The Catholic Church
group · 4 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
the catholic Church · our infallible church · the Catholic Church · the Church · the church
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Letters
The institutional church from which the discussed groups have separated.
and if anyone has received it from them, he is to be baptized when he comes to the Church.
For example, if someone, examined for a fault, has been suspended from the ministry and has not bowed to the canons, but has claimed for himself the presidency and the ministry, and certain others have departed with him, leaving the Catholic Church — that is an irregular congregation.
An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
The institutional church whose teaching on purgatorial purification is invoked, with evident irony, to trace the origin of the torture-as-purgation rationale.
We are taught by our infallible church, that those stains of sin, contracted through human frailty, and which have not deserved the eternal anger of the Almighty, are to be purged away, in another life, by an incomprehensible fire.
Barlaam and Josaphat
The universal Christian Church, described as the place where the truth proclaimed by apostles and fathers shines forth.
But the truth is one, that proclaimed through the glorious apostles and the God-bearing fathers, and shining out in the catholic Church from the ends to the ends of the world brighter than the sun—of which I have been sent to you as herald and teacher.
Adversus Marcionem
The mainstream church to which Marcion originally belonged before his heresy, used to date the true faith as prior to Marcion's.
As regards, then, the gospel of Luke for the present — inasmuch as its communion between us and Marcion is disputed about the truth — so much more ancient than Marcion is that which is according to us, that Marcion himself once believed in it, when in the first heat of faith he contributed money to the catholic Church, money soon flung out along with himself, after he revolted into his heresy from our truth.