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  2. Ecclesiastical jurisdiction - Wikipedia

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    Where Church and State are not separated, the State aids in investigating these offences, as well as in executing the canonically rendered decisions of the Church. [ 2 ] As to the civil offences of ecclesiastics, ecclesiastical jurisdiction carries with it no secular consequences, though the Church is free to punish such offences by ...

  3. Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act

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    A key provision of UPMIFA states that: "Subject to the intent of a donor expressed in the gift instrument an institution may appropriate for expenditure or accumulate so much of an endowment fund as the institution determines is prudent for the uses, benefits, purposes, and duration for which the endowment fund is established. [7]

  4. White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood ...

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    Former White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives building on Jackson Place in Washington, D.C.. The White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, [1] formerly the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives (OFBCI) was an office within the White House Office that was part of the Executive Office of the President of the United States.

  5. Trusteeism - Wikipedia

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    An annual report on the administration of church property was made obligatory in all countries by the Council of Trent: [4] "The administrators, whether ecclesiastical or lay, of the fabric of any church whatsoever, even though it be a cathedral, as also of any hospital, confratemity, charitable institution called mont de piété, and of any ...

  6. Johnson Amendment - Wikipedia

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    Page from the Congressional Record containing a transcript of the passage of the amendment. Paragraph (3) of subsection (c) within section 501 of Title 26 (Internal Revenue Code) of the U.S. Code (U.S.C.) describes organizations which may be exempt from U.S. Federal income tax. 501(c)(3) is written as follows, [4] with the Johnson Amendment in bold letters: [5]

  7. Ecclesiastical polity - Wikipedia

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    Ecclesiastical polity is the government of a church. There are local (congregational) forms of organization as well as denominational. A church's polity may describe its ministerial offices or an authority structure between churches. Polity relates closely to ecclesiology, the theological study of the church.

  8. Acta Apostolicae Sedis - Wikipedia

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    At the time, it was not designated as the official means of promulgating laws of the Holy See, nor as an official publication of the Holy See; the publication of the ASS was purely a private initiative.

  9. Ecclesiastical titles and styles - Wikipedia

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    This style is an ancient one, and has been used in the western church for more than a thousand years; it corresponds to, but does not derive from, the Italian Monsignore and the French Monseigneur. However, most bishops prefer to be addressed simply as Bishop ( Bp.