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#61
General Discussion / Re: New Members
Last post by Geremia - May 26, 2026, 07:42:26 PMQuote from: Baroque_Moralist on May 26, 2026, 06:28:51 PMI am working on an OCR pattern library for grep called "moralgrep" which checks a substitution set based on OCR corruptionIs your source code for this online, such as on GitHub?
#62
General Discussion / Re: New Members
Last post by Baroque_Moralist - May 26, 2026, 06:28:51 PMI enjoy moral theology and love the Jesuit order. I've lurked here quite some time and finally have enough reasons to make an account. My other interests include studying the Bible, organic farming, GNU/Linux, and raising my family.
I am working on an OCR pattern library for grep called "moralgrep" which checks a substitution set based on OCR corruption (is familiar with corruptions of long s, other common errors or even rarer ones in more corrupted volumes). It also looks for watermarks eg
Along these lines I was wondering if anyone had a better scan of Azor's tome? My current one I'm having great difficulty OCR.
I am working on an OCR pattern library for grep called "moralgrep" which checks a substitution set based on OCR corruption (is familiar with corruptions of long s, other common errors or even rarer ones in more corrupted volumes). It also looks for watermarks eg
QuoteVjOOQlefrom the Google scans in Gury/Ballerini. I've been personally using this to find patterns in moral manuals faster for about 4 or 5 months, but of course it can be used in other latin contexts. It's possible to use this with Claude or other agentic tools to search for variations of a word/subject to locate a thesis faster/get machine translations but one of the issues with Latin is the language itself and how "loaded" the philosophical language and contexts of moral manuals/theology manuals are. Models do not and will never capture this. Anyway, since people here actually work in Latin I figured this would be a good place to get others with common text substitutions they grep for.
Along these lines I was wondering if anyone had a better scan of Azor's tome? My current one I'm having great difficulty OCR.
#63
General Discussion / Magnifica Humanitas on IP
Last post by Baroque_Moralist - May 26, 2026, 06:02:17 PMQuote from: DrKwasniewski on July 15, 2025, 06:15:47 PM...Worth noting that Leo's latest encyclical seems to support Gennaro Bucceroni, SJ's position on this (see n.87x in his Theologia Moralis tome, not just the commutative justice section because this presents an entire intellectual ecosystem around ius auctoris)
Quote from: Geremia on August 06, 2024, 10:00:35 PMBucceroni, Theol. mor. I, n. 878will you now distribute your book for free?
Quote from: Leo XIVToday, among the goods that are universally intended for everyone, we must also include new forms of property, such as patents, algorithms, digital platforms, technological infrastructure and data. In a context where the wealth of nations depends increasingly on knowledge and technology, when these goods remain concentrated in the hands of a few, without adequate forms of sharing and access, a new imbalance is created that contradicts the universal destination of goods. In turn, it widens the gap between the included and the excluded, between those who can participate in the digital revolution and those who remain on the margins. Furthermore, care for our common home and our responsibility toward the poor and future generations require that the use of the goods of creation and the new possibilities offered by technology be regulated in such a way as to respect the environment, avoid waste and prevent new forms of exploitation.- [Magnifica Humanitas 67]
Or will this be "recognized and resisted"?
#64
General Discussion / consecrandi
Last post by Geremia - May 26, 2026, 05:01:39 PMFr. Pagliarani announced the names of the candidates today:
- Fr. Pascal Schreiber, 🇨🇭, 53 years old, Herz Jesu Seminary (🇩🇪) rector;
- Fr. Michael Goldade, 🇺🇸, 45, St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary (STAS) (🇺🇸) rector;
- Fr. Michel Poinsinet de Sivry, 🇫🇷, 42, superior of the Benelux (🇫🇷) district;
- Fr. Marc Hanappier, 🇫🇷, 36, STAS (🇺🇸) metaphysics and dogmatic theology professor.
#65
Holy Scripture & Liturgy / Re: ἀνάργυροι
Last post by 777 - May 23, 2026, 05:26:16 PMyes, added.
#66
Holy Scripture & Liturgy / Re: Hebrews 13:5
Last post by Geremia - May 23, 2026, 03:33:56 AMQuote from: 777 on May 23, 2026, 02:04:28 AMHebrews 13:5St. Thomas's commentary on that verse.
Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for He has said, I will never leave you nor forsake you.
His entire commentary on Hebrews is worth reading.
#67
Holy Scripture & Liturgy / Re: ἀνάργυροι
Last post by Geremia - May 23, 2026, 03:04:11 AMQuote from: 777 on May 23, 2026, 02:11:39 AMἀνάργυροιCan that mean a volunteer?
#68
Holy Scripture & Liturgy / ἀνάργυροι
Last post by 777 - May 23, 2026, 02:11:39 AMWho are unmercenaries?
ἀνάργυροι - anargyros (unpaid, voluntary, people who voluntarily renounce their property for the sake of the gospel)
The first unmercenary was Jesus Christ.
People characterized by the virtue of evangelical poverty:
Go, sell all that you have and distribute it to the poor and you will have treasure in heaven; and come follow Me, bearing your cross (Mark 10:21).
Lend, expecting nothing in return (Luke 6:35)
When you give a feast, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you, for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just (Luke 14:13-14).
Let your conduct be free from the love of money, being content with such things as you have. For He Himself said, I will never leave you nor forsake you (Hebrews 13:5).
What is unmercenariness?
Gk. anargyria
Being non-mercenary, without money, lit. silverless, penniless
Giving without payment, free of cost
Something priceless, worthy.
If we try to locate the supreme instance of Christian caritas (Christian love, charity), that is at the same time a supreme instance of the mission of the Church, these efforts will undoubtedly lead us to the practice of unmercenariness.
This practice for the secular human mind of our contemporary age is both incomprehensible and unintelligible both by its meaning and significance.
It is the super-historical call of the human to realize himself as a creative being, at the same time leaving his creativity undetermined and unburdened with the business logic of the world and its time, which make the human and his creativity nothing but market idols.
Those idols, or false market values come from the tendency in which the human rejects his own worth, but also the worth of the entire creation. At the moment when the world and the human start to evaluate themselves with limited and finite prices, regardless how many numbers they require, at that moment the human loses his essential axiological criteria and immensely distances himself from the original Biblical Anthropology.
Matthew 10:8
Freely you have received, freely give
You received without payment; give without payment
You received without a price; give without a price
You are without a price, don't limit the world around you with prices
The Perfect Unmercenary
Saint Serapion, who loved the hermit life from his youth, was a perfect example of monasticism—so free from the love of money that he owned nothing. A cave in the desert was his cell, his mantle his constant clothing, and the Holy Gospel his only treasure.
One day, while traveling to Alexandria, the man of God encountered a beggar shivering from the cold. Serapion stopped and thought to himself: "I am considered a faster and a follower of Christ; yet I wear a robe, and this servant of Christ is perishing from the cold! I will undoubtedly be a murderer if this poor man freezes to death." He immediately took off his mantle and gave it to the beggar.
Serapion sat at a crossroads, holding the Holy Gospel under his bosom, which he carried with him everywhere; and when a passerby asked him: "Why are you without a mantle, Father Serapion?" he answered, showing the Holy Gospel: "This book of God has undressed me."
The unmercenary had barely finished speaking when he saw a debtor being led past him to prison. Serapion didn't think twice: he immediately sold the Gospel and satisfied the creditor. The unfortunate man went home, blessing the angelic stranger.
When Serapion arrived at the cell, the disciple asked him, "Where are your clothes?" "I sent them there," replied the unmercenary, "where I can get better ones in their place." "And where is the Holy Gospel?" the disciple asked again. "My son!" said the righteous man, "it kept telling me, 'Sell your possessions and give them to the poor .' But you know that it alone constituted my entire possession: so I sold it and gave it to the poor."
Christians! Imitate, even if only slightly, the virtues of Saint Serapion, and you will be saved.
ἀνάργυροι - anargyros (unpaid, voluntary, people who voluntarily renounce their property for the sake of the gospel)
The first unmercenary was Jesus Christ.
People characterized by the virtue of evangelical poverty:
Go, sell all that you have and distribute it to the poor and you will have treasure in heaven; and come follow Me, bearing your cross (Mark 10:21).
Lend, expecting nothing in return (Luke 6:35)
When you give a feast, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you, for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just (Luke 14:13-14).
Let your conduct be free from the love of money, being content with such things as you have. For He Himself said, I will never leave you nor forsake you (Hebrews 13:5).
What is unmercenariness?
Gk. anargyria
Being non-mercenary, without money, lit. silverless, penniless
Giving without payment, free of cost
Something priceless, worthy.
If we try to locate the supreme instance of Christian caritas (Christian love, charity), that is at the same time a supreme instance of the mission of the Church, these efforts will undoubtedly lead us to the practice of unmercenariness.
This practice for the secular human mind of our contemporary age is both incomprehensible and unintelligible both by its meaning and significance.
It is the super-historical call of the human to realize himself as a creative being, at the same time leaving his creativity undetermined and unburdened with the business logic of the world and its time, which make the human and his creativity nothing but market idols.
Those idols, or false market values come from the tendency in which the human rejects his own worth, but also the worth of the entire creation. At the moment when the world and the human start to evaluate themselves with limited and finite prices, regardless how many numbers they require, at that moment the human loses his essential axiological criteria and immensely distances himself from the original Biblical Anthropology.
Matthew 10:8
Freely you have received, freely give
You received without payment; give without payment
You received without a price; give without a price
You are without a price, don't limit the world around you with prices
The Perfect Unmercenary
Saint Serapion, who loved the hermit life from his youth, was a perfect example of monasticism—so free from the love of money that he owned nothing. A cave in the desert was his cell, his mantle his constant clothing, and the Holy Gospel his only treasure.
One day, while traveling to Alexandria, the man of God encountered a beggar shivering from the cold. Serapion stopped and thought to himself: "I am considered a faster and a follower of Christ; yet I wear a robe, and this servant of Christ is perishing from the cold! I will undoubtedly be a murderer if this poor man freezes to death." He immediately took off his mantle and gave it to the beggar.
Serapion sat at a crossroads, holding the Holy Gospel under his bosom, which he carried with him everywhere; and when a passerby asked him: "Why are you without a mantle, Father Serapion?" he answered, showing the Holy Gospel: "This book of God has undressed me."
The unmercenary had barely finished speaking when he saw a debtor being led past him to prison. Serapion didn't think twice: he immediately sold the Gospel and satisfied the creditor. The unfortunate man went home, blessing the angelic stranger.
When Serapion arrived at the cell, the disciple asked him, "Where are your clothes?" "I sent them there," replied the unmercenary, "where I can get better ones in their place." "And where is the Holy Gospel?" the disciple asked again. "My son!" said the righteous man, "it kept telling me, 'Sell your possessions and give them to the poor .' But you know that it alone constituted my entire possession: so I sold it and gave it to the poor."
Christians! Imitate, even if only slightly, the virtues of Saint Serapion, and you will be saved.
#69
Holy Scripture & Liturgy / Hebrews 13:5
Last post by 777 - May 23, 2026, 02:04:28 AMHebrews 13:5
Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for He has said, I will never leave you nor forsake you.
Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for He has said, I will never leave you nor forsake you.
#70