Fèlix Amat de Palou i Pont (1750-1824) i Fèlix Torres i Amat (1772-1847), dos bisbes catalans acusats de Jansenisme

• Autores: Ramon Corts i Blay
• Localización: Revista catalana de teología, ISSN 0210-5551, Vol. 7, Nº. 1-2, 1982, págs. 235-278
• Idioma: catalán
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  • The object of this study is to find out the reasons, never made manifest, for the prohibition by the Holy See of some of the works of two Catalan Bishops, Felix Amat (1750-1824) and Felix Torres Amat (1772-1847). The work occurred during the struggle between the survivors of 18th century Jansenism (born from the Port Royal Jansenism but reduced almost exclusively to matters of discipline) ant the Spanish Ultramontaners of the first half of the 19th century. In this dispute the latter movement was represented by the publisher-philosopher of Vic, Jaume Balmes (1810-1848), and by the Professor of Theology at Barcelona Seminary, Jaume Cabot (1782-1845). Starting from the idealogical affinity which existed between the defenders of the prohibition (against the protest of the two Bishops) and the authors of the prohibition, an approximation of the reasons is discovered. In fact they had taken F. Amat and F. Torres to be Jansenites, and they set out to indicate the errors, which merited the negative censure of the Holy See, contained in the writings of the two prelates. Thus, the reasons for the prohibition, according to the objections of the Ultramontanes, were due to disciplinary deviations; attaching the universal jurisdiction of the Pope, spreading the idea of consecration of bishops without pontifical confirmation, justifying the reform of regulations which different Spanish Governments undertook without approval from Rome, wanting to submit ecclesiastic jurisdiction to secular power, F. Amat's support for the supression of the Spanish lnquisition as decreed by the Spanish Parliament, and for theological errors related to the Jansenites: Jansenite ccheresy, bordering on Protestantism, and the induction of Gallic style schism. Nevertheless it seems that the Holy See's prohibition was motivated not by questions of faith, but because their writings demonstrated that both were departing from the thinking which prevailed in the Roman Congregations and thus, according to Ultramontanic thinking, condemned them as Jansenites.