Convent education is treated here not historically but as it is at the present day. (Article written in 1908.)

(1) A religious community of either sex when spoken of in its corporate capacity. (2) The buildings in which resides a community of either sex.

Jesuit economist and exegete. (1573-1635)

Contumacy, or contempt of court, is an obstinate disobedience of the lawful orders of a court.

Lat. contritio, a breaking of something hardened.

Includes contents and critique.

The canonical and moralist doctrine on this subject is a development of that contained in the Roman civil law. In civil law, a contract is defined as the union of several persons in a coincident expression of will by which their legal relations are determined.

Aside from its secondary and more obvious meaning (as, for instance, its qualification of the predicable accident, of a class of modal propositions, and so on), the primary and technically philosophical use of the term is for one of the supreme divisions of being, that is, contingent being, as distinguished from necessary being.

Defined as abstinence from even the licit gratifications of marriage.

Dominican theologian and preacher. (1641-1674)

A life ordered in view of contemplation; a way of living especially adapted to lead to and facilitate contemplation, while it excludes all other preoccupations and intents.

The idea of contemplation is connected with that of mystical theology.

Italian painter of the Venetian School, born at Venice about 1549; died in 1605.

Venetian statesman and cardinal, born 16 October, 1483, of an ancient and noble family in Venice; died at Bologna, 24 August, 1542.

Theologian and Biblical scholar, born at Côte-Saint-André, in Dauphiné, France, 29 August, 1737; died on the scaffold during The Terror, 1793.

A certain number of priests in each diocese of the United States who act as official advisers of the bishop in certain matters pertaining to the administration of the diocese.

This heretical doctrine is an attempt to hold the Real Presence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist without admitting Transubstantiation.

Ordinations issued by the Roman pontiffs and binding those for whom they are issued, whether they be for all the faithful or for special classes or individuals.

In legal language the term constitutiones denotes only church ordinances, civil ordinances being termed leges, laws.

Roman emperor (317-361).

The Sixth General Council was summoned in 678 by Emperor Constantine Pogonatus, with a view of restoring between East and West the religious harmony that had been troubled by the Monothelistic controversies.

The Liturgies, Divine Office, forms for the administration of sacraments and for various blessings, sacramentals, and exorcisms, of the Church of Constantinople.

This council was held at Constantinople (5 May-2 June, 553), having been called by Emperor Justinian. It was attended mostly by Oriental bishops; only six Western (African) bishops were present.