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Collation (COLLAZIONE)
In ecclesiastical language, especially legal language, this term indicates primarily the second stage of the provision of an ecclesiastical office, that is… -
Collectanea Commissionis Synodalis
A bimonthly organ of the synodal commission created by order of the first plenary Council of China (1924) in order to deal in an organic and practical manner… -
Collectanea Franciscana
A quarterly review, founded at Assisi in 1931 and transferred to Rome in 1941, published under the care of the Historical Institute of the Capuchin Friars… -
Collectanea Sacrae Congregationis de Propaganda Fide
Collection of documents concerning the missions. The series of these collections was inaugurated by the Constitutiones apostolicae, brevia, decreta... pro… -
Collectarium (COLLETTARIO)
Sometimes called an orationary, it derives from the sacramentary (v.) inasmuch as in ancient times only this book contained the orations recited by the bishop… -
Collectivism (COLLETTIVISMO)
COLLETTIVISMO: v. SOCIALISMO. -
College of Cardinals (COLLEGIO CARDINALIZIO)
COLLEGE OF CARDINALS: v. CARDINALI. COLLEGIO DELLE VERGINI DELLA BEATA VERGINE. - Institute founded in 1610 in Cremona by the noblewoman Lucia Perotti under… -
College of the Chinese (CINESI, COLLEGIO DEI)
CINESI, COLLEGIO dei: v. RIPA, MATTEO. -
Collegia Funeraticia
Term coined by Theodor Mommsen (De Collegii, p. 91) to designate certain "Confraternities" or ancient Roman corporations, established with the primary purpose… -
Collegiate Church (COLLEGIATA)
COLLEGIATA: v. CAPITOLO. -
Collegio
COLLEGIO: V. EDUCAZIONE COLLEGIATA, PERSONE MORALI. -
Collegio di San Pietro in Montorio
Founded by Fr. Tommaso Obicini of Novara. He had spent 10 years in Palestine as a missionary and knew well the necessity of the Arabic language for… -
Collegium Cultorum Martyrum
Founded on 6 January 1879 by Mariano Armellini (v.), Adolfo Hytrek, Orazio Marucchi (v.) and Enrico Stevenson (v.), all disciples of G. B. De Rossi (v.). Its… -
Collenbusch, Samuel
Protestant Pietist and mystic, b. 1 Sept. 1724 at Wichlinghausen (near Barmen in the Rhenish Prussia), physician at Duisburg (1756), then from 1784 at Schwelm… -
Colletta
It denotes: 1) the place of assembly which in the ancient Roman Orders is regularly indicated on the individual days of Lent (for example, Collecta ad S.… -
Colletta in the New Testament (COLLETTA NEL NUOVO TESTAMENTO)
The Church of Jerusalem, during the first decades of its life, lived in destitution and in constant need of financial assistance. The subsequent persecutions… -
Colletta, Pietro
Historian, b. in Naples on 23 Jan. 1775, d. at Verramista, in the villa of the Capponi, on 11 Nov. 1831. He took part as a soldier in political life, first in… -
Collevacino, Pietro
Born in Benevento; he was a subdeacon and notary of Pope Innocent III, and a cardinal from 1205. Entrusted by Innocent III with collecting the Decretals of the… -
Colle Val d’Elsa, Diocese of (COLLE VAL D'ELSA, DIOCESI DI)
In Tuscany, province of Siena, suffragan of Florence. The origins of this diocese are to be sought in the two parish churches of St. Salvatore (de Colle) and… -
Colli
FRANCESCO di PAOLA, baron, pontifical general, b. at Alessandria in 1726, d. at Rome on 20 July 1802. An expert connoisseur of artillery, he entered the… -
Colli, Bonifacio de'
Cofounder of the Theatines, died in holiness at Venice on 28 Aug. 1558. Of the noble family of the C. of Alessandria, having earned a degree in jurisprudence… -
Collier, Arthur
English philosopher and priest of the Anglican Church, b. in 1680, d. in 1732. A contemporary of Berkeley, with whom he agrees in the conclusion, though… -
Colli Marchini, Michelangelo Alessandro
Baron, general, b. at Alessandria or Vigevano in 1756, d. in Piedmont in 1809. He was sent by Pius VI to defend his domains from a further Jacobin advance.… -
Collins, Anthony
English deist, b. at Heston on 21 June 1676, d. in London on 31 Dec. 1729. A friend and disciple of Locke, he defended "free thought." While admitting a… -
Collio, Francesco
Italian theologian, b. at Brusimpiano, pieve of Arcisate, in the second half of the 16th century, d. at Milan in 1640. Having become an Oblate of Sts. Ambrose… -
Colliridiani
Under this name St. Epiphanius condemned certain women who had introduced from Thrace into Arabia the practice of particular rites in honor of the Virgin Mary… -
Collodi, Carlo
Pseudonym of Carlo Lorenzini, b. in Florence on 24 Nov. 1826, d. there on 26 > (from M. Parenti, Rarità bibliografiche dell'Ottocento, Bergamo 1915, p. 111) >… -
Colloids (COLLOIDI)
The colloidal state of matter is of particular interest both because it is the condition of many industrial products of very great practical value (rubbers… -
Colloredo, Hermits of (COLLOREDO, EREMITI DI)
COLLOREDO, HERMITS OF: v. BERNARDO da ROGLIANO. -
Colloredo, Leandro di
Cardinal, born of a noble family at Colloredo di Montalbano in Friuli in 1639. Having left his family early in order to attend to his spiritual and cultural… -
Collucianisti
COLLUCIANISTI: v. LUCIANO d'ANTIOCHIA, saint, martyr. -
Colluthus (COLLUTO)
A schismatic Alexandrian priest who, during the episcopate of Alexander (312-28), arrogated to himself the power to ordain priests and deacons, consecrating… -
Colmar, Joseph Ludwig
Bishop of Mainz, b. in Strasbourg on 22 June 1760, d. in Mainz on 15 Dec. 1818. Ordained priest on 20 Dec. 1783, he was appointed curate of the church of St.… -
Colobium (Κολόβος)
It is a long, tight tunic, without sleeves. It is worn by the Savior on the cross, as, for example, in the now almost destroyed painting of the cemetery of St.… -
Colocci, Angelo
Humanist, b. at Iesi in 1467, d. at Rome on 1 May 1549. There he studied, devoting himself in particular to the ancient lyric poetry of Provence, entirely… -
Colocza (Hung. Kalocsa), Archdiocese of (COLOCZA (UNGH. KALOCSA), ARCIDIOCESI DI)
A city in Hungary, in the county of Pest, seat of the archdiocese of Kalocsa-Bacs. The city was founded by St. Stephen in the year 1000, and in the same year… -
Cologne, Archdiocese of (COLONIA, ARCIDIOCESI DI)
The archdiocese of C. forms, together with its suffragan sees of Limburg, Trier, Aachen, Münster and Osnabrück, the ecclesiastical province of C., also called… -
Coloma, Luis
Celebrated Spanish Jesuit and novelist, b. at Jérez de la Frontera on 9 Jan. 1851. He attempted various careers before entering the novitiate of the Society on… -
Colomba
One of the most frequent birds in purely decorative compositions, the dove, both in early Christian literature and art, is part of a symbolic complex so rich… -
Colombe, Michel
Sculptor, b. in Brittany around 1430-40, d. before 1519. From 1491 he settled in Tours, where in 1500 he received the commission to execute a medal in honor of… -
Colombia
State of South America; the only one on the continent that faces both the Pacific and the Caribbean Sea. I. GEOGRAPHY. - It is a very vast country (1,100,000… -
Colombi, Bonaventura
Theologian, distinguished preacher of the Order of Conventuals, b. at Nice toward the beginning of the 17th century, d. after 1670. He left various works of… -
Colombière, Claude, Blessed (COLOMBIÈRE, CLAUDE, BEATO)
COLOMBIÈRE, CLAUDE, beato: v. LA COLOMBIÈRE, CLAUDE, blessed. -
Colombina
By this name is known the feast of the "explosion of the cart" which takes place in Florence every year on Holy Saturday, at the moment when the bells are rung… -
Colombini, Giovanni, Blessed (COLOMBINI, GIOVANNI, BEATO)
Sienese, b. in 1304; a wealthy merchant and respected citizen, married to Biagia Cerretani (1342); urged by her to read the life of St. Mary of Egypt (1355)… -
Colombo in Ceylon, Archdiocese of (COLOMBO IN CEYLON, ARCIDIOCESI DI)
The evangelization of the island of Ceylon was begun by the Franciscans in 1517. The island depended ecclesiastically on the bishop of Goa (India); in 1558 it… -
Colombo, Sisto
Salesian priest, scholar of ancient Christian literature, b. in Milan in 1878, d. in Turin in 1938. He was a libero docente of Latin literature at the… -
Colonial Law (COLONIALE, DIRITTO)
The moral and juridical aspect of the colonial question began to attract the attention of Catholic theorists as early as the 16th century, when the discovery… -
Colonization (COLONIZZAZIONE)
The history of modern c. begins with the discovery of the lands beyond the ocean, in search of which the Portuguese and Spanish explorers set out. One of the… -
Colonna
It is a load-bearing element of circular section, generally of marble or stone, with a base and capital connected to similar ones by an entablature or by… -
Colonna, Egidio
COLONNA, EGIDIO: V. EGIDIO ROMANO. -
Colonna, Family (COLONNA, FAMIGLIA)
The first C. remembered by history is that PERTUS DE COLONNA who under Paschal II (1099-1118) had occupied Cave, a territory of the Holy See, and had been… -
Colonna, Francesco
Dominican and writer, b. at Treviso ca. 1432 or 1433, d. ca. 1527. From an acrostic: Poliam frater Franciscus Colonna peramavit, he is considered the author of… -
Colonna, Giovanni Paolo
Son of an organ builder, b. 16 June 1637 in Bologna, died there 28 Nov. 1695. He first studied in his native city with the organist Filippuzzi, and then in… -
Color (COLORE)
Both the sensation produced by matter permeated with a light that determines in it a "quality," and the light itself that defines such quality, are called… -
Colossae (COLOSSE)
A city of Greater Phrygia, on the left bank of the Lycus, 25 km from Laodicea. Built against the severe and picturesque backdrop of Mount Cadmus, on the road… -
Colossians, Epistle to the (COLOSSESI, EPISTOLA AI)
One of the "captivity epistles," addressed by St. Paul to the faithful of Colossae (v.). SUMMARY: I. The content. - II. The errors combated. - III. The… -
Colucci, Giuseppe
Archaeologist and historian of the Marche, b. at Penna S. Giovanni (archdiocese of Fermo) on 19 March 1752, d. at Fermo on 16 March 1809. After his first… -
Columba (Colum), Saint (COLOMBA (COLUMBA), SANTO)
Of Jona, a great Irish saint of the 6th century, placed by the ancient hagiography of the island in a triad with St. Patrick and St. Brigid. By lineage he is… -
Columbanus (Colum, Colman, Columba, Palumba), Saint (COLOMBANO (COLUM, COLMAN, COLUMBA, PALUMBA), SANTO)
Abbot of Luxeuil and Bobbio, b. in Ireland in the province of Leinster around 540, d. at Bobbio on 23 November 615. A rich and ardent young man, he bade… -
Columbus, Christopher (COLOMBO, CRISTOFORO)
The great navigator was born in Genoa, as is unanimously attested by archival documents, by declarations of Columbus himself or of his family members, and by… -
Columbus, Diocese of (COLUMBUS, DIOCESI DI)
Capital of the State of Ohio in the United States and seat of a diocese suffragan of Cincinnati, comprising as its territory the southeast of Ohio, that is, 23… -
Colymbion (Κολύμβιον)
It is a basin or vessel in which holy water was blessed and kept (holy water stoup), first in the atrium, then at the entrance of the church. It is also called… -
Coma
Deep sleep (from κοιμάω = I sleep) with muscular relaxation, abolition of sensation, loss of consciousness, while the conditions of respiration, circulation… -
Comacchio, Diocese of (COMACCHIO, DIOCESI DI)
Episcopal see of Emilia, in the province of Ferrara, suffragan of Ravenna. Its origin has often been traced back to the 6th century, assigning as the first… -
Comacini, Masters (COMACINI, MAESTRI)
Builders, natives of the ancient diocese of Como. The expression "Magister Comacinus cum colligantes[sic] suis" and "cum consortibus suis" appears for the… -
Comana
An Armenian city of Asia Minor, in the province of Pontus. It was famous in paganism as a city under the theocratic government of the goddess Enyo-Ma; its… -
Comayagua, Diocese of (COMAYAGUA, DIOCESI DI)
COMAYAGUA, DIOCESI di: v. TEGUCIGALPA, DIOCESI di. -
Comba, Emilio
Waldensian pastor and historian, b. at S. Germano Chisone (Pinerolo) on 31 Aug. 1839, d. at Guttanen (Switzerland) on 3 Sept. 1904. After completing his early… -
Comboni, Daniele
Bishop and missionary in Africa, b. at Limone sul Garda (March 15, 1831), he was educated for the priesthood by Nicola Mazza, apostle of charity in Verona. Won… -
Comenius (Komenšky), Jan Amos (COMENIUS (KOMENSKY), GIOVANNI AMOS)
Czech pedagogue, b. at Niunice, in Moravia, on 28 March 1592, d. at Amsterdam on 15 Nov. 1670. LIFE. - The information about his very troubled life is somewhat… -
Comensoli, Gertrude
Born at Biceno on Jan. 10, 1847, died at Bergamo on Feb. 18, 1903. Of a poor family, she worked for 13 years as a domestic servant, giving constant examples of… -
Comes (*Liber Comitis*, *Liber Comicus*) (COMES (*LIBER COMITIS, LIBER COMICUS*))
The C. must originally have been simply a book of private spiritual reading, containing a collection of texts from Holy Scripture and from other devout… -
Comestor, Peter (COMESTORE, PIETRO)
COMESTORE, PIETRO : v. PIETRO COMESTORE. -
Comet (COMETA)
The typical form of a c. (from the Greek κομήτης) consists of a head or coma, which surrounds a brighter nucleus, and of a tail extending in the direction… -
Comgall, Saint (COMGAL, SANTO)
Irish monk of the 6th century, of the Dal Araide, born in 517, he founded around 557 the famous monastery of Bangor on Belfast Lough, where he died in 602.… -
Comillas, Claudio López y Bru, Marquis of (COMILLAS, CLAUDIO LOPEZ Y BRÚ, MARCHESE DI)
B. May 14, 1853 in Barcelona, d. Apr. 18, 1925 in Madrid. The death of his elder brother set him on a life of more intense fervor; but also into a melancholy… -
Comillas, Pontifical Seminary and University of (COMILLAS, SEMINARIO E UNIVERSITÀ PONTIFICIA DI)
Center of ecclesiastical culture in Spain, in the province of Santander, founded, on the suggestion of Fr. Tommaso Gomez, a Jesuit, by the Marquis and… -
Cominform
COMINFORM: v. KOMINFORM. -
Cominform (KOMINFORM)
The dissolution of the Comintern (May 1943) led to a new policy of the communist parties: in the international field to a policy of close collaboration with… -
Comino (Comin), Giuseppe
Venetian bookseller and printer of the 18th century, b. at Cittadella, d. at Padua around 1762. From its foundation (1717) he directed the printing house that… -
Comintern
COMINTERN: v. INTERNAZIONALE. -
Comintern (KOMINTERN)
KOMINTERN : v. INTERNAZIONALE. -
Comita
COMITA: v. COSMA da CARBONIANO. -
Comma Ioanneum (COMMA GIOVANNEO)
Famous verse inserted in the first epistle of St. John concerning the three heavenly witnesses who attest to the divinity of Jesus Christ, one of the classic… -
Commemoration (COMMEMORAZIONE)
Quando di uno o più santi o di una feria, vigilia od ottava non si può recitare l'ufficio e la Messa per l'occorrenza di una festa di rito più elevato, allora… -
Commendation (COMMENDA)
From the letters of Gregory the Great it appears that sometimes, for the needs of the Church, the pope entrusted to a bishop also the government of a second… -
Commendatore di Santo Spirito
It is the title of a prelature instituted by Leo X on 15 Dec. 1515 for the rector of S. Spirito, who thereby lost his hospitaller character and assumed that of… -
Commendone, Giovanni Francesco
Cardinal, nuncio, born in Venice on 17 March 1524 and died in Padua on 25 December 1584; thanks to his solid humanistic and theological training and to his… -
Commentarium Ordinis Fratrum Minorum Sancti Francisci Conventualium
Official organ of the Conventual Friars Minor, published in Rome under the title Notitiae ex Curia Fratrum minorum conventualium from Nov. 1907 (with notices… -
Commentarium Pro Religiosis
A bimonthly journal published in Rome by the missionary Sons of the Heart of Mary (Claretians). It appeared in Jan. 1920 to illustrate everything relating to… -
Commerce (COMMERCIO)
By commerce is meant human activity directed toward the exchange of consumer goods and factors of production. The economic foundation of individual exchange… -
Commer, Ernst
Neo-Thomist philosopher and theologian, b. in Berlin on 18 Feb. 1847, d. in Graz on 24 Apr. 1928. He taught philosophy in Regensburg and Liverpool, apologetics… -
Commissioner (COMMISSARIO)
This name designates one of the senior officials of the Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office, who, assisted by two helpers ("first" and "second companion")… -
Commodian (COMMODIANO)
Concerning this Christian poet, neither the place where he was born nor the age in which he lived is known with certainty. From the epithet Gaseus, which is… -
Commodilla, Cemetery of (COMMODILLA, CIMITERO DI)
Near the via Ostiense: entrance on the present-day via delle Sette Chiese. The name is found in the index of cemeteries (v.). The martyrs venerated in it were… -
Commodus (M. Aurelius Commodus Antoninus), Roman Emperor (COMMODO (M. AURELIUS COMMODUS ANTONINUS), IMPERATORE ROMANO)
Born at Lanuvium on 31 Aug. 161, died at Rome on 31 Dec. 192. Associated in the empire from 176 by his father Marcus Aurelius, he succeeded him in March 180.… -
Common Good (BENE COMUNE)
The concept of the common good has a fundamental importance in Catholic sociology, which recognizes in it the essential and immanent end of society and the… -
Common Life (VITA COMUNE)
In canonistic language it has a twofold meaning. It can indicate: 1) living together under the same roof with mutual relations; 2) the special manner of… -
Common Sense (SENSO COMUNE)
The expression has two principal meanings in philosophy, one psychological, the other epistemological. In psychology, common sense is the internal sense that… -
Commonwealth (COMMONWEAL)
A weekly magazine started on November 12, 1924, in New York by Michael Williams, a brilliant writer and essayist, born in Halifax (Canada) in 1877. It deals… -
Communalies (COMUNALIE)
Also called communa, consorterie, partecipare, università, vicine, they are remnants of collective property that, owing to natural, ethnic and demographic… -
Communal Theory (GEMEINDETHEORIE)
Theory of the "creative collectivity" formulated by the "sociological school," founded by E. Durkheim, heir to the positivism of A. Comte, who made use of the… -
Commune (COMUNE)
In the history of Italy, as also in that of the whole West, the c. [commune] is of great importance, that is, the autonomous government that is constituted not… -
Commune (La) of Paris (COMUNE (LA) DI PARIGI)
Revolutionary movement (18 March-27 May 1871) directed by the "Central Committee of the National Guard." It is linked to the events of the Franco-Prussian War… -
Commune, The, of Paris (COMMUNE, LA, DE PARIS)
COMMUNE, LA, DE PARIS: v. COMUNE, LA, DI PARIGI. -
Communication in Sacred Matters (COMUNICAZIONE NELLE COSE SACRE)
By these terms is meant the participation of Catholics in the sacred ceremonies (prayers, services, sermons, rites) performed by non-Catholics (heretics… -
Communication of Languages (IDIOMI, COMUNICAZIONE DEGLI)
The term "i." which, according to its etymology, means property and in vulgar usage means native tongue, philosophically indicates an attribute proper to a… -
Communication of Privileges (COMUNICAZIONE DEI PRIVILEGI)
COMUNICAZIONE DEI PRIVILEGI: v. PRIVILEGI. -
Communio
It is the antiphon that in the solemn Mass is sung by the choir after the Communion of the celebrant; in all Masses it is simply read by the celebrant himself.… -
Communion of Saints (COMMUNE SANCTORUM)
It is the third of the great parts into which the Roman Missal and Breviary are divided, and it comprises a collection of liturgical formulas (Masses and… -
Communion of Saints (COMUNIONE DEI SANTI)
Article of the Apostles' Creed. SUMMARY: I. Formula of the Creed. - II. Nature of the Communion of Saints. - III. Subject. - IV. Object. - V. Errors. I.… -
Communion of the Tongues (COMUNICAZIONE DEGLI IDIOMI)
COMUNICAZIONE DEGLI IDIOMI: v. IDIOMI. -
Communism (COMUNISMO)
A name given to several doctrinal currents, not always in agreement with one another, except in their aspiration to make the enjoyment of economic goods… -
Commutation (COMMUTAZIONE)
COMMUTAZIONE: v. LEGATO PIO; SODDISFAZIONE; VOTO. -
Commynes, Philippe de
French historian and politician, b. at Hazebrouck (Flanders) around 1447, d. at Argenton on 18 Oct. 1511. He held various offices, first at the court of… -
Comnenos Papadopulos Ugulos, Niccolò
COMNENOS PAPADOPULOS UGULOS, NICCOLÒ: v. PAPADOPULOS COMNENOS, NICCOLÒ. -
Como, Diocese of (COMO, DIOCESI DI)
In Lombardy it is part of the province of C., and it comprises the whole of that of Sondrio (province 3,123 sq. km.) and also the Marchirolo and Cuvio valleys… -
Compactata
COMPACTATA: v. BOEMI, FRATELLI. -
Compagni, Dino
Born around 1260 in Florence, died February 26, 1324. Enrolled in the Arte della Lana, he upheld the democratic ordinances in collaboration with Giano della… -
Companation (COMPANAZIONE)
COMPANAZIONE: v. BUCARISTIA. -
Companies of Divine Love (AMORE, COMPAGNIE DEL DIVINO)
COMPANIES OF DIVINE LOVE: v. DIVINO AMORE, COMPAGNIE DEL. AMORE and PSYCHE. - The myth of P. (the soul) found poetic expression in books IV-VI of Apuleius'… -
Company of Charity (COMPAGNIA DELLA CARITÀ)
Founded in Rome on 1 January 1519 by Cardinal Giulio de' Medici, into which cardinals, prelates of the Curia, merchants and other officials soon entered, who… -
Company of Divine Love (COMPAGNIA DEL DIVINO AMORE)
Although the Compagnie del Divino Amore were generally confraternities, they must nonetheless be kept distinct because they played an important part in that… -
Company of Saint Paul (COMPAGNIA DI SAN PAOLO)
A pious institution, also called the Compagnia della fede cattolica, founded in Turin on 25 January 1563 for the exercise of charity and the defense of… -
Company of Saint Ursula (COMPAGNIA DI SANT'ORSOLA)
Founded at Dôle in France in 1606 by the venerable Anna of Xaintonge, it had a common origin with similar companies that arose in the 16th century. It was… -
Company of the Blessed Virgin Mary (COMPAGNIA DELLA BEATA VERGINE MARIA)
In 1664 in Manila, in the Philippine Islands, near the residence of the Jesuits, a house was opened for pious women, called Devote (Beatas) of the C., under… -
Company of the Daughters of Mary Our Lady (COMPAGNIA DELLE FIGLIE DI MARIA NOSTRA SIGNORA)
Founded by St. Joan of Lestonnac, baroness of Montferrand Landiras, in 1607, it was the first institute in France dedicated to teaching. It spread rapidly… -
Compassionists, Servants of Mary (COMPASSIONISTE, SERVE DI MARIA)
Congregation founded by Sister Maria Maddalena Starace at Castellammare di Stabia in 1871. The sisters devote themselves to the formation of youth in boarding… -
Compensation (COMPENSAZIONE)
Set-off is the extinction, total or partial, of two or more debts (and the corresponding credits) when someone is at the same time creditor and debtor of… -
Compensation and Reparation (RISARCIMENTO E RIPARAZIONE)
Compensation may be defined as the payment to the injured party of a pecuniary equivalent, that is, of a sum of money corresponding to the measure of the… -
Compensationism (COMPENSAZIONISMO)
It is the most recent in time of the moral systems proposed for resolving on the practical ground those doubts that are insoluble by specialized means… -
Competence (COMPETENZA)
Term used in legal language to indicate the specific objective capacity of the various judicial bodies, that is, that part of the power of jurisdiction which… -
Competentes
These were those catechumens who, after the period of probation, gave their names in order to receive Baptism on Holy Saturday. They were subjected to greater… -
Competition (CONCORRENZA)
It is, substantially, the convergence upon the same market and at the same moment of individual plans (drawn up by natural persons or by firms) of sale or… -
Compiègne, the Martyrs of, Blessed (COMPIÈGNE, LE MARTIRI DI, BEATE)
They are the sixteen Carmelites of the convent of the city, guillotined in Paris on 17 July 1794 "for their attachment to puerile beliefs and their foolish… -
Compilationes (Quinque) Anti-Quae
Under the name Q. c. a. it is customary to designate the five most important of the numerous (about sixty are known) collections of canonical sources compiled… -
Compitalia (COMPITALI)
The Compitalia, one of the three conceptive festivals celebrated at the close of the sowing cycle, fell between December 17 (Saturnalia) and January 5, with a… -
Complaint (QUERELA)
A name designating, also in canon law, procedural institutions aimed at achieving different objectives. Of these institutions, the q. falsi and the q.… -
Compline (COMPIETA)
The last hour of the Divine Office. I. NAME. - It derives from the Latin completa, completorium (also used as an adjective in the plural: completorii, with… -
Complutenses
This is the name given to those Discalced Carmelites, professors of philosophy at the College of St. Cyril in Alcalá de Henares (Complutum), who published a… -
Composition (COMPOSIZIONE)
COMPOSIZIONE: v. CONDONAZIONE. -
Compostella
COMPOSTELLA: v. S. GIACOMO DI COMPO- STELLA. -
Compound (COMPOSTO)
A compound is that reality in which parts can be distinguished. It can be an aggregate of several ontologically distinct and independent realities (accidental… -
Comprehensibility (COMPRENSIBILITÀ (COMPREHENSIVENESS))
A characteristic of the Anglican Church, consisting in "comprehending" among its members faithful of different religious doctrines. The official Church of… -
Compromise (COMPROMESSO)
COMPROMESSO: V. ARBITRATO; PROVVISTA CANONICA. -
Compultery (Cubultery) (COMPULTERIA (CUBULTERIA))
Ancient diocese of Campania between Treglia and Alvignano. It is mentioned only by St. Gregory the Great in the year 599, who however writes that it was… -
Compunction (COMPUNZIONE)
A feeling of sorrow and confusion caused by awareness of one's own moral unworthiness. The doctrine of compunction is one of the most important in the history… -
Computation of Time (TEMPO, COMPUTO DEL)
De temporis supputatione is a title, unknown in ancient canon law, introduced among the Normae generales of the CIC (tit. III, cann. 31-35) in order to set out… -
Computus de Pascha
It is a short work attributed by a manuscript to St. Cyprian of Carthage, but certainly apocryphal, because it was written, as the unknown author declares, in… -
Comte, Auguste
Philosopher, b. at Montpellier on 19 Jan. 1798, d. at Paris on 5 Sept. 1857. From a Catholic and royalist family. In 1806 he entered the lycée of Montpellier… -
Conakry, Vicariate Apostolic of (KONAKRY, VICARIATO APOSTOLICO DI)
It is located in French Guinea, where in 1877 the Fathers of the Holy Spirit penetrated from the apostolic vicariate of Sierra Leone and settled at Boffa. In… -
Conca, Sebastiano
Painter, b. at Gaeta on 8 Jan. 1679 (or according to others 1676 or 1680) and d. at Naples in 1764. A pupil at Naples of Solimena, he in turn kept a school in… -
Conceived (CONCEPITO)
CONCEPITO (pro iam nato): v. NASCITURUS; PERSON. -
Concelebration (CONCELEBRAZIONE)
In a broad sense it is the assistance and active participation of ministers and faithful in sacred functions; in a stricter sense it is the union of sacred… -
Concepción and Chaco, Diocese of (CONCEZIONE E CHACO, DIOCESI DI)
In the Republic of Paraguay, erected by Pius XI on 1 May 1929, with the constitution Universi Dominici gregis, by dismemberment of the diocese of the Most Holy… -
Concepción, Diocese of (CONCEPCIÓN, DIOCESI DI)
CONCEPCIÓN, DIOCESI di: v. SANTISSIMA CONCEZIONE, DIOCESI di. -
Concept (CONCETTO)
Etymologically from concipere, cum-capere, to conceive, to comprehend, the c. is the intellectual expression of reality in thought, the idea that the mind… -
Conceptualism (CONCETTUALISMO)
It is the doctrine that denies to general ideas (universals) an objective correspondence in reality, affirming them as pure concepts or forms of the spirit.… -
Conciliarism (CONCILIARISMO)
An ecclesiological error, according to which the ecumenical council is superior to the pope. The remote origin of conciliarism is found in the juridical… -
Conciliation (CONCILIAZIONE)
CONCILIAZIONE: v. PATTI LATERANENSI; QUESTIONE ROMANA. -
Concina, Daniele
Dominican preacher and moralist, b. at Clauzetto in Friuli on 2 Oct. 1687, d. at Venice on 21 Feb. 1756. He entered the religious life at Conegliano on 16… -
Concistorial Option (OPZIONE CONCISTORIALE)
The concistorial option is a request that cardinals may make in consistory, that is, before the Holy Father and their colleagues, to pass from one to another… -
Concistoro
The consistory consists in a solemn assembly of all the cardinals who are in Rome, presided over by the pope, for the transaction of some of the most important… -
Conclave
CONCLAVE.- In ecclesiastical language, c. indicates the place where the cardinals assemble, after the death of the pope, in a kind of enclosure and seclusion… -
Conclusio in Causa
According to the CIC, the c. in c. is nothing other than the termination of the instructional or probative period of the trial (can. 1860 § 1). This has always… -
Conconsecrants (CONCONSACRANTI)
CONCONSECRANTS: V. ORDINE SACRO. -
Concordantia Discordantium Canonum
CONCORDANTIA DISCORDANTIUM CANONUM: V. GRAZIANO. -
Concordantia Dubiorum
CONCORDANTIA DUBIORUM: V. CONTESTAZIONE DELLA LITE. -
Concordats (CONCORDATI)
A concordat is usually defined as: an agreement between the Holy See and the State to regulate religious questions of common interest. SUMMARY: I. The… -
Concordia (America), Diocese of (CONCORDIA (AMERICA), DIOCESI DI)
CONCORDIA (AMERICA), DIOCESI di: v. SALINA, DIOCESI di. -
Concordia, Diocese of (CONCORDIA, DIOCESI DI)
In Venetia; its boundaries run from the Tagliamento to the Livenza, from the Adriatic to the mountains toward the Belluno area. Its origins go back to the end… -
Concordia, Formulas of (CONCORDIA, FORMOLE DI)
CONCORDIA, FORMOLE di: v. CONFESSIONI DI FEDE PROTESTANTI. -
Concordism (CONCORDISMO)
A method used by those who sought to determine the lines of a positive concord between the Bible and the modern sciences. With the rise of the natural… -
Concorezzesi
They formed one of the principal currents into which the Cathars (v.) in Italy were divided: they taught a mitigated or monarchian dualism, in opposition to… -
Concrete (CONCRETO)
In opposition to abstract (v.), which is the mental universal, concrete is the real singular, above all the individual of material substances and what belongs… -
Concubinage (CONCUBINATO)
In general c. means the state of conjugal cohabitation separated from the true and proper marriage bond. Therefore the concrete application of this generic… -
Concupiscence (CONCUPISCENZA)
From the Latin concupiscere (= to crave), it means etymologically desire, an inclination toward a pleasant object. But the term has a historical genesis on… -
Concurrence of Crimes and Penalties (CONCORSO DI REATI E DI PENE)
There is a concurrence of offenses when a person is guilty of several offenses, that is, of several violations of one and the same or of different penal… -
Concurrent (CONCORRENTI)
CONCORRENTI: V. COOPERAZIONE. -
Concurrent (CONCORRENTI)
Conventional figures used by computists to determine which day of the week corresponds to the beginning of each year, and therefore to establish when Easter… -
Concursus (CONCORSO)
It is one of the modes of choosing the most worthy subject for a vacant office, consisting in the examination, in legal form, of all the requirements of the… -
Concussion (CONCUSSIONE)
CONCUSSIONE: v. ESTORSIONE. -
Condamin, Albert
Jesuit exegete and orientalist, b. in Marseille on 7 Sept. 1862, d. on 3 July 1940. He devoted himself mainly to the study of two problems: the relations… -
Condillac, Étienne Bonnot de (CONDILLAC, ETIENNE BONNOT DE)
Philosopher and educationist, b. at Grenoble on 30 Sept. 1715, d. at Flux in the Orléanais in 1780. He was ordained a priest in Paris. A friend of Rousseau… -
Condition (CONDIZIONE)
A very vague term, usually used in relation to that of cause (v.). While the cause has a positive influence in the production of the effect, the c., on the… -
Condition (In Legal Acts) (CONDIZIONE (NEGLI ATTI GIURIDICI))
By the word c. two different categories of legal figures are designated. By c. are meant both the presuppositions, the logical antecedents, the elements of the… -
Condivi, Ascanio
Writer and painter, b. at Ripatransone in the Marche perhaps in 1525, and d. at Rome in 1574. Nothing is known of his activity in the figurative arts, but it… -
Condom, Diocese of (CONDOM, DIOCESI DI)
CONDOM, DIOCESI di: v. AUCH, DIOCESI di. -
Condonation (CONDONAZIONE)
It is the indult or act of grace by which the Supreme Pontiff, availing himself of his supreme power of jurisdiction, legitimizes and canonizes, for both the… -
Condorcet, Marie-Jean-Antoine Caritat, Marquis of (CONDORCET, MARIE-JEAN-ANTOINE CARITAT, MARCHESE DI)
A student of science and philosophy and a politician, b. at Ribemont in Picardy on 17 Sept. 1741, d. at Bourg-la-Reine on 29 March 1794. He devoted himself to… -
Condren, Charles de
Second superior general of the French Oratory, one of the most distinguished spiritual directors of his era, b. at Vaubuin (Soissons) on 15 Dec. 1588, d. in… -
Conductor (CONDUTTORE)
CONDUTTORE: V. LOCAZIONE. -
Conductus
It is one of the most interesting musical forms of the Middle Ages, in which the composer had freedom of choice as to text and inspiration. A distinction is… -
Condulmer, Francesco
Cardinal, nephew of Eugene IV, born in Venice. Created cardinal by his uncle on 19 Sept. 1431 and appointed camerlengo, he held great power with him in the… -
Confarreatio
Among the Romans this was the sacred nuptial rite par excellence (Pliny, Nat. hist., XVIII, 14), which originally must have consisted in the offering made by… -
Conferences (CONFERENZE)
Besides councils, general and particular, and diocesan synods properly so called, public and official assemblies par excellence, the ecclesiastical order… -
Conferences of St. Vincent de Paul (CONFERENZE DI S. VINCENZO)
CONFERENZE DI S. VINCENZO : V. OZANAM. -
Confessarius (CONFESSORE (CONFESSARIUS))
He is the priest who administers the sacrament of Penance. His figure emerges clearly from the nature of Penance and from the place it occupies in the general… -
Confession (CONFESSIONE)
By C. is sometimes understood the sacrament of Penance itself, which is therefore commonly also called the sacrament of C. But in the strict sense C. is the…