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  2. Church discipline - Wikipedia

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    Church discipline is the practice of church members calling upon an individual within the Church to repent for their sins. Church discipline is performed when one has sinned or gone against the rules of the church. Church discipline is practiced with the intent to make the offender repent and be reconciled to God.

  3. Discipline (instrument of penance) - Wikipedia

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    By the 11th century, the use of the discipline for Christians who sought to practice the mortification of the flesh became ubiquitous throughout Christendom. [11] In the Roman Catholic Church, the discipline is used by some austere Catholic religious orders. [12]

  4. List of excommunicable offences in the Catholic Church

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    If anyone says that the Roman pontiff has merely an office of supervision and guidance and not the full and supreme power of jurisdiction over the whole church, and this not only in matters of faith and morals but also in those which concern the discipline and government of the church dispersed throughout the whole world; or that he has only ...

  5. Fasting and abstinence in the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    Members of the autonomous Eastern Catholic Churches are obliged to follow the discipline of their own particular church. While some Eastern Catholics try to follow the stricter rules of their Orthodox counterparts, the actual canonical obligations of Eastern Catholics to fast and abstain are usually much more lenient than those of the Orthodox.

  6. Censure (Catholic canon law) - Wikipedia

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    For example, grades among the laity included expiatores, pænitentes, and subdivisions like consistentes, substrati, audientes, and flentes or lugentes. Some Church goods, such as prayer, sacraments, attendance at the Holy Sacrifice, and Christian burial, were common to all members, while others were specific to various clerical grades ...

  7. Penitential canons - Wikipedia

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    This discipline, which was rapidly mitigated, ceased to be observed by the close of the fourth century. The relative penitential canons are contained in the canonical letter of St. Gregory Thaumaturgus (about 263; P. G., X, 1019), the Councils of Ancyra (314), Neocaesarea (314-20), Nicaea (325), and the three canonical letters of St. Basil to ...

  8. Excommunication - Wikipedia

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    The Evangelical Wesleyan Church, in its 2015 Discipline, states that "Any member of our church who is accused of neglect of the means of grace or other duties required by the Word of God, the indulgence of sinful tempers, words or actions, the sowing of dissension, or any other violation of the order and discipline of the church, may, after ...

  9. Canon law of the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    The canon law of the Catholic Church (from Latin ius canonicum [1]) is "how the Church organizes and governs herself". [2] It is the system of laws and ecclesiastical legal principles made and enforced by the hierarchical authorities of the Catholic Church to regulate its external organization and government and to order and direct the ...