Episode # 101 "Supernatural"

NORMS

FOR PROCEEDING IN THE DISCERNMENT
OF ALLEGED SUPERNATURAL PHENOMENA

Presentation

Listening to the Spirit
Who Works in the Faithful People of God

https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2024/05/17/0403/00842.html#en

"Norm"

A peremptory norm (also called jus cogens) is a fundamental principle of international law that is accepted by the international community of states as a norm from which no derogation is permitted.

There is no universal agreement regarding precisely which norms are jus cogens nor how a norm reaches that status, but it is generally accepted that jus cogens bans genocide, maritime piracy, enslaving in general (i.e. slavery as well as slave trade), wars of aggression and territorial aggrandizement, and generally as well torture, and refoulement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peremptory_norm

The City of God

work by Saint Augustine

The City of God, philosophical treatise vindicating Christianity, written by the medieval philosopher St. Augustine as De civitate Dei contra paganos (Concerning the City of God Against the Pagans) about 413–426 CE. A masterpiece of Western culture, The City of God was written in response to pagan claims that the sack of Rome by barbarians in 410 was one of the consequences of the abolition of pagan worship by Christian emperors. 

https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-City-of-God

Estates of the Realm

The best known system is the French Ancien Régime (Old Regime), a three-estate system which was made up of a First Estate of clergy, a Second Estate of titled nobles, and a Third Estate of all other subjects (both peasants and bourgeoisie).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estates_of_the_realm

Nihil obstat (Latin for "nothing hinders" or "nothing stands in the way") is a phrase traditionally used by Catholic Church authorities to formally declare that there is no objection to the publication of a book, or to some other proposed action.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihil_obs