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In the 1917 Code of Canon Law, the word "regulars" was officially defined as those who have made their vows in a "religion" (what in the 1983 Code is called a religious institute). [8] The technical juridical term "regular" does not appear, as such, in the current 1983 Code of Canon Law, which does, however, use the phrase "canons regular". [9]
Lex orandi, lex credendi (Latin: "the law of what is prayed [is] the law of what is believed"), sometimes expanded as Lex orandi, lex credendi, lex vivendi (Latin: "the law of what is prayed [is] what is believed [is] the law of what is lived"), is a motto in Christian tradition, which means that prayer and belief are integral to each other and that liturgy is not distinct from theology.
What makes the consecrated life a more exacting way of Christian living is the public religious vows or other sacred bonds whereby the consecrated persons commit themselves, for the love of God, to observe as binding the evangelical counsels of chastity, poverty and obedience from the Gospel, or, in the case of consecrated virgins a holy resolution (sanctum propositum) of leading a life of ...
Validity designates an action which produces the effects intended; an action which does not produce the effects intended is considered "invalid". [1] [2] Liceity designates an action which has been performed legitimately; an action which has not been performed legitimately is considered "illicit". [3] [4] Some actions can be illicit, but still ...
Lapsed Catholic – a Catholic who has ceased practising the Catholic faith. Latin Church; Latin liturgical rites; Law, canon – see: Canon law (above) Lay communion – the status of a cleric who is in communion with the Church, but only with the standing of a lay person. Lay ecclesial ministry; Lectio Divina; Lectionary; Lector – see ...
The sensus fidei, the universal consent, from the bishops to the last of the faithful, in a matter of faith, [1] preceded the definition of the Marian dogmas of the Immaculate Conception and the Assumption of Mary: Pope Benedict XVI said: "Faith both in the Immaculate Conception and in the bodily Assumption of the Virgin was already present in ...
When the Magisterium, not intending to act "definitively", teaches a doctrine to aid a better understanding of Revelation and make explicit its contents, or to recall how some teaching is in conformity with the truths of faith, or finally to guard against ideas that are incompatible with these truths, the response called for is that of the ...
The pope can dispense from canon law in all cases that are not contrary to Divine law—except in the case of vows, espousals and marriages ratum sed non consummatum, or valid and consummated marriages of neophytes before baptism. In doubtful cases, however, he may decide authoritatively as to the objective value of the doubt.