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Truly, just as the asp stops its ears, so do these philosophers shut their eyes to the light of truth. [12] Claudius Ptolemy (A.D. 90–168), whose geocentric system was adopted by the Catholic Church, [7] [8] and supplanted by the work of Copernicus and Galileo in the 16th and 17th centuries.
The Mass is the central liturgical service of the Eucharist in the Catholic Church, in which bread and wine are consecrated and become the body and blood of Christ. [ 1][ 2] As defined by the Church at the Council of Trent, in the Mass "the same Christ who offered himself once in a bloody manner on the altar of the cross, is present and offered ...
The Catholic Church authorizes the use of exorcism for those who are believed to be the victims of demonic possession. In Roman Catholicism, exorcism is a sacramental [ 1][ 2] but not a sacrament, unlike baptism or confession. Unlike a sacrament, exorcism's "integrity and efficacy do not depend ... on the rigid use of an unchanging formula or ...
A 19th-century depiction of Galileo before the Holy Office, by Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury. The Inquisition was a judicial procedure and a group of institutions within the Catholic Church whose aim was to combat heresy, apostasy, blasphemy, witchcraft, and customs considered deviant. Violence, torture, or the simple threat of its application ...
In the Catholic Church, "Tenebrae" is the name given to the celebration, with special ceremonies, of matins and lauds, the first two hours of the Divine Office of each of the last three days of Holy Week. In the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church Tenebrae was celebrated in all churches with a sufficient number of clergy until the liturgical ...
The pews at St. Adalbert Parish started filling up before 10 on Monday night. By 11 p.m., the Catholic church on Milwaukee's south side was so packed that people lined the walls and stood shoulder ...
The Ninety-five Theses or Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences[ a] is a list of propositions for an academic disputation written in 1517 by Martin Luther, then a professor of moral theology at the University of Wittenberg, Germany. [ b] The Theses is retrospectively considered to have launched the Protestant Reformation and the ...
The magisterium of the Catholic Church is the church's authority or office to give authentic interpretation of the word of God, "whether in its written form or in the form of Tradition". [ 1][ 2][ 3] According to the 1992 Catechism of the Catholic Church, the task of interpretation is vested uniquely in the Pope and the bishops, [ 4] though the ...