Certain rules or norms of conduct or belief prescribed by the Church.

Includes authority and methods.

A collection of ancient ecclesiastical decrees concerning the government and discipline of the Christian Church, incorporated with the Apostolic Constitutions.

A congregation founded in the department of Isère, at Saint-Antoine, France, by the Abbé Dom Adrien Gréa.

According to St. Thomas Aquinas, a canon regular is essentially a religious cleric.

The assistance of women in the work of the Church goes back to the earliest time, and their uniting together for community exercises was a natural development of religious worship.

Signifies the authoritative list or closed number of the writings composed under Divine inspiration, and destined for the well-being of the Church.

The idea of a complete and clear-cut canon of the New Testament existing from the beginning, that is from Apostolic times, has no foundation in history.

Article divided into four sections: (I) Name and place of the Canon; (II) History of the Canon; (III) The text and rubrics of the Canon; (IV) Mystical interpretations.

Ecclesiastical person.

Musical term, the strictest of all contrapuntal forms.

Article by John R. Volz on the character, teachings, and life of this Dominican bishop and theologian.

Spanish painter, architect, and sculptor. (1601-1667)

Born at Nimwegen, Holland, 1532; died 27 September, 1606, at Ingolstadt.

Canonist and historian, born at Nymwegen in Geldern.

Irish priest, monastic founder, missionary to Scotland, d. 600.

Friar Minor and controversialist, born on the borders of Nottingham and Leicestershire, date uncertain; died in London, June, 1672

Vicariate Apostolic in Ecuador, South America.

Formerly a titular see of Crete, suppressed by a decree of 1894.

Provides the history of their use in Christian churches.

The word candle (candela, from candeo, to burn) was introduced into the English language as an ecclesiastical term, probably as early as the eighth century.

Also called: Purification of the Blessed Virgin, Feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple.

The name of two scholars of the Carlovingian revival of letters in the ninth century.