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Discipline of the Secret
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05032a.htmA theological term used to express the custom which prevailed in the earliest ages of the Church, by which the knowledge of the more intimate mysteries of the Christian religion was carefully kept from the heathen and even from those who were undergoing instruction in the Faith.
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