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innocent_i · c. 406 · score 0.02
Rescript of the Emperor Honorius sent to the Emperor Arcadius. 1. Although regarding the statue of a woman, carried about through the provinces as a new precedent, and through the talk of detractors spread throughout the whole world, I have already urged in other letters that through repentance for such a deed and aban …
innocent_i · c. 416 · score 0.02
Pope Innocent I to Florentinus, Bishop of Tibur. Divine Scripture cries out not once but many times that the boundaries established by the fathers are not to be transferred. It is wrong for one person to seize what another has always possessed. Innocent writes to Florentinus because someone has intruded into a foreign …
innocent_i · c. 402 · score 0.02
Pope Innocent I to John, Bishop of Jerusalem. The noble holy virgins Eustochium and Paula have lamented to Innocent with tears the plunderings, killings, fires, and every kind of outrage of extreme madness that the devil has perpetrated in the places of John's church; they withheld the name of the man responsible. Alth …
innocent_i · c. 406 · score 0.02
When these things were suddenly made known to us, I confess we were stricken. For who, in so bloody a crime, would not fear the offense of Almighty God? Or in what way could anyone think it beyond the utmost danger of the Roman world and of all mortals — when God Almighty, the author of our empire and the governor of t …
innocent_i · c. 406 · score 0.02
Emperor Honorius to Emperor Arcadius. Honorius writes for the third time to his brother the emperor, requesting that a synod be assembled at Thessalonica and that Theophilus of Alexandria be ordered to present himself there. The letter survives in a bilingual form (Latin and Greek). It belongs to the campaign led by In …
innocent_i · c. 401 · score 0.02
Pope Innocent I to Jerome, Priest (in Bethlehem). Innocent observes that the Apostle testifies that contention never produces anything good in the Church, and therefore orders that the first step against heretics should be rebuke rather than prolonged debate. When this rule is neglected, the evil that should be checked …
innocent_i · c. 406 · score 0.01
3. Although I, provoked by frequent injuries, ought to keep silent, and not so faithfully admonish a most closely joined brother and sharer of the kingdom, nevertheless, putting the bond of blood before the stimulus of silent grief, I exhort and urge that these things, if it can be done, be corrected by amendment of fu …
innocent_i · c. 411 · score 0.01
Pope Innocent I to Acacius, Bishop of Beroea. Innocent writes to Acacius, the venerable bishop of Beroea in Syria, on a matter relating to the peace of the Eastern churches. The letter belongs to Innocent's extended correspondence concerning the aftermath of the Chrysostom affair and the restoration of communion with t …
innocent_i · c. 406 · score 0.01
For those whose authority was awaited, having granted peaceful communion to Bishop John, judged that harmony should be established, and did not think anyone should be expelled from fellowship before judgment. 5. What else now remains, but that schisms, torn apart in different directions, should lacerate the Catholic fa …
innocent_i · c. 417 · score 0.01
Pope Innocent I to Laurentius, Bishop (of Senia?). Innocent writes to Laurentius instructing him to drive out the heretics who follow the poisonous teachings of Photinus. Those who have denied and continue to deny right belief are to have no part in salvation. It is Laurentius's duty, as dearest brother, to carry out w …
innocent_i · c. 408 · score 0.01
We have received and read the letters which your charity sent through our son the deacon Pascentius, and we have carefully reviewed the matters which you referred to the judgment of the apostolic see. Although the rule of the fathers is clear enough and the canonical authorities leave nothing ambiguous, nevertheless si …
innocent_i · c. 407 · score 0.01
Pope Innocent I to Aurelius, Bishop of Carthage, and Augustine, Bishop of Hippo. A brief salutatory letter full of charity. When Emperor Honorius, prompted by Innocent's letters, had written twice to Arcadius about the case of John Chrysostom without result, he asked Innocent to send five bishops, two priests, and a de …
innocent_i · c. 416 · score 0.01
Pope Innocent I to Bishops Maximus and Severus (in Bruttium). The norm of ecclesiastical canons ought to be unknown to no priest, for it is sufficiently unseemly for a bishop not to know these things, especially since they are known and held to be binding even by devout laypeople. Innocent writes that those who have be …
innocent_i · c. 407 · score 0.01
We have received through the presbyter Leonius the letters of your love, in which you have referred to us concerning certain matters that require the authority of the apostolic see. Responding therefore to each point separately, we answer first concerning those who after having done public penance relapse into their fo …
innocent_i · c. 402 · score 0.01
Pope Innocent I to Aurelius, Bishop of Carthage. Innocent shares in the distress felt over a member of their flock and reports that he has acted quickly on what seemed necessary to do or what he was able to do. He asks Aurelius, as a beloved brother, to send the relevant letters to the person concerned as quickly as po …
innocent_i · c. 415 · score 0.01
Pope Innocent I to John, Bishop of Jerusalem. John of Jerusalem ought to have foreseen that Paula and Eustochium would be oppressed by so many and such great evils, and unless these matters are henceforth either corrected or restrained, he will be made to render account for them. Innocent reproves John sharply for allo …
innocent_i · c. 404 · score 0.01
John, Bishop of Constantinople, to Pope Innocent I. John Chrysostom writes to Innocent describing in moving detail how unjustly he has been driven from his see and his city by the faction of Theophilus of Alexandria, and the great evils that were suffered both at that time and afterward. He appeals to Innocent for supp …
innocent_i · c. 403 · score 0.01
You have asked in your letter, beloved son, about many things concerning which we must respond carefully, since both the ecclesiastical discipline and the care for souls committed to us demand it. For it is proper that the bishop of the apostolic see, when consulted by the bishops of the provinces, should not withhold …
innocent_i · c. 417 · score 0.01
Fragments of the letter of Pelagius to Pope Innocent, written after Innocent's death but when Pelagius did not yet know he had died. 1. In these fragments, as Augustine testifies (De Gratia Christi, ch. 50), Pelagius says there are matters about which people are trying to defame him: first, that he denies the sacrament …
innocent_i · c. 410 · score 0.01
Pope Innocent I to Alexander, Bishop of Antioch: On Peace (second letter). Innocent testifies by his public acts how welcome, how pious, how necessary the legation sent by Alexander's holiness to him has been. He writes as 'beloved brother' to Alexander in the warmest terms, rejoicing at the reconciliation achieved and …
innocent_i · c. 411 · score 0.01
Pope Innocent I to Maximianus, Bishop (on Atticus of Constantinople). Innocent rules that communion is not to be restored to Atticus of Constantinople unless he first requests it through a solemn legation and fulfils what was agreed at Antioch — that is, restores the name of John Chrysostom to the sacred diptychs. He m …
innocent_i · c. 408 · score 0.01
The mercy of the Church extends to all the afflicted, but the sacred ministry demands that its ministers be fitted for the work to which they are called. Sixth, concerning the reconciliation of the dying: no one who sincerely seeks penance at the hour of death shall be denied the consolation of reconciliation and commu …
innocent_i · c. 410 · score 0.01
We have received the report of your love, and from its content we learn that certain things need correction in your province, which it falls to us by apostolic responsibility to address. You have made known that some bishops in your region are ordaining clergy without proper examination, promoting men to sacred orders …
innocent_i · c. 412 · score 0.01
Reading the letters of your love, we learned that certain presbyters and deacons are conducting themselves in a manner contrary to the laws of the Church and the decrees of the apostolic see. Since this matter pertains to the discipline which the blessed apostle Peter entrusted to this see for the governance of all the …
innocent_i · c. 413 · score 0.01
This prohibition extends also to those who have married a widow, for the symbolism of the marriage bond between Christ and the Church demands that the minister of the altar should be free from any taint of plurality in marriage. Concerning the reception of those who come from heretical sects: let the bishops examine ea …