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Roman Church - the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy

Church of Rome, Roman Catholic Church, Western Church, Roman Catholic

indulgence - the remission by the pope of the temporal punishment in purgatory that is still due for sins even after absolution; "in the Middle Ages the unrestricted sale of indulgences by pardoners became a widespread abuse"

Divine Office - canonical prayers recited daily by priests (e.g. the breviary of the Roman Catholic Church)

Little Office - a Roman Catholic office honoring the Virgin Mary; similar to but shorter than the Divine Office

Office of the Dead - an office read or sung before a burial mass in the Roman Catholic Church

placebo - (Roman Catholic Church) vespers of the office for the dead

confession - (Roman Catholic Church) the act of a penitent disclosing his sinfulness before a priest in the sacrament of penance in the hope of absolution

beatification - (Roman Catholic Church) an act of the Pope who declares that a deceased person lived a holy life and is worthy of public veneration; a first step toward canonization

canonisation, canonization - (Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church) the act of admitting a deceased person into the canon of saints

Mass - (Roman Catholic Church and Protestant Churches) the celebration of the Eucharist

novena - a Roman Catholic devotion consisting of prayers on nine consecutive days

Stations, Stations of the Cross - (Roman Catholic Church) a devotion consisting of fourteen prayers said before a series of fourteen pictures or carvings representing successive incidents during Jesus' passage from Pilate's house to his crucifixion at Calvary

ostensorium, monstrance - (Roman Catholic Church) a vessel (usually of gold or silver) in which the consecrated Host is exposed for adoration

pallium - (Roman Catholic Church) vestment consisting of a band encircling the shoulders with two lappets hanging in front and back

ultramontanism - (Roman Catholic Church) the policy that the absolute authority of the church should be vested in the pope

sursum corda - (Roman Catholic Church) a Latin versicle meaning `lift up your hearts'

breviary - (Roman Catholic Church) a book of prayers to be recited daily certain priests and members of religious orders

missal - (Roman Catholic Church) a book containing all the prayers and responses needed to celebrate Mass throughout the year

Vulgate - the Latin edition of the Bible translated from Hebrew and Greek mainly by St. Jerome at the end of the 4th century; as revised in 1592 it was adopted as the official text for the Roman Catholic Church

Paternoster - (Roman Catholic Church) the Lord's Prayer in Latin; translates as `our father'

Mass card - (Roman Catholic Church) a card sent to a bereaved family that says the sender has arranged for a Mass to be said in memory of the deceased

spiritual bouquet - (Roman Catholic Church) a card indicating that the sender will perform certain devotional acts on behalf of another

kiss of peace, pax - (Roman Catholic Church) a greeting signifying Christian love for those assisting at the Eucharist

Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary, Immaculate Conception - (Christianity) the Roman Catholic dogma that God preserved the Virgin Mary from any stain of original sin from the moment she was conceived

gradual - (Roman Catholic Church) an antiphon (usually from the Book of Psalms) immediately after the epistle at Mass

Catholic Church - any of several churches claiming to have maintained historical continuity with the original Christian Church

Rome - the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church

Curia - (Roman Catholic Church) the central administration governing the Roman Catholic Church

College of Cardinals, Sacred College - (Roman Catholic Church) the body of cardinals who advise the Pope and elect new Popes

Rota - (Roman Catholic Church) the supreme ecclesiastical tribunal for cases appealed to the Holy See from diocesan courts

Roman Catholic - a member of the Roman Catholic Church

apostolic delegate - (Roman Catholic Church) a representative of the Holy See in a country that has no formal diplomatic relations with it

bishop - a senior member of the Christian clergy having spiritual and administrative authority; appointed in Christian churches to oversee priests or ministers; considered in some churches to be successors of the twelve Apostles of Christ

Brother - (Roman Catholic Church) a title given to a monk and used as form of address; "a Benedictine Brother"

cardinal - (Roman Catholic Church) one of a group of more than 100 prominent bishops in the Sacred College who advise the Pope and elect new Popes

dean - (Roman Catholic Church) the head of the College of Cardinals

Doctor of the Church, Doctor - (Roman Catholic Church) a title conferred on 33 saints who distinguished themselves through the orthodoxy of their theological teaching; "the Doctors of the Church greatly influenced Christian thought down to the late Middle Ages"

domestic prelate - (Roman Catholic Church) a priest who is an honorary member of the papal household

internuncio - (Roman Catholic Church) a diplomatic representative of the Pope ranking below a nuncio

Monsignor - (Roman Catholic Church) an ecclesiastical title of honor bestowed on some priests

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References in classic literature

Le Grand, with all his zeal for the Roman church, appears to have seen them.

If the Portuguese were biassed by any particular views, another bias equally powerful may have deflected the Frenchman from the truth, for they evidently write with contrary designs: the Portuguese, to make their mission seem more necessary, endeavoured to place in the strongest light the differences between the Abyssinian and Roman Church; but the great Ludolfus, laying hold on the advantage, reduced these later writers to prove their conformity.

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He was painting a group of Italian peasants, in the costume of the Campagna, lounging on the steps of a Roman church.

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To this he answered, with abundance of candour, thus: "Sir, I am a Catholic of the Roman Church, and a priest of the order of St.

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With him also was the more insignificant figure of the priest from the neighbouring Roman Church; for the colonel's late wife had been a Catholic, and the children, as is common in such cases, had been trained to follow her.

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If you will interpret the word INTOLERANCE as FIRMNESS OF PRINCIPLE, if you do not wish to condemn in the catholic soul of the Abbe de Sponde the stoicism which Walter Scott has made you admire in the puritan soul of Jeanie Deans' father; if you are willing to recognize in the Roman Church the Potius mori quam foedari that you admire in republican tenets,--you will understand the sorrow of the Abbe de Sponde when he saw in his niece's salon the apostate priest, the renegade, the pervert, the heretic, that enemy of the Church, the guilty taker of the Constitutional oath.

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The Roman Catholic Church will honor tomorrow the memory of the First Martyrs of the Holy Roman Church, the faithful followers of Jesus Christ who gave up their lives for their faith at a time of intense Christian persecution.

Feast of the First Martyrs of the Church

His Eminence Reginald Cardinal Pole, Archbishop of Canterbury (whose mum's head had been cut off by the unlamented monarch), reconciled England to the Holy Roman Church. The schism which exercises the minds of modern Anglican and Roman Catholic ecumenists is a later one, in the reign of Elizabeth I.

An important difference on divorce

The Standard Bearer of the Roman Church: Lawrence of Brindisi & Capuchin Missions in the Holy Roman Empire (1599-1613)

It was at that 664AD meeting that the way we calculate the timings of Easter in line with the Roman church were set for the Kingdom of Northumbria and in turn the rest of the country.

St Hilda - a shining jewel that left a glow behind wherever she went

In the ten years period following Pope Leo X's demise many kings in power loosened their material and holy relations with Popes and as a result many followers came out of the Roman Church. In the year 1527 when Giulio de' Medici as Pope Clement VII gave address, the time in which the authority and 'patronage' was cruelly dismissed [it is important to note that] painters like Michelangelo, Benvennto Cellini and Sebastiano del Piombo were best-loved by Medici.

THE REASSERTION OF FUNDAMENTALISM: A CASE STUDY OF SAVONAROLA