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The Clergy Act 1640, also known as the Bishops Exclusion Act, or the Clerical Disabilities Act, was an Act of Parliament, effective 13 February 1642 that prevented men in holy orders from exercising any temporal jurisdiction or authority. Prior to the Act, bishops of the Church of England sat in the House of Lords, where they comprised 22 out ...
t. e. The canon law of the Eastern Orthodox Church consists of the ecclesiastical regulations recognised by the authorities of the Eastern Orthodox Church, together with the discipline, study, and practice of Eastern Orthodox jurisprudence. [1] In the Eastern Orthodox Church, canon law is a behavioural standard that aims to apply dogma to ...
t. e. Clerics regular are clerics (mostly priests) who are members of a religious order under a rule of life (regular). Clerics regular differ from canons regular in that they devote themselves more to pastoral care, in place of an obligation to the praying of the Liturgy of the Hours in common, and have fewer observances in their rule of life.
Bernard Francis Law. Bernard Francis Cardinal Law (November 4, 1931 – December 20, 2017) was a senior-ranking prelate of the Catholic Church, known largely for covering up the serial rape of children by Catholic priests. He served as Archbishop of Boston, archpriest of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, and Cardinal Priest of Santa Susanna ...
The ordination of women to ministerial or priestly office is an increasingly common practice among some contemporary major religious groups. [2] It remains a controversial issue in certain religious groups in which ordination [a] was traditionally reserved for men. [2] [3] [4] [b]
e. The canon law of the Roman Catholic Church does not allow for homosexuals to be ordained. The church requires that clerics "observe perfect and perpetual continence for the sake of the kingdom of heaven"; [1] for this reason, priests in Roman Catholic dioceses make vows of celibacy at their ordination, thereby agreeing to remain unmarried ...
The sacrament of holy orders in the Catholic Church includes three orders: bishops, priests, and deacons, in decreasing order of rank, collectively comprising the clergy. In the phrase "holy orders", the word "holy" means "set apart for a sacred purpose". The word "order" designates an established civil body or corporation with a hierarchy, and ...
