The Attitude Of The Catholic Church Towards Witchcraft And The Allied Practices Of Sorcery And Magic PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ...illum morte condemnet, sicut condemnat iudex sibi traditum ob crimen haeresis, ged debet ilium reum volentem puro corde et non ficto redire ad gremium ecclesiae admittere ad reconciliationem, beneflcio absoluclonis ab excommunicatione sibi impenso, abiurata primitus haeresi." "According to Hansen, this title is the Spanish translation of the old Latin title. Hansen, Quellen, 324. "El tal christiano es apostat y traydor contra la yglesia catholica." men, because of their strong imaginations, and because they are easily deluded. Because witches commit such crimes by means of their magic, they should be sought out and punished for them. "These wicked people, whether men or women, who use this diabolical art, should be punished as heretics. But if besides these matters which regard faith, they commit other crimes, on account of which they can be condemned without the sentence of an ecclesiastical judge, the secular power alone can take them into custody and punish them with capital punishment. For, as we said above, they kill children at night, or they cause illness and weak health and commit other similar crimes which deserve the penalty of death even though there is no evidence of unbelief or apostasy."22 A third Spanish writer was the Dominican Francis de Victoria, professor of theology at Salamanca, who discusses the question of magic arts in one part of his work, Relectiones 12 theologicae, 1540. He gives credit to the stories of the ancient witches, Circe, Hecate, etc., and says that not all the deeds of magicians are false, this is proved from the Scriptures.221 Of the reality of witchflight he has no doubt, "daemones et magi virtute daemonum possunt movere et transferre corpora de loco ad...