EDITOR'S NOTE (SEPTEMBER-DECEMBER 2013)
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- https://doi.org/10.55997/ps3001xlix145en
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Despite its enormous historical influence, Thomas Aquinas’s account of the emotions has been neglected since the early modern period. Recently however, it has been drawing renewed attention from scholars in a number of disciplines. This paper gives an overview of Aquinas’s account of the emotions and the state of contemporary scholarship. It describes his fundamentally positive attitude toward desire and emotion, and then it shows the centrality of his theory of the emotions to his ethics and his understanding of virtue. In the course of its argument, the paper examines the relationship between reason and emotion, the inseparable link between emotion and virtue, the influence of Christology on Aquinas’s understanding of the emotions, and the moral normativity of unspecified passion. It also compares Aquinas to David Hume. Finally, it proposes a tentative explanation for why Aquinas was motivated to give more attention to emotion in his writings than any previous philosopher or theologian, and it discusses Aquinas’s hidden influence in contemporary philosophy and theology of emotion.
Keywords : Thomas Aquinas, Emotion, Desire, Passion, Affection, Reason, Virtue, Christ,David Hume
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The article is a compilation of selected texts on the institution of marriage gathered from all the Speeches of the previous and the current Roman Pontiff to the Tribunal of the Roman Rota. Among the faithful of the Catholic Church, the normative value of these discourses has already been thoroughly studied and well founded. "These speeches, regularly published in the Acta Apostolicae Sedis, are valuable tools for the interpretation of the law, to manifest the ratio legis at the present time, to fill in the absences in the law..., and to typify a juridical institution in an identically substantial manner, although formally distinct" (Llobell). The applicability of the principles contained in these in relation to the State, that is the Philippines, is apparent. Aside from the underlying moral principles, by which "the authority of the Church [manifest] the truths which the Christian conscience ought already to possess" (Speech to the Roman Rota, 1995) and the fact that majority of the Filipinos are Catholics, it is quite notable that there exists a great similitude between the Family Code of the Philippines and canon law. We have limited ourselves to five main lessons touching (1) on the nature of marriage, (2) its indissolubility, (3) its juridical protection via the Declaration of Nullity in the Church, (4) the necessary Christian anthropology in order to understand such reality, and (5) some inherent and consequent pastoral considerations in abiding by the Christian principles.
Keywords : Marriage, Indissolubility, Church Declaration of Nullity of Marriage, Canonical Marriage Law, Family Code of the Philippines, Speech of the Pope to the Roman Rota
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Pope Benedict XVI's Letter to the bishops, priests, consecrated persons and lay faithful of the Catholic Church in the People's Republic of China, issued in 2007, is primarily theological and pastoral in nature. However, it contains also some important canonical issues such as, the (Chinese) state control over bishops and the so-called Bishops' Conference; the issue of the independence of the Catholic Church in China from political power, with the background of the open and underground groups; the appointment and ordination of Bishops; the formation of the clergy, the religious and the lay faithful; the work of evangelization; religious freedom and the continuous search for "dialogue" with the government, the impending review of ecclesiastical circumscriptions and provinces, the abolition of the extraordinary faculties or privileges conceded to date to the Church in China, etc. In the present study, these issues are systematically analyzed vis-a-vis the provisions of the Code of Canon Law and the current situation in China. The reader may find in these pages not only valid insights towards the solution of actual conflicts between the two polarized sides confronting the Catholic Church in China today - the so-called "open" and "underground" communities, but also some key elements to uncover hidden elements
of the Letter and thus contribute to a better understanding of it.
Keywords : Benedict XVI, Letter, Catholic Church in China, Canonical Issues, Bishops' Ordination
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As the foremost historian in the University of Santo Tomas, Fr. Fidel Villarroel is known for his works of great scholarly value. Fr. Villarroel wrote 23 major books on Church history and biographies which included men of the Church such as Fr. Miguel de Benavides, the founder and Bishop of Manila and saints and martyrs like St. Lorenzo Ruiz and St. Liem de la Paz. His work about these saints and martyrs formed the basis of their beatification and eventual canonization. Fr. Villarroel’s writings extended to stories about heroes like Marcelo H. del Pilar, Jose Rizal and Apolinario Mabini. The common denominator about the personages that Fr. Villarroel wrote about was that at some point in time they were connected to the Dominicans and the University of Santo Tomas. Fr. Benavides was a Dominican; San Lorenzo was a resident of Binondo, then under Dominican supervision; St. Liem de la Paz, Marcelo H. del Pilar, Jose Rizal and Apolinario Mabini were students in the University of Santo Tomas. Fr. Villarroel’s treatment of the history of the Order in the Philippines and that of the University was that these were told within the context of Philippine history which gave added significance. While serving as the Archivist of the University Fr. Villarroel had access to important documents from which he based his work. It allowed him to give a more factual presentation of history and in many cases debunked the biases of the so-called nationalist historians while at the same time correcting historical information. As chief historian of the University, he was able to write its history on several occasions, the latest of whom was a two-volume work entitled A History of Santo Tomas: Four Centuries of Higher Education in the Philippines (1611-2011). It was a monumental work in which Fr. Villarroel made skillful use of the documents he had at his disposal. The work told
the story of the University from a humble school for men aspiring for the priesthood to a
University at the end of the Second World War. It withstood upheavals, both natural and man-made including attempts for its suppression in the course of centuries. Fr. Villarroel has interwoven the story of with its narration with the events of the country’s history which made the history of the University of Santo Tomas a part of the history of the Philippines.
Keywords : history, historical events, historical writing, historians, Dominicans, university,University of Santo Tomas, education, Church, martyrs, saints, education, documents
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| DOI | https://doi.org/10.55997/ps |
