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Tuesday, October 4, 2022

Notes: Saturday, March 26-Tuesday, October 4, 2022 (part 2 of 2)

3: The JUDGMENT and DECREE OF THE University of Oxford Past in their Convocation July 21. 1683, Oxford, 1683

is available through the Oxford Text Archive (O.T.A.), Google Books, The London Gazette (Issue No. 1845, July 23-26, 1683), and the respective websites of The British Library, The University of Michigan Library, and The National Archives:







JUDICIUM & DECRETUM Universitatis Oxoniensis Latum in Convocatione habita Jul. 21. An. 1683 (Oxford, 1683) seems to be the original Latin of that Judgment, and is available through the O.T.A. and the aforementioned library websites:




Early English Books Online has the Latin book as well as two editions of the English translation; one of those two editions was published in Dublin and does not seem to be available elsewhere online, and the other edition is the one linked hereinbefore.

Labels: Democratism, morals, politics, regalism, St. Robert Bellarmine

4: Some recent objectionable pronouncements from The Pope

4.1: God "does not want to make decisions for us, or oppress us with a sacral power, exercised in a world governed by religious laws."

That quotation comes from the translated text of "the homily delivered by the Pope during the celebration of Vespers", contained in The Holy See Press Office's Daily Bulletin item "Apostolic Journey of His Holiness Francis in Canada – Vespers with bishops, priests, deacons, consecrated persons, seminarians and pastoral workers at the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Québec, 28.07.2022":


The quotation is part of this excerpt:
God does not want us to be slaves, but sons and daughters; he does not want to make decisions for us, or oppress us with a sacral power, exercised in a world governed by religious laws. No! He created us to be free, and he asks us to be mature and responsible persons in life and in society.
Judging by the source for that Daily Bulletin item, I think that that passage is a translation of this section of the original Spanish of the homily in question:
Dios, en efecto, no nos quiere esclavos sino hijos, no quiere decidir en nuestro lugar ni oprimirnos con un poder sagrado en un mundo gobernado por leyes religiosas. No, Él nos ha creado libres y nos pide que seamos personas adultas, personas responsables en la vida y en la sociedad.
["Viaggio Apostolico di Sua Santità Francesco in Canada – Vespri con i Vescovi, i Sacerdoti, i Diaconi, i Consacrati, i Seminaristi e gli Operatori Pastorali presso la Cattedrale di Notre-Dame de Québec, 28.07.2022",
https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2022/07/28/0563/01130.html]
The only media organ to highlight the anti-Integralist aspect of that homily seems to be Religion News Service, in the "News" report "God does not want ‘a world governed by religious laws,’ pope tells Canadian clergy", by Claire Giangravé, dated July 28, 2022:


Ms Giangravé was also the journalist who, during that Apostolic Journey's return-flight press conference, asked His Holiness about changing Church teaching on contraceptives:



Returning to that homily, I note that one of the problems with The Pope's anti-Integralism is that, pace His Holiness, a loving and conscientious Catholic father will, as far as reasonably possible within the scope of his authority, impose religious rules on his sons and daughters, and a loving and conscientious Catholic civil sovereign will, likewise, impose religious laws on his subjects; that is the paternal, not despotic, thing to do.

Labels: Confessional State, Francis Bergoglio, law, morals, politics, secularism

4.2: "the death penalty is morally inadmissible," and "in the light of the Gospel, the death penalty is unacceptable"

Those quotations come from the translation, in The Holy See Press Office's Daily Bulletin item "Video of the Holy Father with the prayer intention for the month of September, disseminated via the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network, 31.08.2022", of the transcript of H.H. The Pope's message in that video:


The quotations seems to translate "moralmente, la pena di morte è inadeguata" and "alla luce del Vangelo, la pena di morte è inammissibile", respectively, judging by that Daily Bulletin item's original Italian ("Video del Santo Padre con l’intenzione di preghiera per il mese di settembre diffusa attraverso la Rete Mondiale di Preghiera del Papa, 31.08.2022", in which the transcript's original language is given as Italian, too):


The official website of The Pope's Worldwide Prayer Network has these pages, available through its "Resources" page: "September prayer intention 2022", "2022–9–TPV–Script–For the abolition of the death penalty", "2022–09–TPV–Press Release-For the abolition of the death penalty", "TPV- For the abolition of the death penalty – Infographic", and "TPV – For the abolition of the death penalty – Poster", with the content of those pages also available, in one form or another, on the page "SEPTEMBER | For the abolition of the death penalty" (dated, like the preceding resources, August 31, 2022) at the official website of an operation—namely, The Pope Video—of that Network:







Labels: death penalty, Francis Bergoglio, morals

5: "it was this act[, namely, the Quebec Act,] that moved the Americans to form and attend the First Continental Congress in the first place!"

That quotation (excluding my square-bracketed interpolation) comes from this passage (excluding my ellipses (a square-bracketed one indicates the omission of a whole paragraph) and square-bracketed interpolation) in "Catholicism and the American Founding", by Prof. Bradley J. Birzer, July 3, 2021, at The Catholic World Report's website:
… With the passage of the Quebec Act, they[, namely, "French Roman Catholics living in Quebec",] could practice their Catholicism without political hinderance. Parliament saw this act, rightfully, as a liberal act, having next to nothing to do with the affairs of the Protestants to the south. Americans in the thirteen colonies not only saw it as a direct attack on their faith, but it was this act that moved the Americans to form and attend the First Continental Congress in the first place!

[…]

Not surprisingly, given the terrible (if ridiculous) reputation that Catholics had among Protestants as being the evil purveyors of darkness, oppression, and superstition, the very first act of the Continental Congress was to pass a condemnation of liberalization of restrictions on Roman Catholics. With the almost unanimous backing of the New England colonies, the condemnation found widespread support, especially from John Jay and Alexander Hamilton of New York, and Richard Lee of Virginia.

[…]

It must be noted that the First Continental Congress was not some fly-by-night revolutionary committee of radicals. It was, instead, the very first meeting of the U.S. Congress, still, institutionally, of course, in existence through this day.
See also item 2 of my "Notes: Thursday, January 1-Monday, February 2, 2015": 


(The Spectator link there is now dead, but this one works:


and that book review is also available, in one form or another, through Trove, Gale Research Complete, NewsBank, and ProQuest. As for item 2's hyperlinked comment by me at a now-removed blog, that comment contained a quotation from The Catholic Church in the Modern World: A Survey from the French Revolution to the present, by Mr. E. E. Y. Hales, published by Eyre & Spottiswoode in association with Burns & Oates, London, 1958.)

Labels: Canada, Church and State, history, U.S.A.

6: "Not until the mid-1960s did people begin to realise that, in addition to the concentration camps, there were also death camps whose only purpose was extermination. Even the term "the Holocaust" was not used widely until the late 70s."

That quotation comes from the book review "Germany's African colony was a laboratory for genocide", by Jim Davidson, on p. 24 of the "Review" supplement of The Weekend Australian, January 15-16, 2011, available through ProQuest and NewsBank, and formerly available at The Australian's website via this U.R.L.:


Prof. Davidson is or at least has been a professional historian, according to the profiles on him from AustLit, Trove, Melbourne University, and what seems to have been at the time of that book review his most recent book (namely, A Three-Cornered Life, available through ProQuest's Ebook Central): 





Labels: history, Jews, Nazism

Reginaldvs Cantvar
Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, Confessor, A.D. 2022
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Friday, March 25, 2022

Notes: Tuesday, March 2, 2021-Friday, March 25, 2022

 1. Suarez on political authority before and after the Fall

See the "Scholia" item "What Kind of Corporeal or Political Life Men Would Have Professed in the State of Innocence" (the translated title of Ch. 7 of Book 5 of On the Work of the Six Days), by Francisco Suarez, translated and introduced by Assistant Prof. Matthew T. Gaetano, Journal of Markets & Morality, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Fall 2012), pp. 527–563:


Labels: Adam (Patriarch), morals, politics

2. Prof. Sommerville's comparison of Catholic and Anglican political theory in the Jacobean age

See the article "FROM SUAREZ TO FILMER: A REAPPRAISAL", by J. P. Sommerville, The Historical Journal, Vol. 25, No. 3 (September 1982), pp. 525-540:



Labels: morals, politics, regalism, St. Robert Bellarmine

3. "The Declaration of Independence: Annotated"

That quotation is the title of an article of December 9, 2021 by Liz Tracey in the JSTOR Daily "Annotations" series:


Labels: Americanism, Democratism, history, liberalism, morals, politics, U.S.A.

4. Recent additions to, and losses from, The Order of the Garter

My last blog post about The Most Noble Order of the Garter was "Notes: Tuesday, February 5-Monday, July 22, 2019 (part 1 of 3)" (item 3):


Since then, that Order has lost no Ladies, no Stranger Knights, one British Royal Knight (namely, The (1.) Duke of Edinburgh, who died on April 9, 2021 and whose Funeral occurred on the 17. following), and five other Knights:

1. Lord Bramall, who died on November 12, 2019

2. Lord Ashburton, who died on October 6, 2020, the Memorial Service for whom occurred on October 15, 2021, and whose Garter Insignia were delivered up on December 1, 2021

3. Sir Antony Acland, who died on September 8, 2021, according to "Sir Antony Acland Obituary", dated September 16, 2021, available at Eton College's website:


and the Service of Thanksgiving for the Life of whom occurred on February 4, 2022

4. Sir Timothy Colman, who died the day after Sir Antony, according to "Sir Timothy Colman, record-breaking sailor, naturalist, long-serving lord lieutenant and well-liked figure in Norfolk life – obituary", dated September 15, 2021, available at the London Daily Telegraph's website:


and the Service of Thanksgiving to Celebrate the Life of whom occurred on January 20, 2022

5. Lord Sainsbury, who died on January 14, 2022, according to "Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover obituary", by Stephen Bates, dated Monday, January 17, 2022, available at The Guardian's website:


Over the same period, no new British Royal Knights, no new Stranger Knights nor Ladies, one de-facto British Royal Lady (namely, the de-facto Duchess of Cornwall), one other Lady (Lady Amos), and one other Knight (Sir Tony Blair) have joined the Order, with those three new appointments effective January 1, 2022. See

1. The Press Release "New appointments to the Order of the Garter announced", dated December 31, 2021, available at the official website of the British Royal Family:


It lists the three new appointees in the sequence in which I happen to have listed them, and says that Lady Amos
(born 13th March 1954) has previously been Chief Executive, Equal Opportunities Commission (1989-1994), Secretary of State for International Development, Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Lords (2003-2007), Undersecretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Co-ordinator, UN (2010-2015) and is currently Master, University College Oxford.
while Sir Tony
was Prime Minister from 1997-2007. He is now Executive Chairman of the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, a not-for-profit organisation which works around the world.
2. Notice No. 3963431, January 7, 2022 (but to be dated the previous 1.), Notice Type "State", Sub-Type "Honours and Awards" (Notice Code: 1105), The London Gazette, Issue No. 63581, (printed on January 10, 2022, containing all notices published online between January 7 and 9, 2022), p. 214:


(delete "/page/214" for the full issue, with p. 214 being p. 2 in my document reader)

3. The B.B.C. News report "Blair becomes 'Sir Tony' and joins top royal order", by Sean Coughlan, dated January 1, 2022:


according to which Sir Tony "says he will be "Sir Tony" rather than Sir Anthony"

Consequently, the current Knights Companions and Ladies Companions of The Order of the Garter are:

British Royal Knights and Ladies, at least in fact*:
1. H.M. The Queen (who joined the Order on November 11, 1947 and became Sovereign thereof upon becoming Queen, February 6, 1952)
2. H.R.H. The Prince of Wales (1958) K.G. (July 26, 1958**) K.T. G.C.B. O.M. A.K. Q.S.O. C.C. P.C. A.D.C.
3. H.R.H. The (2.) Duke of Kent (1934, 1942) K.G. (October 9, 1985) G.C.M.G. G.C.V.O. C.D. A.D.C.
4. H.R.H. The Princess Royal (1987) K.G. (1994***) K.T. G.C.V.O. Q.S.O. C.D. A.D.C.
5. H.R.H. The (2.) Duke of Gloucester (1928, 1974) K.G. (1997) G.C.V.O.
6. H.R.H. Princess Alexandra, The Hon. Lady Ogilvy K.G. (2003) G.C.V.O. C.D.
7. H.R.H. The (1.) Duke of York (1986) K.G. (2006) G.C.V.O. C.D. A.D.C.
8. H.R.H. The (1.) Earl of Wessex (1999) and Forfar (2019) K.G. (2006) G.C.V.O. C.D. A.D.C.
9. H.R.H. The (1.) Duke of Cambridge (2011) K.G. (2008) K.T. P.C. A.D.C.
10. The de-facto Duchess of Cornwall K.G. (January 1, 2022) G.C.V.O. P.C.
*unless otherwise indicated, the year given after a title is the year of the creation of that title, and where another year is given after that one, that title is hereditary (and so is a title preceded by an ordinal number), and the latter year is that of the succession to that title; the date after the post-nominal letters K.G. is—again, unless otherwise indicated—the date of the appointment to the Order, and where only a year, not a full date, is given, the appointment is to be dated April 23 of that year
**my presumption, in item 7.2.1 of this issue of "Notes", was correct, judging by the page "Titles and Heraldry" (scroll down and click the tile "Titles"at the left-hand side) at His Royal Highness's website, according to which "The Prince of Wales automatically became a KG when he became Prince of Wales in 1958" (although His Royal Highness "was not installed until 17th June 1968, at Windsor Castle"):


***though the exact date thereof seems disputed—either April 23 or June 13. And it was interesting to read, in the "Feature" article "The Princess Royal – 70 facts at 70", that "The Princess Royal requested to be installed as Royal Knight of the Order, and not a Lady":


Stranger Knights and Ladies*:
1. H.M. The Queen of Denmark (May 16, 1979)
2. H.M. The King of Sweden (May 25, 1983)
3. H.M. King John Charles I. (the abdicated Spanish king) (October 17, 1988)
4. H.R.H. Princess Beatrice (the abdicated Dutch queen) (June 28, 1989)
5. H.M. The (Japanese) Emperor Emeritus (May 26, 1998)
6. H.M. The King of Norway (May 30, 2001)
7. H.M. The King of Spain (July 12, 2017)
8. H.M. The King of The Netherlands (October 23, 2018)
*see the appendix to this blog post for the evidence for these dates

Other Knights and Ladies*:
1. His Grace The Most Hon. The (5.) Duke of Abercorn (1868, 1979) Bt. K.G. (1999)
2. The Rt. Hon. Field Marshal The Baron Inge (1997) K.G. (2001) G.C.B. P.C. D.L.
3. The Rt. Hon. The Baron Butler of Brockwell (1998) K.G. (2003) G.C.B. C.V.O. P.C.
4. The Rt. Hon. The Baron Morris of Aberavon (2001) K.G. (2003) P.C. Q.C.
5. The Rt. Hon. Sir John Major K.G. (2005) C.H. P.C.
6. The Rt. Hon. The Baron Luce (2000) K.G. (2008) G.C.V.O. P.C. D.L.
7. Sir Thomas Dunne K.G. (2008) K.C.V.O. J.P.
8. The Rt. Hon. Admiral of the Fleet The Baron Boyce (2003) K.G. (2011) G.C.B. O.B.E. D.L.
9. The Rt. Hon. The Baron Phillips of Worth Matravers (1999) K.G. (2011) P.C.
10. The Rt. Hon. Marshal of The Royal Air Force The Baron Stirrup (2011) K.G. (2013) G.C.B. A.F.C. A.D.C.
11. The Rt. Hon. The Baroness Manningham-Buller (2008) L.G. (2014) D.C.B.
12. The Rt. Hon. Prof. The Baron King of Lothbury (2013) K.G. (2014) G.B.E. D.L.
13. The Rt. Hon. The (5.) Baron Shuttleworth (1902, 1975) Bt. K.G. (2016) K.C.V.O. J.P.
14. Sir David Brewer K.G. (2016) C.M.G. C.V.O. J.P.
15. Lady Mary Fagan L.G. (2018) D.C.V.O. J.P.
16. The Rt. Hon. The (3.) Viscount Brookeborough (1952, 1987) Bt. K.G. (2018)
17. Lady Mary Peters L.G. (February 27, 2019) C.H. D.B.E.
18. The Most Hon. The (7.) Marquess of Salisbury (1789, 2003) K.G. (February 27, 2019) K.C.V.O. P.C. D.L.
19. The Rt. Hon. The Baroness Amos (1997) L.G. (January 1, 2022) C.H. P.C.
20. The Rt. Hon. Sir Tony Blair K.G. (January 1, 2022) P.C.
*I have applied to this list the rules stated in the first note to my list of British Royal Knights and Ladies, and the sequence in which I have listed these other Garter Knights and Ladies is that of the relevant Press Releases or Gazette notices. The sequence in each of the pairs for 2011, ’18, and ’19 is, however, reversed in the previously-cited Garter banner list; the Court Circular, too, reverses the sequence of the 2011 pair when mentioned in that year through 2019 (except 2017, when Garter Day activities were cancelled, and 2012), and does likewise for the 2018 pair when mentioned in 2019.

Sources: In addition to the resources available through the links in this blog's sidebar (above all, the Court Circular (plus the rest of its host website), Who's Who, and Wikipedia) and in this and other "Notes" items, I have also used

1. The page "ADDRESSING THE ROYAL FAMILY" at the Debrett's website:


2. The page "Privy Council members" at the British Privy Council's website:


3. The page "THE ROYAL FAMILY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND", sub-heading "HOUSE OF WINDSOR", by Mr. William Bortrick, at Burke's Peerage's website:


4. p. 112 (132 in the document reader) in "Appendix Six" ("Royal and Vice-Regal Recipients of the Canadian Forces’ Decoration") of The Canadian Forces’ Decoration, by Mr. Christopher McCreery M.V.O., available at the "Canadian Forces' Decoration (CD)" page at H.M. Canadian Government's website:


or go straight hither:


or hither:


P.S. The usually-annual Garter service did not occur in 2020 nor ’21, according to, respectively, the Press Releases "An announcement regarding Royal events in June" and "Trooping the Colour will not go ahead in its traditional form in 2021", dated April 22, 2020 and March 19, 2021, respectively, and both available at the official website of the British Royal Family:



Labels: Camilla Parker Bowles, Order of the Garter, Tony Blair, Valerie Amos

Reginaldvs Cantvar
Lady Day, A.D. 2022

Appendix: Garter appointment dates for the current Stranger Knights and Ladies

The names of at least some of the current Stranger Knights Companions and Stranger Ladies Companions of The Order of the Garter are in the Wikipedia pages "List of current Knights and Ladies of the Garter" (see my "Miscellaneous links") and "Talk:Order of the Garter" (s.v. "Holy Roman garter?"), the London Times article "Order of the Garter" "full list" (Monday, June 16, 2008), and the page "Garter Banner List" at the website of St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle:




(or go straight hither:


"Holy Roman garter?" gives this U.R.L. as the source for its list, but, as you'll see, the link is dead:


I think that I remember that webpage, and I'm inclined to think that the list has been copied and pasted without more than negligible change. Whatever the case, it can serve as a starting point for further investigation.

An alternative starting point is to remember that, at least recently, Stranger appointments occur during State Visits. The official website of the British Royal Family has a "Feature" article titled "State Visits"; click "List of State Visits" on the left-hand side of the page in order to download a list of "Inward State Visits since 1952" and a list of "Outbound State Visits since 1952":




1. H.M. The Queen appointed Her Majesty's Danish counterpart to the Order in 1979, and the only relevant State Visit that year was the outbound one of Wednesday, May 16-Saturday 19 (p. 2), which The Danish Royal House's official website corroborates on the "State Visits" page (s.v. "List of State Visits") there:


According to the news report "THE QUEEN TAKES A TRIP IN THE TUNNEL OF LOVE", by Ann Morrow (in Copenhagen), on p. 19 of The Daily Telegraph (London) of Friday, May 18, 1979 (Issue No. 38552), "Queen Margarethe[ recte Margrethe] was given the Order of the Garter and an English gilt carriage clock by the Queen and Prince Philip" (my interpolation), presumably respectively, at the State banquet aboard H.M. Yacht Britannia the previous night. I presume that "given the Order of the Garter" means 'presented with the Garter Insignia', so The Queen of Denmark must have joined the Order on or before Thursday, May 17, 1979; I think that it's safe to say that May 16, 1979 was the exact date of the appointment.

2. Her Majesty appointed H.M. The King of Sweden to the Order in 1983, and the only relevant State Visit that year was the outbound one of May 25-28 (p. 2), and The Swedish Royal Court's official website corroborates that on the page "State visits 1980-1989" there:


According to the news report "The Queen goes ashore in gondola", by Jenny Shields (in Stockholm), The Daily Telegraph (London), Thursday, May 26, 1983, Issue No. 39793, p. 19, "at a ceremony in the Palace, the Queen presented 37-year-old King Carl Gustav with the Order of the Garter" on Wednesday, May 25, 1983. More accurately, 'presented The King with the Garter Insignia', I presume, so His Majesty must have joined the Order on or before that date, presumably the former.

3. The Queen appointed H.M. King John Charles I. (at the time of the appointment, the reigning King of Spain) a Stranger Knight of the Garter on October 17, 1988, according to Notice No. 21 SI, Notice Type "State Intelligence", Sub-Type "HONOURS AND AWARDS", The London Gazette, Issue No. 51806, Tuesday, July 11, 1989, p. 8095:

(delete "/page/8095" from this and the next U.R.L. for the full issue)


See also the news reports
  • "Sun, smiles and a Latin greeting for the Queen", by Richard Kay in Madrid, Tuesday, October 18, 1988, in The Daily Mail, London, Issue No. 28715, p. 5, which says that, on the 17., "The Queen conferred the Order of the Garter on Juan Carlos"
  • "Affectionate welcome for royal cousins", by Alan Hamilton, reporting from Madrid, Tuesday, October 18, 1988, in The Times, London, Issue No. 63215, p. 7, which says that, on the 17., "The Queen created King Juan Carlos an Extra Knight of the Garter"
October 17, 1988 was first day of the only relevant State Visit by The Queen that year (p. 2); the visit ended on the 21.

4. Her Majesty appointed H.R.H. Princess Beatrice (at the time of the appointment, the reigning Queen of The Netherlands) a Stranger Lady of the Garter on June 28, 1989, according to the same Gazette notice as that for King John Charles I.'s appointment. And on the same day, "The Queen invested The Queen of the Netherlands with the Insignia of an Extra Lady of the Most Noble Order of the Garter", according to the issue of the Court Circular printed on p. 18 of The Times (London), Thursday, June 29, 1989, Issue No. 63433. (Neither the official website of The Royal House of The Netherlands nor that of the British Royal Family give the dates for the State Visit of Her Royal Highness to Her Majesty, though that issue of the Court Circular says that "The Queen of the Netherlands and Prince Claus of the Netherlands arrived at Buckingham Palace this afternoon", and the previous day's issue seems not to mention that royal couple, so June 28 must have been the first day, and according to the news report "Queen's honour for Beatrix", p. 20, South China Morning Post, Friday, June 30, 1989, Vol. XLV, No. 179, Princess Beatrice was "on a three-day visit to Brit-ain" (the last word spanned two lines).)

5. The Queen appointed H.M. The (Japanese) Emperor Emeritus (at the time of the appointment, the reigning Emperor of Japan) to the Order in 1998, and the only relevant State Visit that year was the incoming one of May 26-29 (p. 2), on the first day whereof Her Majesty presented His Majesty with the Garter Insignia. Of the numerous Gale Primary Sources and ProQuest (via the N.S.W. State Library's website (see sidebar)) articles about the State Visit, the most informative for present purposes were the news reports "Thunder of guns met by imperial blaze of modesty THE EMPEROR'S VISIT: [D Edition 1]" (sic), by Valentine Low, Evening Standard, West End final ed., London, May 26, 1998, according to which, on May 26, 1998,
after a lunch in the Bow Room of Buckingham Palace, the emperor was presented with the Order of the Garter. There was no formal conferring upon the emperor of the Order which was simply laid out on a table with the other gifts from the Queen. However, no snub was intended - this, said the Palace, was the norm in such circumstances.
and "A day of protest and reconciliation", by Alan Hamilton, p. 1, The Times (London), Wednesday, May 27, 1998, Issue No. 66212, which put it this way:
On arriving at the Palace, the visitors were entertained to lunch of asparagus mousse, roast chicken and rhubarb parfait. The Queen then took the Emperor into the adjoin-ing Carnarvon Room and, without ceremony, presented him with the Order of the Garter, its star insignia lying in an open box among other gifts.
(The word 'adjoining' spanned two lines.)
Therefore, His Majesty must have joined the Order on or before May 26, 1998, presumably the former.

6. Her Majesty appointed H.M. The King of Norway to the Order in 2001, and the only relevant State Visit that year was that of The Queen to His Majesty from May 30-June 1 (see p. 3), and The Royal House of Norway's website corroborates that on its "State visits during the reign of King Harald" page (s.v. "State visits to Norway"):


According to the Court Circular, "The Queen presented The King of Norway with the Insignia of an Extra Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter" on May 30 at The Royal Palace, Oslo, so His Majesty must have joined the order on or before that date, presumably the former.

7. and 8. Her Majesty appointed H.M. The King of Spain and H.M. The King of The Netherlands to the Order on July 12, 2017 and October 23, 2018, respectively. See item 7.2.1 of "Notes: Tuesday, April 24, 2018-Monday, February 4, 2019 (part 2 of 2)" and item 3 of "Notes: Tuesday, February 5-Monday, July 22, 2019 (part 1 of 3)", to which, for convenience, I link here, along with links to their respective sources:








And for the sake of completeness, see the news item "King and Queen to visit Windsor", dated "07-06-2019", at the official website of The Royal House of The Netherlands, according to which H.M. The (Dutch) "King was appointed a Supernumerary Knight of the Garter during the State Visit to the United Kingdom on 23 and 24 October 2018", and "His Majesty King Felipe VI of Spain" was "appointed as such during a state visit in 2017":

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Monday, March 1, 2021

Notes: Tuesday, December 1, 2020-Monday, March 1, 2021

1. "As you know, due to the pandemic, today I[, The Pope,] was unable to celebrate Baptisms in the Sistine Chapel, as customary."

That quotation, excluding my square-bracketed parenthesis, comes from the translation of H.H. The Pope's remarks, after the Angelus recited on Sunday, January 10, 2021 (the New-Order Feast of The Baptism of The Lord), in The Holy See Press Office daily bulletin item "The Pope’s words at the Angelus prayer, 10.01.2021":


(those translated remarks are also available here:


with the original Italian of that item (titled "Le parole del Papa alla recita dell’Angelus, 10.01.2021") available here:


and the Italian remarks are also available here:


If that sentence translates "Come sapete, a causa della pandemia, oggi non ho potuto celebrare i Battesimi nella Cappella sistina, come di solito." correctly, then His Holiness seems to have misspoken. For in no sense of the word was The Pope unable to celebrate the customary Baptisms. There is no suggestion that His Holiness was physically unable, nor is there any indication that The Pope was morally unable (unable, that is, to celebrate the Baptisms without disproportionate inconvenience), nor was His Holiness legally unable. For The Pope is the Sovereign of The Vatican City State, and even in other jurisdictions the civil sovereign has no authority over the Sacraments, and even in those jurisdictions where the civil sovereign regulates the Sacraments de facto, the relevant regulations usually contain exceptions for ministers of religion, and it's easy to baptise babies in a COVID-safe fashion. It seems, then, that His Holiness was really unwilling, rather than unable, to baptise the babies in question. (According to the Vatican News report "Covid-19: Pope will not celebrate Baptisms in Sistine Chapel", dated January 5, 2021, "the baptisms will take place in the parishes to which they belong":


It's unclear, however, when those Baptisms were expected to occur and what the differences are which 'enable' them to take place in the babies' respective parish churches but not in the Sistine Chapel as planned.)

Labels: Francis Bergoglio, morals, politics

2. According to Richard Baxter, Adam Contzen "concludeth as the true and common judgement, that the power of making Laws, is by nature in the multitude or whole Common-wealth; and that no one Prince hath more than the people give him. And that the people when they choose a Royal Person or Family, may reserve this right, that he shall abrogate or make no Law without them: that all Civil power flows from the people; and that none without Tyranny can take this power from them: And that such a Tyrant is worse than he that beateth the innocent, because he wrongeth and oppresseth more."

That quotation comes from The second part of The nonconformists plea for peace, by Richard Baxter, printed for John Hancock, London, 1680, available at the Oxford Text Archive and The University of Michigan Library's website:



Baxter said that after he said that "It seems heretofore some Canonists thought otherwise", but, in the opinion of Contzen and perhaps of Baxter, "now the common vote is against them", so the "common judgement" in question refers to that of (presumably Catholic) Canonists. Contzen's Politicorum libri decem is available at Google Books (Baxter cited book five, chapter five, which begins on pp. 310 and 278 of the following two versions, respectively):



Labels: Democratism, morals, politics

3. "Fundamental structures of the state that are in principle beyond the reach of the prince include the leges fundamentales; these laws embody, according to the doctrine formulated by Innocent Gentillet and Bodin, basic laws which constitute the state insofar as its essential political order is concerned. Insofar as the political order was conceived as a monarchical order, this concept at the same time strengthened absolutism."

That quotation comes from p. 903 in ""What a Good Ruler Should Not Do": Theoretical Limits of Royal Power in European Theories of Absolutism, 1500-1700", by Wolfgang Weber, in The Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 26, No. 4 (Winter, 1995), pp. 897-915:


Labels: morals, politics, regalism

4. H.M.A. Government says that it will contribute up to seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars to the establishment, in partnership with The A.C.T. Government and the A.C.T. Jewish community, of the (permanent) Canberra Holocaust Museum and Education Centre.

See the Joint Media Release "New Canberra memorial to commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day", dated Jauary 27, 2021, issued by The Hon. Alan Tudge M.P. (at the time, Federal Minister for Education and Youth) and Mr. Andrew Barr M.L.A. (at the time, A.C.T. Chief Minister):


and Mr. Tudge's Transcript "International Holocaust Remembrance Day", dated January 27, 2021:


That facility seems to have been conceived as an upgrade of the pre-existing National Jewish Memorial Centre, judging by The Age's Federal politics news report "‘A brighter, more tolerant future’: $750,000 funding for Holocaust museum in Canberra", by Rob Harris, dated January 27, 2021:


According to the Transcript "Doorstop interview, ACT Jewish Community Centre", dated January 27, 2021, The Hon. Josh Frydenberg M.P. (at the time, de facto Federal Treasurer) said that the money was "to be matched, to be in partnership, with the ACT Government to establish a Holocaust museum here in the ACT":


I don't know whether, when Mr. Frydenberg said "to be matched, to be in partnership," he (a) misspoke by saying "to be matched" and then corrected himself by saying "to be in partnership" or (b) spoke as he intended to speak, but (b) seems more likely, given that Mr. Barr was quoted in his Joint Press Release as saying that
The ACT Government looks forward to supporting the ACT Jewish community with a financial and in-kind contribution towards the project as it develops and progresses over the coming year.
In addition to the Canberra centre, Mr. Tudge said, according to the latter Transcript, that
Our ambition is to have such centres right around the country. They’re already now in four locations where funding has been committed for four locations and we hope to see them in every major city in Australia
and in his Joint Media Release he is quoted as saying that
Our government has committed funding, in partnership with respective state governments for the construction of similar centres in Victoria, South Australia, Queensland and Western Australia.
(According to Mr. Harris,
the Jewish Holocaust Centre in Elsternwick, Victoria, the Jewish Community Centre of Western Australia, the Queensland Holocaust Museum and Education Centre, and the Adelaide Holocaust Museum
are the four exact places to which Mr. Tudge refers.) Regarding earlier developments, see the Media Releases "New Holocaust Museum in South Australia" (which relates to item 5.3 of part 2 of my last issue of "Notes"), dated October 16, 2020 and "New Holocaust Museum in Queensland", dated September 30, 2020, both issued by The Hon. Dan Tehan M.P. (at both times, Federal Minister for Education):



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Monday, July 22, 2019

Notes: Tuesday, February 5-Monday, July 22, 2019 (part 2 of 3)

5.2 An interesting survey, found in an unexpected place, of some Papal and Patristic opinions on political theory, including Church-State relations

S.v. "The papal theory", art. "Papal Arbitration", The Catholic Encyclopedia:

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11452a.htm

Labels: Church and State, Confessional State, law, morals, politics, Social Reign of Christ

5.3 Dr. Chambers on, among other things, prescription ('thorough settlement') as a title to sovereignty

See the doctoral thesis Conscience and allegiance : an investigation into the controversy over Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy during the Reign of William III and William II, 1689 - 1702, by Dr. Jeffrey Alexander John Chambers, Dublin, Ireland, 2016, available at Trinity College, Dublin's Trinity's Access to Research Archive website:

http://www.tara.tcd.ie/handle/2262/82900

Or go straight hither:

http://www.tara.tcd.ie/bitstream/handle/2262/82900/Chambers%2c%20Jeffrey_Phd%20History%20TCD%202016%20Conscience%20%26%20Allegiance.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Labels: morals, politics

5.4 Prof. Burgess on the difference between regalism and absolutism

See the article "The Divine Right of Kings Reconsidered", by Glenn Burgess, in The English Historical Review, Vol. CVII, Issue No. CCCCXXV, October 1992, pp 837–861, available at that journal's website:

https://academic.oup.com/ehr/article/CVII/CCCCXXV/837/521648

Or go straight hither:

https://academic.oup.com/ehr/article-pdf/CVII/CCCCXXV/837/9783615/837.pdf

Labels: morals, politics, regalism

5.5 "… The politician must be in the midst of his people and collaborate in this way or another to make the sovereign people the protagonist of their history."

The quotation, excluding my ellipsis symbol, in that headline is attributed, after translation, to H.H. The Pope in The Holy See Press Office Bulletin item "Audience with a Group of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, 04.03.2019":

http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2019/03/04/190304e.html

The original Spanish of that quotation ("… El político está en medio de su pueblo y colabora con este medio u otros a que el pueblo que es soberano sea el protagonista de su historia.") is available, with the rest of the Papal address whence its untranslated version was extracted, in the Italian version of that Bulletin item, "Udienza ad un Gruppo della Pontificia Commissione per l’America Latina, 04.03.2019":

http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2019/03/04/0184/00374.html

The original Spanish and translated English texts of the Papal address in question are also available via the following two links, respectively:

http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/es/speeches/2019/march/documents/papa-francesco_20190304_pontcommissione-americalatina.html

http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2019/march/documents/papa-francesco_20190304_pontcommissione-americalatina.html

Labels: Democratism, Francis Bergoglio, morals, politics

5.6 Dr. Balmez (or Balmes) on the origin of, justification for, and mode of transmission of political authority

See CC. XLIX ("THE ORIGIN OF SOCIETY, ACCORDING TO CATHOLIC THEOLOGIANS."), L ("OF DIVINE LAW, ACCORDING TO CATHOLIC DOCTORS."), and LI ("THE TRANSMISSION OF POWER, ACCORDING TO CATHOLIC DOCTORS."), pp. 238-259 (267-88 in the document reader), Protestantism and Catholicity Compared in Their Effects on the Civilisation of Europe., by The Rev. J. (for Jaime) Balmez, translated, from M. Blanche's French translation of the original Spanish, by C. J. Hanford and R. (for Robert) Kershaw, published, or at least printed, by Robson, Levey, and Franklyn, London, 1849, downloaded from Search Oxford Libraries Online:

http://dbooks.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/books/PDFs/590051082.pdf

Also available at Google Books:

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=IEoEAAAAQAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s

Labels: Democratism, morals, politics, regalism, St. Robert Bellarmine, St. Thomas Aquinas

5.7 Mr. Anderson on Filmer's Patriarcha

See the magisterial thesis Sir Robert Filmer’s Patriarcha: Royalist Propaganda, by Kurtis G. (for George) Anderson, available for download from Emory University's Electronic Theses and Dissertations website:

https://etd.library.emory.edu/concern/etds/d217qq34d?locale=en

Labels: morals, politics, regalism

6. Fr. Parsons on two opposing concepts of political liberty and on their respective relationships to authority

S.v. "DEMOCRATIC LIBERTY" and "LIBERTY AND AUTHORITY", art. "The Theory and Origins of Democracy", by The Rev. Fr. Wilfrid Parsons S.J. (then-Professor of Political Science at The Catholic University of America), p. 11, The Advocate (Melbourne), Vol. LXXIX, No. 4740, Wednesday, June 5, 1946:

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/172227845

Labels: Democratism, liberalism, morals, politics

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Notes: Tuesday, February 5-Monday, July 22, 2019 (part 1 of 3)

1. The latest changes to this blog's sidebar

Immediately before posting this part of this issue of "Notes", I removed from this blog's sidebar the links to What's Up With Francis-Church? (because it's no longer being updated) and to "Sources for the Syllabus of Errors" and the respective websites of The Archdiocese of Sydney, The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, and The Diocese of Wollongong (because I never or hardly ever use them, nor can see any other good enough reason to keep them), and moved the remaining links to the "Miscellaneous links" section from the "Magisterium" or "Bishops and (Local) Churches of Australia and the world" sections (hence I deleted those sections). I then added links to the revived Bernard Gaynor blog and to The University of Birmingham's The Philological Museum. (When I first saw that Mr. Gaynor had resumed blogging, I think that the most recent post at his blog was "Anzac Day dawn service march too dangerous for female CO" ("Posted By Bernard Gaynor on Friday, April 12, 2019 4:07 pm"); the last post before his blog went into hiatus seemed to have been "Vale Larry Pickering" ("Posted By Bernard Gaynor on Tuesday, November 20, 2018 7:31 pm"), and his first post after that hiatus was apparently "By George, it’s unbelievable" ("Posted By Bernard Gaynor on Tuesday, March 5, 2019 1:12 pm").)

But I don't think that there's any need for me to mention such changes in future. If you want to know how, when, or why I make future alterations to the sidebar, please feel free to ask me.

Labels: blogs

2. Prof. Schofield on two points of Plato's political philosophy:

2.1 Rule of law vs. rule of men:
The companion dialogue Politicus or Statesman addresses more squarely than Republic did the practical as distinct from the theoretical knowledge of the ideal statesman. Its contribution to this topic consists of three major claims. First is the rejection of the sovereignty of law. Plato has nothing against law as a convenient but imprecise rule of thumb in the hands of an expert statesman, provided it does not prevent him using his expertise. Making law sovereign, on the other hand, would be like preferring strict adherence to a handbook of navigation or a medical textbook to the judgment of the expert seafarer or doctor. If you have no such expert available, a constitution based on adherence to law is better than lawlessness, but that is not saying much. What law cannot do that expert rulers can and must is judge the kairos: discern the right and the wrong ’moment’ to undertake a great enterprise of state. …
[hyperlinks and italics in the original, my ellipsis symbol,
§ "16. Later dialogues", art. "Plato (427–347 BC)" (version 1), by Emeritus Prof. Malcolm Schofield, The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online:
https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/plato-427-347-bc/v-1/sections/later-dialogues]
Labels: morals, Plato, politics

2.2 The essential function of authority:
… Statesman makes the statesman a sort of weaver. There are two strands to the analogy. First, like weaving statesmanship calls upon many subordinate skills. Its job is not to be doing things itself, but to control all the subordinate functions of government, and by its concern for the laws and every other aspect of the city weave all together. …
[hyperlink in the original, my ellipsis symbols,
ibid.]
Labels: morals, Plato, politics

3. Lady Mary Peters and Lord Salisbury have joined The Order of the Garter

H.M. The Queen has appointed Lady Mary Peters L.G. C.H. D.B.E. a Lady Companion of The Order of the Garter and The Most Hon. The (7.) Marquess of Salisbury K.G. K.C.V.O. P.C. D.L. a Knight Companion of the same Order, according to the Press Release "New appointments to the Order of the Garter announced", February 27, 2019:

https://www.royal.uk/new-appointments-order-garter-announced

(That date is presumably the effective date for the appointments in question, judging by usual practice and by this Tweet ("3:43 AM - 27 Feb 2019") from the Twitter account "The Royal Family" (@RoyalFamily), which says that "Two new appointments have been made to the Order of the Garter today.", and names the aforementioned appointees:

https://twitter.com/RoyalFamily/status/1100723225527492610

Unusually, that date seems to be both the effective date and the nominal date for those appointments; see Notice No. 3316805, February 27, 2019, Notice Type "State", Sub-Type "Honours and Awards" (Notice Code: 1105), The London Gazette, Issue No. 62703 (printed on July 5, 2019, containing all notices published online the previous day), p. 11956:

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/3316805

(A digital version of the full text of p. 11956 is available here:

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/62703/page/11956

and a digital version of the full text of Issue No. 62703 is available here, with p. 11956 being p. 2 in your document reader:

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/62703)

I say "unusually" because Gazette items promulgating new Garter Knight or Lady appointments which (appointments) are effective from dates other than April 23 usually describe the appointments as 'to be dated' April 23; that happened mostly recently in 2016, ’13, ’11, ’08, and ’05, judging by the results of searching "To be dated" and "Order of the Garter" and "Companion" together at that gazette's website.)

That Press Release says that Lady Mary
(born 6 July 1939) served as Her Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of the County Borough of Belfast between 2009 and 2014. In the 1972 summer Olympics in Munich, Dame Mary won the Gold Medal in the pentathlon. In 1975, she established The Mary Peters Trust to support talented young sportsmen and women across Northern Ireland.
while His Lordship
(born 30 September 1946) is a former Leader of the House of Lords. Lord Salisbury is a Deputy Lieutenant of Hertfordshire, and was Chairman of the Thames Diamond Jubilee Foundation, which organised the Diamond Jubilee Pageant on the River Thames in 2012. Lord Salisbury is also Chancellor of the University of Hertfordshire.
It also mentions that its "announcement brings the number of Companions to twenty-three (out of a maximum of twenty-four)." See item 7.2.1 of part 2 of my previous issue of "Notes" for the names of the other twenty-one Companions in question, as well as those of the current Royal-Family and Stranger ones (minus one from the latter category—see the end of this item), and the accuracy, as of Garter Day this year, of the names in the first two categories can be confirmed by comparing my lists to the lists in the Court Circular for the 17. ult. (The only absentees other than Stranger Knights or Ladies this year were Lords Ashburton and Inge and T.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh and The Duke of Cambridge, but Their Lordships are, judging by Wikipedia, still alive, and so are Their Royal Highnesses, of course.)

According to that issue of the Court Circular, this year's Garter Day activities consisted of
  • a Chapter of the Order held by Her Majesty, accompanied by all the Royal-Family Garter Knights and Ladies except T.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh and The Duke of Cambridge and with, among others, H.M. The King of Spain, H.M. The King of The Netherlands, and all the other Garter Knights and Ladies present except Lords Ashburton and Inge and the other Stranger Knights and Ladies, in the Throne Room, Windsor Castle, during which "The Queen welcomed The King of Spain and The King of the Netherlands as Extra Knights Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter" and invested Lady Mary and Lord Salisbury with the Garter Insignia. (Her Majesty had already received Lady Mary and, presumably separately, His Lordship last May 16 and, at their respective receptions, invested them with the same Insignia, according to the Court Circular.)
  • a later Luncheon Party given by The Queen for the Garter Knights and Ladies.
  • in the afternoon, an Installation Service in St. George's Chapel for the installation of the new Garter Companions.
(See also the article "Garter Day 2019", dated June 14 (sic), 2019:

https://www.royal.uk/garter-day-2019)

You might also have noticed in the Court Circular the reference to Grand Duke John of Luxembourg's State Funeral last May 4. According to the English version of His late Royal Highness's biography at Luxembourg's Royal Family's website, Grand Duke John died on April 23, 2019 (which would, of course, have been St. George's Day had it not fallen during the Octave of Easter):

http://www.monarchie.lu/fr/famille/grand-duc-jean/biogrgdjean-en.pdf

Labels: John of Luxembourg, Mary Peters, Order of the Garter, Philip VI. Borbón, Robert Salisbury, William Alexander of The Netherlands

4. Alberico Gentili (in Latin: Albericus Gentilis) is "regarded as one of the founders of the science of international law and the first person in western Europe to separate secular law from Roman Catholic theology and canon law." (In other words, he is "considered the originator of the secular school of thought in international law".)

The first quotation, including its hyperlinks, in that headline comes from the Encyclopædia Britannica article "Alberico Gentili (Italian jurist)":

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alberico-Gentili

Apparently, the second quotation comes from that encyclopedia's article "International law" (s.v. "Historical development"):

https://www.britannica.com/topic/international-law/Historical-development

(The article is behind a paywall, but the quotation shows up in the related-articles section of "Alberico Gentili (Italian jurist)" and came up in the ninth result when I searched "Gentili" at Britannica's website.)

Labels: law, morals, politics, secularism

5. More items on the grounds of political legitimacy

5.1 "considering the bases of the League doctrines, it is impossible not to accord them the highest importance in the history of political ideas. Power, they said, was derived from God through the people, and they opposed the false, absolutist, and Gallican doctrine of the Divine right and irresponsibility of kings, such as Louis XIV professed and practised"

The quotation, minus hyperlinks, in that headline comes from the article "The League" (s.v. "Political doctrines of the League") in The Catholic Encyclopedia:

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09098b.htm

Labels: Democratism, morals, politics, regalism

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Monday, February 4, 2019

Notes: Tuesday, April 24, 2018-Monday, February 4, 2019 (part 1 of 2)

1. Some changes to this blog's sidebar

Immediately before posting this part of this issue of "Notes", I changed the name of the "Reference links" section of this blog's sidebar to "Reference or research links" and added to it links to
Then I deleted from that sidebar links to
  • Angelqueen.org (because the forum's gone; there's now just an invitation to join its Facebook group and a link whereby to do so)
I also mention here that in item 1 of part 1 of my previous issue of "Notes" I last gave notice of changes to this blog's layout. (I mention that here because I forgot to include a "blogs" subject label in the subject labels for that part of that issue of "Notes".)

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2. On May 11, 2018, The Pope approved a revision of the so-called Catechism of The Catholic Church; according to the new version of that document, "the Church teaches, in the light of the Gospel, that “the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person”"

See The Holy See Press Office Daily Bulletin item "Nuova redazione del n. 2267 del Catechismo della Chiesa Cattolica sulla pena di morte – Rescriptum “ex Audentia SS.mi”, 02.08.2018":

http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2018/08/02/0556/01209.html

(An English translation of that item is also available on its own here, with the title "New revision of number 2267 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church on the death penalty – Rescriptum “ex Audentia SS.mi”, 02.08.2018":

http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2018/08/02/180802a.html)

The Rev. Fr. John T. Zuhlsdorf gives, in his August 3, 2018 blog post "“HEY! Wait for me!” Latin of change to CCC 2267 about capital punishment now available.", an English translation of that Daily Bulletin item's Latin translation of the revision, side-by-side with three official versions (namely, the Italian, English, and Latin versions) of that revision:

http://wdtprs.com/blog/2018/08/hey-wait-for-me-latin-of-change-to-ccc-2267-about-capital-punishment-now-available/

And The Rev. Fr. George Welzbacher offers, in his January 3, 2019 article "The Revised Catechism Section 2267 . . . What The Latin Text Actually Says" (ellipsis symbol in the original) at The Wanderer's website, an alternative English translation of the official Latin version and maintains that that Latin version is consistent with the Church's Traditional teaching:

http://thewandererpress.com/catholic/news/frontpage/the-revised-catechism-section-2267-what-the-latin-text-actually-says/

The problem is that such consistency can only be obtained at the expense of consistency with H.H. The Pope's intended meaning of the relevant portion of the Address which the Catechism now quotes. (See the third of the following bullet points for more on that Address.) In other words, were Fr. Welzbacher correct, the official Latin of the Papal quotation in the Catechism revision would be a mistranslation.

See also
  • the article "The death penalty is inadmissible", attributed to "Rino Fisichella, President of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization" (italics in the original), dated August 2, 2018, available at L’Osservatore Romano's website; it seems to be an English version of the article "La pena di morte è inammissibile", by the same author, on p. 7 of the weekly Italian version of L’Osservatore Romano, No. 32-33, August 9, 2018:

    Warning: The respective destinations of the following two links display some unsavoury-looking images:

    http://www.osservatoreromano.va/en/news/death-penalty-inadmissible

    http://www.osservatoreromano.va/vaticanresources/pdf/ITA_2018_033_0908.pdf
Labels: death penalty, Francis Bergoglio, morals, politics

3. Some recent articles, and one older one, concerning integralism:Labels: Church and State, Confessional State, liberalism, morals, politics, religious liberty, Social Reign of Christ

4. Political philosophy's designation and delegation theories among non-Catholics

(For a summary of the basic differences between the designation theory of the acquisition of political authority and its rival, the delegation theory, see item 2 of this issue of my "Notes":

http://cardinalpole.blogspot.com/2016/03/notes-friday-january-1-monday-march-28.html)

4.1 Among Anglicans: "That sublime Power therefore which resides in earthly Potentates, is not a Derivation, or Collection of humane power scattered among many, and gathered into one head; but a participation of God's own Omnipotency, which he never did communicate to any multitudes of men in the world, but, only, and immediately, to his own Vicegerents. And, that is his meaning when he saith, By me Kings reign; Kings they are, by my immediate constitution; and by me also, do they Rule, and exercise their so high and large Authority."

The quotation, with its original italics but with centrescript letters referring to sidenotes omitted, words spanning two lines reunited, and spelling and punctuation modernised by me, in that headline comes from p. 11 (p. 13 in the document reader) of Religion and Alegiance (sic) by Roger Maynwaring (though there are numerous possible variant spellings of his surname: Maynvvaring, Maynuuaring, Manwaring, Mainwaring, &c.), printed by I. H. for Richard Badger, London, 1627, downloaded from The British Library's website:

http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?docId=BLL01017849307&vid=BLVU1&lang=en_US&institution=BL

or go straight hither:

http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100031380413.0x000001

Also available at Google Books:

https://books.google.com.au/books?vid=BL:A0021222935&redir_esc=y

and The Oxford Text Archive:

http://ota.ox.ac.uk/tcp/headers/A07/A07368.html

or go straight hither:

http://downloads.it.ox.ac.uk/ota-public/tcp/Texts-HTML/free/A07/A07368.html

As is well known, there were many contemporaneous Anglicans belonging to Manwaring's school of thought; Algernon Sidney (himself, of course, not among them) listed the main ones (minus Hobbes, plus the Stuart kings): "Laud, Manwaring, Sibthorp, Hobbs, Filmer, and Heylin"(http://downloads.it.ox.ac.uk/ota-public/tcp/Texts-HTML/free/A60/A60214.html)

I might blog about their respective writings in the near future.

Labels: Anglicans, morals, politics, regalism

4.2 The delegation theory in the Russian Orthodox sect? "On behalf of the Episcopal Council of the Russian Orthodox Church I would like to wish you, much-esteemed Vladimir Vladimirovich, long years of life, good health and God’s aid in the lofty mission the Lord has entrusted to you through the will of the people. This is how we understand that which is happening in the history of people: the free will of people is combined with Divine Providence. …"

The quotation in that headline, excluding my ellipsis, comes from what I presume is a translation of the "Speech by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill at the Meeting of the President of Russia Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin with the Participants of the Episcopal Council of the Russian Orthodox Church" on December 1, 2017, downloaded from the website of that sect's Department for External Church Relations:

https://mospat.ru/en/2017/12/01/news153711/

Labels: Democratism, morals, politics, R.O.C.

5. Mr. Tudge's latest lists of Australian values: "freedom of speech, freedom of association, equality between men and women, freedom of religion", "liberal democracy, the rule of law, equality of men and women, respect for each other", "a commitment to Australia's liberal democracy, equality between men and women, being governed by the rule of law", "freedom of speech and worship, equality between sexes, democracy and the rule of law, a fair go for all, the taking of individual responsibility"

(Unfortunately, the links in this item are now dead, but you can get some indication of the veracity of my attribution of those quotations by Googling them.) The quotations in that headline come respectively from the transcripts "Interview with Oliver Peterson, 6PR Drive", dated Wednesday, July 25, 2018:

http://minister.homeaffairs.gov.au/alantudge/Pages/interview-with-oliver-peterson-6pr-drive.aspx

"Interview with Patricia Karvelas, ABC Radio National", dated Monday, July 23, 2018:

http://minister.homeaffairs.gov.au/alantudge/Pages/interview-with-patricia-karvelas-abc-radio-national.aspx

"Interview with Laura Jayes, Sky News", dated Monday, July 23, 2018:

http://minister.homeaffairs.gov.au/alantudge/Pages/interview-with-laura-jayes-sky-news.aspx

and the prepared text of "Maintaining social cohesion in a time of large, diverse immigration" (a "Speech at the Australia-UK Leadership Forum, London"), dated Thursday, July 19, 2018:

http://minister.homeaffairs.gov.au/alantudge/Pages/maintaining-social-cohesion-in-a-time-of-large-diverse-immigration.aspx

with all those quotations attributed to The Hon. Alan Tudge M.P. (at their time, Federal Minister for Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs).

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