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Vows
(2,357 words)
[German Version]
I. Religious Studies Voluntary promises to do something, either materially or ideally, in order to obtain the support of a divinity or ¶ some other metaphysical eff…
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Religion Past and Present
Privileged Altar
(191 words)
[German Version] The legally important altar privilege, established in the 16th century by Pope Gregory XIII, which conceded to popes, bishops, and priests certain prerogatives in celebrating the sacrament of the Eucharist, has completely disappeared in the current liturgical law of the Catholic Church. By current law, not only popes, but all bishops can celebrate at the high altars of the papal patriarchal basilicas (modification by Apostolic Letter
Peculiare ius: AAS 58, 1966, 119–122). The right of priests to grant a plenary indulgence to a deceased person has…
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Religion Past and Present
Congregations
(248 words)
[German Version] (Catholic Church). Among the departments of the Roman Curia, the congregations are on an equal legal footing with the Secretariat of State, papal tribunals, councils, offices, and other dicasteria. They exercise a pastoral ministry by supporting and representing the pope in the performance of his duties as supreme pastor and in the exercise of his sovereign juridical leadership over the universal church (cf.
CIC/1983, c. 360). Nine dicasteria are expressly designated as congregations: the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, for…
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Religion Past and Present
Patriarch/Patriarchate
(2,399 words)
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I. Early Church The title
patriarch appears to have been first used by early Judaism (I), with reference to the both the ancestral biblical figures (
4. Macc. 7.19; 16.25;
T. 12 Patr.;
Ber. 16b) and the religious leaders of the Romans’ Jewish subjects (Heb.
nasi ), throughout the history of that central religious office. The first such patriarch was probably Judah ha-Nasi, during the Severan dynasty (193–235);
Cod. Theod. XVI 8.29 (May 30, 429) records the
excessus (“termination”) of the Jewish patriarchate. In Christianity, the Montanists (Montanism; cf. Jerome,
Ep. 4…
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Religion Past and Present