the cleric. Incardination does not cease until the moment when that cleric is incardinated as a subject of another superior. An excardination from one diocese...

election or appointment of a suffragan bishop was confirmed and approved by the metropolitan and his suffragans assembled in synod. By the 4th Canon of the...

members a lifestyle of poverty, traveling, and living in urban areas for purposes of preaching, evangelization, and ministry, especially to the poor. At their...

Simony (/ˈsɪməni/) is the act of selling church offices and roles or sacred things. It is named after Simon Magus, who is described in the Acts of the...

carries an actual working space with it) in an organization or government and participates in the exercise of authority (either their own or that of their...

continuing to do so under Pope Benedict XV in 1917. Each ecclesiastical province and also each diocese may issue decrees in their periodical synods within their...

expressing a strong opinion of disapproval that could be debated by the assembly and adopted by a majority vote. According to Robert's Rules of Order (Newly Revised)...

a diocese or an archdiocese for the exercise of administrative authority and possesses the title of local ordinary. As vicar of the (arch)bishop, the...

further using valid reasoning that both disagrees with the subject at hand and proves their own point valid. Despite being medieval in origin, this idiomatic...

A solemn vow is a certain vow ("a deliberate and free promise made to God about a possible and better good") taken by an at least 18 year old person individual...

the seal of confession under the gravest sin and under threat of the severest punishments both temporal and eternal." The Catechism of the Catholic Church...

amounting to de facto immunity from trial and conviction; to secure episcopal autonomy within the diocese; and to defend the integrity of church property...

pontifical right" is the term given to ecclesiastical institutions (religious and secular institutes, societies of apostolic life) either created by the Holy...

clerical state (commonly referred to as laicization, dismissal, defrocking, and degradation) is the removal of a bishop, priest, or deacon from the status...

chapters, another the last 3, and another the first 3. A list of the 7 gifts of the Holy Spirit as attributes of Christ, and of the titles that are applied...

canon law, it refers to a document issued by the pope on his own initiative and personally signed by him. Such a document may be addressed to the whole church...

anyone charged with the care of church property. The supreme administrator and steward of to all ecclesiastical temporalities is the pope, in virtue of...

In Christianity, the term secular clergy refers to deacons and priests who are not monastics or otherwise members of religious life. Secular priests (sometimes...

truth which is to be believed by divine and Catholic faith". The term heresy connotes both the belief in itself, and the attitude towards said belief. Heresy...

ordinances and regulations made by ecclesiastical authority (church leadership) for the government of a Christian organization or church and its members...

theology were instituted by Jesus Christ and entrusted to the Church. Sacraments are visible rites seen as signs and efficacious channels of the grace of...

emperor Constantine the Great supposedly transferred authority over Rome and the western part of the Roman Empire to the Pope. Composed probably in the...

respect and recognition of Baptism and sharing of the Lord's Supper. They may worship together, exchange clergy, and share commitments to evangelism and service...

conduct normal business even after the death of the pope, and also conduct the burial and the preparation for the new election. This process was evident...

committed after baptism and reconciled with the Christian community. During reconciliation, mortal sins must be confessed and venial sins may be confessed...

1983 Code of Canon Law in the case of the Western Church (Latin Church), and the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches in the case of the Eastern Catholic...

followers headed by a bishop (or equivalent), as defined by Catholic canon law and ecclesiology. A liturgical rite, a collection of liturgies descending from...

living and working in a monastery and reciting the Divine Office) canons regular (canons and canonesses regular who recite the Divine Office and serve...

education of youth, and other spiritual and corporal works of mercy, are at the same time religious in the strictest sense of the word, and living a community...

and is a relationship which "arises from a valid marriage, even if not consummated, and exists between a man and the blood relatives of the woman and...