https://thejosias.net/2015/02/19/an-editorial-note/ Non declinavit ad dextram sive ad sinistram. Thu, 12 Apr 2018 04:04:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.2 https://thejosias.net/2015/02/19/an-editorial-note/#comment-243 Thu, 19 Feb 2015 22:18:11 +0000 https://thejosias.net/?p=663#comment-243 […] 21 men should be left to God alone, and Catholics should not venerate them as martyrs. An “editorial note” explained that, due to complaints, the term “schismatic” had been removed from […]

]]> https://thejosias.net/2015/02/19/an-editorial-note/#comment-245 Thu, 19 Feb 2015 22:18:11 +0000 https://thejosias.net/?p=663#comment-245 […] 21 men should be left to God alone, and Catholics should not venerate them as martyrs. An “editorial note” explained that, due to complaints, the term “schismatic” had been removed from […]

]]> https://thejosias.net/2015/02/19/an-editorial-note/#comment-242 Thu, 19 Feb 2015 20:49:30 +0000 https://thejosias.net/?p=663#comment-242 […] Other Catholics are taking a more cautious approach. Stomachosus, in a reflection for The Josias entitled “Can Non-Catholics be Martyrs?,” argues that that the 21 Copts killed are not martyrs in a full or complete sense on the basis of what St. Thomas Aquinas—and to some extent the Council of Florence’s Bull on Union with the Copts—teaches about Catholic martyrdom. There are good reasons to be circumspect on this matter, but not rigid. To take too hard of a line on the Coptic Orthodox Church and her members would seem to militate against the generally positive—though imperfect—spirit in which both communions have approached one another for centuries. (A clarifying note with respect to where The Josias comes down on this matter is available here.) […]

]]> https://thejosias.net/2015/02/19/an-editorial-note/#comment-244 Thu, 19 Feb 2015 20:49:30 +0000 https://thejosias.net/?p=663#comment-244 […] Other Catholics are taking a more cautious approach. Stomachosus, in a reflection for The Josias entitled “Can Non-Catholics be Martyrs?,” argues that that the 21 Copts killed are not martyrs in a full or complete sense on the basis of what St. Thomas Aquinas—and to some extent the Council of Florence’s Bull on Union with the Copts—teaches about Catholic martyrdom. There are good reasons to be circumspect on this matter, but not rigid. To take too hard of a line on the Coptic Orthodox Church and her members would seem to militate against the generally positive—though imperfect—spirit in which both communions have approached one another for centuries. (A clarifying note with respect to where The Josias comes down on this matter is available here.) […]

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