https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/28002 2026-04-11T14:17:44Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/28229 Title: Pontifical insignia : part 3 Abstract: In the first two sections of this study we have discussed the various vestments used during a liturgical celebration by bishops and by other ecclesiastics who have been granted the privilege of using pontifical vestments; we have now to discuss pontifical insignia proper. There is no complete agreement in enumerating pontifical insignia, but for our purpose it is enough to consider those listed as such in a recent study on pontifical rights and privileges: According to this list the more important pontifical insignia are the pectoral cross, the ring and the crosier; to these we must add the archiepiscopal cross, the seventh candle on the altar, the liber canonis and the bugia, the silver ewer and basin, and the formale. 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/28207 Title: Eusebius of Cesarea's views on the canon of the holy scriptures and the texts he used in his works Abstract: Eusebius of Ceasarea is commonly known for his Historia Ecclesiastica; but his literary activity was much wider; it included apologetic and biblical commentaries as well. His place in the history of Biblical interpretation is well assured in many ways. In this short article, which originally formed part of a larger work, we propose to see what Canon of the Sacred Books he did follow and his views on it together with the Old Testament text he used in his works. 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/28206 Title: On the Freudian equation of religious ritual with collective infantilism Abstract: Freud's wrItIngs on Religion centre on two themes. The first is the genesis of religious belief which is explained at the level of the individual in terms of the theory of wish fulfilment. The second is religious ritual which is explained at the social level as an expression of collective infantilism. The aim of this article, is to examine only this second theme, although it is dependent upon the first. 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/28205 Title: The holy spirit and the Church : some recent developments in ecclesiology Abstract: It is a commonplace, and to a large extent deserved criticism of much of Catholic ecclesiology, that it has concentrated too much on the Church's institutional structure, and has paid too little attention to its inner, spiritual life. Another way of expressing this criticism (frequently heard from our Orthodox brethren) is that Catholic ecclesiology is too exclusively Christocentric, not sufficiently pneumatological. The typical Catholic treatise on the Church spends most of its time on such questions as the institution of the Church by Christ, his choice and commissioning of the Apostles, the special mission given to Peter, the succession in the episcopacy and the primacy, etc. 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z