http://catholicism.org/saint-francis-the-doctrinaire.html An online journal edited by the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Richmond N.H. Thu, 24 May 2012 19:55:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://catholicism.org/saint-francis-the-doctrinaire.html#comment-1266 Brian Kelly Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:44:24 +0000 http://catholicism.org/?p=10812#comment-1266 Thank Tim for a good footnote to this post. Appreciated your connecting the Saints named after the first Francis with the mission to covert souls. Few people know what a great missionary Mother Frances Cabrini was, and not just to Italian Americans. Readers may also be interested to check out the article that got the Church buzzing about the doctrine in the late 1940s, Brother Francis' Sentimental Theology. http://catholicism.org/sentimental-theology.html Thank Tim for a good footnote to this post. Appreciated your connecting the Saints named after the first Francis with the mission to covert souls. Few people know what a great missionary Mother Frances Cabrini was, and not just to Italian Americans. Readers may also be interested to check out the article that got the Church buzzing about the doctrine in the late 1940s, Brother Francis’ Sentimental Theology. http://catholicism.org/sentimental-theology.html

]]> http://catholicism.org/saint-francis-the-doctrinaire.html#comment-1257 TIM Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:59:24 +0000 http://catholicism.org/?p=10812#comment-1257 "The year was 1219...", four years after Pope Innocent III had reminded the world, infallibly, that "There is but one universal Church of the faithful, outside of which no one at all is saved." St. Francis told the Sultan, on the authority of the Solemn Magisterium, "that if he wanted to be saved, he had to become a (Catholic) Christian". This admonishment applies to, "not only pagans, but also Jews and heretics and schismatics...".(Pope Eugene IV,1441). St. Francis of Assisi, Xavier, de Sales, Cabrini, etc., all took the missionary mandate of the Church to heart as the greatest act of love and charity they could do for their fellow man, for, "without faith it is impossible to please God." (Heb 11:6) Thank God for Fr. Leonard Feeney and the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, who, "trusting absolutely in God", risk all for the love of their neighbor. “The year was 1219…”, four years after Pope Innocent III had reminded the world, infallibly, that “There is but one universal Church of the faithful, outside of which no one at all is saved.” St. Francis told the Sultan, on the authority of the Solemn Magisterium, “that if he wanted to be saved, he had to become a (Catholic) Christian”. This admonishment applies to, “not only pagans, but also Jews and heretics and schismatics…”.(Pope Eugene IV,1441). St. Francis of Assisi, Xavier, de Sales, Cabrini, etc., all took the missionary mandate of the Church to heart as the greatest act of love and charity they could do for their fellow man, for, “without faith it is impossible to please God.” (Heb 11:6) Thank God for Fr. Leonard Feeney and the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, who, “trusting absolutely in God”, risk all for the love of their neighbor.

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