The Charity of the Church: A Proof of Her Divinity, by Cardinal Baluffi, Brother Hermenegild TOSF
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ON the 18th of August, 1883, his Holiness, Leo XIII, addressed a letter to Cardinals Antoninus de Luca, Vice-Chancellor, John Baptist Pitra, Librarian of the Holy Roman Church, and Joseph Hergenrother, Prefect of the Vatican Archives. In this important document, the Holy Father, knowing that many of the wide-spread evils of modern society spring not only from the abuse of philosophy and theology, but from a scarcely less fruitful source of error-ignorance or perversion of the truth of history-appeals to all, who love justice and abhor falsehood and misrepresentation, to look for the true story of the past where alone it can be found, in genuine and unadulterated records. He makes a strong protest against the injury done to the Holy See and to the Church at large by those conspirators against truth who, unmindful of the sublime mission of history, degrade the honoured name by connecting it with their idle legends and dishonest statements. To facilitate research and afford increased opportunities for the strictest inquiry, the Papal Archives, containing, among other stores of knowledge, the printed and manuscript treasures of the Vatican Library, are declared to be thrown open to all who are competent to explore such mines of historic wealth. His Holiness invites the most searching investigation, requiring but one condition to be scrupulously observed. Those who shall have access to the new sources of information must, above all things, bear in mind, "that the first duty of the historian is never to venture on a false statement; next, never to shrink from telling the truth; so that his writings may be free from all suspicion of favour or malice." The cordiality with which the Papal Letter has been received by the most intelligent organs of public opinion is very striking, and affords the consolation of finding that the love of truth, deep-seated in our nature, has not yet been eradicated even by those who have conspired against that priceless virtue. Whilst this powerful and high-toned document commanded the respect of all, it was received with admiration and delight by every loyal subject of His Holiness. The Press of every shade of political opinion, clerical, or anti-clerical, pronounced it worthy of the masterhand that penned it. Among the Catholic Prelates it awakened an echo which finds its fitting expression in the vigorous and eloquent pastoral of the late Cardinal Archbishop of Dublin. His Eminence, beyond all doubt, had special grounds of sympathy with the views of the 4th of October, 1883, of the Holy Father. He knew how history has been abused in the case of Ireland, and therefore complains that "if in search of historical information on questions connected with our country, its religion, or its relation to the Apostolic See, we consult books in general circulation, be they epitomes or volumes of pretentious form, we encounter almost in every chapter the most dishonest statements of the facts of history and of the doctrines and discipline of the Catholic Church. Long-exploded calumnies, dressed out anew, as if never refuted; authentic documents distorted, if not falsified; actions in themselves indifferent, if not to all appearances perfectly good, attributed, without a particle of justification, to motives the most criminal. Such are the materials from which is constructed the thing called history; and, on the testimony of such history, our country and our Church have suffered the direst wrongs."
The Charity of the Church: A Proof of Her Divinity, by Cardinal Baluffi, Brother Hermenegild TOSF - Published on: 2015-11-18
- Original language: English
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. An older book, full to the brim with compelling data By Jeri I noticed this title in the index of one of Rodney Stark's books and was intrigued enough to buy a copy. . I'm so glad I did. It's almost five hundred pages of dense arguments proving the constant charity of the Catholic church.Some caveats: this was fist published in 1885, and the language is Victorian. And, given our own ecumenical times, Baluffi can seem downright scornful to non Catholics.Nevertheless, he's marshaled lots of compelling information. Tertullian describes how the church apportioned the money she collected, "not on banquets, but in burying the dead, in supporting the poor, in the relief of orphans, of old men, and of those who suffered shipwreck. A portion is given for the aid of Christians who were condemned for the faith to work in mines, or cast upon desert islands or thrown into prison" (p 8).In fact, from the very first documents of the early Church, in Paul's epistles, we see one community gathering alms to give to the aid of another. The church in Rome constantly sent alms to poorer Christian communities, not to mention relieving the poor in Rome. This stood in stark contrast to a pagan culture that had little regard for the poor. Early Christians visited their brethren in prison, bringing food and comfort. They organized help and money for widows and the indigent."Christian slaves who served pagan masters were the objects of special solicitude. Such victims were often ransomed by generous Christians at the sacrifice of their own freedom" (p 13). Carthage actually collected a hundred thousand sesterces in order to ransom Numidian Christians who were slaves. Two Roman prefects, Hermes and Chromatius freed all the slaves they owned on the day they were baptized - a total of about 2700 slaves.Christian charity - love - spread relentlessly across the empire. Unlike the Romans, Christians didn't flee a city when plague struck. To the stunned amazement of the pagans, Christians stayed to care for the sick. Most important for society was "the family reformation" (p 25), which insisted that men as well as women were to be faithful to their spouses. Just as with the Jews, abortion and infanticide was forbidden,"During the long succession of ages not a single philosopher asserted the natural equality of men)...It was reserved for Christianity...The Apostles proclaimed the dignity of man and the equality of all before God" ( p 31). St Ambrose denounced slavery. Melania spent her enormous fortune on purchasi8g the freedom of some 8,000 slaves before joining a convent (p 32).The ugly, bloody games were ended by Telemachus, a monk. He stopped two gladiators in the Colosseum from slaughtering each other by coming between them. The pagan crowd tore him to bits. But the murderous games stopped.As soon as Christianity was declared legal, hospitals and aids to the poor were started. In Constantinople, Zoticus founded the first Christian orphanage. The first real hospital for the sick was opened by Basil.The empire fell as surges of barbarian tribes flooded across Europe. The difference between the beliefs of the barbarian tribes and the Catholics is so great it is shocking; It took the church to talk "the Massagetae ...to stop eating old men, the Scythians of burying the living in the graves of their illustrious dead, the Hiorcanians and the inhabitants along the Caspian of feeding their dogs the flesh of dead men" (p 52).Baluffi argues that "the church educated barbarous Europe" and that the "Popes were universal peace makers" (p 80) in a dark age. "The greatest criminals, hitherto confined in public prisons, were consigned to monasteries to do penance for crimes" (p 111). At length, "The Church dissipated the darkness in which the world was plunged" (p 85) with science and art.It was "the monks, and the monks alone, who made a search for the few books that had not been burned or otherwise destroyed...Not only did they transcribe the Sacred Scriptures, but all the works of ancient literature" (p 121). Saving ancient knowledge was only one benefit of monasteries to society. They cleared swamps, grew crops and gave food and alms to the poor.There is no real index, and at times Baluffi jumps from one .era and country to another with not enough explanation. Yet this is a splendid book, worth the investment for anyone interested in the history of the Catholic church.
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