The practice of bestowing an office or patronage on one's relatives. It was especially rampant among 16th-century popes, and was condemned by Pope Pius V in the bull "Admonet Nos" ...
1. A profession of faith (e. G. By the martyrs) or statement of doctrine (e. G. Augsburg Confession). 2. Admission of sin, either directly to God in prayer, generally to the ...
In Protestant terminology, any Christian believer. In Catholicism, an especially holy Christian who has met certain requirements and been canonized by the Pope. See also cult of ...
(Greek, "suspended"). Condemned; cut off from the church. The word is used in Galatians 1:8 and I Corinthians 16:22 to denote separation from the Christian community, and it was ...
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