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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desert

Religion; Catholic church

The Hebrew words translated in the Douay Version of the Bible by "desert" or "wilderness", and usually rendered by the Vulgate desertum, "solitude", or occasionally eremus, have not the same shade of ...

desertion

Religion; Catholic church

The culpable abandonment of a state, of a stable situation, the obligations of which one had freely accepted.

dispensation

Religion; Catholic church

Dispensation is an act whereby in a particular case a lawful superior grants relaxation from an existing law.

divination

Religion; Catholic church

The seeking after knowledge of future or hidden things by inadequate means. The means being inadequate they must, therefore, the supplemented by some power which is represented all through history as ...

divine attributes

Religion; Catholic church

In order to form a more systematic idea of God, and as far as possible, to unfold the implications of the truth, God is All-Perfect, this infinite Perfection is viewed, successively, under various ...

vestment

Religion; Catholic church

usually pl.,a piece of clothing worn by a priest during church services

Pope Benedict XVI

Religion; Catholic church

Benedict XVI (born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger; 16 April 1927) is the 265th Pope of the Catholic Church. As a Pope, Benedict XVI serves as Sovereign of the Vatican City State and the supreme leader of ...