Source Ordinatio SacerdotalisPope John Paul IIthe holders' own account
The Code recognises the abbess as major superior of an autonomous monastery of nuns, holding the same ordinary power over her community that an abbot holds over his.
Source Code of Canon Law (Codex Iuris Canonici)Holy Seethe holders' own account
The Code recognises the abbot as major superior of an autonomous monastery, holding ordinary power over his community under the constitutions of his institute.
Source Code of Canon Law (Codex Iuris Canonici)Holy Seethe holders' own account
An act of contrition is required of the penitent in the sacrament of penance, in one of several approved forms.
Source Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2nd editionHoly Seethe holders' own account
Declared canonical scripture for the Roman Catholic Church at the Council of Trent, Session IV, 1546, as part of the Greek additions to Daniel.
Source Canons and Decrees of the Council of TrentCouncil of Trentthe holders' own account
Declared canonical scripture for the Roman Catholic Church at the Council of Trent, Session IV, 1546, as part of the Greek additions to Esther.
Source Canons and Decrees of the Council of TrentCouncil of Trentthe holders' own account
Source Universal Norms on the Liturgical Year and the General Roman CalendarPaul VI (motu proprio Mysterii Paschalis)
He made Catholicism the religion of the Kongo court, corresponded with Lisbon and Rome, and saw his son Henrique consecrated bishop in 1518.
Source Encyclopaedia Britannica (online academic reference)Encyclopaedia Britannica editors
The Agnus Dei is sung or said during the breaking of the bread in the Order of Mass.
Source General Instruction of the Roman Missal, third typical editionCongregation for Divine Worshipthe holders' own account
Source Universal Norms on the Liturgical Year and the General Roman CalendarPaul VI (motu proprio Mysterii Paschalis)
A commemoration proper to the Roman Catholic calendar, resting on the doctrine of purgatory and intercession for the dead.
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
Almsgiving stands with prayer and fasting as one of the three works of penance this church names, and the corporal works of mercy give it its shape.
Source Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2nd editionHoly Seethe holders' own account
Ordained at Shanghai in 1845, the first Korean born Catholic priest, and executed the following year.
Source Encyclopaedia Britannica (online academic reference)Encyclopaedia Britannica editors
Source The Raccolta, 1910 editionAmbrose St John (translator and compiler)
Source The Raccolta, 1910 editionAmbrose St John (translator and compiler)
Since the Second Vatican Council the anointing has been offered to the seriously ill rather than only to the dying, and it may be received more than once.
Source Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2nd editionHoly Seethe holders' own account
Apocalyptic and eschatological revelation is received as canonical and doctrinally significant across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
Apostolic succession, an unbroken line of ordination from the apostles, is claimed and taught as doctrine by this tradition.
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
Canon 435 places an archdiocese under an archbishop, who is also metropolitan of his province and carries a defined and limited oversight of the suffragan dioceses within it.
Source Code of Canon Law (Codex Iuris Canonici)Holy Seethe holders' own account
An archbishop governs an ecclesiastical province or a major archdiocese, a rank above ordinary bishop, per the Code of Canon Law, canons 435 to 438.
Source Code of Canon Law (Codex Iuris Canonici)Holy Seethe holders' own account
Source Church Abuse Settlement FinalizedMeghan Dorney, The Boston Pilot
Source Erzbistum Koln Finanzbericht 2024
Source 660 Million Dollar Settlement in Priest AbusesJoe Mozingo and John Spano, Los Angeles Times
Source Judge Approves 21 Million Dollar Milwaukee Archdiocese Settlement
Source Bankruptcy Court Confirms Archdiocese of Santa Fe Plan of Reorganization Settling Hundreds of Sexual Abuse Claims
Source Bankruptcy Court OKs Settlement for Clergy Sex Abuse Victims
The Shroud is owned by the Holy See and entrusted to the archbishop of Turin as its custodian, so the holder is a Catholic diocesan office rather than a museum.
Source The Holy Shroud - Archdiocese of Turin (Diocesi di Torino)Archdiocese of Turinthe holders' own account
Source Universal Norms on the Liturgical Year and the General Roman CalendarPaul VI (motu proprio Mysterii Paschalis)
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
Source Medieval Monasticism: Forms of Religious Life in Western Europe in the Middle AgesC. H. Lawrence
Source Autos Sacramentales (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Source Baltimore Catechism (Wikipedia)
Baptism is the gateway sacrament, ordinarily by pouring rather than immersion, and in an emergency it may be conferred validly by any person, including one who is not baptised.
Source Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2nd editionHoly Seethe holders' own account
Baptism is held to mark the soul with an indelible character and to found the whole Christian life, so that living the baptismal promises is the ordinary form of discipleship.
Source Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2nd editionHoly Seethe holders' own account
Santa Croce in Gerusalemme is a Catholic basilica in Rome founded to house relics of the Passion, and it holds them as a place of pilgrimage rather than as a collection.
Source The Relics of the Passion - Basilica di Santa Croce in GerusalemmeBasilica di Santa Croce in Gerusalemmethe holders' own account
National Marian shrine of the Roman Catholic Church in Brazil.
Source Our Lady of Aparecida (Saint of the Day entry)Vatican News
Source National Basilica Sanctuary of the Charity del Cobre (Wikipedia)
The Basilica of Saint-Denys at Argenteuil is a Catholic parish church, and the tunic it keeps is shown at intervals set by the diocese rather than on permanent display.
Source La Sainte Tunique d'Argenteuil - Basilica of Saint-DenysBasilique Saint-Denys d'Argenteuilthe holders' own account
The beatific vision, the direct sight of God after death, is dogma per the papal bull Benedictus Deus, 1336.
Source Benedictus DeusPope Benedict XIIthe holders' own account
Matches Roman Catholicism already carried alongside Christianity by the other Catholic religious institutions on file.
Source Cities of Ladies: Beguine Communities in the Medieval Low Countries, 1200-1565Walter Simons
Source Belgium Church Abuse Detailed by Adriaenssens Report
Held the papal office; his 2007 motu proprio Summorum Pontificum reopened general use of the pre-conciliar Roman Missal.
Source Saints and Sinners: A History of the PopesEamon Duffy
Source Medieval Monasticism: Forms of Religious Life in Western Europe in the Middle AgesC. H. Lawrence
The Benedictus is the gospel canticle of Lauds, said every morning.
A Franciscan of the first missionary generation in Mexico.
Source Encyclopaedia Britannica (online academic reference)Encyclopaedia Britannica editors
Bishops, successors of the apostles by episcopal consecration, govern dioceses in communion with the Pope, per the Code of Canon Law, canons 375 to 380.
Source Code of Canon Law (Codex Iuris Canonici)Holy Seethe holders' own account
Canon 375 holds that bishops succeed the apostles by divine institution and are constituted pastors in the Church, with the office of teaching, sanctifying and governing.
Source Code of Canon Law (Codex Iuris Canonici)Holy Seethe holders' own account
Source God's War: A New History of the CrusadesChristopher Tyerman
Source Pope Francis Sends Top Sex Crimes Investigator to Bolivia as Abuse Scandal Escalates
Held the papal office and gave his own Roman house over as a monastery.
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
Held the papal office from Rome.
Source Saints and Sinners: A History of the PopesEamon Duffy
Declared canonical scripture for the Roman Catholic Church at the Council of Trent, Session IV, 1546.
Source Canons and Decrees of the Council of TrentCouncil of Trentthe holders' own account
Declared canonical scripture for the Roman Catholic Church at the Council of Trent, Session IV, 1546.
Source Canons and Decrees of the Council of TrentCouncil of Trentthe holders' own account
Declared canonical scripture for the Roman Catholic Church at the Council of Trent, Session IV, 1546.
Source Canons and Decrees of the Council of TrentCouncil of Trentthe holders' own account
Declared canonical scripture for the Roman Catholic Church at the Council of Trent, Session IV, 1546, covering both First and Second Maccabees.
Source Canons and Decrees of the Council of TrentCouncil of Trentthe holders' own account
Held the papal office; canonized Vincent Ferrer and ordered the retrial that annulled the condemnation of Joan of Arc.
Source Saints and Sinners: A History of the PopesEamon Duffy
Catholics light tapers before a shrine or an icon and leave them.
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
Source Universal Norms on the Liturgical Year and the General Roman CalendarPaul VI (motu proprio Mysterii Paschalis)
Canon law is a formal, codified legal system in this tradition, per the Code of Canon Law.
Source Code of Canon Law (Codex Iuris Canonici)Holy Seethe holders' own account
Canudos was a lay Catholic penitential and millenarian community, built around a preacher who worked to restore Catholic worship in the backlands even as the settlement's own religious authority stood apart from the institutional church's control.
Source Vale of Tears: Revisiting the Canudos Massacre in Northeastern Brazil, 1893-1897Robert M. Levine
Source Medieval Monasticism: Forms of Religious Life in Western Europe in the Middle AgesC. H. Lawrence
Cardinals form the Pope's senior council and, gathered as the College of Cardinals, elect his successor, per the Code of Canon Law, canons 349 to 359.
Source Code of Canon Law (Codex Iuris Canonici)Holy Seethe holders' own account
Canon 349 constitutes the cardinals as a special college whose particular charge is the election of the Roman Pontiff, and who assist him collegially in the graver questions and individually in the government of the Church.
Source Code of Canon Law (Codex Iuris Canonici)Holy Seethe holders' own account
A confederation of 162 national Catholic relief, development and social service organizations, headquartered at the Vatican and canonically linked to the Holy See, per Caritas Internationalis's own description.
Source Caritas Internationalis: Who We AreCaritas Internationalis
Source Medieval Monasticism: Forms of Religious Life in Western Europe in the Middle AgesC. H. Lawrence
Source Medieval Monasticism: Forms of Religious Life in Western Europe in the Middle AgesC. H. Lawrence
The twentieth century revival is practiced today chiefly in the Roman Catholic Church, though other Christian traditions have adapted comparable forms.
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
Notre-Dame de Paris is the cathedral church of the Catholic archdiocese of Paris. The relics it holds are kept as objects of devotion, and the building is in worship rather than in collection.
Source Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris (institutional record)the holders' own account
The cathedral church of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, the largest Roman Catholic archdiocese in the United States.
Source Encyclopaedia Britannica (online academic reference)Encyclopaedia Britannica editors
The Cathedral of San Salvador at Oviedo keeps the Sudarium in the Camara Santa, a Catholic reliquary chapel, and shows it on a small number of fixed days each year.
Source The Sudarium and the Arca Santa - Cathedral of San Salvador, OviedoCabildo de la Catedral de Oviedothe holders' own account
Catholic Charities USA is the national office of the United States Catholic bishops' own diocesan social service agency network.
Source Catholic Charities USA (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Source Information about the Obligatory Contribution to the Church
The national body of Roman Catholic dioceses in Germany, organized through the German Bishops' Conference (Deutsche Bischofskonferenz).
Source Deutsche Bischofskonferenz Veroeffentlicht Neue Kirchensteuer-Zahlen
CRS is the international humanitarian and development agency of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Source Catholic Relief Services (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Rome requires celibacy of its Latin-rite priests as well as of monks and nuns, a discipline rather than a doctrine, and one it has never imposed on its Eastern Catholic churches, whose parish clergy may be married.
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
Source Blessed, a History of the American Prosperity Gospel (Kate Bowler, Oxford University Press)Kate Bowler
The lay power on which the Catholic side of the Reformation crisis depended, and the ruler who pressed the papacy for two decades to call the council that met at Trent.
Source Reformation: Europe's House Divided 1490-1700Diarmaid MacCulloch
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
A pre-Reformation civic Catholic production; Elizabethan authorities judged the surviving cycle Popery and suppressed it in 1578.
Source Chester Mystery Plays (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Source Quas PrimasPope Pius XIthe holders' own account
Christian eschatology, the doctrine of last things, is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition, though particulars vary.
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
Source Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2nd editionHoly Seethe holders' own account
Kept on December 25 as a solemnity with its own vigil, and one of the days on which every Catholic is bound to attend Mass.
Source Universal Norms on the Liturgical Year and the General Roman CalendarPaul VI (motu proprio Mysterii Paschalis)
Source Universal Norms on the Liturgical Year and the General Roman CalendarPaul VI (motu proprio Mysterii Paschalis)
The blessing of a mother after childbirth survives in the Roman ritual books as an optional rite, having been near universal in the West before the twentieth century.
Source Medieval Monasticism: Forms of Religious Life in Western Europe in the Middle AgesC. H. Lawrence
Source Codex Iuris Canonici (1983 Code of Canon Law)Pope John Paul IIthe holders' own account
Restored the Roman Catholic Church's legal standing in France
Catholics confess privately to a priest, who absolves under an absolute seal of secrecy, and the church obliges the confession of grave sin at least once a year; a penance is assigned, and indulgences are attached to the sacrament.
Source The Holy BibleAnonymous (multiple authors)
Confirmation is separated from baptism and is ordinarily conferred by a bishop at an age of discretion, which is the point on which the Western and Eastern practice divide.
Source Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2nd editionHoly Seethe holders' own account
Catholic dedication of a church involves anointing the altar with chrism and depositing relics beneath it.
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
Source Religious Celebrations: An Encyclopedia of Holidays, Festivals, Solemn Observances, and Spiritual CommemorationsJ. Gordon Melton (editor)
The biblical covenant tradition, old and new, is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.
Source The Holy BibleAnonymous (multiple authors)
Creation ex nihilo is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
Source The Cristero Rebellion: The Mexican People between Church and State, 1926-1929Jean Meyer
He wrote as a Spanish parish priest, gathering testimony from Quechua speaking informants for the church's use.
Source The Incas, 2nd editionTerence N. D'Altroy
Source Encyclopaedia Britannica (online academic reference)Encyclopaedia Britannica editors
Source Sisters in Arms: Catholic Nuns through Two MillenniaJo Ann Kay McNamara
Restored as a permanent order of its own by the Second Vatican Council, which taught that the deacon is ordained not to the priesthood but to a ministry of service, of the word and of charity.
Source Lumen Gentium, Dogmatic Constitution on the ChurchSecond Vatican Councilthe holders' own account
Deacons are ordained to a ministry of service, word and charity, either as a step toward the priesthood or permanently, per the Code of Canon Law, canons 1008 to 1009 and 236.
Source Code of Canon Law (Codex Iuris Canonici)Holy Seethe holders' own account
Deutscher Caritasverband is the institutional association of Catholic Caritas in Germany, recognised by the German Catholic bishops, so linked to Roman Catholicism.
Source Deutscher Caritasverband e.V.: Jahresabschluss und Lagebericht fur das Geschaftsjahr 2024Deutscher Caritasverband e.V.; audited by RSM Ebner Stolz GmbH and Co. KG
The movement was a renewal within the late medieval Western church.
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
As a department of the Roman Curia, the dicastery belongs specifically to the Catholic Church rather than to Christianity as a whole.
Source Our History, Dicastery for Interreligious DialogueDicastery for Interreligious Dialogue
A Franciscan friar and later a bishop of the Spanish church in Yucatan.
Source Encyclopaedia Britannica (online academic reference)Encyclopaedia Britannica editors
Source Court Approves Settlement in Class Action Against Roman Catholic Diocese of Antigonish for Sexual Abuse by Priests
Source Diocese of Camden Chapter 11 Plan Confirmed by U.S. Bankruptcy Court
Source Duluth Diocese Concludes Bankruptcy
Source Chapter 11 Settlement, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gallup
Source Reorganization Information, Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg
Source Judge Confirms Plan Settling Montana Clergy Sex-Abuse Claims
Source Judge Approves 34 Million Dollar Clergy Abuse Settlement with New Ulm Diocese
Source The Diocese of Norwich Emerges from Chapter 11 Bankruptcy with Confirmation of Reorganization Plan
Source Judge Confirms Bankruptcy Plan for Rochester Diocese
Source San Diego Diocese to Pay 198M to Settle Sexual Abuse Claims by ClergyAssociated Press
Source Embattled Stockton Diocese Nears Bankruptcy Exit; Attorneys and Alleged Victims Speak Out
Source Judge to Approve Syracuse Diocese's $176M Bankruptcy Plan
Source Del. Diocese Settles Priest Abuse Claims for 77M
Source Diary: Divine Mercy in My SoulMaria Faustina Kowalska
Divine simplicity, that God is not composed of parts, is classical Western doctrine per Aquinas's Summa Theologiae.
Source Summa TheologiaeThomas Aquinas
He wrote as a Christian Nahua, dating the record of the altepetl by the Christian year alongside the Nahua count.
Source Encyclopaedia Britannica (online academic reference)Encyclopaedia Britannica editors
Source Medieval Monasticism: Forms of Religious Life in Western Europe in the Middle AgesC. H. Lawrence
The summit of the Roman calendar, from which the whole movable cycle is reckoned, opened by the Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday night.
Source Universal Norms on the Liturgical Year and the General Roman CalendarPaul VI (motu proprio Mysterii Paschalis)
Source Universal Norms on the Liturgical Year and the General Roman CalendarPaul VI (motu proprio Mysterii Paschalis)
Source Universal Norms on the Liturgical Year and the General Roman CalendarPaul VI (motu proprio Mysterii Paschalis)
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
Source Eternal Word Television Network (Encyclopedia of Alabama)
Source Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2nd editionHoly Seethe holders' own account
The play's theology of salvation rests explicitly on the pre-Reformation Catholic sacraments of confession, penance, the Eucharist and last rites.
Source Everyman (15th-century play) (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Source Universal Norms on the Liturgical Year and the General Roman CalendarPaul VI (motu proprio Mysterii Paschalis)
Simple exorcism belongs to the rite of baptism itself, and the solemn form is reserved to a priest holding the express permission of his bishop.
Source Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2nd editionHoly Seethe holders' own account
The Fabbrica di San Pietro is the papal body responsible for the fabric of St Peter's Basilica and for what is kept in it. It is an office of the Holy See.
Source The Veronica and the Relics of St Peter's BasilicaFabbrica di San Pietro in Vaticanothe holders' own account
Fasting and abstinence are binding disciplines, kept on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday and, in the traditional form, on the Fridays of Lent.
Source Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2nd editionHoly Seethe holders' own account
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
Kept inside Catholic cathedrals from the twelfth century by subdeacons and other lower clergy, who elected a mock bishop and staged a burlesque of the liturgy. Church authorities campaigned against it repeatedly from the thirteenth century and it had mostly died out by the sixteenth, so it is recorded here as a suppressed medieval usage and not as an observance of the present Roman calendar.
Source Munificentissimus DeusPope Pius XIIthe holders' own account
Source Ineffabilis DeusPope Pius IXthe holders' own account
He writes as a Christian Andean, arguing for Andean good government under a Christian king while cataloguing what the clergy and the corregidores did.
Source The Incas, 2nd editionTerence N. D'Altroy
He wrote as a Christian Nahua noble for a Spanish readership.
Source Encyclopaedia Britannica (online academic reference)Encyclopaedia Britannica editors
The washing of feet is kept at the evening Mass of the Lord's Supper on Maundy Thursday, the celebrant washing the feet of members of the congregation.
Source Medieval Exegesis: The Four Senses of ScriptureHenri de Lubac
Source Medieval Monasticism: Forms of Religious Life in Western Europe in the Middle AgesC. H. Lawrence
He held office in the archdiocese of Lima and ran its campaigns against Andean practice.
Source The Incas, 2nd editionTerence N. D'Altroy
A member of a mendicant religious institute, professing the evangelical counsels under the Code's title on institutes of consecrated life and living from the ministry and support of the wider Church rather than from monastic enclosure.
Source Code of Canon Law (Codex Iuris Canonici)Holy Seethe holders' own account
Source Blessed, a History of the American Prosperity Gospel (Kate Bowler, Oxford University Press)Kate Bowler
The funeral is ordinarily a Mass, with the commendation of the dead and the rite of committal, and prayer for the dead follows from the doctrine of purgatory.
Source Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2nd editionHoly Seethe holders' own account
Source Lawyer: New Report on Abuse in Cologne Will Incriminate Church Officials (National Catholic Reporter)
Source Ghent Altarpiece (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
The Gloria Patri closes each psalm in the Liturgy of the Hours and each decade of the Rosary.
Source God's War: A New History of the CrusadesChristopher Tyerman
Source Universal Norms on the Liturgical Year and the General Roman CalendarPaul VI (motu proprio Mysterii Paschalis)
The Grand Silence is kept in the Benedictine, Cistercian and Trappist houses of this communion, running from the end of Compline to the following morning.
Held the papal office and endowed the Roman College and the national colleges that trained clergy for the Catholic missions of the Counter-Reformation.
Source Saints and Sinners: A History of the PopesEamon Duffy
Source The Holy BibleAnonymous (multiple authors)
The concept of heresy as a formally rejected teaching is operative in this tradition's own doctrinal and disciplinary system.
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
Source Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2nd editionHoly Seethe holders' own account
Ordination is to the diaconate, the presbyterate or the episcopate, and in the Latin church the presbyterate is ordinarily reserved to men who accept celibacy.
Source Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2nd editionHoly Seethe holders' own account
The Holy Spirit as the third person of the Trinity is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
Source Universal Norms on the Liturgical Year and the General Roman CalendarPaul VI (motu proprio Mysterii Paschalis)
The hypostatic union of two natures in one person of Christ is affirmed per the Chalcedonian Definition, binding on this tradition.
Source The Definition of Faith of the Council of ChalcedonCouncil of Chalcedonthe holders' own account
He wrote as a Catholic humanist in Spain, which is part of why his defence of Inca religion takes the form it does.
Source Encyclopaedia Britannica (online academic reference)Encyclopaedia Britannica editors
The Incarnation, God the Son taking human nature, is affirmed per the Chalcedonian Definition, binding on this tradition.
Source The Definition of Faith of the Council of ChalcedonCouncil of Chalcedonthe holders' own account
A Catholic thurible is swung at the gospel book, the gifts, the altar, the clergy, the congregation and the coffin.
Source The Hebrew Bible (Tanakh)Anonymous (multiple authors)
Source German Catholic Archbishop Accused of Concrete Cover-up of Clerical Sexual Abuse (The Irish Times)Derek Scally
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
Infants are baptised, and the practice is defended on the ground that grace is not withheld until a child can ask for it.
Source Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2nd editionHoly Seethe holders' own account
Source French Independent Abuse Authority Compensates Nearly 850 Victims Since 2022 (EWTN News)Madalaine Elhabbal
His letters are among the earliest sustained statements of the Roman see's claim to decide disputed cases for the whole Western church.
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
Communion by intinction is permitted, the minister dipping the host in the chalice and placing it on the tongue, but it may not be self-administered.
Source General Instruction of the Roman Missal, third typical editionCongregation for Divine Worshipthe holders' own account
The Confederation bound its own members by the Oath of Association, a religious oath to defend "the public and free exercise of the Roman Catholic and apostolic religion" alongside the king's prerogative, and seated Catholic clergy as full members of its governing General Assembly. This edge records the Confederation's own declared religious cause and structure exactly as O Siochru's constitutional study gives it, not a claim that the whole war was fought over doctrine alone.
Source Confederate Ireland, 1642 to 1649: A Constitutional and Political AnalysisMicheal O Siochru
Source A Masterpiece Born of Saint Anthony's Fire (Stanley Meisler, Smithsonian Magazine)Stanley Meisler
Source Italian Bishops Release Report Evaluating Diocesan Efforts to Prevent Abuse (Catholic News Agency)Courtney Mares
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
Recovered the Papal States by force, rebuilt Saint Peter's, and legislated against simony in papal elections.
Source Saints and Sinners: A History of the PopesEamon Duffy
Derived: this work depicts a figure already recorded as belonging to this tradition; the work-to-tradition link is inferred from that live depicts edge and the figures own attested tradition affiliation, not independently sourced beyond it.
Source Day of Repent for Sexual Abuse at Vienna Cathedral
The deathbed sequence of this church is penance, anointing and Viaticum, and the popular name attaches to the anointing, which is not in fact reserved for the dying.
Source Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2nd editionHoly Seethe holders' own account
The classic monastic way with the Bible, historically the Western Catholic monastic tradition.
Source The Holy BibleAnonymous (multiple authors)
Source Universal Norms on the Liturgical Year and the General Roman CalendarPaul VI (motu proprio Mysterii Paschalis)
His coronation of Charlemagne set the precedent that the pope crowns the emperor, the root of centuries of argument over papal and imperial authority.
Source Saints and Sinners: A History of the PopesEamon Duffy
Declared canonical scripture for the Roman Catholic Church at the Council of Trent, Session IV, 1546.
Source Canons and Decrees of the Council of TrentCouncil of Trentthe holders' own account
Limbo, a state for the unbaptized dead, is a historical Catholic theological opinion, not a dogma, and has been de-emphasized in modern magisterial teaching.
Source Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2nd editionHoly Seethe holders' own account
The Roman scheme of liturgical colours is the one the other Western churches inherited: violet, white, red, green, and rose on two Sundays of the year.
Source General Instruction of the Roman Missal, third typical editionCongregation for Divine Worshipthe holders' own account
The Logos Christology of John's Gospel prologue is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.
Source The Holy BibleAnonymous (multiple authors)
Canonized in 1297; his feast is kept on 25 August, and he is the patron of the Third Order of Saint Francis.
Source Making Saints: How the Catholic Church Determines Who Becomes a Saint, Who Doesn't, and WhyKenneth L. Woodward
Matches Roman Catholicism already carried alongside Christianity by the other Catholic religious institutions on file.
Source Lumen Gentium, Dogmatic Constitution on the ChurchSecond Vatican Councilthe holders' own account
Malteser International is the relief agency of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, a Roman Catholic lay religious order, so linked to Roman Catholicism.
Source Malteser International (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
The couple are held to confer the sacrament on each other and the priest to be the church's witness, which is why consent, and not the ceremony, is the ground on which a marriage can later be declared null.
Source Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2nd editionHoly Seethe holders' own account
Sets the full Catholic Mass Ordinary text and liturgical form, though Catholic worship never adopted this particular setting into its own use.
Source Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Source Universal Norms on the Liturgical Year and the General Roman CalendarPaul VI (motu proprio Mysterii Paschalis)
Source The Raccolta, 1910 editionAmbrose St John (translator and compiler)
The Metropolitan Cathedral of Valencia is a Catholic cathedral, and the chalice it keeps is displayed in a chapel of the working church.
Source Metropolitan Cathedral of Valencia (institutional record)the holders' own account
Source Universal Norms on the Liturgical Year and the General Roman CalendarPaul VI (motu proprio Mysterii Paschalis)
Source Miserere mei, Deus (Allegri) (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Source Sisters in Arms: Catholic Nuns through Two MillenniaJo Ann Kay McNamara
Poverty, chastity and obedience are professed in the religious institutes of this church, under a rule approved by the Holy See.
A member of a monastic religious institute, professing the evangelical counsels of chastity, poverty and obedience under the Code's title on institutes of consecrated life.
Source Code of Canon Law (Codex Iuris Canonici)Holy Seethe holders' own account
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
Clergy or specialist role within Roman Catholicism.
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
Source Mother Angelica Live (EWTN)
Source Mount Saint Benedict (Wikipedia)
A Catholic Marian devotional drama staged inside a Catholic basilica under continuous local patronage.
Source Mystery Play of Elche (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
The Society of St. Vincent de Paul is an international lay voluntary organization of the Catholic Church, so its US National Council is linked to Roman Catholicism.
Source Society of Saint Vincent de Paul (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Source Universal Norms on the Liturgical Year and the General Roman CalendarPaul VI (motu proprio Mysterii Paschalis)
Source Summa TheologiaeThomas Aquinas
Twenty-seven-book New Testament canon, shared across the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Anglican traditions.
Source The Biblical Canon: Its Origin, Transmission, and AuthorityLee Martin McDonald
Source Medieval Monasticism: Forms of Religious Life in Western Europe in the Middle AgesC. H. Lawrence
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
A pre-Reformation Catholic touring cycle from East Anglia.
Source N-Town Plays (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
A woman in vows in a religious institute, professing the evangelical counsels under the Code's title on institutes of consecrated life.
Source Code of Canon Law (Codex Iuris Canonici)Holy Seethe holders' own account
The Nunc Dimittis is the gospel canticle of Compline, said every night of the year.
A vow made by a Bavarian Catholic community, staged as a continuing Catholic devotional practice.
Source Oberammergau Passion Play (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
The obligation is transferred to Sunday, the Lord's Day, on which the faithful are bound to attend Mass and to refrain from work that would hinder the worship owed to God.
Source Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2nd editionHoly Seethe holders' own account
God's omnipotence is affirmed as classical theism common ground across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
God's omnipresence is affirmed as classical theism common ground across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
God's omniscience is affirmed as classical theism common ground across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
Source Opus Dei (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Source Universal Norms on the Liturgical Year and the General Roman CalendarPaul VI (motu proprio Mysterii Paschalis)
Catholic teaching holds that ordination imparts an indelible character and the capacity to consecrate.
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
Original sin, inherited guilt and corruption from Adam, is defined doctrine per the Council of Trent's Decree on Original Sin.
Source Canons and Decrees of the Council of TrentCouncil of Trentthe holders' own account
Source Religious Celebrations: An Encyclopedia of Holidays, Festivals, Solemn Observances, and Spiritual CommemorationsJ. Gordon Melton (editor)
Source Religious Celebrations: An Encyclopedia of Holidays, Festivals, Solemn Observances, and Spiritual CommemorationsJ. Gordon Melton (editor)
Source Religious Celebrations: An Encyclopedia of Holidays, Festivals, Solemn Observances, and Spiritual CommemorationsJ. Gordon Melton (editor)
Source Our Lady of Mercy, called the Pilgrim of Quito, Metropolitan Museum of Art (Cuzco School, circa 1730 to 1740)
Source Universal Norms on the Liturgical Year and the General Roman CalendarPaul VI (motu proprio Mysterii Paschalis)
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
Source Universal Norms on the Liturgical Year and the General Roman CalendarPaul VI (motu proprio Mysterii Paschalis)
Source Saints and Sinners: A History of the PopesEamon Duffy
Papal primacy and infallibility are dogma per Pastor Aeternus, the First Vatican Council's 1870 constitution on the Church.
Source Pastor Aeternus, First Dogmatic Constitution on the Church of ChristFirst Vatican Councilthe holders' own account
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
Canon 519 makes the parish priest the proper pastor of the parish entrusted to him, exercising the care of that community under the authority of the diocesan bishop.
Source Code of Canon Law (Codex Iuris Canonici)Holy Seethe holders' own account
Source Universal Norms on the Liturgical Year and the General Roman CalendarPaul VI (motu proprio Mysterii Paschalis)
Source Universal Norms on the Liturgical Year and the General Roman CalendarPaul VI (motu proprio Mysterii Paschalis)
The massacre was carried out under sustained pressure from Turin's Council for the Propagation of the Faith and the Extermination of Heresy, a Catholic Church body created in 1650 specifically to press the case against the valleys' Protestant population.
Source The Israel of the Alps: A Complete History of the Waldenses and Their ColoniesAlexis Muston
Source Pieta (Michelangelo) (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Pilgrimage to Rome, to Marian shrines and to the tombs of the saints is a long-standing devotion of this church rather than a private custom.
Condemned Modernism, imposed the anti-Modernist oath, opened frequent Communion to the laity and began the codification of canon law.
Source Saints and Sinners: A History of the PopesEamon Duffy
Settled the church's standing in Italy, instituted the feast of Christ the King, and restated Catholic social teaching for the industrial depression.
Source Saints and Sinners: A History of the PopesEamon Duffy
Source Plaine-du-Nord Pilgrimage (Wikipedia and Corroborating Sources)
Source Polish Church Report Lists Sex Abuse of Over 300 Children
Source Sisters in Arms: Catholic Nuns through Two MillenniaJo Ann Kay McNamara
The Pope, Bishop of Rome, holds supreme, full, immediate and universal ordinary power over the whole Church, per the Code of Canon Law, canon 331.
Source Code of Canon Law (Codex Iuris Canonici)Holy Seethe holders' own account
Canon 331 of the 1983 Code vests in the Roman Pontiff, as successor of Peter and head of the college of bishops, full, supreme and universal power over the Church, which he may always freely exercise.
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Derived: this work depicts a figure already recorded as belonging to this tradition; the work-to-tradition link is inferred from that live depicts edge and the figures own attested tradition affiliation, not independently sourced beyond it.
Source Paus Innocentius I, Rijksmuseum (Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493)
Derived: this work depicts a figure already recorded as belonging to this tradition; the work-to-tradition link is inferred from that live depicts edge and the figures own attested tradition affiliation, not independently sourced beyond it.
Derived: this work depicts a figure already recorded as belonging to this tradition; the work-to-tradition link is inferred from that live depicts edge and the figures own attested tradition affiliation, not independently sourced beyond it.
Derived: this work depicts a figure already recorded as belonging to this tradition; the work-to-tradition link is inferred from that live depicts edge and the figures own attested tradition affiliation, not independently sourced beyond it.
Source Paus Bonifatius IV, Rijksmuseum (atelier of Michel Wolgemut, 1493)
Source Portret van paus Julius II, Rijksmuseum (after Tobias Stimmer, 1549-1573)
Source Paus Sergius I, Rijksmuseum (atelier of Michel Wolgemut, 1493)
Derived: this work depicts a figure already recorded as belonging to this tradition; the work-to-tradition link is inferred from that live depicts edge and the figures own attested tradition affiliation, not independently sourced beyond it.
Prayer is treated as the whole fourth part of the Catechism, which sets out vocal prayer, meditation and contemplative prayer as the three expressions of the Christian life of prayer.
Source Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2nd editionHoly Seethe holders' own account
The prayer circulates widely in this church as a devotional text. It is not by Francis of Assisi and first appears in print in French in 1912.
The rosary is Catholic devotion rather than liturgy, five decades at a sitting being ordinary, and it is very commonly said at a wake. John Paul II added five luminous mysteries in 2002 to the joyful, sorrowful and glorious.
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
Priests are ordained co-workers of the episcopal order, authorized to celebrate the sacraments including the Eucharist, per the Code of Canon Law, canons 1008 to 1009.
Source Code of Canon Law (Codex Iuris Canonici)Holy Seethe holders' own account
One of the three orders conferred by the sacrament of order in the Latin Church, between the episcopate and the diaconate, and the order by which the Code entrusts the celebration of the Eucharist and the absolution of sins.
Source Code of Canon Law (Codex Iuris Canonici)Holy Seethe holders' own account
Old and New Testament prophecy is affirmed as a mode of divine revelation across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.
Source The Oxford Dictionary of World ReligionsJohn Bowker (ed.)
Circulates within Catholic devotional and traditionalist writing; the Church has never examined, endorsed or condemned the text as teaching, so this edge is deliberately associated rather than holds.
Source An Historical and Critical Account of the So-Called Prophecy of St. Malachy Regarding the Succession of PopesM. J. O'Brien
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
Purgatory, a final purification after death, is dogma per the Council of Trent's decree, Session 25.
Source Canons and Decrees of the Council of TrentCouncil of Trentthe holders' own account
The pilgrimage's central image and its organizing calendar, tied to the Easter cycle, are Catholic.
Source Encyclopaedia Britannica (online academic reference)Encyclopaedia Britannica editors
Source Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Wikipedia)
Performed annually on the Catholic feast of Saint Paul, Rabinal's patron saint, and organized by the town's Catholic lay cofradias.
Source Rabinal Achi Dance Drama Tradition, UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of HumanityUNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage
Source Radio Maria in the World (World Family of Radio Maria)
Source Rádio Renascença (Wikipedia)
Source About RVA (Radio Veritas Asia)
Source Interim Report: Priests Transferred by German Diocese Continued to Abuse (Crux)
Redemption through Christ's sacrifice is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.
Source The Holy BibleAnonymous (multiple authors)
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
The Regina Caeli replaces the Angelus through Eastertide, said standing rather than kneeling.
An active Roman Catholic cathedral in the Archdiocese of Reims.
Source Encyclopaedia Britannica (online academic reference)Encyclopaedia Britannica editors
A practising Catholic whose works were nonetheless placed on the Index in 1663.
Source Requiem in D Minor, K. 626 (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
The bodily resurrection of the dead is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
His own confession, and the reason the papal nuncio at his court had standing to press against Dee and Kelley.
Source John Dee's Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of NatureDeborah E. Harkness
Source Sacra Rappresentazione (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Source Saint Augustine on Clouds Surrounded by Angels, accession 2010.160 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Source Encyclopaedia Britannica (online academic reference)Encyclopaedia Britannica editors
Source Saint Teresa of Avila Interceding for Souls in Purgatory, accession 17.190.19 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Source Saint Thomas Aquinas Aided by Saints Peter and Paul, accession 23.140 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
Salvation through Christ is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition, though the mechanism of justification is debated separately.
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
The Salve Regina closes Compline through the greater part of the year and ends the Rosary.
The satisfaction theory of the atonement, from Anselm's Cur Deus Homo, is the classical Latin scholastic account foundational to this tradition's theology.
Source Cur Deus Homo (Why God Became Man)Anselm of Canterbury
Source Pope Francis Begins Purge at Chilean Church Over Sex Abuse Scandal
Source Arena Chapel (Encyclopaedia Britannica)
Source Encyclopaedia Britannica (online academic reference)Encyclopaedia Britannica editors
The seminary as an institution was created by the Council of Trent.
Source Canons and Decrees of the Council of TrentCouncil of Trentthe holders' own account
Source National Museum of the Philippines, "Senakulo"National Museum of the Philippines
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
Source Sisters in Arms: Catholic Nuns through Two MillenniaJo Ann Kay McNamara
Source Michelangelo: The Sistine Chapel Ceiling, Rome (Loren Partridge)Loren Partridge
Built the Sistine Chapel, established the Vatican Library on a formal footing, and left the Roman jubilee city rebuilt for 1475.
Source Saints and Sinners: A History of the PopesEamon Duffy
Christ as the Son of God is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.
Source The Holy BibleAnonymous (multiple authors)
The war's immediate cause was the federal diet's closure of Aargau's monasteries and its campaign against the Jesuit order, which the seven Catholic cantons read as an attack on their own religious institutions. The Sonderbund formed to defend those institutions rather than to impose Catholicism on the wider Confederation.
Source A Very Civil War: The Swiss Sonderbund War of 1847Joachim Remak
Source The Influence of Prophecy in the Later Middle Ages: A Study in JoachimismMarjorie Reeves
Source St. Ignatius of Loyola, accession 57.639.1 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
Source The Raccolta, 1910 editionAmbrose St John (translator and compiler)
Source Wide-Ranging Cases of Sexual Abuse in Swiss Catholic Church
The Synod is an institution of the Roman Catholic Church.
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
The Kielce crowd was overwhelmingly Polish Roman Catholic by ordinary demographic fact, and the blood libel rumor at its center drew on a specifically Christian antisemitic tradition, but no church authority ordered or endorsed the violence; this edge connects that shared communal identity to the event without asserting it as Roman Catholicism's own position.
Source Fear: Antisemitism in Poland After Auschwitz: An Essay in Historical InterpretationJan T. Gross
Source Encyclopaedia Britannica (online academic reference)Encyclopaedia Britannica editors
The Roman rite calls its anaphora the canon, and since the Second Vatican Council several eucharistic prayers stand alongside the Roman Canon.
Source General Instruction of the Roman Missal, third typical editionCongregation for Divine Worshipthe holders' own account
Source Universal Norms on the Liturgical Year and the General Roman CalendarPaul VI (motu proprio Mysterii Paschalis)
Derived: this work depicts a figure already recorded as belonging to this tradition; the work-to-tradition link is inferred from that live depicts edge and the figures own attested tradition affiliation, not independently sourced beyond it.
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
The Roman rite places the invocation of the Spirit before the institution narrative rather than after it, the reverse of the Byzantine order.
Source General Instruction of the Roman Missal, third typical editionCongregation for Divine Worshipthe holders' own account
The Filioque, that the Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son, stands in this tradition's text of the Nicene Creed.
Source The Nicene-Constantinopolitan CreedFirst Council of Constantinoplethe holders' own account
The breaking of the host accompanies the Agnus Dei, and a fragment is placed in the chalice.
Source General Instruction of the Roman Missal, third typical editionCongregation for Divine Worshipthe holders' own account
Source Universal Norms on the Liturgical Year and the General Roman CalendarPaul VI (motu proprio Mysterii Paschalis)
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
Source The Spanish Inquisition: A Historical RevisionHenry Kamen
The Kingdom of God, present and coming, is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.
Source The Holy BibleAnonymous (multiple authors)
The tradition targeted by Bismarck-era Prussian and German state legislation, not the initiating authority.
Source Kulturkampf (Wikipedia)
The general judgment at Christ's return is taught alongside the particular judgment each soul meets at death, the two being distinguished rather than merged.
Source Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2nd editionHoly Seethe holders' own account
Source The Last Supper (Leonardo) (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
The Lord's Prayer is treated as the summary of the whole gospel, and the last part of the Catechism is a commentary on its seven petitions.
Source Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2nd editionHoly Seethe holders' own account
Catholics hold the Mass to be the sacrifice of Calvary offered again without bloodshed, the bread and wine becoming the body and blood of Christ by transubstantiation, and attendance is obliged on Sundays and holy days.
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
The perpetual virginity of Mary is affirmed per the Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraphs 499 to 501.
Source Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2nd editionHoly Seethe holders' own account
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
Source General Instruction of the Roman Missal, third typical editionCongregation for Divine Worshipthe holders' own account
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
Roman Catholic Marian apparition tradition.
Source Universal Norms on the Liturgical Year and the General Roman CalendarPaul VI (motu proprio Mysterii Paschalis)
The oath of orthodoxy of the Roman church from 1564 until it was replaced by modern formulas.
Source The Creeds of Christendom, with a History and Critical NotesPhilip Schaff
The virgin birth of Christ is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.
Source The New Testament, Gospel of MatthewAnonymous
The words of institution stand at the heart of the Roman canon, and Western theology has traditionally located the consecration in them.
Source General Instruction of the Roman Missal, third typical editionCongregation for Divine Worshipthe holders' own account
The problem of evil is a live theological question this tradition addresses within classical theism.
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
Theosis or divinization is affirmed in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraph 460, drawing on the church fathers.
Source Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2nd editionHoly Seethe holders' own account
Mary as Theotokos, God-bearer, is affirmed per the Chalcedonian Christological definition, binding on this tradition.
Source The Definition of Faith of the Council of ChalcedonCouncil of Chalcedonthe holders' own account
God's transcendence and immanence are affirmed as classical theism common ground across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
Source Encyclopaedia Britannica (online academic reference)Encyclopaedia Britannica editors
The doctrine of the Trinity, one God in three persons, is affirmed across Nicene Christianity, including this tradition.
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
Kept on the Sunday after Pentecost as a solemnity of the Lord in Ordinary Time.
Source Universal Norms on the Liturgical Year and the General Roman CalendarPaul VI (motu proprio Mysterii Paschalis)
Twenty two of the executed converts were Catholic; the Catholic Church beatified them in 1920 and canonized them in 1964 as martyrs of the faith.
Source Britannica, "Martyrs of Uganda"The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Source Sexual Abuse in the Diocese of Munster: At Least 196 Clerics Are Accused (University of Munster)
Held the papal office from Rome, seat of the Latin church.
Source Saints and Sinners: A History of the PopesEamon Duffy
Source Sisters in Arms: Catholic Nuns through Two MillenniaJo Ann Kay McNamara
Source February 12, 1931, the Day Vatican Radio Was Born (Vatican News)
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
Catholic teaching makes it the last sacrament a Christian receives.
Source The Westminster Confession of FaithWestminster Assemblythe holders' own account
Canon 475 requires every diocesan bishop to appoint a vicar general, who holds ordinary power to assist him in governing the whole diocese.
Source Code of Canon Law (Codex Iuris Canonici)Holy Seethe holders' own account
Source Aquinas' Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry)John Finnis
Source Sisters in Arms: Catholic Nuns through Two MillenniaJo Ann Kay McNamara
The Vulgate was declared the Roman Catholic Church's authentic Latin text of scripture at the Council of Trent, Session IV, 1546, including the deuterocanonical books.
Source Canons and Decrees of the Council of TrentCouncil of Trentthe holders' own account
A pre-Reformation civic Catholic production, like its York and Chester counterparts.
Source Wakefield Mystery Plays (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Source Pilgrimage in Medieval EnglandDiana Webb
The rising was organized in defense of Catholic parish life against the Civil Constitution of the Clergy and the wider revolutionary campaign of dechristianization; its leadership and its rank and file identified the cause as the defense of the Roman Catholic Church against a state that had made war on it.
Source The Vendee: A Sociological Analysis of the Counterrevolution of 1793Charles Tilly
Source Report on Abuse in Munich Diocese: 497 Victims in 74 Years (Vatican News)
Source Wilton Diptych (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors
Declared canonical scripture for the Roman Catholic Church at the Council of Trent, Session IV, 1546.
Source Canons and Decrees of the Council of TrentCouncil of Trentthe holders' own account
Declared canonical scripture for the Roman Catholic Church at the Council of Trent, Session IV, 1546.
Source Canons and Decrees of the Council of TrentCouncil of Trentthe holders' own account
A pre-Reformation civic Catholic production; suppression followed the 1548 abolition of Corpus Christi as an English feast day and later religious controversy over its content.
Source York Mystery Plays (Wikipedia)Wikipedia contributors