The plate that carries the host, blessed with the chalice before first use and treated with the same care afterward.
Source General Instruction of the Roman Missal, third typical editionCongregation for Divine Worshipthe holders' own account
The collection has been read in the West since its translation but belongs to a tradition of prayer the Roman church did not form.
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
The bishop of Rome, holding universal jurisdiction over the whole church and, since 1870, defined as preserved from error when he teaches on faith or morals from the chair of Peter.
Source Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils, 2 volumesNorman P. Tanner (ed.)
Pride heads the capital sins in the Roman enumeration, called capital because they engender other sins and other vices.
Source Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2nd editionHoly Seethe holders' own account
The priest is ordained to offer the sacrifice of the Mass and to absolve, and in the Latin church he is ordinarily bound to celibacy.
Source Code of Canon Law (Codex Iuris Canonici)Holy Seethe holders' own account
Prudence is the first of the four cardinal virtues in Roman teaching, the disposition that discerns the true good in each circumstance and chooses the right means to it.
Source Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2nd editionHoly Seethe holders' own account
Appointed in the psalter of the Liturgy of the Hours and read or sung at funerals.
Raphael is the third archangel of the Roman feast of 29 September, named in the Book of Tobit, which Rome receives as canonical scripture.
Source Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2nd editionHoly Seethe holders' own account
The relics at Santa Croce in Gerusalemme are the Roman collection of the passion relics and have a basilica built around them.
The habit of an order is worn as the public sign of consecrated life, and its form is set by the institute rather than by the liturgy.
Source Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2nd editionHoly Seethe holders' own account
Friars, clerks regular and apostolic congregations are organised into provinces under a superior general so that members can be moved and directed to work outside a single house.
Relics are venerated and were once required in the altar stone. The veneration is directed to the saint and not to the remains.
Source Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2nd editionHoly Seethe holders' own account
The encyclical of 1891 on capital and labour is the founding document of the Roman church's social teaching, affirming the right to private property alongside the right to a living wage and to association.
Source Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2nd editionHoly Seethe holders' own account
The book of 1614 set the form of the Roman rite's occasional offices, baptism, marriage, burial, blessings and exorcism, and governed them until they were revised piecemeal after the Second Vatican Council.
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
The Marian rosary is commended as a form of popular piety drawn from the liturgy and leading back to it.
Source Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2nd editionHoly Seethe holders' own account
The Rule governs the Augustinian canons and friars and, through them, a large part of the Roman church's active religious life.
Source Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2nd editionHoly Seethe holders' own account
The Rule governs the Benedictine, Cistercian and Trappist houses of the Roman communion and shaped the whole Western pattern of the daily office.
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Rome canonises after a judicial process, and a canonised saint may be venerated publicly and invoked in prayer throughout the church.
Source Code of Canon Law (Codex Iuris Canonici)Holy Seethe holders' own account
The basilica stands over the necropolis in which the burial place of Peter is traditionally identified, and is the principal church of the Catholic world without being its cathedral.
The cathedral holds the shrine identified with the apostle James, and the roads leading to it have carried pilgrims continuously since the medieval period.
Worn in its full form by members of religious orders and in the small form by any enrolled layperson, as a devotional habit attached to a confraternity.
Source Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2nd editionHoly Seethe holders' own account
The Council of Trent required a seminary in every diocese, and the residential model it set spread by imitation well beyond the Catholic church.
The Holy See permits the veneration of the shroud and has never pronounced on its authenticity, which is a settled position rather than an unfinished one.
Sloth is among the capital sins in the Roman enumeration, spiritual laziness that refuses the joy that comes from God.
Source Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2nd editionHoly Seethe holders' own account
The sequence of the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows, and the hymn sung between the Stations of the Cross.
Worn by deacons, priests and bishops as the mark of ordained order, over the alb at every liturgical function.
Source General Instruction of the Roman Missal, third typical editionCongregation for Divine Worshipthe holders' own account
The bull declares the peoples of the Americas to be true men, capable of receiving the faith, and not to be deprived of their liberty or their property.
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
Leo XIII prescribed the teaching of Thomas Aquinas as the ground of Catholic philosophy and theology in 1879, and the Summa held that place in seminary formation for most of the century that followed.
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
Worn over the cassock by ministers, servers and choristers for the offices, for processions and for anything that is not the Mass itself.
Source General Instruction of the Roman Missal, third typical editionCongregation for Divine Worshipthe holders' own account
Sung at vigils, youth gatherings and pilgrimages without belonging to the order of any rite.
Sung at the Office of Readings on Sundays and feasts, and at the announcement of a new pope.
Temperance in Roman teaching moderates the attraction of pleasure and provides balance in the use of created goods, which admits the moderate use of wine rather than requiring abstinence.
Source Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2nd editionHoly Seethe holders' own account
The basilica holds the tomb of Francis and is the mother church of the Franciscan order.
The underground cemeteries of the Roman church hold the earliest Christian burial art, and several remain in the care of the Vatican.
The Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land holds the Latin share, with the chapel of the apparition and defined rights in the shrine over the tomb and at the stone of anointing.
The Latin share is held by the Franciscans, whose church of Saint Catherine adjoins the basilica and from which the Christmas midnight liturgy is broadcast.
The two cities of Augustine's answer to the sack of Rome became the frame in which the Western church understood its relation to the political order.
Source Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2nd editionHoly Seethe holders' own account
Received as an ecumenical council for having ended the schism of three rival claimants to the papacy, though Rome does not receive its conciliarist decree that a council stands above a pope.
Source Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils, 2 volumesNorman P. Tanner (ed.)
The third ecumenical council, and the source of the title Mother of God, which Rome holds to be a statement about the identity of Christ before it is a statement about his mother.
Source Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils, 2 volumesNorman P. Tanner (ed.)
Received as an ecumenical council, and the decree of union with the Greeks is read in Rome as a settlement that the East afterwards abandoned rather than one that failed.
Source Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils, 2 volumesNorman P. Tanner (ed.)
The council that answered the Reformation, and its decrees on scripture and tradition, on justification and on the seven sacraments are the foundation of Roman Catholic teaching down to the present.
Source Canons and Decrees of the Council of TrentCouncil of Trentthe holders' own account
The Roman Catholic Church is not a member of the World Council and was not present at its constitution. It has sent observers to the assemblies since the nineteen sixties and works with the council through a joint commission.
Source The First Assembly of the World Council of Churches, Amsterdam 1948: Official ReportW. A. Visser 't Hooft (ed.)
The second ecumenical council, and the creed in the form Rome uses at Mass is the one this council issued rather than the shorter text of 325.
Source The Nicene-Constantinopolitan CreedFirst Council of Constantinoplethe holders' own account
Rome numbers Nicaea the first of the ecumenical councils and reads its confession of the Son as of one substance with the Father as the fixed measure of Christian belief about Christ.
Source The Canons of the First Council of NicaeaFirst Council of Nicaeathe holders' own account
The council that defined the universal jurisdiction of the pope and his infallibility when he teaches on faith and morals from the chair of Peter.
Source Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils, 2 volumesNorman P. Tanner (ed.)
Received as the twelfth ecumenical council, and the council at which transubstantiation was defined and annual confession and communion required of every believer.
Source Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils, 2 volumesNorman P. Tanner (ed.)
The robe at Trier is exposed at long intervals and draws large pilgrimages when it is, and the diocese presents it as an object of devotion rather than as an authenticated relic.
The treaty of 1929 settled the Roman question, recognised the sovereignty of the Vatican City State and remains the legal basis of the Holy See's independence.
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
The cathedral of Cordoba, consecrated after the city was taken in 1236, with a Renaissance choir built into the middle of the prayer hall in the sixteenth century.
The concordat of 1933 guaranteed the church's freedom in Germany in exchange for the withdrawal of the clergy from party politics; it survived the regime that signed it and remains in force.
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
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