the cleric. Incardination does not cease until the moment when that cleric is incardinated as a subject of another superior. An excardination from one diocese...

expressing a strong opinion of disapproval that could be debated by the assembly and adopted by a majority vote. According to Robert's Rules of Order (Newly Revised)...

members a lifestyle of poverty, traveling, and living in urban areas for purposes of preaching, evangelization, and ministry, especially to the poor. At their...

Simony (/ˈsɪməni/) is the act of selling church offices and roles or sacred things. It is named after Simon Magus, who is described in the Acts of the...

the seal of confession under the gravest sin and under threat of the severest punishments both temporal and eternal." The Catechism of the Catholic Church...

further using valid reasoning that both disagrees with the subject at hand and proves their own point valid. Despite being medieval in origin, this idiomatic...

a diocese or an archdiocese for the exercise of administrative authority and possesses the title of local ordinary. As vicar of the (arch)bishop, the...

pontifical right" is the term given to ecclesiastical institutions (religious and secular institutes, societies of apostolic life) either created by the Holy...

canon law, it refers to a document issued by the pope on his own initiative and personally signed by him. Such a document may be addressed to the whole church...

continuing to do so under Pope Benedict XV in 1917. Each ecclesiastical province and also each diocese may issue decrees in their periodical synods within their...