Odium Fidei

[Spirithound]

Can you explain this term? What sort of situations can it refer to? Could it refer to Protestants?

 

[DavidFilmer]

If my Latin serves me correctly, the phrase means something like “hatred of the faith.” I don’t recall ever seeing this phrase in any Catholic documents or teaching, though (whether to refer to protestants or to anyone else). Where did you encounter this phrase?

I suppose it could refer to the original people who invented protestantism (Luther, Calvin, etc), and to some modern anti-Catholics. But I think most protestants today don’t give Catholicism much thought at all.

 

[bmullins]

It does mean hatred of the faith. It’s used to indicate someone killing someone of the Catholic faith out of their faith. (I.E. a radical Muslim killing a Catholic because of his Muslim faith.)

It is one of the causes for beatification.

You can read a small exert here but it’s in Italian I think. In Odium fidei

It translates to:

Hatred of the faith(in odium fidei) is a term Latin can be translated in Italian as in hatred of the faith .
This term is used by the Catholic Church in causes of beatification when the ’ killing of one of his followers took place “in hatred of the faith”, ie a non-Catholic who has killed a Catholic as a matter of faith.

 

[Spirithound]

If my Latin serves me correctly, the phrase means something like “hatred of the faith.” I don’t recall ever seeing this phrase in any Catholic documents or teaching, though (whether to refer to protestants or to anyone else). Where did you encounter this phrase?

I have encountered this phrase in discussing martyrdom with various people, and it seems to be the criteria for proclaiming one a martyr. That is, a person who is killed in odium fidei is a martyr.

My interest in whether, from a Catholic perspective, a Protestant could be a martyr killed in odium fidei stems from my understanding that this phrase means something different from in odium ecclesia.