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Ecclesiastical Obedience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2024

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For those who are of the diocesan clergy, the undisputed authorities must naturally be our Lord himself, St Paul and the Popes: from them we shall seek for the principles of our conduct, and then consider the practical application of those principles to our lives.

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Research Article
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Copyright © 1951 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

Footnotes

Translated by Canon Bernard Wall.

References

1 Henri Dumery, Les trois tentations de d'apostolat modeme, p.

2 F. Prat S.J., La Théologie de Saint Paul, II, p. 382, ff.

3 Leo XIII, Diuturmum illud. (Leonis XIII Allocutiones, etc., ed. Desdee, I, p. 215.) Cf. Henri Brun, La Cité Chrétienne (Bonne Presse) p. 175.

4 Leo XIII, Sapientiae Christianae, ibid IV, p. 23; cf. Bran, p. 303.

5 Pius XII, Encycl. Mystici Corporis.

6 Ibid.

7 Bossuet, Lettres de Piété et de Direction, Lettre iv.

8 F. Prat, ibid. I. pp. 407-408. See there the references to St Ignatius of Antioch.

9 Emile Mersch, S.J., Morale et Corps Mystique, I, p. 119.

10 A. G. Martimort, De l'evˆque (La Clarté Dieu, XIX, Ed. du Cerf), pp. 66-67—a valuable little book, extremely suggestive and concrete, which makes us hope for a ‘De Episcopo’ Cf. Pour le Clergé Diocésain (Ed. du Vitrail) p. 55—one of the best general contributions on the spirituality of the diocesan clergy.

11 C. Spicq, O.P., Spirituality Sacerdotale d'après Saint Paul (‘Lectio Divina’ 4, Ed. du Cerf), p. 151.

12 Cardinal Suhard, Le Pretre dans la Cité, cf. New Life, August, 1950.

13 E. Mersch, op. cit. p. 66.

14 A. G. Martimort, op. cit. p. 66.

15 Ibid. p. 67-68.

16 A. de Bovis, S.J., De l'Obéissance a l'Eglise, in Nouvelle Revue Théologique, Jan. 1948, pp. 20-47. (Certain ideas which could only be touched upon here are there vigorously developed.)

17 Ibid.

18 Cardinal Shuhard, Essor ou Déclin de l'Eglise (Ed. du Vitrail), p. 19.

19 E. Mersch, op. cit. p. 269.

20 Ibid. p. 121.

21 Pour le Clergé Diocésain, p. 135

22 Eugène Masure, Pretres Diocésains (Lille), p. 75; cf. pp. 70-74.

23 Pour le Clergé Diocésain, pp. 131-132.

24 Essor ou Déclin de l'Eglise, p. 56.

25 Pour le Clergé Diocésain, p. 149.

26 Essor ou Déclin de l'Eglise, p. 54.

27 Cf. A. de Bovis, loc. cit. p. 46.

28 Le Pretre dans la Cité, p. 49.

29 Ibid. p. 83.

30 Ibid. pp. 90-91.