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EcbataneVol. V, p. 41 ECBATANE – Hamadán, Musallah hill, on the site of ancient E. ad Articulos sibi impositos (1326). The Opus tripartitum was to encompass the opus propositionum,…
Ecce HomoVol. V, p. 42 « ECCE HOMO ». — Words spoken by Pilate (Io. 19:5), presenting Jesus to the people after the scourging. I. ARCH OF THE E. H. — This is the name given in…
Ecce Iam Noctis Tenuatur UmbraVol. V, p. 45 « ECCE IAM NOCTIS TENUATUR UMBRA ». – Hymn of the Lauds for the Sundays after Pentecost, by an unknown author, found in manuscripts dating from the 10th…
EcclesiaVol. V, p. 46 ECCLESIA. - Illustrated monthly review (Città del Vaticano). Promoted by the Information Office established to seek news of prisoners of war and to connect…
Ecclesiastes(ECCLESIASTE)Vol. V, p. 47 ECCLESIASTE. — The fourth of the didactic books of the Old Testament, in 12 chapters, a “philosophical masterpiece of satire, irony, common sense and, whatever…
Ecclesiastical(ECCLESIASTICO)Vol. V, p. 48 ECCLESIASTICUS. — The most notable of the sapiential books of the Old Testament, on account of the number and variety of its teachings; it may well be called a…
Ecclesiastical Architecture(ARCHITETTURA ECCLESIASTICA)Vol. I, p. 1072 ECCLESIASTICAL ARCHITECTURE. - 1. GENERALITIES. - Buildings used for ecclesiastical purposes respond first of all to the requirements of worship (v. CHIESA);…
Ecclesiastical Assistant (The)(ASSISTENTE (L') ECCLESIASTICO)Vol. II, p. 131 ASSISTENTE (L') ECCLESIASTICO. — Monthly journal published under the auspices of the Central College of Ecclesiastical Assistants of Italian Catholic Action.…
Ecclesiastical Authorities, Crimes Against(AUTORITÀ ECCLESIASTICHE, DELITTI CONTRO LE)Vol. II, p. 304 ECCLESIASTICAL AUTHORITIES, OFFENCES against. — Under this title the CIC (cann. 2331–40) considers a category of criminal acts which, being directed at…
Ecclesiastical Authority(AUTORITÀ ECCLESIASTICA)Vol. II, p. 304 AUTORITÀ ECCLESIASTICA: v. CHIESA; GERARCHIA ECCLESIASTICA; PAPA.
Ecclesiastical Benefice(BENEFICIO ECCLESIASTICO)Vol. II, p. 761 BENEFICIO ECCLESIASTICO. – In the CIC, the b. e. is defined as “a juridical entity constituted or erected in perpetuity by ecclesiastical authority, composed…
Ecclesiastical Burial(SEPOLTURA ECCLESIASTICA)Vol. XI, p. 234 ECCLESIASTICAL BURIAL. — Ecclesiastical burial consists of the following three elements: removal of the body in order to bring it to the funeral church, ritual…
Ecclesiastical Canons(CANONI ECCLESIASTICI)Vol. III, p. 357 CANONI ECCLESIASTICI: v. COSTITUZIONE APOSTOLICA.
Ecclesiastical Circumscriptions(CIRCOSCRIZIONI ECCLESIASTICHE)Vol. III, p. 994 ECCLESIASTICAL CIRCUMSCRIPTIONS. — Almost from the beginnings of the Church, owing to the need to apportion work, the competence of bishops, presbyters, and…
Ecclesiastical College of Turin(CONVITTO ECCLESIASTICO DI TORINO)Vol. IV, p. 291 ECCLESIASTICAL BOARDING SCHOOL of TORINO. - An institution for the formation of the Turin and subalpine clergy, where young priests (enrolment is compulsory…
Ecclesiastical Colleges(COLLEGI ECCLESIASTICI)Vol. III, p. 1136 ECCLESIASTICAL COLLEGES. - Institutions located in Rome and established by the Roman pontiffs, where young men from various nations, aspiring to the…
Ecclesiastical Computation(COMPUTO ECCLESIASTICO)Vol. IV, p. 83 ECCLESIASTICAL COMPUTUS. – It is defined by writers as: “knowledge of the course of the moon and of the kalends, or the science of determining time according…
Ecclesiastical Contention(CONTENZIOSO ECCLESIASTICO (IL))Vol. IV, p. 267 ECCLESIASTICAL LITIGATION (IL). — A journal, initially published fortnightly and later monthly, dealing with doctrine and jurisprudence in ecclesiastical…
Ecclesiastical Garment(ABITO ECCLESIASTICO)Vol. I, p. 80 ECCLESIASTICAL DRESS. – Garment ordinarily worn by the secular and regular clergy; it is to be distinguished from the liturgical vestments (v.), which…
Ecclesiastical Hierarchy(GERARCHIA ECCLESIASTICA)Vol. VI, p. 73 ECCLESIASTICAL HIERARCHY. – It is the complex of persons who participate in the power of the Church. Hierarchy is a Greek word (ἰερὰ ἀρχή) meaning sacred…
Ecclesiastical Immunity(IMMUNITÀ ECCLESIASTICA)Vol. VI, p. 984 ECCLESIASTICAL IMMUNITY. — Ecclesiastical immunity is a privilege of universal character that exempts ecclesiastical persons and things, and sacred places,…
Ecclesiastical Journal of Rome, The(GIORNALE ECCLESIASTICO DI ROMA, IL)Vol. VI, p. 292 GIORNALE ECCLESIASTICO DI ROMA, IL. — Roman religious periodical begun on 2 July 1785; printed by Giovanni Zempel near S. Lucia della Tinta, it appeared on…
Ecclesiastical Judge(GIUDICE ECCLESIASTICO)Vol. VI, p. 437 ECCLESIASTICAL JUDGE. – In a very broad sense, an ecclesiastical judge might be said to be anyone who exercises in the name of the Church the power of judging,…
Ecclesiastical Letters(LETTERE ECCLESIASTICHE)Vol. VII, p. 730 ECCLESIASTICAL LETTERS. — These are public documents by reason of their destination and of the authority from which they emanate, whose purpose is to attest to…
Ecclesiastical Literature Bulletin(BULLETIN DE LITTERATURE ECCLESIASTIQUE)Vol. III, p. 146 BULLETIN DE LITTERATURE ECCLESIASTIQUE. – Published by the Catholic Institute of Toulouse, since 1899 as a replacement for the Bulletin of the same Institute…
Ecclesiastical Monitor, Il(MONITORE ECCLESIASTICO, IL)Vol. VIII, p. 778 MONITORE ECCLESIASTICO, IL. - A journal of canon and ecclesiastical law, the oldest in its field, founded at Maratea (Potenza) in 1876 by the priest Casimiro…
Ecclesiastical Office(UFFICIO ECCLESIASTICO)Vol. XII, p. 444 ECCLESIASTICAL OFFICE. — In general, any stable task performed for a spiritual purpose, such as the spiritual director of seminaries, the confessor of…
Ecclesiastical Patrimony(PATRIMONIO ECCLESIASTICO)Vol. IX, p. 601 ECCLESIASTICAL PATRIMONY. — It is the whole of ecclesiastical property (v.). I. THE CHURCH’S RIGHT TO PROPERTY. — The Church pursues a spiritual end, but since…
Ecclesiastical Prohibition(VETITUM ECCLESIAE)Vol. XII, p. 852 VETITUM ECCLESIAE. — This expression, according to the proper meaning of the words, would indicate any prohibition imposed by the Church upon the faithful; but…
Ecclesiastical Property(BENI ECCLESIASTICI)Vol. II, p. 777 ECCLESIASTICAL GOODS. – These are temporal goods (whether corporeal, such as movable and immovable property, or incorporeal, such as rights, actions,…
Ecclesiastical Province(PROVINCIA ECCLESIASTICA)Vol. X, p. 142 ECCLESIASTICAL PROVINCE. – It is the union of several dioceses—called, in this case, co-provincial or suffragan dioceses—within a single territorial…
Ecclesiastical See(ASSE ECCLESIASTICO)Vol. II, p. 119 ECCLESIASTICAL PROPERTY: v. BENI ECCLESIASTICI; ITALIA (condizione giuridica della chiesa in).
Ecclesiastical Studies(ESTUDIOS ECLESIÁSTICOS)Vol. V, p. 407 ESTUDIOS ECLESIÁSTICOS. – Journal published in Madrid since 1922 and still appearing, through the work of the philosophical and theological colleges of the…
Ecclesiastical Superior(SUPERIORE ECCLESIASTICO)Vol. XI, p. 952 ECCLESIASTICAL SUPERIOR. — He is the superior of autonomous or sui iuris missions, which represent the first stage of ecclesiastical organization in the…
Ecclesiastical Taxes(IMPOSTE ECCLESIASTICHE)Vol. VI, p. 998 IMPOSTE ECCLESIASTICHE: v. TASSE ECCLESIASTICHE.
Ecclesiastical Treasury(CASSA ECCLESIASTICA)Vol. III, p. 580 CASSA ECCLESIASTICA : v. FONDO PER IL CULTO.
Ecclesiastical Tribunals(TRIBUNALI ECCLESIASTICI)Vol. XII, p. 326 Ecclesiastical Tribunals are the organs to which the exercise of jurisdictional power in the strict sense, that is, the judicial function belonging to the…
Ecclesiastical Tributes(TRIBUTI ECCLESIASTICI)Vol. XII, p. 337 TRIBUTI ECCLESIASTICI : V. TASSE ECCLESIASTICHE.
Echos D'OrientVol. V, p. 51 ECHOS D'ORIENT. – Monthly journal begun by the Augustinians of the Assumption in 1807 as a continuation of the Echos de Notre-Dame de France. The authoritative…
Echter, JuliusVol. V, p. 51 ECHTER, JULIUS. - Bishop, b. at Mespelbrunn (Spessart) on 28 March 1545, d. at Würzburg on 13 Sept. 1617. He studied at Paris, Angers, Pavia, and elsewhere;…
Eck, JohannVol. V, p. 51 ECK, JOHANN. – Theologian and anti-Lutheran polemicist, born at Egg, in Swabia, on 15 November 1486, died at Ingolstadt on 10 February 1543. His surname was…
Eckhart (Eckehart, Aychardus)(ECCARDO (ECKEHART, AYCHARDUS))Vol. V, p. 40 ECCARDO (ECKEHART, Aychardus). — Dominican scholastic and mystical preacher, born at Hochheim near Gotha ca. 1260, died between 22 February 1327 and 27 March…
Eckhart the Younger(ECCARDO IL GIOVANE)Vol. V, p. 42 ECCARDO il GIOVANE. - Dominican preacher and mystical writer, whose life and works are still shrouded in obscurity. A disciple of Meister Eckart, he brought…
Eckstein, Ferdinand VonVol. V, p. 52 ECKSTEIN, FERDINAND von. – Politician and writer, b. at Altona (Hamburg) in September 1790, d. in Paris on 25 November 1861. While in Rome in 1809, he was…
Eclecticism(ECLETTISMO)Vol. V, p. 52 ECLECTICISM. — From ἐκλέγω (I choose). In general, it is any philosophical and scientific tendency that selects different doctrines from various and opposing…
Ecloga Isaurica (Eklogē tōn Nómōn)(ECLOGA ISAURICA (ἘΚΛΟΓῊ ΤΩ͂Ν ΝΌΜΩΝ))Vol. V, p. 52 ECLOGA ISAURICA (Ἐκλογὴ τῶν νόμων). — A compilation, prepared chiefly from material drawn from the four parts of the Corpus iuris citatis (v.), at the order of…
Ecolampadius (Oekolampad, Heuszgen), Johann(ECOLAMPADIO (OEKOLAMPAD, HEUSZGEN), JOHANN)Vol. V, p. 53 ECOLAMPADIO (OEKOLAMPAD, HEUSZGEN), JOHANN. — One of the minor reformers, born at Weinsberg (Württemberg), then in the Palatinate, in 1482, and died at Basel…
Economary(ECONOMARIA)Vol. V, p. 531 ECONOMARIA. — The hunting scene with the vision of the Cross between the stag’s antlers is the iconographic motif chosen by artists such as Pianello (National…
Economate of Ecclesiastical Dicasteries(ECONOMATO DEI DICASTERI ECCLESIASTICI)Vol. V, p. 53 ECONOMATO DEI DICASTERI ECCLESIASTICI. - It was instituted by Pio X (circular of the Secretariat of State, 3 Apr. 1909) as the general administrative office of…
Economic Policy(POLITICA ECONOMICA)Vol. IX, p. 1012 ECONOMIC POLICY. — It represents perhaps the most important sector today, and the most coveted task of practical politics; its purpose is to give a coordinated…
Economic Systems(SISTEMI ECONOMICI)Vol. XI, p. 464 ECONOMIC SYSTEMS. – The totality of the economic activities of individuals and the action of political authority, which seeks to coordinate individual ends…
Economic Value(VALORE ECONOMICO)Vol. XII, p. 620 ECONOMIC VALUE. — Economic value, in its most general meaning, is the importance of things insofar as they respond to human needs. It is therefore a…
Economy(ECONOMIA)Vol. V, p. 54 ECONOMIA. — The proper and prudent administration of goods. Etymologically (from the Greek οἰκονομία; οἶκος = house; νέμειν = to administer), e. would signify…
Ecstasy(ESTASI)Vol. V, p. 387 ESTASI. — The psychological state of man “outside himself” (ἐνατσάς, from ἐξίστημι). The term may be applied both in a good and in a bad sense to the state of…
EcuadorVol. V, p. 57 ECUADOR. - I. GEOGRAPHY. - The smallest of the Andean States, so called because it is crossed by the Equator. Its area, after the long dispute with Peru—which…
Ecumenical(ECUMENICO)Vol. V, p. 60 ECUMENICAL. — From the Greek γῆ οἰκουμένη (“inhabited earth”), meaning “universal.” The title of “ecumenical patriarch” was given to himself by the Byzantine…
Ecumenism, Theory Of(ECUMENISMO, TEORIA DELL')Vol. V, p. 60 ECUMENISM, THEORY OF. — A term derived from “ecumenical,” that is, universal, which in modern times is used to designate every kind of religious activity that…
Ecumenius(ECUMENIO)Vol. V, p. 60 ECUMENIO. - Comes of Isauria in the first half of the sixth century, correspondent and adherent of the Monophysite Severo. Author of a commentary on the…
Eça de Queiroz, José Maria deVol. V, p. 39 EÇA DE QUEIROZ, JOSÉ MARIA de. – Portuguese novelist, born in Povoa de Varzim on 25 November 1845, died at Torigi on 16 August 1900. A keen observer, whose…
ÉcatéVol. V, p. 40 ÉCATÉ. — A minor divinity of the Greek religion; according to some, of Carian origin. Homer does not know her; Hesiod calls her the daughter of the Titan…
École Biblique(ECOLE BIBLIQUE)Vol. V, p. 53 ECOLE BIBLIQUE. – The first Catholic centre for scientific biblical studies, founded by the Dominican M.-J. Lagrange in Jerusalem in 1890, at the suggestion of…
