The Catholic Encyclopedia (also referred to as the "Old Catholic Encyclopedia" today) is an English-language encyclopedia published in 1913 by the The Encyclopedia Press, designed to give "authoritative information on the entire cycle of Catholic interests, action and doctrine".
Catholic Encyclopedia - History.
The writing of the encyclopedia began on January 11, 1905 under the supervision of five editors:
Charles G. Herbermann, Professor of Latin and Librarian of the College of the City ...
The writing of the encyclopedia began on January 11, 1905 under the supervision of five editors:
Charles G. Herbermann, Professor of Latin and Librarian of the College of the City of New York
Edward A. Pace, Professor of Philosophy at the Catholic University of America, at Washington D.C.
Condé B. Pallen, Editor
Rt. Rev. Thomas J. Shahan, Professor of Church History at the Catholic University.
Rev. John J. W ...
The encyclopedia was designed to serve the Catholic Church, omitting facts and information which have no relation to the Church and explaining matters from the point of view of the official Catholic doctrine. It records the accomplishments of Catholics in nearly all intellectual and professional pursuits including artists, educators, poets, scientists. While limited in scope from other general encyclopedias, it was quite different from previous efforts for a comprehensive Catholic encyclop ...
The Catholic Worker Movement was founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in 1933. One of its guiding principles is hospitality towards those on the margin of society. To this end there are over 185 local Catholic Worker communities providing social services. Each house has a different mission, going about the work of social justice in their own ways, suited to their region of the country. The group also campaigns for nonviolence and is active in protesting war, as well as the unequal distribution of wealth globally. Dorothy Day also founded The Catholic Worker n ...
The figure of Abraham plays a prominent part of the Catholic Liturgy.
Three Old Testament figures are given particular prominence in the Roman Catholic liturgy - Abel, Melchisedech and Abraham. This is through their association with the idea of sacrifice which means that they are invoked during the most solemn part of the Canon of the Mass in the Roman rite.
In the Tridentine liturgy, Abraham was used in the Martyrology of 9th October:
"Eodem die memoria ...
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Munich and Freising — known in the German language as Erzbistum München und Freising and in Latin as Archidioecesis Monacensis et Frisingensis — is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Bavaria, Germany. It is led by the prelature of the Archbishop of Munich, administering the see from the motherchurch in Munich Frauenkirche, also called the Munich Cathedral.
The see was canonically erected circa 739 by Saint Boniface as the Diocese of Freisin ...
About 40 species, including:
Cinchona calisaya
Cinchona cordifolia
Cinchona micrantha
Cinchona officinalis
Cinchona pubescens
Cinchona is a genus of about 40 species in the family Rubiaceae, native to tropical South America. They are large shrubs or small trees growing to 5-15 metres tall with evergreen foliage.
The leaves are opposite, rounded to lanceolate, 10-40 cm long. The flowers are white, pink or red, produced in terminal panicles. The frui ...
Catholic (literally meaning: according to (kata-) the whole (holos) or more generally "universal" in Greek) is a Christian religious term with a number of meanings:
The term catholic (lower-case c) can refer to the notion that all Christians are part of one Church, regardless of denominational divisions. This "universal" interpretation is often used to understand the phrase "one holy catholic and apostolic Church" in the Nicene Creed, the phrase "the catholic faith" in the Athanasian Creed, and the ph ...
The Catechism of the Catholic Church, or CCC, is an official exposition of the teachings of the Catholic Church, first published in French in 1992 by the authority of Pope John Paul II.[1] Subsequently, in 1997, a Latin text was issued which is now the official text of reference [2] the contents of the first French text being amended at a few points [3] The volume, which is a stout book of over 900 pages, has since been translated into many other languages, including English, and became an instant best-seller. Thi ...
The sobriquet Catholic King is a title awarded by the Pope as head of the Roman Catholic Church to a monarch who in the eyes of the papacy embodies Catholic principles in his or her personal live and state policies. The title remains attached to monarchs descended from whoever received the original sobriquet, unless withdrawn by a pope. The sobriquet can be awarded to either a king or a queen. One of the rights of being a Catholic King is that a queen may wear white, rather than the normal black, when meeting a pope.
Two surviving European monarchies have the sobriquet Catholic King: those of Be ...
The Spiritual life for Roman Catholics. Once a Catholic has accepted the faith (fides quae creditur) by making a personal act of faith (fides qua creditur), then one lives out faith throught spirituality. Although all Catholics are expected to pray together at Mass, there are many different forms of spirituality and private prayer which have developed over the centuries. Each of the major religious orders of the Catholic Church has its own unique spirituality - its own way of approaching God in prayer and in living out the Gospel.
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Unlike in several Protestant churches, in the Roman Catholic Church the term minister is not commonly used to refer to a member of the clergy nor as a common term of address.
In some parishes of the Catholic church in the United States there are ministers of hospitality, music ministers, etc. There are also lectors who read scriptural passages to the congregation, altar servers and acolytes who assist the clergy at the altar, cantors who lead the singing, and ushers who direct the seating and procession of ...
The practice of the Roman Catholic Church includes seven sacraments. As defined by Catholics, a sacrament is a material and spoken action which confers divine grace upon a person, especially what is called sanctifying grace.
There are seven sacraments:
Baptism
Penance and Reconciliation (informally called Confession)
Eucharist (informally called Communion)
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The Anglican Catholic Church is a worldwide body of Anglican Christians which grew out of the 1977 Congress of St. Louis. The congress was called in response to decisions made by the Episcopal Church to approve he ordination of women and to created a new Book of Common Prayer. As a result the Anglican Church in North America was founded. By 1978, four bishops had been consecrated, and then the church split into three separate churches, the Anglican Catholic Church, the Anglican Province ...
After the Armenian Apostolic Church, along with the rest of Oriental Orthodoxy formally broke off communion from the Chalcedonian churches, numerous Armenian bishops made attempts to restore communion with the Catholic Church. In 1195 during the Crusades, the church of the Armenian kingdom of Cilicia entered into a union with the Catholic Church which lasted until Cilicia was conquered by Tatars in 1375.
The union was later re-established during the council of Florence in 1439, but did not have any real effects until the year 1740, wh ...
This is a list of Armenian Catholic Patriarchs. The Armenian Catholic patriarchate was established in 1740 and recognized by the Pope of the Catholic Church in 1742 following a schism within the Armenian Patriarchate based in Cilicia. They are one of the Uniate Patriarchs of the Eastern Rite of the Catholic Church.
Armenian Catholic Patriarchs - Armenian Catholic Patriarchs of Cilicia 1737-present.
Apraham Bedros I 1737-1749
Hagop Bedros II 1749-1753
Mikael Bedros III 1753-17 ...
Catholics for a Free Choice is a lobbying group formed in 1973 in response to the opposition of the Catholic Church to the Roe v. Wade decision. The founders of the organization, Joan Harriman, Patricia Fogarty McQuillan, and Meta Mulcahymade, members of the National Organization of Women, claimed that the Catholic bishops did not represent all Catholics on the issue of abortion.
Though originally limited to the United States, the organization extended the scope of its opposition to Church teachings in South America a ...
The Chaldean Catholic Church aka the Chaldean Church of Babylon is an Eastern Rite sui juris (autonomous) particular church of the Roman Catholic Church, maintaining full communion with the Pope in Rome.
It descends from the Church of the East. In the 15th century the Assyrian church decreed that the title of Patriarch could pass only to relatives of then-patriarch Mar Shimun IV. Dissent over this grew until in 1552, a group of bishops refused to accept t ...
A Cafeteria Catholic is a derogatory term used to describe certain members of the Catholic community that selectively subscribe to only certain parts of the faith as a cafeteria goer would pick and choose only those items that appeal to him or her. The term has been in use since the issuance of Humanae Vitae, an official document which forbade practicing Catholics from using any form of birth control that was not based on the rhythm method or abstinence. Many Catholics have ignored such pronouncements yet maintain their connection to the Church. Such attitudes have been described by Conservative Catholi ...
The Catholic Church in Mexico is part of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope and curia in Rome.
The Roman Catholic Church is the world's largest Christian Church, and its largest religious grouping. The 2000 census reported that Mexico had some 75 million Roman Catholics among the population aged five and above, which equates to around 88% of the total population. The country is divided into 88 Dioceses, and there are 13,700 priests and 36,000 men and women in religious orders.
Within Mexico the hierarchy consists of:< ...
