Of Historical Interest, But Useful for Today?

Latin traditionalists might think so...

NEW: St. Robert Bellarmine's long Catechism in English -- and a Rorate reader discount

Is the Latin original available?

A New Translation of Controversies of the Christian Faith by St. Robert Bellarmine

Translation by Kenneth Baker, SJ

Thou Art Peter by James V. Schall, S.J.

Heard "just retribution" in the Divine Liturgy of St. Basil today. Would like to see the Greek original. The Byzantine tradition may speak of God's treatment or punishment of unrepentant sinners as being just, but does it understand God's justice primarily with respect to punishment and "reward"?

Pertinacious Papist: How can the wrath of an almighty God be just against the limited offense of a mere mortal? in which he quotes St. Robert Bellarmine

Dr. Robert Fastiggi: The Roman Pontiff and Other Points of Division between Orthodox and Catholics

I haven't watched past the first five minutes but I suspect that Professor Fastiggi's view is more "traditional" or "conservative," even though he probably isn't a Latin traditionalist.

I need to read Bellarmine.

And how he explains the separation between temporal authority and spiritual authority.

What Barack Obama Could Learn from St. Robert Bellarmine by Gerald J. Russello

3. Laws affect persons. Bellarmine was adamant in his “On Laymen,” part of a series of works called the Controversiae, published between 1586-89, that “from the fact that political authority is temporal and its end is external peace and that man does not make judgments on internal matters, it is rightly inferred that it can oblige only to perform temporal and external acts but not that it cannot bind in conscience.” This is a crucial point that secularists often overlook, since they have a utilitarian or agnostic view of the law. For them, regulations like the HHS mandate simply preserve “health care” or “equality,” and affect only external actions. For them, such laws do not touch religious belief, which is considered only an internal matter and not one concerned with action.

Was Robert Bellarmine Ahead of His Time? (via Insight Scoop)

Reviewed: Empire of Souls: Robert Bellarmine and the Christian Commonwealth. By Stefania Tutino (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), 416 pp. ISBN 978-0-19974-053-6.

On Temporal and Spiritual Authority. By Robert Bellarmine. Edited, translated and with an introduction by Stefania Tutino (Indianapolis, IN: Liberty Fund, 2012), 500 pp. PB: ISBN 978-0-86597-717-4.

St. Benedict Center has the Fifth Book of Controversies over the Supreme Pontiff (which deals with the pope's temporal power) by St. Robert Bellarmine, along with his De Laicis. (thanks to lovethegirls)