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  2. Dispensation (Catholic canon law) - Wikipedia

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    In the jurisprudence of the canon law of the Catholic Church, a dispensation is the exemption from the immediate obligation of the law in certain cases. [1] Its object is to modify the hardship often arising from the rigorous application of general laws to particular cases, and its essence is to preserve the law by suspending its operation in ...

  3. Jurisprudence of Catholic canon law - Wikipedia

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    In the canon law of the Roman Catholic Church, a dispensation is the exemption from the immediate obligation of law in certain cases. [20] Its object is to modify the hardship often arising from the rigorous application of general laws to particular cases, and its essence is to preserve the law by suspending its operation in such cases. [ 21 ]

  4. List of excommunicable offences in the Catholic Church

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    Any cleric who wears multicoloured clothing not in keeping with his clerical status, whose clothes are not at least ankle-length, or any head of a cathedral, Catholic college or chaplain to a cardinal who fails to wear a head covering in public, or clerics who pay too much attention to their hair or beards, or clerics who use silk and velvet ...

  5. Exemption (Catholic canon law) - Wikipedia

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    In the Catholic Church, an exemption is the full or partial release of an ecclesiastical person, corporation, or institution from the authority of the ecclesiastical superior next higher in rank. [1] For example, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Strasbourg , and the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem are exempt, being directly subject to the Holy ...

  6. Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches - Wikipedia

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    The official language of the canon law common to all the Eastern Catholic Churches (called "common law" [a]) is Latin. Although Latin is the language of the Latin Church and not of the Eastern Churches, Latin was chosen as the language of the common law because there is no common language in use among all the Eastern Catholic Churches. The ...

  7. Obreption and subreption (Catholic canon law) - Wikipedia

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    Subreption in Catholic Canon law is "a concealment of the pertinent facts in a petition, as for dispensation or favor, that in certain cases nullifies the grant", [3] "the obtainment of a dispensation or gift by concealment of the truth". [2] The terms are also used in the same senses as in Catholic canon law in Scots law. [2]

  8. Why this former Catholic nun is voting yes on Missouri ...

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    After all, the Catholic hierarchy in Missouri has used every opportunity to convince Catholics to vote otherwise — from requiring the reading of political messages at Sunday mass, to putting out ...

  9. Dispensation - Wikipedia

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    Dispensation may refer to: Dispensation (Catholic canon law) , the suspension, by competent authority, of general rules of law in particular cases in the Catholic Church Dispensation (period) , a period in history according to various religions