A canonical term variously defined by different writers.

Doctrinal judgments by which the Church stigmatizes certain teachings detrimental to faith or morals.

Medicinal and spiritual punishments imposed by the Church on a baptized, delinquent, and contumacious person, by which he is deprived, either wholly of in part, of the use of certain spiritual goods, until he recover from his contumacy.

Either ecclesiastical or civil, according as it is practiced by the spiritual or secular authority, and it may be exercised in two ways, viz.: before the printing or publishing of a work, by examining it (censura prævia); and after the printing or publishing, by repressing or prohibiting it (censura repressiva).

A vessel suspended by chains, and used for burning incense at solemn Mass, Vespers, Benediction, processions, and other important offices of the Church.

Situated in the province of Treviso, in former Venetian territory, on a declivity of the Rhaetian Alps.

Bishop, historian, and controversialist, b. in Paris, 1483; d. there, 1560.

The Society of Our Lady of the Cenacle was founded in 1826, at La Louvesc in France, near the tomb of St. John Francis Regis.

This article treats briefly of the individual catacomb cemeteries in the vicinity of Rome.

Includes information concerning the laws in the United States and Canada.

The word coemeterium or cimiterium (in Gr. koimeterion) may be said in early literature to be used exclusively of the burial places of Jews and Christians.

The term "Celtic Rite" is generally, but rather indefinitely, applied to the various rites in use in Great Britain, Ireland, perhaps in Brittany, and sporadically in Northern Spain, and in the monasteries which resulted from the Irish missions of St. Columbanus in France, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy, at a time when rites other than the then existing rite of Rome were used, wholly or partially, in those places.

German Humanist, b. at Wipfeld in Lower Franconia, 1 February, 1459; d. at Vienna, 4 February, 1508.

An eclectic Platonist and polemical writer against Christianity, who flourished towards the end of the second century.

A noted London midwife, who came into prominence through the pretended "Meal-Tub Plot" of 1680.

One of the names by which the small memorial chapels sometimes erected in the Christian cemeteries of the first age were known.

The renunciation of marriage implicitly or explicitly made, for the more perfect observance of chastity, by all those who receive the Sacrament of Orders in any of the higher grades.

The name given to certain extreme "Spiritual" Franciscans of the Marches, because they were taken by Celestine V under his special protection.

Benedictine priest and hermit, d. 1296.

Also called the Hermits of St. Damian or Hermits of Murrone.

Reigned October-November 1241.

Reigned 1143-1144.

Excommunicated Nestorius, sent St. Patrick to Ireland, d. 432.