Censorship of Books
Either ecclesiastical or civil, according as it is practiced by the spiritual or secular authority, and it may be exercised in two ways, viz.: before the printing or publishing of …
Censures, Ecclesiastical
Medicinal and spiritual punishments imposed by the Church on a baptized, delinquent, and contumacious person, by which he is deprived, either wholly of in part, of the use of certa…
Censures, Theological
Doctrinal judgments by which the Church stigmatizes certain teachings detrimental to faith or morals.
Central Verein of North America, German Roman Catholic
The origin dates back to 1854, in which year the presidents of three German Catholic benevolent societies of Buffalo, new York, issued a call to various German Catholic societies f…
Centre (Party), The
This name is given to a political party in the German Reichstag and to a number of parties in the diets of the various states of the German Empire.
Centuriators of Magdeburg
A group of Lutheran scholars who had gathered at Magdeburg, and who are now known to history as the "Centuriators of Magdeburg" because of the way in which they divided their work …
Cepeda, Francisco
A very active missionary among the Indians, born in the province of La Mancha, 1532; died at Guatemala, 1602.
Ceremonial
The book which contains in detail the order of religious ceremony and solemn worship prescribed to be observed in ecclesiastical functions.
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