Like other Christian churches, the Roman Catholic Church has an episcopal model for church leadership, which recognizes three orders of pastoral ministry and leadership: bishops, priests (the English contraction of presbyter or “elder”), and deacons. Bishops, in particular, are entrusted with autho...
50, 99). Pope Symmachus (498-514) built hospitals in connection with the churches of St. Peter, St. Paul, and St. Lawrence (Lib. Pontif. I, no. 53, p. 263. During the pontificate of Vigilius (537-555) Belisarius founded a xenodochium in the Via Lata at Rome (Lib. Pontif, 1...
We read of the establishment in 1636 of Harvard College,“lest an illiterate ministry might be left to the churches”, and “to provide for the instruction of the people in piety, morality, and learning.” The union of Church and State was accepted, and the General Court agreed to give ...
even if the said churches have been in any way exempted, whether by indult of the Apostolic See, by custom, by privilege, or even by oath or Apostolic confirmation, or have their rights and faculties guaranteed to them in any other way whatsoever, saving only those in which the practice ...
was the process of Great Britain (later the UK) restoring the civil rights of Catholics by removing the many restrictions which had faced them since the Act of Uniformity and Test Acts of 1662 and 1673 respectively which by and large removed many rights from those remaining Catholics in ...
That is, the pope commands them to meet at least twice a month, in their own or other churches, to investigate their own lives and those of the clergy, the relations of superiors and inferiors, and in general to check all violations of the laws; also to settle, as far as is ...
Of recent years missions have been established for the special benefit of the colored people of Philadelphia, where two churches are now especially devoted to these missions. III. ECONOMIC CONDITIONS.—A. Population.—The United States Census of 1910 gives the population of Pennsylvania as 7,665...
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Naturally too each such place when it was known or conjectured, became a shrine with a church built over it. Of these shrines the most famous are those built by Constantine and his mother St. Helena. St. Helena in her eightieth year (326-327) came on a pilgrimage and caused churches ...