I think the idea is nice, but I have had no luck in locating what St. Dominic said to the Cathars in original. I don't even know what language he said it in. I suspect it might be in medieval provancal, but I have honestly no clue at all. I have had no luck in finding the Scholastic Latin original for most of this:
"For many years I have exhorted you in vain, with gentleness, preaching, praying and weeping. But according to the proverb of my country, where blessing can accomplish nothing, blows may avail. We shall rouse against you princes and prelates, who, alas, will arm nations and kingdoms against this land . . . and thus blows will avail where blessings and gentleness have been powerless."
--St. Dominic
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--Church Dogma
"Let the bishop take upon himself no business cares and let his time be given only to reading, prayer, and the preaching of the word of God"
--Johannes Gratian from Decretum Gratiani
"The work of the: pontiff is twofold: to learn of God by reading and meditating often on Holy Scripture; to teach the people"
--Johannes Gratian from Decretum Gratiani
"The virtues are given to act well, gifts to act easily, beatitudes to act perfectly, fruits to act joyfully. Yet these are not given by God or used at the same time"
--Peter of Tarantaise, the future Innocent V
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--Obvious Heresy
"Clerks who have estates, Bishops who hold fiefs, monks who possess property, cannot be saved"
--Arnold of Brescia
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*** Re Heretics ***
"The heretics everywhere publicly dogmatize and seduce the unwary whom they attract to themselves, so much the more easily as they perniciously draw arguments against the Church from the life of the Archbishop himself and other prelates, and accuse the whole Church for the crimes of a few."
--Innocent III
"Therefore grieving with holy sadness as much over the failure of the Church as over the loss of souls, believed to have fallen into the snare of damnation through the negligence of their shepherd, and desiring to apply a salutary remedy . . ."
--Innocent III
"These are called Waldenses from the name of the heresiarch, Waldo, who, led by his own spirit, not having been sent by God, founded a new sect, so that without the authority of a prelate, without divine inspiration, without knowledge, without learning, he presumed to preach"
--Alain of Lille from De fide catholica contra haereticos
"Let no one be permitted to preach unless he is either a qualified person or one sent by the bishop or archbishop."
--Odonis Episcopi Parisiensis Synodicae Constitutiones
"Let him not be admitted unless our letters give his name and expressly state that we have given him license to preach"
--Odonis Episcopi Parisiensis Synodicae Constitutiones
"Priests are strictly forbidden to permit them to preach . . . even outside the church and let the priests warn their parishioners on Sundays that they may not listen to such preachers under pain of excommunication."
--Odonis Episcopi Parisiensis Synodicae Constitutiones
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-- Church needing more money
"Because of this I shall send a famine upon the land, not a famine of bread, nor yet of water, but of hearing the word of God. Because the little ones have asked for bread, and there was none to break it unto them"
-- Peter Cantor
"For there is hunger in the land, and the little ones seek bread, but scarcely one can be found to break it for them."
-- Innocent III
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--Faith
"The acceptance of faith is a matter of free will, yet keeping it when once it has been received is a matter of obligation"
--St. Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologiae
"Since the human being is open to God through intellect and affection, no one can be perfect unless he grasps God as He is Wisdom through intellect and as He is Virtue through love"
--Albert the Great Commentary on Matthew 11:28
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This is the only one I have a translation for:
"Vexilla regis prodeunt inferni" -- Vulgar Latin
"The banners of the King of Hell advance" --English
Dante Inferno Canto 34
"For many years I have exhorted you in vain, with gentleness, preaching, praying and weeping. But according to the proverb of my country, where blessing can accomplish nothing, blows may avail. We shall rouse against you princes and prelates, who, alas, will arm nations and kingdoms against this land . . . and thus blows will avail where blessings and gentleness have been powerless."
--St. Dominic
----------------------------------------
--Church Dogma
"Let the bishop take upon himself no business cares and let his time be given only to reading, prayer, and the preaching of the word of God"
--Johannes Gratian from Decretum Gratiani
"The work of the: pontiff is twofold: to learn of God by reading and meditating often on Holy Scripture; to teach the people"
--Johannes Gratian from Decretum Gratiani
"The virtues are given to act well, gifts to act easily, beatitudes to act perfectly, fruits to act joyfully. Yet these are not given by God or used at the same time"
--Peter of Tarantaise, the future Innocent V
----------------------------------------
--Obvious Heresy
"Clerks who have estates, Bishops who hold fiefs, monks who possess property, cannot be saved"
--Arnold of Brescia
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*** Re Heretics ***
"The heretics everywhere publicly dogmatize and seduce the unwary whom they attract to themselves, so much the more easily as they perniciously draw arguments against the Church from the life of the Archbishop himself and other prelates, and accuse the whole Church for the crimes of a few."
--Innocent III
"Therefore grieving with holy sadness as much over the failure of the Church as over the loss of souls, believed to have fallen into the snare of damnation through the negligence of their shepherd, and desiring to apply a salutary remedy . . ."
--Innocent III
"These are called Waldenses from the name of the heresiarch, Waldo, who, led by his own spirit, not having been sent by God, founded a new sect, so that without the authority of a prelate, without divine inspiration, without knowledge, without learning, he presumed to preach"
--Alain of Lille from De fide catholica contra haereticos
"Let no one be permitted to preach unless he is either a qualified person or one sent by the bishop or archbishop."
--Odonis Episcopi Parisiensis Synodicae Constitutiones
"Let him not be admitted unless our letters give his name and expressly state that we have given him license to preach"
--Odonis Episcopi Parisiensis Synodicae Constitutiones
"Priests are strictly forbidden to permit them to preach . . . even outside the church and let the priests warn their parishioners on Sundays that they may not listen to such preachers under pain of excommunication."
--Odonis Episcopi Parisiensis Synodicae Constitutiones
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-- Church needing more money
"Because of this I shall send a famine upon the land, not a famine of bread, nor yet of water, but of hearing the word of God. Because the little ones have asked for bread, and there was none to break it unto them"
-- Peter Cantor
"For there is hunger in the land, and the little ones seek bread, but scarcely one can be found to break it for them."
-- Innocent III
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--Faith
"The acceptance of faith is a matter of free will, yet keeping it when once it has been received is a matter of obligation"
--St. Thomas Aquinas Summa Theologiae
"Since the human being is open to God through intellect and affection, no one can be perfect unless he grasps God as He is Wisdom through intellect and as He is Virtue through love"
--Albert the Great Commentary on Matthew 11:28
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This is the only one I have a translation for:
"Vexilla regis prodeunt inferni" -- Vulgar Latin
"The banners of the King of Hell advance" --English
Dante Inferno Canto 34
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