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  • It is still an exceedingly valuable explanation of the true doctrine of Infallibility as taught by the great Italian "Ultramontane" theologians, such as Bellarmine in the sixteenth century, P. Ballerini in the eighteenth, and Perrone in the nineteenth.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

  • Basically, Bellarmine had told Galileo that it was okay to teach Copernicanism as a mathematical method of predicting planetary positions.

    February 15th, 2009 m_francis 2009

  • Consequently, with the current interest even among non-Catholics in the Church of Christ as the Mystical Body, we should not overlook what St. Robert Bellarmine has to say about a subject in which the

    Saints 2009

  • Shortly after his defection from Rome, Johann Döllinger bitterly reproached the First Vatican Council with "doing nothing but defining the private opinions of a single man — Cardinal Robert Bellarmine."

    Saints 2009

  • "As Bellarmine notes with acumen and accuracy," the Pope says, "this naming of the Body of Christ is not to be explained solely by the fact that Christ must be called the Head of His Mystical Body, but also by the fact that He so sustains the Church, and so in a sense lives in the Church, that it is, as it were, another Christ."

    Saints 2009

  • I had expected St. Robert Bellarmine to be the patron, the great Counter-Reformation powerhouse; instead, it was this lesser-known English abbey-building monk, suggesting less the rah-rah Catholicism of the forties than a genteel appeal to pre-reformation Catholic Anglophilia.

    St. Robert's, Shorewood, Wisconsin 2009

  • The archdiocese wanted him to head St. Robert Bellarmine Parish in Bayside, Queens, after its pastor died.

    The Priest 2011

  • Bellarmine had written that this might be done if empirical facts demonstrated to the contrary, but Galileo did not, and never had, the required demonstration.

    May 22nd, 2009 m_francis 2009

  • Indeed, if Galileo too had died in 1616, he would be remembered as a promising observer and mathematician, killed off shortly after a theological rebuke came his way from Cardinal Bellarmine - his only major work then published was The Starry Messenger, with the Dialogue Concerning the Two World Systems, which caused his biggest difficulties with the Church, not completed until 1632.

    August Books 29) Galileo's Daughter: A Drama of Science, Faith and Love, by Dava Sobel nwhyte 2009

  • He attended Bellarmine University, in Louisville, Ky., where he studied business, and he eventually landed at United Distillers, where he worked his way up to be the master distiller of Rebel Yell, another bourbon.

    Distilling a Lifetime of Whiskey Knowledge Kamau High 2011

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