Immortality
By immortality is ordinarily understood the doctrine that the human soul will survive death, continuing in the possession of an endless conscious existence.
Imola, Innocenzo di Pietro Francucci da
Italian painter; b. at Imola, c. 1494; d. at Bologna, c. 1550.
Impanation
An heretical doctrine according to which Christ is in the Eucharist through His human body substantially united with the substances of bread and wine, and thus is really present as…
Impediments, Canonical
Canon law uses the word impediment in its restricted and technical sense, only in reference to marriage, while impediments to Holy orders are spoken of as irregularities.
Imposition of Hands
A symbolical ceremony by which one intends to communicate to another some favour, quality or excellence (principally of a spiritual kind), or to depute another to some office.
Improperia
The reproaches which in the liturgy of the Office of Good Friday the Saviour is made to utter against the Jews, who, in requital for all the Divine favours and particularly for the…
In CoeÂœna Domini
A papal Bull, so called from the feast on which it was annually published in Rome, viz, the feast of the Lord's Supper, or Maundy Thursday.
In Commendam
A phrase used in canon law to designate a certain manner of collating an ecclesiastical benefice.
In Partibus Infidelium
A term meaning "in the lands of the unbelievers," words added to the name of the see conferred on non-residential or titular Latin bishops.
Incardination and Excardination
In the ecclesiastical sense the words are used to denote that a given person is freed from the jurisdiction of one bishop and is transferred to that of another.
Incarnate Word and Blessed Sacrament, Order of the
Founded in the early part of the seventeenth century by Jeanne Chezard de Matel.
Incarnate Word, Sisters of Charity of the
This congregation, with simple vows, was founded by Rt. Rev. C.M. Dubuis, Bishop of Galveston.
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