Questions tagged [reference-request]
Use this tag to ask for help to find the source of a quote, or to find a works by Christian scholars and authors on particular topics. Do not use this tag to ask for Bible verses on a topic.
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Catholic Saints Who Have Expressed Thoughts Similar to St. Faustina Regarding Chosen Souls
There are at least three places in St. Faustina's Diary where she writes about the world being maintained by chosen souls; see, for example:
926 And the Lord gave me to know who it is that upholds ...
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On a Quote of St. Augustine Pertaining to Education
Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace in the soul.
Does anyone know in which of his ...
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A quote attributed to Luther about "issues which deal specifically with your time"
I saw this quote:
“If you preach the gospel in all aspects with the exception of the issues which deal specifically with your time, you are not preaching the gospel at all.” — Martin Luther
What was ...
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Where can I find the source of "I perish today not because of the crime I committed, but because of the pardon I did not accept"?
From a sermon illustration: That quote was the last words of a young man in southern USA (18th century), who was sentenced to be hung for a crime, whose family had interceded with the governor. The ...
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On a Famous Quote of Ven. Fulton Sheen Pertaining to the Laity
I have been trying to find the original source and transcript containing the following famous quote of Ven. Fulton J. Sheen on the laity:
Who’s going to save our Church? It’s not our bishops, it’s ...
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Blessed Solanus Casey---Prophecy Regarding Disappearance of Large Portions of the United States Due to Flooding?
Some number of years ago, I recall having seen (I am sure it was on television and I believe it was in the 1990s) a documentary (I would like to say it was a show called "Unsolved Mysteries,"...
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Harmony of the Gospels (earlier versions)
Following is the introduction to A Harmony of the Gospels, by A.T. Robertson. Does anyone know the titles/authors/publication dates of the previous "old plan" harmonies? Augustine wrote a ...
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St. Mary Magdalene meets Jesus in a garden Jn. 20:15, parallel to Song of Song's garden?
Has any Catholic exegete ever noted the parallel between St. Mary Magdalene's meeting Jesus in a garden (cf. her mistaking Him as a gardener in Jn. 20:15) with the garden of Solomon's Song of Songs? ...
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Who was St. Jane of Chantal's first spiritual director?
Before St. Jane de Chantal met St. Francis de Sales, she had a very strict spiritual director,
a priest at the nearby shrine of the Black Virgin at
Notre-Dame-d’Etang. He undertook her direction by ...
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Proof of sacramental absolution required for marriage in France during the French Revolution?
Proof of sacramental absolution required for marriage in France during the French Revolution?
I remember reading an ecclesiastical works of how the Catholic Church had suffered during the French ...
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In what work does Thomas Merton discuss atheists or people who do not accept faith?
I vaguely recall (from some lecture or reading) that supposedly somewhere in Merton's writings he comments on people who struggle with accepting faith.
I'm looking for a passage where he is ...
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Find this quote regarding Inspiration of the Apocrapha
I once read a passage from one of the apocrypha books but I don't remember which one. I believe that it's from one of the books of the Maccabees but I was unable to find it. In paraphrasing, from what ...
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Where does Jonathan Edwards describe his expectations of the second coming of Jesus?
In a few places I've seen claims that Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) believed in the imminence of Christ's return. For example:
[Jonathan Edwards] was convinced that the world was going to the dogs ...
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Are there any peer-reviewed scientific publications lending credence to Christian miracles?
Are there any publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals lending credence to any Christian miracle? For example, a peer-reviewed publication validating some "unexplainable" healing ...
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What is the oldest instance of a Christian theologian saying that an issue is OK to disagree about?
There's an infamous story from early church history of the dispute over the correct date for celebration of Easter, which got so heated that people even called their opponents heretics over it and ...
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1967 Pastoral Letter of German Bishops on the Catholic Church's Magisterium
In his article The Magisterium, Biblical and Pastoral Aspects, Fr. John F. Wealon writes:
I know of no wiser treatment than that of the German bishops in a pastoral letter of September 22, 1967. The ...
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Who said, "Heresies Survive by the Truths They Retain"?
On pg. 7 of the 1938 edition of The Great Heresies by Hilaire Belloc, he writes:
Wherefore it is said of heresies that ``they survive by the truths they retain.''
He does not seem to specify who ...
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Did St. John Vianney Ever Directly Say Anything About Scruples?
I am currently working on a project devoted to the thoughts of the Curé of Ars (St. John Vianney) on various topics. One of the topics is scruples.
St. Alphonsus Liguori, for instance, has this to ...
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Quote source for St. Leopold Mandić on Continual Prayer
In many places, here for example, I have seen (pretty much verbatim):
Father Leopold often said that whatever we do on earth, we should do it in the presence of God, then our whole life will be a ...
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Who said, “The exegesis favors the Calvinist”?
I’m trying to find an obscure quote from a particular theologian who in his commentary on a particular verse of Scripture wrote something along the lines of the following:
“The exegesis favors the ...
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Most complete biblical genealogical chart?
Dutripon, Bibliorum Sacrorum Concordantiæ pp. v-xii gives a chronological table divided into six ages, numbered by years of the world (anno mundi) and years before Jesus Christ (ante J. Ch.). He says ...
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Who said something along the lines of us never knowing more than 1% of our sin?
I have pretty clear memories of John Piper quoting someone else saying that in this life we are never aware of more than 1% of our sin, with the implication being that as we grow in godliness we do ...
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St. John Henry Newman on Conscience and the Pope
Here (On Conscience and the Pope) is found an essay written by St. John Henry Newman. It begins as follows:
IT seems, then, that there are extreme cases in which Conscience may come into collision ...
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In the Writings of the Ancient Greeks---"God is Everywhere Implied"
Elements of monotheism seem to have existed in the philosophies of at least several of the celebrated ancient Greek philosophers; e.g., Parmenides, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.
A while back, I ...
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Middle Ages quaint anniversaries for March 25th?
The following blog has a quaint list of anniversaries for the Feast of the Annunciation:
Thus we find in some calendars of the Middle Ages the following quaint “anniversaries” listed for March 25:
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Looking for the Source of a Teaching on Sexual Ethics from Benedict XVI or JP2
Years ago, I recall being taught that Benedict XVI once said that it was licit for a husband to perform cunnilingus on his wife in order to help her climax if she did not during the ordinary process ...
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Translation of Dietrich von Hildebrand's “Die Bedeutung von Mann und Frau füreinander ausserhalb der Ehe”?
Is there an online edition or English translation of:
Hildebrand, Dietrich von. “Die Bedeutung von Mann und Frau füreinander ausserhalb der Ehe.” In Zeitliches Im Lichte Des Ewigen, 143–44. ...
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Looking for "Mémoire sur Monsieur Vianney" by Catherine Lassagne (First Biographer of the Saint)
According to the Sanctuaire d'Ars webpage, Catherine Lassagne recorded her many recollections of St. John Vianney in a small book entitled, "Mémoire sur Monsieur Vianney". It was ...
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Searching for Extended English Language Bibles
There are Luther (German) Bible to English parallels out there, however, the Luther Bible includes the Apocryphal texts and the English parallels do not. What I want to know is if there are any ...
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Looking for a Digital Copy of Any Handwritten Sermon of St. John Vianney
I am looking for a digital copy of any personally handwritten sermon of St. John Vianney.
From what I have read, I am under the impression that 80 or so are extant, but I have not been able to locate ...
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Looking for works pointing to Christianity as an alternative to human sacrifice
I'm curious if there is any significant scholarly research or works regarding a theory that a key driver of the spread of Christianity was to replace human and animal sacrifice from religious ...
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Where does St. Bernard say "A long period of chastity is a second virginity.”?
Fr. Ludovic-Marie Barrielle, Do I Have a Vocation?, ch. 5, claims:
“A long period of chastity” says Saint Bernard, “is a second virginity.”
Where does St. Bernard say this?
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Distribution of theological positions of evangelical churches in the 21st century
I am looking for some statistics of how many evangelical churches are Reformed, Lutheran, Anglican, Methodist, Pentecostal, etc.
Historical data would be great, but I'm more interested in current ...
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At what point in time for a tradition being considered a tradition within Catholicism?
What is the gold mark or point in time for a tradition being considered a tradition within Catholicism?
This question is very similar to the question: When does a tradition become a Tradition?
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Has Protestant Christianity established a list of essential attributes defining a "personal relationship" between a human and God?
Scope: I'm seeking answers from Protestant denominations.
The concept of a "personal relationship" is fairly natural and intuitive when we think of the interactions between two human beings,...
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On the Oba Prophecy Included in Yves Dupont's, "Catholic Prophecy"
On p. 115 of Catholic Prophecy by Yves Dupont, we find:
Oba Prophecy. "It will come when the Church authorities issue directives to promote a new cult, when priests are forbidden to celebrate in ...
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Catholic Books in the Public Domain Whose Main Subject is the Magisterium (Teaching Authority of the Catholic Church)
I know that the term Magisterium is relatively recent---it refers to the Teaching Authority of the Catholic Church.
It seems that full length books (a few hundred pages or more) devoted to this topic ...
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Which Desert Father is known to have undone his work at the end of the day?
I once heard a story of a desert father who would do some work, maybe construction of some type, and then proceed to undo it all at the end of the day, repeating the next day in order to highlight the ...
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Edition of St. Vincent of Lerins' "The Commonitory" Approved by the Catholic Church?
One might think that to find a copy of St. Vincent of Lerins' "The Commonitory" (or Commonitorium) that has received some kind of approbation from the Catholic Church would be an easy task. ...
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Has any part of St. Alphonsus' Moral Theology translation into English had a valid Imprimatur?
Regarding Mediatrix Press's English Translation project of the 10 Latin volumes of St. Alphonsus's Moral Theology where these 2 volumes (Book 1 to Book 4 part 1) have been published:
Volume 1 Book 1
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Are there any churches that encourage their members to tithe but not to keep the Sabbath (Friday sunset to Saturday sunset)?
My common sense tells me that there must be many such churches, but I'm having a hard time finding concrete examples on the web where this is officially stated in their doctrinal statement of faith.
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Are these Messages between Pontius Pilate and Herod real?
Are the messages between Pontius Pilate and Herod real or are there no real epistles found between Herod and Pilate?
The source, here is the exact part that I am talking about:
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