Catholic church

Catholic church

The Catholic Church is the world's largest Christian Church with 1.2 billion members worldwide. It is among the oldest institutions in the world and has played a prominent role in western civilization. The Catholic heirarchy is lead by the Pope. The Catholic Church is Trinitarian and defines it's mission as spreading the word and teachings of Jesus Christ.

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cantor

Religion; Catholic church

The chief singer (and sometimes instructor) of the ecclesiastical choir, called also precentor.He may be responsible for the immediate rendering of the music, showing the course of the melody by ...

capharnaum

Religion; Catholic church

A titular see of Palestine. Its name (also KAPERNAUM) means village of Nahum or consolation. It is frequently mentioned in the Gospels: Jesus, when repelled by the Nazarenes, made it His new abode.

capital punishment

Religion; Catholic church

The infliction by due legal process of the penalty of death as a punishment for crime.

capuchin friars minor

Religion; Catholic church

An autonomous branch of the first Franciscan Order, the other branches being the Friars Minor simply so called (but until lately usually known as Observants or Recollects), and the Conventual Friars ...

casuistry

Religion; Catholic church

The application of general principles of morality to definite and concrete cases of human activity, for the purpose, primarily, of determining what one ought to do, or ought not to do, or what one ...

catafalque

Religion; Catholic church

Literally means a scaffold or elevation, but in its strictly liturgical sense the word is employed to designate the cenotaph-like erection which is used at the exequial offices of the Church.