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  2. Canon 915 - Wikipedia

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    Canon 915 is immediately followed by canon 916, which concerns the minister of the Eucharist (priest or bishop) in case that it celebrates a Mass and the recipient of Holy Communion: "A person who is conscious of grave sin is not to celebrate Mass or receive the body of the Lord without previous sacramental confession unless there is a grave ...

  3. Apostolic Pardon - Wikipedia

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    According to the Church, a person who is properly disposed by being in the state of grace - i.e., the person has committed no known and unconfessed mortal sins - who receives the Apostolic Pardon gains the complete pardon of all temporal punishment due to sin that has already been forgiven by the reception of absolution and the doing of penance ...

  4. Test Acts 1673 & 1678 - Wikipedia

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    Sir Robert Peel took the lead for the government in the repeal and collaborated with Anglican Church leaders. [12] The application of the 1828 and 1829 acts to Irish acts was uncertain and so the Test Abolition Act 1867 ( 30 & 31 Vict. c. 62) repeated the 1829 repeal more explicitly.

  5. Canon law of the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    Positive ecclesiastical laws, based directly or indirectly upon immutable divine law or natural law, derive formal authority in the case of universal laws from promulgation by the supreme legislator—the supreme pontiff, who possesses the totality of legislative, executive, and judicial power in his person, [7] or by the College of Bishops ...

  6. Sacramental Test Act 1828 - Wikipedia

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    The Corporation Act 1661 laid down that all mayors and officials in municipal corporations had to receive the sacrament of Holy Communion in accordance with the rites of the Church of England. They also had to take the oath of allegiance, the oath of supremacy and non-resistance and declare that the Solemn League and Covenant to be false. [3]

  7. Excommunication in the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    In the canon law of the Catholic Church, excommunication (Lat. ex, "out of", and communio or communicatio, "communion"; literally meaning "exclusion from communion") is a form of censure. In the formal sense of the term, excommunication includes being barred not only from the sacraments but also from the fellowship of Christian baptism. [1]

  8. Penance - Wikipedia

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    Penance is a moral virtue whereby the sinner is disposed to hatred of their sin as an offence against God and to a firm purpose of amendment and satisfaction. The principal act in the exercise of this virtue is the detestation of one's own sin. The motive of this detestation is that sin offends God.

  9. Canon law - Wikipedia

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    Canon law (from Ancient Greek: κανών, kanon, a 'straight measuring rod, ruler') is a set of ordinances and regulations made by ecclesiastical authority (church leadership) for the government of a Christian organization or church and its members.