Combefis, François
Patrologist, b. November, 1605, at Marmande in Guyenne; d. at Paris, 23 March, 1679.
Commandments of God (The Ten Commandments)
The fundamental obligations of religion and morality and embodying the revealed expression of the Creator's will in relation to man's whole duty to God and to his fellow-creatures.
Commandments of the Church
Article includes: I. the nature of the Commandments of the Church in general; II. the history of the Commandments of the Church; and III. their classification.
Commemoration (in Liturgy)
The recital of a part of the Office or Mass assigned to a certain feast or day when the whole cannot be said.
Commendatory Abbot
An ecclesiastic, or sometimes a layman, who holds an abbey in commendam.
Commendone, Giovanni Francesco
Cardinal and Papal Nuncio, born at Venice, 17 March, 1523; died at Padua, 26 Dec., 1584.
Commentaries on the Bible
Includes: I. Jewish Commentaries; II. Patristic; III. Medieval; IV. Modern Catholic; and V. Non-Catholic.
Commines, Philippe de
French historian and statesman, b. in Flanders probably before 1447; d. at the Château d'Argenton, France, about 1511.
Commissariat of the Holy Land
In the Order of Friars Minor the territory or district assigned to a commissary, whose duty it is to collect alms for the maintenance of the Holy Places in Palestine committed to t…
Commissary Apostolic
One who has received power from a Legitimate superior authority to pass judgment in a certain cause or to take informations concerning it.
Commissions, Ecclesiastical
Bodies of ecclesiastics juridically established and to whom are committed certain specified functions or charges.
Commodianus
A Christian poet, the date of whose birth is uncertain, but generally placed at about the middle of the third century.
Common Life, Brethren of the
A community founded by Geert De Groote, born at Deventer in Gelderland in 1340; died 1384.
Common Sense, Philosophy of
The term common sense designates (1) a special faculty, the sensus communis of the Aristotelean and Scholastic philosophy; (2) the sum of original principles found in all normal mi…
Commune, Martyrs of the Paris
Article on the priests who were killed in Paris in May 1871.
Communicatio Idiomatum
A technical expression in the theology of the Incarnation. It means that the properties of the Divine Word can be ascribed to the man Christ, and that the properties of the man Chr…
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