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Letter to a Priest" (French: Lettre à un religieux) is a letter containing thirty-five "expressions of opinion on matters concerning Catholic faith, dogma and institutions" by the French religious and social philosopher and mystic Simone Weil. It was first published in 1951 by Gallimard, and an English edition followed in 1953. It has since ...
Heathen priests among the pre-Christian Rus' people. Zhrets: Sacrificial and divinatory priests within the Slavic Religion: Gothi/Gythia A title sometimes used by adherents of Heathenism, referring to a priest or ceremonial leader. Witch (Ldy./Lrd.) A title used by someone who practices Witchcraft.
In addition to ordinary or simple exclaustration, as described above, the Holy See, but not the religious superior or the diocesan bishop, may grant what has been called an exclaustration ad experimentum to a religious priest who has definitively decided to leave his institute and become a diocesan priest and who has found a diocesan bishop ...
A celebret, in Catholic canon law, is a letter from a bishop or religious superior authorizing a priest to say Mass in a/an (arch)diocese other than his own. The name of the document is taken from the Latin celebret, meaning “may he celebrate”, as it is traditionally the first word of the text therein.
For ordination to diaconate or priesthood of a member of a religious institute, the major superior of the institute gives the letters, if the person to be ordained is a permanently professed member of the institute; all other members must obtain their dimissorial letters in the same way as the secular clergy do. [4]
A pastoral letter, often simply called a pastoral, is an open letter addressed by a bishop to the clergy or laity of a diocese or to both, containing general admonition, instruction or consolation, or directions for behaviour in particular circumstances. [1]
Dimissorial letters; Episcopal consecrators; Approbation (Catholic canon law) Confession. Penitential canons. Paenitentiale Theodori; Seal of the Confessional; Internal and external forum. Note on the importance of the internal forum and the inviolability of the Sacramental Seal; Apostolic Penitentiary; Canon penitentiary; Complicit absolution ...
Persian Christian priest and martyr. Abraham of Arrazd: 5th century An Armenian priest and a disciple of the Leontine martyrs. Abraham Armand: before 1827- after 1827 One of the first Catholic missionaries to arrive in the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1827. Abdisho: Abdisho: 298-345 A member of the Church of the East, was a deacon and martyr. Absadah ...