Corpus Christi

In the 17th and 18th centuries, a belief known as Jansenism was doing the rounds in the Church, especially in France. Basically this took a very serious view of original sin, and denied the role of human free will; the implications were that few people were thought worthy of receiving Holy Communion because few people […]

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