There might be one or two persons even older, but this film and person are easily verifiable. Summary of Aeterni Patris from wikipedia.com: “As pope, he used all his authority for a revival of Thomism, the theology of Thomas Aquinas. On 4 August 1879, Leo XIII promulgated the encyclical Aeterni Patris ("Eternal Father"), which, more than any other single document, provided a charter for the revival of Thomism, the medieval theological system based on the thought of Aquinas – as the official philosophical and theological system of the Catholic Church. It was to be normative not only in the training of priests at church seminaries but also in the education of the laity at universities.” With exceptions, Catholic universities and highs schools ignore Leo.
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Josef Ketzer
1/28/2022 08:34:32 am
If Benedict XVI. had resigned, he would have surpassed Leo as the oldest pope in Church history!
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Josef Ketzer
1/28/2022 12:59:49 pm
It should mean "hadn't", not "had". The automatic correction had again tricked me...
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1/28/2022 01:33:14 pm
yeah, I understood what you meant - autocorrect does that a lot on my phone texts Leave a Reply. |
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