversey
  • huzzah: a cheer; hooray (answers.com)
  • liberalsim: a 19th century Protestant movement that favored free intellectual inquiry, stressed the ethical and humanitarian content of Christianity, and de-emphasized dogmatic theology. Favors nationalism and progress and disfavors ancient crowns and traditions, the remnants of feudalism, its legacy of dispersed power, and Catholicism untamed by secular government.
  • concordat: an agreement between the pope and a government for the regulation of church affairs
  • mirabile dictu: wonderful to say (anwers.com)
  • obstreperous: noisy or unruly (answers.com)
  • pilum: a heavy javelin commonly used by the Roman army in ancient times (answers.com)
  • Sol Invictus: "Unconquered Sun", a roman god identified in the later Roman empire with Sol, accompanied with the ephitet Invictus, meaning unconquered that was commonly given to Sol from the 2nd century AD onwards. (answers.com)
  • vox populi: the voice of the people (answers.com)
  • Pax Romana: "Roman peace", a peace imposed by a powerful state on a weaker or vanquished state. (answers.com)
  • Divine Comedy: an epic poem written by Dante Alghieri between 1308 and his death in 1321. It is widely seen as the preeminent work of Italian literature and is seen as one of the greatest works of world literature. (answers.com)
  • katholike ecclesia: Describe this term.
  • sola scriptura: the doctrine that the Bible contains all knowledge neccesary for salvation and holiness. (answers.com)
  • Traditores: the one who had handed over. This refers to the bishops and other Christians who turned over sacred scriptures or betrayed their fellow Christians to the Roman authorities under threat of persecution. (answers.com)
  • fides defensor: defender of the faith (en.wikepedia.org)
  • homoousios: "the same substance" (answers.com)
  • laissez les bon temps rouler: "let the good times roll" (answers.com)
  • sacramentum: an oath taken by all Roman legionaries on entering the Roman army. (answers.com)
  • pas des ennemis a gauche: "No enemy to the left" (chiltonwilliamson.com)
  • Restitutor Reipublicae: restorer of the republic (answers.com)
  • Hercules Invictus
  • Confessions: the name of an autobiographical work, consisting of 13 books, by St. Augustine of Hippo, written between AD 397 and AD 398. (answers.com)
  • Restitutor Orbis: "Restorer of the World"
  • Kulturkampf: a conflict between secular and religious authorities (answers.com)
  • filioque: "and from the Son" (answers.com)
  • The Heliand: Old Saxon poem of 5,983 lines, a narritive of the life of Jesus in alliterative verse, written c. 825 (answers.com)
  • The Song of Roland: the oldest surviving majpr work of French literature. (answers.com)
  • la belle France: literally means the beautiful France, but is used as an expression of affection towards the mother country. (french.lovetoknow.com)
  • Realpolitik: Politics guided by practical considerations, instead of principles or ethics. (answers.com)
  • chanson de geste: any of more than 80 Old French epic poems of the 11th to the 14th centuries celebrating the deeds of historical or legendary figures, especially the exploits of Charlemagne and his successors. ( answers.com)
  • Legion Etrangere: foreign legion (i.e. the French Foreign Legion
  • Wehrmacht: (defense power) refers to the German armed forces of WWII (answers.com)
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Themes & Symbolism edit see section history

  • Kulturkampf: A conflict between secular and religious authorities, especially between the pope and emperors and kings, and heads of states and revolutionary groups. Also conflict amongst religious authorities.
  • The papacy: The papacy is the symbol of Christian unity, the infallibility of the Church, the true Church, and the authority of the Church on earth.
  • Monarchy: Governments and society with an undivided soveriegn king as its authority, whether secular or through the papacy
  • World Power: The tendency for nations, and some individuals, rather than submit to the Church, hold to a world power of self destruction.

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This book is in University of Asia and the Pacific. (community list)
This book is in Catholic Philosophy. (community list)

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  1. H. W. Crocker (Author)

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