Afleveringen
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So far in this series, we've seen a number of examples of early popes exercising authority over bishops and churches outside of Rome, and even outside of the West. As the documentary record improves, this becomes even clearer, and the popes in this installment, especially St. Innocent I, are striking for the extent to which they asserted their prerogative to govern the entire global Church. We also see evidence of the ancient discipline of clerical continence, the first instance of a person being executed for heresy, and the beginning of the Pelagian controversy.
Covered in this episode are popes #38-40: St. Siricius, St. Anastasius I, and St. Innocent I.
Links
Article version https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/they-ruled-east-and-west/
Pope St. Siricius's Decretal to Himerius https://earlychurchtexts.com/public/siricius_decretal_to_himerius.htm
Way of the Fathers on the Pelagian heresy https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/413-heresiespelagianism-and-seeds-calvinism/
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Pope St. Damasus I (reigned 366-384) commissioned St. Jerome to make a new translation of the Bible, defended the Church against heresy, promoted the prestige and practical authority of the papacy, and wrote verse epitaphs for the Roman martyrs.
Links
Article version https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/pope-st-damasus-patron-latin-bible/
"Defending St. Jerome's honor" https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/defending-st-jeromes-honor/
Relevant Way of the Fathers episodes:
Apollinarianism https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/414-heresiesapollinarius-monothelitism-human-suit/
Macedonianism https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/412-heresies-spirit-fighters-aftermath-nicaea/
First Council of Constantinople https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/23-first-constantinople-capital-council/
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Liberius (352-366) is not only the first pope in history not to be considered a saint in the Catholic Church, but is also often used by anti-Catholic critics to argue against papal infallibility - since he allegedly signed documents in favor of Arianism under duress from the emperor.
Article: https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/first-non-sainted-pope/
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The widespread persecution of Christians by the Roman Empire was finally over for good, beginning the "Peace of the Church". But the "Peace" could only be so peaceful, as internal dissension took the place of external foes, in the form of the Arian Crisis.
This episode covers popes #33-35: Sts. Sylvester I, Mark, and Julius I.
Links
Way of the Fathers episodes:
Council of Nicaea https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/22-council-nicaea-first-and-foremost/
Arianism https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/411-heresies-arianism-man-who-became-god/
St. Athanasius https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/ep-23athanasius-against-world/
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The first decade of the fourth century, from about 302 to 313, is one of the most remarkable in history. In that short time, the Church would go from the worst of persecutions to the beginning of an unprecedented new era of peace and favor. In what we might consider a foreshadowing of the Church's trials and final victory at the end of the world, the Great Persecution was merely the labor pains for the birth of Christendom.
This installment covers popes #29-32: Sts. Marcellinus, Marcellus I, Eusebius, and Miltiades.
Links
Article version of this episode https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/great-persecution/
Phillip Cambell, "The Public Apostasy of Pope Marcellinus" https://unamsanctamcatholicam.com/2024/01/15/the-public-apostasy-of-pope-marcellinus/
Way of the Fathers on Donatism https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/410-heresies-rebaptism-and-donatists/
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The popes in the middle of the third century experienced intense persecution by the emperors Decius and Valerius, but this suddenly gave way to a period of official and explicit toleration, which provided the Church with a foretaste of the lasting relief that was to come under Constantine.
This installment covers popes #24-28: Sts. Sixtus II, Dionysius, Felix I, Eutychian, and Gaius.
Links
Article https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/little-peace-church/
The Paradoxical Prestige of the Deacon in the Early Church https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/paradoxical-prestige-deacon-in-early-church/
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The three popes who reigned during this period all had to deal with serious divisions within the Church, especially over questions of how the Church should treat fallen-away Catholics who wished to return, as well as those who had been baptized by heretics and now wished to join themselves to the true Church. An important participant in these controversies, was St. Cyprian, bishop of Carthage, who supported the positions of Pope Sts. Cornelius and Lucius, but clashed with the third, Pope St. Stephen.
This episode covers popes #21-23: Sts. Cornelius, Lucius I, and Stephen I.
Article: https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/popes-lost-sheep/
Links
Related Way of the Fathers episodes:
Novatian, Pt. 1 https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/48-novatian-good-bad-ugly-pt-1-good/ Novatian, Pt. 2 https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/49-novatian-part-2-bad-and-ugly/ Pope St. Stephen and the Sacraments https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/pope-st-stephen-and-sacraments/ Rebaptism and the Donatist heresy https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/410-heresies-rebaptism-and-donatists/ St. Cyprian of Carthage https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/ep-18-short-happy-life-cyprian-carthage/Fr. Ray Ryland, "Will the Real St. Cyprian Please Stand?" https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/will-the-real-st-cyprian-please-stand
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The first four of the six popes covered in this installment found themselves in conflict with a priest named Hippolytus, the most brilliant intellectual of the Roman Church at the time. Hippolytus would become the first antipope in the history of the Church, plaguing three successive papacies with his schism. Yet his story has a happy and even poetic ending.
This episode covers popes #15-#20: Sts. Zephyrinus, Callistus I, Urban I, Pontian, Anterus, and Fabian.
Article https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/first-antipope/
Modalism https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/47-heresies-modalism-god-as-monad-with-three-names/
St. Hippolytus of Rome https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/ep-17the-long-strange-trip-hippolytus-rome/
Leo XIII's encyclical on marriage https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/leo-xiii-on-what-marriage-owes-to-church/
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Little is known about many of the popes of the second century. Several of them were martyrs. They had to deal with different heresies that made their way to Rome, and there was also a controversy over the correct date of Easter.
This episode covers popes #5-#14: Sts. Evaristus, Alexander I, Sixtus I, Telesphorus, Hyginus, Pius I, Anicetus, Soter, Eleutherius, and Victor I.
Article: https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/ten-popes-second-century/
Way of the Fathers https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/category/way-fathers/
Way of the Fathers on St. Irenaeus of Lyons (an important source about the early popes) https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/irenaeus-lyon-putting-smack-down-on-heresy/
Catholic Culture Audiobooks https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/category/audiobooks/
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The first three popes after St. Peter likely knew the Prince of the Apostles personally and may even have been hand-selected by him. We know little of Sts. Linus and Cletus, but the first writing we possess by a pope after St. Peter himself is a precious letter by Pope St. Clement I to the Church of Corinth.
Article: https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/popes-apostolic-era-lives-popes-2/
Audiobooks of Pope St. Clement's letters:
Letter to the Corinthians https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/st-clement-rome-letter-to-corinthians/
Apocryphal Second Letter https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/so-called-second-letter-st-clement/
More about St. Clement's Letter on Way of the Fathers https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/clement-rome-earliest-christian-author-after-apostles/
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One must beware a rabbit hole.
Article: https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/lives-popes-part-one-infinity/
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