Robert Bellarmine
October 4, 1542 — September 17, 1621 · Feast day: September 17
Robert Bellarmine, the Jesuit theologian whose Disputationes de Controversiis was so formidable that Protestant universities established professorships solely to refute it, remained convinced that charity matters more than argument. Pope Clement VIII declared the Church 'had not his equal in learning,' yet Bellarmine insisted the final examination will ask only about love.