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TOPIC QUOTE ARCHIVES (APOLOGETICS + THEOLOGY)
General Catholic Apologetics Topics
Topic | The Catholic Church and Faith in the Church Fathers
Topic | The Canon of Scripture
Topic | Apostolic Tradition
Topic | Apostolic Succession
Topic | The Papacy and the Invincibility of the Church
Topic | Holy Mary, Mother of God
Topic | Mortal Sin: Christians Can Lose Their Salvation
Topic | The Communion of Saints: Intercession and Relics
Topic | Purgatory
Topic | Development of Doctrine
Topic | The Church Fathers Explain “Catholic”
Topic | The Lord’s Day: Sunday, the New Sabbath
Topic | The Heretical and Schismatic Spirit
Topic | Malachi’s Prophecy of the Eucharist in the Church Fathers
Topic | Judas Within: Enduring Evil Within the One True Church
Topic | Miracles in the Ancient Church
Topic | Catholic Warnings About the “Reformation”
Topic | Church Teaching on the Authority of the Church Fathers and St. Thomas Aquinas
The Seven Sacraments
Topic | The Sacrament of Baptism
Topic | The Sacrament of Confirmation
Topic | The Blessed Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist
Topic | The Sacrament of Marriage, Divorce, and Contraception
Topic | The Sacrament of Holy Orders, and the Authority of the Priesthood
Topic | The Sacrament of Confession
Topic | The Sacrament of Last Rites
The Moral Order
Christendom
AUTHOR AND DOCUMENT QUOTE ARCHIVES (CHURCH)
Church Fathers (1st Millennium)
Author | St. Barnabas (1st century) | EAST
Author | St. Pope Clement I (died c. 99) | WEST
Author | St. Ignatius of Antioch (died c. 107) | EAST
Author | St. Papias of Hierapolis (c. 60-c. 130) | EAST
Author | St. Polycarp (69-155) | EAST
Author | St. Justin Martyr (c. 100-165) | EAST
Author | St. Hegesippus (c. 110-c. 180) | EAST
Author | St. Dionysius of Corinth (early to mid-100s) | EAST
Author | St. Theophilus of Antioch (died c. 183-85) | EAST
Author | St. Irenaeus of Lyon (c. 130-c. 202) | EAST/WEST
Author | St. Athenagoras of Athens (c. 133-c. 190) | EAST
Author | St. Clement of Alexandria (c. 150-c. 215) | EAST
Author | St. Hippolytus of Rome (c. 170-c. 235) | WEST
Author | St. Pope Cornelius (died 253) | WEST
Author | St. Cyprian of Carthage (c. 210-258) | WEST
Author | St. Gregory Thaumaturgus (c. 213-270) | EAST
Author | St. Pamphilus of Caesarea (died 309) | EAST
Author | St. Peter of Alexandria (died 311) | EAST
Author | St. Methodius of Olympus (died c. 311) | EAST
Author | St. Aphrahat the Persian (c. 280-c. 345) | EAST
Author | St. Pope Julius I (280-352) | WEST
Author | St. Serapion of Thmuis (died c. 360) | EAST
Author | St. Athanasius (c. 296/98-373) | EAST
Author | St. Optatus of Milevis (300s) | WEST
Author | St. Pope Damasus I (c. 305-384) | WEST
Author | St. Hilary of Poitiers (c. 310-c. 367) | WEST
Author | St. Ephrem the Syrian (c. 306-373) | EAST
Author | St. Pacian of Barcelona (c. 310-391) | WEST
Author | St. Epiphanius of Salamis (c. 310/320-403) | EAST
Author | St. Cyril of Jerusalem (c. 313-386) | EAST
Author | St. Gregory Nazianzus (c. 329-390) | EAST
Author | St. Basil (330-379) | EAST
Author | St. Pope Siricius I (334-399) | WEST
Author | St. Pope Anastasius I (died 401) | WEST
Author | St. Gregory of Nyssa (c. 335-395) | EAST
Author | St. Nicetas of Remesiana (c. 335-414) | WEST
Author | St. Ambrose of Milan (c. 340-397) | WEST
Author | St. Jerome (c. 342/347-420) | EAST/WEST
Author | St. John Chrysostom (c. 347-407) | EAST
Author | St. Pope Innocent I (died 417) | WEST
Author | St. Pope Zosimus (died 418) | WEST
Author | St. Augustine (354-430) | WEST
Author | St. John Cassian (c. 360-c. 435) | EAST
Author | St. Pope Celestine I (c. 376-432) | WEST
Author | St. Cyril of Alexandria (c. 376-444) | EAST
Author | St. Peter Chrysologus (c. 380-c. 450) | WEST
Author | St. Quodvultdeus of Carthage (died c. 450) | WEST
Author | St. Prosper of Aquitaine (c. 390-c. 455) | WEST
Author | St. Pope Leo the Great (c. 400-461) | WEST
Author | St. Faustus of Riez (c. 400/410-c. 490) | WEST
Author | St. Vincent of Lérins (died c. 445) | WEST
Author | St. Patrick of Ireland (400s) | WEST
Author | St. Sechnall of Ireland (died c. 447/448) | WEST
Author | St. Pope Gelasius I (died 496) | WEST
Author | St. Fulgentius of Ruspe (c. 467/472-527/533) | WEST
Author | St. Caesarius of Arles (c. 468/470-542) | WEST
Author | St. Gregory of Tours (c. 538-594) | WEST
Author | St. Pope Gregory the Great (c. 540-604) | WEST
Author | St. Isidore of Seville (c. 560-636) | WEST
Author | St. Pope Agatho (c. 577-681) | WEST
Author | St. Pope Gregory II (669-731) | WEST
Author | St. Bede the Venerable (c. 672/73-735) | WEST
Author | St. Boniface (c. 675-754) | WEST
Author | St. John of Damascus (c. 675/76-749) | EAST
Author | St. Nicephorus I of Constantinople (c. 758-828) | EAST
Ecclesiastical Writers (1st Millennium)
Author | Mathetes (c. late first/early second century) | EAST/WEST?
Author | Tatian the Syrian (c. 120-c. 180) | EAST
Author | Tertullian (c. 155-c.220) | WEST
Author | Origen (c. 184-c. 253) | EAST
Author | Minucius Felix (died c. 250) | WEST
Author | Novatian (c. 200-c. 258) | WEST
Author | Caius the Presbyter (200s) | WEST
Author | Theodotus (200s) | WEST/EAST?
Author | Commodianus (mid 200s) | WEST?
Author | Firmilian of Cappadocia (died c. 269) | WEST
Author | Lactantius (c. 250-c. 325) | WEST
Author | Eusebius of Caesarea (c. 260/265-339) | EAST
Author | Emperor Constantine the Great (c. 272-337) | EAST/WEST
Author | Rufinus of Aquileia (344/45-411) | WEST
Author | Theodore of Mopsuestia (c. 350-428) | EAST
Author | Sulpicius Severus (c. 363-c. 425) | WEST
Author | Ambrosiaster/Pseudo-Ambrose (wrote c. 366-384) | WEST
Author | Philostorgius (368-c. 439) | EAST
Author | Socrates of Constantinople (c. 380-after 439) | EAST
Author | Theodoret of Cyrus (c. 393-c. 458/466) | EAST
Author | Leporius the Monk (late 300s/early 400s) | WEST
Author | Sozomen (c. 400-c. 450) | EAST
Author | Gennadius of Massilia (died c. 496) | WEST
Author | Pope John II (c. 475-535) | WEST
Author | Pope Vigilius (died 555) | WEST
Author | Emperor Justinian I (482-565) | EAST
Author | Timothy of Jerusalem (500s) | EAST
Author | Paschasius of Dumium (mid 500s) | WEST
Author | Oecumenius (600s?) | EAST
Author | Theodore Abū Qurrah (c. 750-c. 825)
Councils, Pagans, and Other Documents (1st Millennium)
Documents | First Millennium Councils
Documents | Other First Millennium Documents
Author | Ammianus Marcellinus (c. 330-c. 391-400) | PAGAN
Author | Emperor Julian “the Apostate” (331-363) | PAGAN
Saints, Ecclesiastical Writers, and Other Catholics (2nd Millennium)
Author | St. Thomas Becket (1119/20-1170)
Author | St. Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225-1274)
Author | St. Thomas More (1478-1535)
Author | Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)
Author | St. John Henry Newman (1801-1890)
Author | St. Pope Pius X (1835-1914)
Author | Pope Pius XII (1876-1958)
Author | St. Pope John Paul II (1920-2005)
Documents | Second Millennium Councils
Documents | Catechisms
TOPIC QUOTE ARCHIVES (CHURCH + WORLD)
The Rise and Fall of Civilizations
AUTHOR QUOTE ARCHIVES (WORLDLY WISDOM)
The Wisdom of China
TBA
The Wisdom of Greece
Author | Polybius (c. 200-c. 118 BC)
The Wisdom of Rome
Author | Tacitus (56-c. 120)
Author | Juvenal (c. 55-128)
The Wisdom of France
Author | Montesquieu (1689-1755)
The Wisdom of the United States (Founding)
Author | George Washington (1732-1799)
Author | John Adams (1735-1826)
Author | Abigail Adams (1744-1818)
Author | John Quincy Adams (1767-1848)
Author | Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
Author | James Madison (1751-1836)
Author | James Monroe (1758-1831)
Author | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Author | Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804)
Author | Benjamin Rush (1746-1813)
Author | Jacob Rush (1746/47-1820)
Author | John Jay (1745-1829)
Author | John Marshall (1755-1836)
Author | James Wilson (1742-1798)
Author | Patrick Henry (1736-1799)
Author | Fisher Ames (1758-1808)
Author | Elbridge Gerry (1744-1814)
Author | Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816)
Author | George Mason (1725-1792)
Author | Thomas Nelson, Jr. (1738-1789)
Author | Roger Sherman (1721-1793)
Author | Oliver Wolcott (1726-1797)
Author | Luther Martin (1744/48-1826)
Author | Thomas McKean (1734-1817)
Author | Richard Henry Lee (1732-1794)
Author | Robert Treat Paine (1731-1814)
Author | Charles Carroll (1737-1832)
Author | Caesar Rodney (1728-1784)
Author | Elias Boudinot (1740-1821)
