All other churches aforesaid are hereby denied the use of other missals, which are to be wholly and entirely rejected; and by this present Constitution, which shall have the force of law in perpetuity. We order and enjoin under pain of Our displeasure that nothing be added to Our newly ...
All this was to apply equally to churches, chapels, etc., which should be erected in the diocese at any future time. Any one holding immovable property in trust for the Catholic Church was to transfer titles to such property to the bishop, who thereby becomes sole proprietor of church ...
Pope St. Leo the Great, Letter 16, Oct 21, 447: “... after He rose from the dead, handed on both the form and power of baptizing to His disciples, in whose person all the chiefs of the churches received their instructions with these words, ‘Go ye and teach all nations, baptizing...
in good condition, too, and hardly need the addition of our parish’s members. Besides, if St. Bernadette’s were to close it would add thousands of people to those two churches and there would still need to be three priests to serve those two, so the point in closing St. Bernadette...
So, the Council isn’t calling us back to some medieval practice, those “horrible” medieval times, the “terrible” Middle Ages, when they knew so little about liturgy that all they could do was build a Chartres Cathedral. (When I see cathedrals and churches built that have a tenth of...
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...
Should the Catechism of the Catho- lic Church be studied in the Eastern Catholic Churches, including our own Byzantine Catholic Church? If we look closely at the content of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the answer to this question must be a resounding YES! In his Encyclical Orientale...
MATTERS AFFECTING RELIGIOUS WORK.—Incorporation of Churches.—No religious corporation can be established in this state except such as may be created under the general law for the purpose only of holding the title of such real estate as may be necessary for churches, schools, parsonages, and ...
The Cappella Paolina is regarded as the parish church, and is thus one of the churches of Rome where the Forty Hours’ Adoration is inaugurated at the beginning of each ecclesiastical year. By the Bull, “Ad sacram ordinis”, of October 15, 1497, the ancient custom of selecting the ...
Many Jesuit missions, churches, and schools also benefited from the sale of enslaved Africans and African Americans; the profits from such trafficking were used to support or expand the order’s institutions. By the mid-18th century and the beginning of the suppression, the Jesuits’ holdings ...