A term generally employed to designate a partner in some form of evildoing.

Covers what is meant by biblical accommodation, its use in Sacred Scripture, and the rules which ought to regulate its use.

One of the forms of papal election. Consists of all the cardinals present unanimously proclaiming one of the candidates Supreme Pontiff, without the formality of casting votes.

Used in the classical Latin of Republican Rome as a general term for any manifestation of popular feeling expressed by a shout.

The obvious division of things into the stable and the unstable.

Three cardinals belonging to an illustrious Florentine family, Angelo, Niccolo, and Filippo.

A term applied to the voting in conclave for the election of a pope, by which a cardinal changes his vote and accedes to some other candidate.

Method of acquiring ownership of a thing arising from the fact that it is in some way added to, or is the fruit of something already belonging to oneself.

Those Jansenists who accepted the Bull Unigenitus, issued in 1713 against the Jansenist doctrines.

In canon law, the act by which one receives a thing with approbation or satisfaction.

Parts of the liturgy the priest, or the deacon, or subdeacon, or the acolyte sang alone.

The most northern of the five principal Philistine cities.

Bishop of Hexham, companion of St. Wilfrid. Acca died in about 742.

The title of a certain hymn or, an Office in the Greek Liturgy in honour of the Mother of God.

A titular see of Macedonia, on the Strymonic Gulf, now known as Erisso.

An ornamental plant indigenous to middle Europe.

Usually regarded as the small district on the south shore of the Bay of Fundy from Annapolis to the Basin of Minas.

Founded by Cardinal de Richelieu in 1635.

Historical and bibliographical notes concerning the more important of these associations of learned men.

Bishop of Melitene in the third century.

Bishop of Beroea. (322-432)

Bishop of Caesarea in Palestine, disciple and biographer of Eusebius, the historian, whose successor in the See of Caesarea he became in 340.

Patriarch of Constantinople. (d. 489)