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Exaltation of the Cross, Feast of the (ESALTAZIONE DELLA CROCE, FESTA DELLA)
ESALTAZIONE DELLA CROCE, FESTA della: v. CROCE. -
Examination of Conscience (ESAME DI COSCIENZA)
I. NATURE. - An ascetical exercise in which a man desirous of spiritual perfection, through reflection on his own actions, corrects their defects and raises… -
Examinations (ESAMI)
In its most common meaning it indicates the test to which a candidate is subjected in order to ascertain his culture or his suitability for a determined… -
Examiner (ESAMINATORE)
Among the various consultative bodies established by canon law in every episcopal curia for the purpose of assisting the Ordinary in the exercise of his… -
Exarch (ESARCA)
In classical antiquity, "e." meant the director of the chorus or the president of a college of priests. In the Eastern Empire the use of the word became… -
Exarchate of Italy (of Ravenna) (ESARCATO D'ITALIA (DI RAVENNA))
Once Italy had been restored to the Empire after the fall of the Kingdom of the Ostrogoths, its government was held by the Byzantine commander who had achieved… -
Ex Cathedra
EX CATHEDRA : V. INFALLIBILITÀ. -
Exception (ECCEZIONE)
The term e. has several meanings in procedural law. > (phot. Anderson) "ECCE HOMO" - Painting by a Flemish artist of the first half of the 17th century - Rome… -
Excerpta Bobiensia
This is the name given to the collection found in a manuscript from Bobbio (now cod. Ambros. G 58 sup., 10th/11th century) containing, besides Roman texts… -
Exchange (SCAMBIO)
A basic phenomenon of associated life and the specific object of economic science, which could even be defined as "the science of exchange": that is, of… -
Exclaustration and Secularization (ESCLAUSTRAZIONE E SECOLARIZZAZIONE)
I. EXCLAUSTRATION. - Temporary e. or s., sacculariatio ad tempus, as it was called before the CIC, is the permission granted to a religious, man or woman, by… -
Excommunication (SCOMUNICA)
In current canon law it is the censure (v.) by which a baptized person is excluded from the communion of the faithful. 1. HISTORICAL NOTES. - 1. The censure… -
Execution of Judgments (ESECUZIONE DELLE SENTENZE)
ESECUZIONE DELLE SENTENZE: v. SENTENZA. -
Execution on the Debtor's Property (ESECUZIONE SUI BENI DEL DEBITORE)
ESECUZIONE SUI BENI DEL DEBITORE: v. PRIVILEGI DEI CHIERICI. -
Exemplarism (ESEMPLARISMO)
Philosophical doctrine that attributes to an ideal world, existing in itself or in the divine mind, the function of exemplary causality, sometimes also… -
Exemption (ESENZIONE)
In canon law the term e. from its rudimentary etymological meaning (ex emere: to take away, to free from...) has come to denote the liberation of a person… -
Exequatur and Placet (EXEQUATUR E PLACET)
A form of control exercised by jurisdictionalist States over the acts of the Church, which consisted in the necessity of prior examination and authorization by… -
Exequies (ESEQUIE,)
The very ancient tradition of aiding the souls of the dead with special prayers has been uninterruptedly upheld by the Church and observed almost instinctively… -
Existence (ESISTENZA)
It is the act, the fact, or the reason by virtue of which one can say that something "is there," and it answers the question "whether it is" (whether it has… -
Existentialism (ESISTENZIALISMO)
It represents the last and most energetic form of reaction against idealism, which took its programmatic name from the Danish thinker Søren Kierkegaard… -
Ex Libris
A mark consisting of a small sheet generally applied to the pastedown of the front cover of a book, indicating its owner by means of a name or a symbolic… -
Ex More Docti Mystico
Hymn of Matins in Lent, probably composed by St. Gregory the Great. Lent is the time of fasting, already practiced by Moses, by Elijah and by Christ. The first… -
Exodus (Ἐξοδος 'Exit') (ESODO (ἘΞΟΔΌΣ « USCITA »))
Second book of the Pentateuch (v.), so called by the Septuagint because of the subject matter of its first part; in Hebrew, from its opening words, semoth… -
Exogamy (ESOGAMIA)
The term e. (exogamy), introduced into sociology by Mc Lennan, means that rule, common to all peoples, by which a wife must be chosen outside that group with… -
Exorcism (ESORCISMO)
I. AMONG PRIMITIVE PEOPLES. - A lustratory rite by which, using formulas, gestures and objects, and the invocation of a being endowed with supernatural power… -
Exorcist, Exorcism (ESORCISTA, ESORCISTATO)
An exorcist, in the current practice of the Latin Church, is one who has received the minor Order (v. ORDER) of the exorcistate, which confers the power to… -
Expenses (SPESE)
In theological-juridical terminology, the term expensae (s.) is customarily used to indicate the apportionment of certain financial charges. The subject in… -
Experience (ESPERIENZA)
From experior (I test, I attempt), it is, in a generic sense, every perception of contents and data of consciousness (v.), hence every modification and… -
Experimental Psychology (PSICOLOGIA SPERIMENTALE)
The use of the experimental method in psychology, that is, the carrying out of observations in a systematic way, under well-determined conditions in order to… -
Expiatory Victims of the Blessed Sacrament (VITTIME ESPIATRICI DI GESÙ SACRAMENTATO)
Founded in Naples on 16 July 1878 by Sister Maria Cristina Brando of the Immaculate Conception (b. in Naples on 3 May 1856, d. there on 26 Jan. 1906).Its… -
Expositio Bissexti (EXPOSITIO BISEXTI)
EXPOSITIO BISEXTI: v. COMPUTUS DE PASCHA. -
Exposition of the Most Holy Sacrament (ESPOSIZIONE DEL S.MO SACRAMENTO)
Rite by which the consecrated Host is exposed for the adoration of the faithful, either uncovered in the monstrance or enclosed in the pyx. The origin of the… -
Expressionism (ESPRESSIONISMO)
This name designates an artistic movement which in the field of painting acquired a definiteness of orientations and programmatic manifestations at the… -
Extension (ESTENSIONE)
ESTENSIONE: v. CONTINUO; SPAZIO. -
Extispicina (EXTSPICINA)
EXTSPICINA: v. ARUSPICINA. -
Extortion (ESTORSIONE)
In modern criminal law, this is the name given to the crime of a person who, by means of violence or threat, compelling someone to do or to omit something… -
Extrapyramidal System (EXTRAPIRAMIDALE, SISTEMA)
EXTRAPIRAMIDALE, SISTEMA: v. NERVOSO, SISTEMA. -
Extraterritoriality (EXTRATERRITORIALITÀ)
EXTRATERRITORIALITÀ: v. IMMUNITÀ DIPLOMATICHE. -
Extravagantes, Johannes (EXTRAVAGANTES, IOANNES)
EXTRAVAGANTES, IOANNES: v. CORPUS IURIS CANONICI. -
Extreme Unction (Holy Oil) (ESTREMA UNZIONE (OLIO SANTO))
It is the Sacrament instituted by Jesus Christ for the spiritual and bodily relief of the faithful who are gravely ill. SUMMARY: I. General overview. - II.… -
Exultet
It is the Easter praeconium, the solemn Lucernarium proper to the night of Easter; in substance it is the solemn offering of the paschal candle (v.) inserted… -
Exultet Orbis Gaudiis
Hymn of Vespers on the feasts of the Apostles, by an unknown author. Heaven and earth are called to celebrate the praises of these first followers of Jesus.… -
Ex Voto
EX VOTO : V. VOTO.