Word: canonize
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Protestants received the Bible from the Catholic Church, who had preserved it for 15 centuries and who had set the canon of the New Testament at the end of the 4th Century. If Protestants accept the authority of the Catholic Church in this matter, why do they reject it in others...
...Prague suburb. The Sacred Consistorial Congregation, headed by the Pope, issued a declaration restating the laws on excommunication and asserting that "all those who have contributed . . . physically or morally" to the banishment of Beran and to the subversion of the Czech church have incurred excommunication "in accordance with canon law . . . and will remain subjected to excommunication until they obtain absolution directly from the Holy Apostolic...
...Catholic representative was present, explained Msgr. Thomas McCarthy of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, and there could be no official Catholic altar because canon law forbids joint worship...
...Vatican last week dropped a stick of ecclesiastical high explosive. No Roman Catholic priest, decreed the Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office, may henceforth be a member of Rotary or attend Rotary meetings. Furthermore, laymen, while not forbidden Rotary membership, were exhorted to bear in mind Article 684 of canon law. Excerpt: "The faithful . . . must guard against associations which are secret, condemned, seditious, suspect, or which try to escape legitimate church vigilance...
...Canon Bezzant is the Vice-Dean and Chancellor of the cathedral...