Showing posts with label Schism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Schism. Show all posts

Thursday, January 14, 2016

QUOTATION: Heretics

St. Jerome
Heretics bring sentence upon themselves since they by their own choice withdraw from the Church, a withdrawal which, since they are aware of it, constitutes damnation. Between heresy and schism there is this difference: that heresy involves perverse doctrine, while schism separates one from the Church on account of disagreement with the bishop. Nevertheless, there is no schism which does not trump up a heresy to justify its departure from the Church.

--St. Jerome, Commentary on Titus 3:10–11, c. 386

Saturday, December 25, 2010

QUOTATION: Spiritual Progress

Whoever desires to please God, to make any progress in spiritual life, and at length arrive at perfection, must as a first step detest all heresies and schisms, adhering firmly to the Church Catholic, and subjecting himself humbly to her.

--Louis de Blois (Blosius) , A Short Rule, I