Objection 1: It would seem that the foregoing prayer is not a suitable form for this sacrament. For in the forms of the other sacraments mention is made of the matter, for instance in Confirmation, whereas this is not done in the aforesaid words. Therefore it is not a suitable form....
ain 1521 he had defended the Catholic Church from Martin Luther's accusations of heresy in a book he wrote, probably with considerable help from Thomas More, entitled The Defence of the Seven Sacraments, for which he was awarded the title "Defender of the Faith" (Fidei Defensor) by Pope ...
Therefore this is not a matter of doctrine but discipline, and as such no pope can be bound by a previous pope. Council of Trent (session XXI, chap. 2): It declares furthermore, that in the dispensation of the sacraments, the Church may, according to circumstances, times and places, ...
Despite the complexification and stratification of sanctity as a subject matter within Christianity and Catholicism in particular, the traditional conception of the saint was codified and crystallized both within Christian popular imagery and, metaphorically, beyond its original religious semiosphere, within ...
29. “If a person is homosexual by nature – that is, if one’s sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one’s identity as gender or skin color – then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can rei...