Wednesday, April 30, 2025

St. Charles Borromeo, On Sacred Images - Instructions on Church Building (1577)

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Chapter 17. Sacred Images or Pictures According to the decree of the Council of Trent and the Provincial constitutions,(1) the bishop must t...
Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Pius XII, The Function of Art (April 8, 1952)

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[3] An address by His Holiness Pope Pius XII to a group of Italian artists received in audience on April 8, 1952. 1. With deep satisfaction,...

Pius XII, The Art of Fra Angelico: Window into Heaven (April 20, 1955)

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 [125] Address of Pope Pius XII at Opening of Exhibition of Paintings of Fra Angelico at the Vatican In welcoming into Our dwelling so many ...
Monday, April 21, 2025

Pius XII, Address to the First International Congress of Catholic Artists (September 3, 1950)

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 [3] You have undertaken a thing both timely and useful, dearly beloved sons, in promoting and organizing among yourselves the First Interna...
Sunday, February 19, 2023

Summary of Moralists on Organ Playing Non-Catholic Services and Communicatio in Sacris

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[3] Some authors do not give formal communication so wide an extent; they do not consider every active participation in a non-Catholic relig...

Dom Augustine on Playing Organ in Non-Catholic Services (1921)

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 [197] Difficulties may arise concerning coöperation [sic] in the divine services of Catholics who are employed by non-Catholics as singers ...

Henry Davis on Organ Playing in Non-Catholic Services (1943)

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 [286] Organ Playing It is wrong to play the organ in a non-Catholic church as a help to the religious service (S.O., Jan. 19, 1889), or to ...