Antonio Ballerini
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Ballerini was born in MedicinaMedicina
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, in what is now the Province of Bologna
Province of Bologna
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He entered the Society of Jesus, on 13 October 1826. He was professor of philosophy at Ferentino
Ferentino
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, of ecclesiastical history at Rome and at Fermo
Fermo
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, of moral theology at the Roman College.
He took a prominent part in the controversies on the writings of Rosmini, on the moral system of Alphonsus Liguori
Alphonsus Liguori
Saint Alphonsus Maria de Liguori was an Italian Catholic bishop, spiritual writer, scholastic philosopher and theologian, and founder of the Redemptorists, an influential religious congregation...
, and on the relations between the hierarchy and the religious orders, especially in England. He contributed treatises to the discussion of the subject of the Immaculate Conception
Immaculate Conception
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of the Virgin Mary.
He collaborated to the compilation of the Menology of the Society, and published a compendium of Jean-Pierre Gury
Jean-Pierre Gury
Jean-Pierre Gury was a French Jesuit moral theologian. He is accounted one of the restorers of the old casuistic method, a fact that made him worthy of personifying the "Jesuit Moral" in the eyes of some, who, especially in Germany, attacked his doctrine...
. His chief work, the commentary on Busenbaum's Medulla, was completed and published by Palmieri
Palmieri
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He died in Rome in 1881.