Resultados25 letters/passages
innocent_i · c. 408 · score 0.02
Your love's letters, delivered through the bearer, have been received by us with gratitude, and it pleases us greatly that you have followed the apostolic custom of consulting the apostolic see about matters of doubt, so that the response of this see, which by the providence of God was placed before all others, may res …
innocent_i · c. 406 · score 0.02
… opal judgment was being awaited, sacred bishops were driven into exile? That by imperial favor, while the wretched prisons of the guilty were being opened, the innocent ministers of sacred law and peace were shut in by a cruel prison? That everything was thrown into confusion in the manner of war, and some were killed …
innocent_i · c. 413 · score 0.02
The authority of this apostolic see, established by the will of God through the blessed apostle Peter, extends its care over all the churches throughout the world, and therefore when questions arise that affect the discipline of the Church and the salvation of souls, it is right that they be referred to this see for re …
innocent_i · c. 407 · score 0.02
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. 413 · score 0.02
The purpose of the provincial synods which we have commanded to be held twice yearly is to ensure that the discipline of the clergy is maintained, that disputes among the bishops and clergy are resolved in a timely manner, and that the welfare of the faithful is promoted in all things. The metropolitan bears the primar …
innocent_i · c. 415 · score 0.02
We have learned from the letters of your love and from the report of the bearer that certain disorders have arisen in your province which require the authority of the apostolic see for their correction. Since it is our responsibility to watch over all the churches, according to the commission given to the blessed apost …
innocent_i · c. 406 · score 0.01
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. 406 · score 0.01
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. 403 · score 0.01
Concerning the names of those who offer: their names must be recited within the sacred mysteries and not outside them, for the offering is an integral part of the sacred action and those who offer must be commemorated within the action itself. These are the ancient practices of the Roman Church, which received its trad …
innocent_i · c. 416 · score 0.01
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. 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. 403 · score 0.01
If the institutions of the holy fathers are to be maintained, which we have no doubt your love preserves, since both the antiquity of customs and the apostolic authority commend them, we ought to observe those things which have been handed down to us by the tradition of the fathers and not to defile them by any innovat …
innocent_i · c. 413 · score 0.01
You have consulted the apostolic see about various matters pertaining to ecclesiastical discipline, and we respond to your love as the authority of this see and ancient custom require. Concerning those who have held public magistracies and have been responsible for the games or spectacles, whether they may afterwards b …
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. 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. 409 · score 0.01
The letters of your love have reached us, in which you report various matters concerning ecclesiastical discipline and seek the judgment of the apostolic see. Since it is the ancient custom of the churches, established by apostolic tradition, that whenever questions of importance arise they should be referred to this s …
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. 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. 404 · score 0.01
Pope Innocent I to Theophilus, Bishop of Alexandria. Innocent writes that he cannot withdraw from communion with John Chrysostom of Constantinople unless John is condemned by a lawful judgment. He holds both John and Theophilus to be in communion with him, just as he made clear in his earlier letters. Theophilus is sum …
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. 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. 412 · score 0.01
Since the care of all the churches presses upon us, which the blessed apostle Peter committed to this see when the Lord himself said to him, Feed my sheep, and again, I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail, and you being converted confirm your brethren, we cannot be silent when matters are brought to our at …
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. 414 · score 0.01
The letters of your love have reached us, brought by the bearer whom you sent, and we have read with attention the matters which you have referred to the judgment of this apostolic see. Since the blessed apostle Peter received from the Lord the care of all the churches, and since this see has always been consulted by t …
innocent_i · c. 413 · score 0.01
We decree furthermore that the election of bishops must take place in an orderly and canonical manner, with the participation of the clergy and people of the church concerned and with the consent and confirmation of the metropolitan. Any election conducted through bribery, intimidation, or the intervention of secular p …