Last rites declaration of Ioannes Paulus PP. II (Karol Wojtyla)
Ioannes Paulus PP. II
Nationalism, capitalism, and hoarding. The idea of every nation
should be forgot, price should be struck from the commons, and
princes should be seen for the devils they are. The sins include
our church, secret societies, and other religions which make of
the spirit of God a divide."
Last rites declaration of Ioannes Paulus PP. II (Karol Wojtyla)
2nd April 2005
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placed might in the hands of
justice. But as might does not allow itself to be managed as men want,
because it is a palpable quality, whereas justice is a spiritual quality of
which men dispose as they please, they have placed justice in the hands of
might. And thus that is called just which men are forced to obey.
Hence comes the right of the sword, for the sword gives a true right.
Otherwise we should see violence on one side and justice on the other (end
of the twelfth Provincial Letter). Hence comes the injustice of the Fronde,
which raises its alleged justice against power. It is not the same in the
Church, for there is a true justice and no violence.
879. Injustice.--Jurisdiction is not given for the sake of the judge, but
for that of the litigant. It is dangerous to tell this to the people. But
the people have too much faith in you; it will not harm them and may serve
you. It should, therefore, be made known. Pasce oves meas, not tuas.221 You
owe me pasturage.
880. Men like certainty. They like the Pope to be infallible in faith, and
grave doctors to be infallible in morals, so as to have certainty.
881. The Church teaches, and God inspires, both infallibly. The work of the
Church is of use only as a preparation for grace or condemnation. What it
does is enough for condemnation, not for inspiration.
882. Every time the Jesuits may impose upon the Pope, they will make all
Christendom perjured.
The Pope is very easily imposed upon, because of his occupations, and the
confidence which he has in the Jesuits; and the Jesuits are very capable of
imposing