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...

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)...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

constitution and treat on solemn matters of the church, such as the promulgation of laws or definitive teachings. The forms dogmatic constitution and pastoral...

an annulment and less commonly a decree of nullity, and in some cases, a Catholic divorce, is an ecclesiastical tribunal determination and judgment that...

practice the consecration at Mass must be effected in both species, of bread and wine, an abstemius is consequently irregular. Alphonsus Liguori, following...

governance and religious observance, a collegiate church is similar in some respects to a cathedral, but a collegiate church is not the seat of a bishop and has...

initiated by Pope Gregory VII and the circle he formed in the papal curia, c. 1050–80, which dealt with the moral integrity and independence of the clergy...