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• Catholic Periodical & Literature Index
  ....sewanee.edu/login.aspx?authtype=cookie,ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=vah Catholic Periodical & Literature Index]''''' .../wiki/Roman_Catholicism Roman Catholic Church] sources and books about the Catholic faith. ONLY ALLOWS ONE USER AT A TIME
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• Seminary
  ...he term now refers to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church Roman Catholic] educational institutes and has widened to include other [[Christian]] deno The establishment of [[modern]] seminaries resulted from Roman Catholic reforms of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-Reformation Counter-R
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• Latin
  ...Roman Empire, and, after Rome's conversion to Christianity, of the [[Roman Catholic Church]]. Principally through the influence of the Church, it became the la ...age, of few fluent speakers and no native ones, Latin is still used by the Catholic Church. It has greatly influenced many living languages, including English,
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• Neophyte
  ...convert is considered a neophyte for one year after [[conversion]]. Roman Catholic neophytes are considered full members of the Church, but may not act as spo
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• Rome
  ...and the site of the [[Vatican City]], an independent city-state run by the Catholic Church.
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• Recantation
  ...ikipedia.org/wiki/Ecumenical_council ecumenical council], or, in the Roman Catholic Church, the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquisition Inquisition], Holy O *In classical Roman poetry, after describing something [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole
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• Recant
  In classical Roman poetry, after describing something hyperbolically, to briefly re-[[describe ...il], or, in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Church Roman Catholic Church], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquisition the Inquisition], Holy
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• Emcee
  ...olved in the proper conduct of [[protocols]] and ceremonials involving the Roman Pontiff, the Papal Court, and other dignitaries and potentates. Examples of ...ices]], customs and norms. However, documentary [[evidence]] from the late Roman period are scarce or lost. The ceremonies and practices of the [[Byzantine]
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• Conclave
  ...lly : a meeting of [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholicism Roman Catholic] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_of_Cardinals cardinals] secluded co ...uccessor of [[Peter, the Apostle|Saint Peter]] and [[earth]]ly head of the Catholic Church. The conclave is the oldest ongoing [[method]] for choosing the [[le
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• Benediction
  ...lic Roman Catholic] or [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Catholic Anglo-Catholic] [[devotion]] including the exposition of the eucharistic Host in the monst ...dictions of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Church Roman Catholic Church], including the [https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02602a.htm Apostol
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• Apocrypha
  ...anches known as the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholicism Roman Catholic] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox Eastern Orthodox] chur ...found by looking here or by comparing the contents of the "Protestant" and Catholic Bibles, and they represent the narrowest Christian application of the term
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• Church
  ...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_empire Roman Empire]. Today, the Roman Catholic Church has been forced into the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociological
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• Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey into Christian Hermeticism
  ...olic], although the ideas expressed are often not commonly associated with Catholic [[dogma]]. Many of the ideas are strongly influenced by [https://en.wikipe
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• Hermit
  ...ion to hermits who are members of religious institutes, contemporary Roman Catholic Church law (canon 603) [[recognizes]] also [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C
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• Veneration
  ...atholic], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Catholic_Churches Eastern Catholic Churches], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglican_Communion Anglican Commu
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• Consecration
  ...elderly has been practiced as a sacrament since early times. In the Roman Catholic Church, unction was long regarded as a last rite, usually postponed until d
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• Christmas
  ...te of birth, and the date may have been chosen to correspond with either a Roman festival[6] or the winter solstice.[7] ...the letter Χ (chi), is the first letter of Christ, and it, or the similar Roman letter X, has been used as an abbreviation for Christ since the mid-16th ce
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• Purgatory
  ...ically : a place or [[state]] of [[punishment]] wherein according to Roman Catholic [[doctrine]] the souls of those who die in [[God]]'s [[grace]] may make sat ...ry"); Anglicans of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Catholic Anglo-Catholic] tradition generally also hold to the [[belief]]. [https://en.wikipedia.org
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• Infamy
  ...of this article discusses infamy as defined by Canon Law. According to the Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913, infamy in the canonical sense is defined as the [[pri 1. ^ "[https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08001a.htm Infamy]". Catholic Encyclopedia.
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• Sacrament
  ...hes are [[baptism]] and the [[Lord's Supper]]; the sacraments of the Roman Catholic and [[Greek]] Orthodox churches are baptism, confirmation, the Eucharist, m ...ionary of Religion'' is what [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic Roman Catholics] believe to be "a [[rite]] in which [[God]] is [[uniquely]] [[act
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• Desecration
  ...]], such as the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Church Roman Catholic Church] have specific rules as to what constitutes desecration and what sho
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• Advent
  ...of the later fourth and fifth centuries other Eastern churches adopted the Roman festival of December 25, thenceforward devoting January 6 only to the celeb ...tivity developed in the West into a preparatory season. In addition to the Roman December Embertide, churches in Gaul observed fasts of six weeks or more; a
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• Parochial
  ...hes such as the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Church Roman Catholic] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglican_Church Anglican] churches.
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• Rosary
  ...se garden")[1] or "garland of roses"[2] is a popular and traditional Roman Catholic devotion. The term denotes both a set of prayer beads and the devotional pr
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• New Testament
  ...in Greek because that was the [[lingua franca]] of the eastern half of the Roman Empire. ...ferent orders in the Slavonic, Syriac and Ethiopian Bibles (Gospels, Acts, Catholic epistles, Pauline epistles, and Apocalypse).
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• Imprimatur
  *1a : a [[license]] to print or publish especially by Roman Catholic episcopal [[authority]] ...blication is implicitly a [[public]] declaration that nothing offensive to Catholic teaching on [[faith]] and [[morals]] has been found in it. The imprimatur i
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• Devil's advocate
  ...e [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonization canonization] process of the Catholic Church, the Promoter of the Faith ([[Latin]]: ''promotor fidei''), popularl *1: a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholicism Roman Catholic] official whose [[duty]] is to [[examine]] critically the [[evidence]] on w
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• Confession
  ...eloped]] in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Church Roman Catholic Church] under the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacrament_of_Penance_(Cath
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• Crusades
  ...were fought mainly by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic Roman Catholic] forces (taking place after the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East-West_Sc
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• Lazarus
  ...Eastern Orthodox] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic Roman Catholic] [[traditions]] offer varying accounts of the later [[events]] of his life.
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• Rapture
  ...wiki/Roman_Catholic Roman Catholics] (as described in the Catechism of the Catholic Church 676 and 677)[5], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthodox_Christianit
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• Jubilee
  *3a : a period of time proclaimed by the Roman Catholic pope ordinarily every 25 years as a time of special [[solemnity]] :b : a special plenary [[indulgence]] granted during a year of jubilee to Roman Catholics who perform certain specified [[works]] of [[repentance]] and [[p
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• Sacrilege
  ...ge" originates from the Latin sacer, sacred, and legere, to steal, as in [[Roman]] times it referred to the plundering of [[temples]] and graves. By the tim With the [[advent]] of [[Christianity]] as the official [[Roman]] religion, the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodosius_I Emperor Theodos
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• Transfiguration
  ...] of [[three]] [[disciples]] and that is observed on August 6 in the Roman Catholic and some Eastern churches and on the Sunday before Lent in most Protestant
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• Liberal Christianity
  ===Roman Catholic=== *[[Hans Küng]], (b. 1928) Swiss theologian. Had his licence to teach Catholic theology revoked in 1979 because of his rejection of the doctrine of the in
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• Hierarchy
  ...of it as an abstract noun. Since hierarchical churches, such as the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches, had tables of organization that were "hierar #[https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07322c.htm CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Hierarchy]
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• Cathedral
  ...ierarchy, such as the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church Roman Catholic], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglicanism Anglican], [https://en.wikiped
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• Backsliding
  ...well as in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Church Roman Catholic Church], backsliding is a state in which any free willed believer can adopt
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• Pseudepigrapha
  ...e called Apocrypha, a name that is used also for the Pseudepigrapha in the Catholic usage. ...ss authority. There exist also churches that reject some of the books that Roman Catholics, Orthodox and Protestants accept. The same is true of some Jewish
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• 2015-02-25-Evolutionary Religion
  ...nd its successor, the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church Roman Catholic Church of today] — the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_City Vatica
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• Sabbath
  ...itions]], the third in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic Roman Catholic] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutheran Lutheran] traditions). Most pe
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• Adoption
  ...mpire Roman Empire] and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church Catholic Church]. Its use has changed considerably over the centuries with its [[foc
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• I AM
  ==Roman Catholic Church interpretation== ...://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catechism_of_the_Catholic_Church Catechism of the Catholic Church]. The interpretation is found in numbers 203-213.
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• Christ as Logos
  ...that decorated Herod’s temple which were donated by Caesar, and the Greco-Roman mosaics that decorated the synagogue ...aism, (Providence, R.I.:Brown Univ. 1973), 8-11. Also see "Essays in Greco-Roman and Related Talmudic Literature," ed. by Henry A. Fischel, (New York: KTAV
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• Vatican
  ...he Eastern Churches, canon 48] to refer to the central government of the [[Catholic Church]], headed by the Bishop of Rome, commonly called the [[Pope]]. The H The Pope governs the Catholic Church through the [[Roman Curia]]. The Roman Curia consists of a complex of offices that administer church affairs at th
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• Carthusian
  ...'Carthusian Order''', also called the '''Order of St. Bruno''', is a Roman Catholic religious order of enclosed monastics. The order was founded by [[Bruno of Before the [[Council of Trent]] in the 1500s, the Roman Catholic Church in Western Europe had a wide variety of rituals for the celebration
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• Caesaropapism
  ...total. Thus the French kings are a good example of a non-imperial [[Roman Catholic]] [[monarchy]] that was rather successful in getting a great say in the Fre ...the old order in which the temporal ruler took an oath of obedience to the Catholic Church. [[Martin Luther]]'s first reformatory attempts were [[radical]]ly d
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• Condescension
  ...n [[traditional]] bible [[interpretation]], formed the basis for the Roman Catholic Church's condemnation of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei Gal
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• Patriarchy
  .... It also refers to the head of any of various eastern churches or a Roman Catholic bishop. Finally, it could refer to a Mormon of the [[Melchizedek]] priestho
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• Interfaith
  ...kipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Turks Ottoman Turks] from 15th to 19th centuries. Catholic and Orthodox Christians as well as Muslims, Jews and Sufis have dwelled in ...atican II] document Nostra Aetate, instituting major policy changes in the Catholic Church's policy towards non-Christian religions.
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