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dicastery
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dicastery [dɪˈkæstərɪ]
n pl -ries
(Christianity / Roman Catholic Church) RC Church another word for congregation [5b]
[from dicast]


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Spending is due above all to the ordinary and extraordinary expenses of the dicasteries and offices of the Holy See.
He says, in his introduction, that he will leave such issues to the "church," by which he means, of course, the Roman dicasteries.
Haring, for instance, argued for ordination of women to the diaconate, the need for women theologians in service to the church, and the legitimate role of women in the administrative dicasteries of the church.
 
 
 
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