terce

en-noun

terce (countable and uncountable, plural terces)

Late Middle English, from Old French terce, from Latin tertia (“third; the third hour”).

(chiefly Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy) The service appointed for this hour.


processional

[47] Item that the Churchwardens of euery paryshe shall delyuer vnto our visitours the inuentories of vestmentes, copes, and other ornamentes, plate, bookes, and specyallye of Grayles, Couchers, Legendes, Processionalles, Hymnalles, Manuelles, Portuesses, and suche lyke apperteynyng to theyr Church.

1559, Iniunctions geven by the Quenes Maiestie anno Domini MD.LIX, the fyrst yeare of the raigne of our Soueraigne Lady Quene Elizabeth, London:

c. 1640s, John Gregory, “Episcopus Puerorum In Die Innocentium: Or, A Discovery of an Ancient Custom in the Church of Sarum, making an Anniversary Bishop among the Choristers” in The Works of the Reverend and Learned Mr. John Gregory, London: R. Royston and T. Williams, 1671, p. 114,
By the Use of Sarum (for ’tis almost the only place where I can hear any thing of this; that of York in their Processional seems to take no notice of it) upon the Eve to Innocents Day the Chorister-Bishop was to go in solemn Procession with his fellows […]

(Roman Catholicism) A service book relating to ecclesiastical processions.


papal infallibility

Before examining specific interpretations of papal infallibility, we will first give a general introduction to the doctrine. This chapter begins with an overview of the pontificate of Pius IX and the historical setting of Vatican I. This overview is ...

2009, Mark E. Powell, Papal Infallibility: A Protestant Evaluation of an Ecumenical Issue, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, →ISBN, page 20:

(Roman Catholicism) The concept that the Pope, under certain circumstance (when making a statement on faith or morals, etc.) is protected by the Holy Spirit from being able to make a mistake.


beatified

(Roman Catholicism) Having been recognized and declared, by the church, that a deceased has entered heaven; having attained this step in the process of canonization.

zalig

declared that a deceased has entered heaven


suburbicarian

/səˌbɜː.bəˈkɛəɹi.ən/

(Roman Catholicism) Describing any of the six dioceses surrounding Rome, which are always headed by Cardinals of the highest rank.

suburbicari

describing any of the six dioceses surrounding Rome


EF

Extraordinary Form
Extraordinary Form#English

(Roman Catholicism) Initialism of Extraordinary Form.


allocution

allocution (countable and uncountable, plural allocutions)

The recent papal allocution To the International Congress on Life-Sustaining Treatment and Vegetative State: Scientific Advances and Ethical Dilemmas has been the occasion for much discussion concerning the use of artificial feeding tubes for nutrition and hydration.

2004, Thomas Shannon, James Walter, “Implications of the Papal Allocution on Feeding Tubes,”, in The Hastings Center Report, volume 34, number 4, page 18:

(Roman Catholicism) A pronouncement by a pope to an assembly of church officials concerning a matter of church policy.


mantelletta

Borrowed from Italian mantelletta, from mantello (“cloak, mantle”) + -etta (from -etto (diminutive suffix)), probably from Late Latin mantelletum (“a short, sleeveless cape or cloak; a mantlet”). Doublet of mantlet.

der

We were without comestibles, and we had no garments except those we wore, not even a shirt, and the habits, such as they were, were most inconvenient for travelling; for the Pope [Pius VII] wore his mozzetta and stola, and I [Bartolomeo Pacca] the rocchetto and mozzetta, together with the mantelletta.

1850 August 31, “Historical Memoirs of Cardinal Pacca, Prime Minister to Pius VII. Written by Himself. Translated from the Italian, by Sir George Head. 2 vols. Longman & Co.”, in The Athenæum: Journal of English and Foreign Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts, number 1192, London: Printed by James Holmes, Took's Court, Chancery Lane; published at the Office, 14 Wellington Street North, Strand, by J. Francis, →OCLC, page 921, column 2:

In Rome the cardinals wear the mozzetta over the mantelletta, except in their titular churches, when it is worn immediately over the rochet.

1912, “The Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church”, in Herman Joseph Heuser, editor, The Ecclesiastical Review: A Monthly Publication for the Clergy, volume XLVI, Philadelphia, Pa.: American Ecclesiastical Review, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 145:

In the presence of the Pope and within the Archbishopric of Rome, the cardinals and the bishops had to conceal the rochet beneath a so-called mantelletta, a knee-length coat, which was open at the front.

2015, Philipp Zitzlsperger, “A Change in Forms and the Migration of Bodies in Rome – From the Cardinal’s Tomb to the Cenotaph”, in Tarald Rasmussen, Jon Øygarden Flæten, editors, Preparing for Death, Remembering the Dead, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 84:

(Roman Catholicism) A sleeveless, knee-length vestment open at the front which is worn by Roman Catholic prelates.


confiteor

From Latin cōnfiteor (“I confess”), the first word of the prayer and used as its title in Ecclesiastical Latin. Doublet of confess.

“Pugh!” she said. “You are disgusting! Go into the chapel now and say a confiteor each for your sin.”

1967, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 240, page 80:

(Christianity, chiefly Roman Catholicism) A prayer, typically beginning “I confess to Almighty God…” in English, in which public confession of sins is made.


oremus

From Latin ōrēmus (“let us pray”, first person plural active subjunctive of ōrō), often used to introduce a prayer in the liturgy.

bor

first person plural active subjunctive of <i class="Latn mention" lang="la">ōrō</i>

The priest recited long oremuses in Latin, after which he said in the same language to the little seagull: Ingredere, Petre, in domum Domini.

1923, Pierre Loti, translated by W. P. Baines, A Tale of Brittany, page 144:

(Roman Catholicism) A liturgical prayer.


pome

en-noun

pome (plural pomes or (heraldry) pomeis)

From Middle English pome (“fruit, meatball”), from Old French pome (“apple”), from Latin pōmum. For the verb, compare French pommer. Doublet of pomme.

(Roman Catholicism) A ball of silver or other metal, filled with hot water and used by a Roman Catholic priest in cold weather to warm his hands during the service.


nuntius

Borrowed from Latin nūntius (“messenger”).


monsignor

en-noun

monsignor (plural monsignors or monsignori)

monsignors (plural)
monsignori (plural)
Monsignor (alternative)
Msgr. (alternative)
Mons. (alternative)

From Italian monsignore, from signore under influence from Middle French monseigneur. Doublet of monseigneur and monsieur.

He goes one day to hear Father Hecker preach on the Destiny of Man, on another to hear Monsignor Pie, Bishop of Poitiers, then Archbishop Manning, and again Monsignor Mermillod and Father Burke. […] We have just made her a grand festa for her day, the 20th—twelve Masses, cardinal, two archbishops, two monsignori, the other seven, priests.

1892, “Great Events in Rome”, in John Morris, editor, The Life of Mother Henrietta Kerr, Religious of the Sacred Heart, 3rd edition, Roehampton, pages 182 and 197:

We were passed on from one room to another, and finally came to a halt in a large square room, where there were more priests, one or two monsignori, in their violet robes, and two officers. […] We had barely time to exchange a few remarks, as Monsignor Bicletis was waiting for us to advance.

1905, Mary King Waddington, “Italy Revisited”, in Italian Letters of a Diplomat’s Wife; January–May 1880; February–April, 1904, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, pages 249–250:

He wore the dress of an abbot and was accompanied by two monsignori in simple black. […] It was a letter from Monsignor Chatrousse, the Bishop of Valence in France.

1955, Francis Beauchesne Thornton, Cross upon Cross: The Life of Pope Pius IX, New York, N.Y.: Benziger Brothers, Inc., pages 83 (The Pope Begins His Reign) and 114 (The Flight to Gaeta):

He was accompanied by two monsignori, one of whom was Henry Cosgrove, an acquaintance of mine from Brooklyn. […] “It is obvious that I need no translator. Henry,” I said, turning to the American monsignor, “you can be my secretary.”

1999, Francis X[avier] Murphy, “Introduction to the 1999 Edition”, in Vatican Council II, Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, →ISBN, page xii:

He had only been in office for a couple of months when the brilliant polymath, Monsignor Ivan Illich, was summoned to Rome. Illich was an American citizen of mixed Spanish, German, Croat and Jewish origins, and a priest of New York archdiocese who worked in Cuernavaca in Mexico to prepare missionaries for Latin America. Two minor CDF monsignori, Sergio de Magistris and Giuseppe Casoria, attempted to interrogate him in the back rooms of the Palazzo.

2001, Paul Collins, “Palazzo del Sant’Uffizio”, in From Inquisition to Freedom: Seven Prominent Catholics and Their Struggle with the Vatican, Sydney, N.S.W.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 19:

He paid half the $850 monthly tuition, and the church monsignor covered the rest.

2007 February 4, Alexis Rehrmann, “Her Parents Couldn’t Take Care of Her. This Home Could.”, in New York Times:

“Chances are if you had any efforts to modify it, you’d have parades of monsignors, ministers and rabbis trooping up to Capitol Hill,” said Professor Baker.

2007 October 21, Peter Applebome, “A Court Decision Elbows a Village in Favor of Religious Rights”, in New York Times:

Monsignor, at least, was happier, because oblivious, and just went on transforming the ducks and capons bestowed on him into flesh. […] As chaplain and special counsellor of Casa Frumier he’d been able to garner the esteem of the many priests and monsignori who were guests there, for he never lacked either those saintly maxims or those agile mutations of conscience that allowed him to attract both the one and the other; […]

2014, Ippolito Nievo, translated by Frederika Randall, Confessions of an Italian, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN:

(Roman Catholicism) An ecclesiastic title bestowed on some Roman Catholic clerics by the Pope


Divine Mercy Sunday

en-proper noun

Divine Mercy Sunday (plural Divine Mercy Sundays)

(Roman Catholicism) The Sunday after Easter.


Absolution Day

(Roman Catholicism) The Tuesday before Easter.


counterreformer

From counterreform + -er or counter- + reformer.

According to John Bossy, the Catholic counterreformers attempted to make the parish the primary focus of religious life […]

1986, Joseph H. Lynch, Godparents and Kinship in Early Medieval Europe, →ISBN, page 26:

The council [of Trent] also urged caution in the use of vocal polyphony […] Notably, the counterreformers did not follow Luther and Calvin in advocating congregational song in the vernacular.

2008, Steven R. Guthrie, “Theology and Music”, in The Encyclopedia of Christianity, volume 5, Eerdmans-Brill, →ISBN, page 371:

This stands in significant contrast, for example, to the Catholic counterreformer Ignatius of Loyola who, in his Spiritual Exercises, requires that the retreatant consider the idea that God created the whole world for her.

2020, Brendan Thomas Sammon, “Beauty and the Good in Dionysius the Areopagite”, in Alice M. Ramos, editor, Beauty and the Good: Recovering the Classical Tradition from Plato to Duns Scotus, →ISBN, page 204:

(historical, Roman Catholicism) Alternative spelling of Counter-Reformer (“proponent of the Counter-Reformation”).


dataria

From Late Latin, from Latin datum (“given”).

(Roman Catholicism, historical) Part of the Roman Catholic Curia, abolished in 1967, from which were sent graces or favours such as appointments to benefices.


seminarist

(Roman Catholicism) A student training to be a priest at a Roman Catholic seminary.


age of reason

en-noun

age of reason (usually uncountable, plural ages of reason)

vastuullinen ikä

age at which a person is morally liable for the sins that he or she commits

Book 1:
Reason alone teaches us to know good and bad. . . . Before the age of reason we do good and bad without knowing it, and there is no morality in our actions. . . . A child wants to upset everything he sees; he smashes, breaks everything he can reach.
Book 4:
We hold that no child who dies before the age of reason will be deprived of eternal happiness. . . . The whole difference I see here between you and me is that you claim that children have this capacity [i.e., to recognize the divinity] at seven, and I do not even accord it to them at fifteen.

1762, Jean Jacques Rousseau, translated by Allan Bloom, Émile, or, on Education:

On September tenth — the morning of my seventh birthday — I came downstairs to the kitchen, where my mother was washing the dishes and my father was… reading the paper or something, and I sort-of presented myself to them in the doorway, and they said “Hey! Happy birthday!” And I said “I’m seven.” And my father smiled and said “Well, you know what that means, don’t you?” And I said “Yeah… that I’m gonna have a party and a cake and get a lot of presents (?)” And my dad said “Well, yes, but more importantly, being seven means that you’ve reached the age of reason, and you’re now capable of committing any and all sins against God and man.”

2006, February: Julia Sweeney, “Letting Go of God” performed at TED2006, 0:16–0:54

Since the Church has traditionally understood the age of reason to be seven years old, your daughter would not be too young to receive confirmation at age eight.

c. 2008, Michelle Arnold, "What is the correct age for confirmation?," www.catholic.com (retrieved 29 Oct 2013)

(Roman Catholicism) Seven years of age, at which age a person is morally liable for the sins that he or she commits.


celebret

Borrowed from Latin celebret (“may he celebrate”).

bor+

(Roman Catholicism) A letter signed by a bishop or other higher official stating that a certain priest is allowed to say Mass in a different diocese.


dubia

en-noun

dubia pl (normally plural, singular dubium)

Borrowed from Latin dubia, plural of dubium (literally “doubt”).

Coordinate term: responsa

The dubia began as a private letter, as is usual with such requests for doctrinal clarity. Francis offered no reply.

2016 November 26, Ross Douthat, “His Holiness Declines to Answer”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Eleven dubia, have been raised regarding the application of the Motu proprio Traditionis custodes through which in July 2021 Pope Francis promulgated new norms regarding the use of the liturgical books in use prior to the reform enacted by the Second Vatican Council.

2021 December 18, “Celebration of old rite: Holy See responds to questions presented by bishops”, in Vatican News:

On July 10, Cardinal Burke and other leading traditionalist cardinals sent a letter to Francis known as a “dubia” that conveyed their concerns about the Synod, and demanded that he clear up, among other issues, the blessing of same-sex unions.

[2023 October 3, Jason Horowitz, “Conservative Catholics, Relegated to Sidelines, Denounce Papal Gathering”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(Roman Catholicism) A set of questions on doctrine sent by Catholic bishops to the Holy See.


hebdomadary

From Late Latin hebdomadārius, from hebdomas (“week”).

(Roman Catholicism) A member of a chapter or convent whose week it is to officiate in the choir and perform other services, which, on extraordinary occasions, are performed by the superiors.


andor

andors (plural)
andas (alternative)
andola (alternative)

From Portuguese andor, from Malayalam, from Sanskrit हिन्दोल (hindola, “swinging cradle, hammock litter, dooly”). Compare dooly from Sanskrit दुल् (dul) via Hindi.

der

(Portugal, Roman Catholicism) Synonym of litter, used in religious processions of saints' figurines.


mozzetta

mozzettas (plural)
mozzette (plural)
mosette (alternative)
mozetta (alternative)

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Borrowed from French mozzete (obsolete) (modern French mosette, mossette), and from its etymon Italian mozzetta; further etymology uncertain, possibly either:
* from Italian mozzo (“cut off; shortened”, adjective) (from Vulgar Latin *mutius, from Latin mutilus (“mutilated”); further etymology uncertain, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *mut- (“cut short”)); or
* from Late Latin almucia (“hood or cape with a hood worn by clergy”) (further etymology unknown)
+ Italian -etta (feminine form of -etto (diminutive suffix)).
The plural form mozzette is borrowed from Italian mozzette.

Benedict [XVI], the first pope to resign voluntarily in six centuries, will dress in a simple white cassock, forgoing the mozzetta, the elbow-length cape worn by some Catholic clergymen, the Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, told reporters at a news briefing.

2013 February 26, Gaia Pianigiani, Elisabetta Povoledo, “Benedict XVI to be known as emeritus in retirement”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-06-24:

On that night of his election he [Pope Francis] stepped out on to the balcony overlooking Saint Peter's Square in simple white robes, refusing the fancy red mozzetta or cape that Benedict [XVI] had sported when he had been announced as pope. When told to put on white trousers, he later remembered in his autobiography, he replied: "I don't want to be an ice-cream seller."

2025 April 21, Peter Stanford, “Pope Francis obituary: Leader of the Catholic church who pushed for social and economic justice, and an urgent response to the climate crisis”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2025-04-25:

The most notable figure in the room is Irish-American Cardinal Kevin Farrell, who is the Pope [Francis]'s "camerlengo" or chamberlain and runs the Vatican until a new Pope is chosen. The cardinal – in red mozzetta and cassock – is shown blessing the body of the late Pope during the rite of the declaration of death.

2025 April 22, “In Pictures: Symbolism on Show as Pope Francis Lies in Open Coffin”, in BBC News, archived from the original on 2025-04-28:

(Roman Catholicism) A short cape covering the shoulders and buttoned in front, with a hood, which is worn by the pope, cardinals, bishops, and other senior clergy.

muceta

short cape with a hood worn by senior clergy


cephalophore

From Ancient Greek κεφαλή (kephalḗ, “head”) + -φορος (-phoros, “bearing”), a derivative of φέρω (phérō, “I bear, I carry”); in the Christian sense, via French céphalophore, coined by Marcel Hébert in 1914.

According to William of Worcester, quite a large number of Cornish saints were cephalophores: besides S. Nectan and S. Willow, he tells us that “there were three brothers under the name of Genesius and each one carried his head.”

1960, Gilbert Hunter Doble, The Saints of Cornwall, volume 5, page 60:

(Roman Catholicism) Any of a group of saints depicted in art carrying heads in their hands.


transelementation

(obsolete, especially Roman Catholicism) transubstantiation


Barnabite

(Roman Catholicism) A member of a religious order originally associated with the church of St. Barnabas in Milan.


Gallicanism

en-noun

Gallicanism (countable and uncountable, plural Gallicanisms)

[…] after being ordained, [Wake] went to Paris in 1682 as chaplain to Viscount Preston. Here Wake came into close touch with Gallicanism […]

1912, “Wake, William”, in The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, volume 12, page 237:

Moreover, the enthusiasm with which Hecker’s ideas had been received among Catholic liberals in France served to increase Leo XIII’s suspicion that Americanism was yet another attempt, not so very different from the Gallicanisms of the past, to assert the independence of a national church from Rome.

1999, Michael W. Cuneo, The Smoke of Satan: Conservative and Traditionalist Dissent in Contemporary American Catholicism, →ISBN, page 8:

(historical, chiefly Roman Catholicism) The doctrine that the church of France is autonomous, especially in relation to the pope; also, the intellectual movement in support of this doctrine and the policies expressing it.

高卢主义

doctrine of autonomy of the French church


sacramentary

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin sacramentarium; compare French sacramentaire.

bor+

(Roman Catholicism) An ancient book of the Roman Catholic Church, containing the rites for Mass, the sacraments, etc.

sakramentář

ancient book containing the rites for Mass, the sacraments, etc.


Gallican

Borrowed from Latin Gallicānus (“pertaining to Gaul or France; Gallican”), from Gallicus (“Gaulish, French”) (from Gallia (“Gaul”)) + -ānus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’).

the Gallican church or clergy

Relating to the French Roman Catholic church, especially before the late 19th century.

高卢教会的

relating to the French Roman Catholic church

(Roman Catholicism, chiefly historical)
Relating to Gallicanism.


incensation

en-noun

incensation (countable and uncountable, plural incensations)

After the third incensation, the censer is given to a priest, vested in surplice, who, till the end of the consecration, continues going around the altar, incensing it on all sides, save when the bishop uses the censer.

(Roman Catholicism) The offering of incense.


incameration

The Treaty of Pisa, signed the 17th of February 1664, ended the quarrels between the court of France and the pope. . . . ‘The pope shall revoke the incameration of the duchies of Castro and Ronciglione. The duke of Parma shall take possession of them, paying to the apostolical chamber the sum he owes it, of a million three hundred twenty-nine thousand seven hundred and fifty crowns.’

1762, Paul M. Rapin de Thoyras, Nicolas Tindal, The History of England, Volume 12, page 382:

(obsolete, Roman Catholicism) The incorporation of certain property, rights, or income into the dominion of the Pope.


Laetare Sunday

From Latin Laetare (“Rejoice!”), the first word of the introit of the day's mass, traditionally a Latin translation of Isaiah 66:10.

Mothering Sunday
Mothering Sunday#English

(Roman Catholicism) Synonym of Mothering Sunday: the fourth Sunday of Lent.


postcommunion

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin postcommūniō. By surface analysis, post- + communion.

bor+

(Roman Catholicism) A prayer or prayers which the priest says at Mass, after the ablutions.


in petto

Borrowed from Italian in petto (“in the chest”).

In future you will have the right to dress in red — indeed, you are already cardinal in petto, and you will be proclaimed at the next conclave.

1845, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell, “Metternich”, in The Living Age:

(Roman Catholicism) Designated as a cardinal but not yet announced.


Vicar of Christ

en-noun

Vicar of Christ (plural Vicars of Christ)

Vicars of Christ (plural)
Vicar of Jesus Christ (alternative)

Calque of Ecclesiastical Latin vicārius Christī.

calque

"We should never have had the law of 1571, against bulls, and Agnus Deis, and blessed grains, if the Pope's bull of 1569 had not made them matter of treason."
"What, sir?" almost roared Parsons, "do you dare to speak evil of the edicts of the Vicar of Christ?"

1855, Charles Kingsley, chapter 4, in Westward Ho!:

[I]n the spacious ceremonial library of the 16th century Apostolic Palace, the czar of world atheism, Mikhail Gorbachev, will visit the Vicar of Christ, Pope John Paul II.

1989 December 4, Richard N. Ostling et al., “Religion: Cross Meets Kremlin—Gorbachev and Pope John Paul II”, in Time:

Not since 1522, when a Dutch theologian was elected Pope Adrian VI, had a non-Italian attained the role of Vicar of Christ.

2004 January 11, Roberto Pazzi, “Why the Next Pope Needs to Be Italian”, in New York Times:


Celestine

(Roman Catholicism) A member of a Roman Catholic monastic order, a branch of the Benedictines, founded in 1244.


Mart.

In the Mart. of Donegal, this is the day of St. Comgall (Comhgall), placed in the Menology on the 27th June, as having no day.

1892, Richard Stanton, A Menology of England and Wales..., p. 645

(Roman Catholicism) Abbreviation of martyrology.


age of discretion

en-noun

age of discretion (usually uncountable, plural ages of discretion)

(Roman Catholicism) Synonym of age of reason


diriment impediment

diriment impediment (plural diriment impediments)

(Roman Catholicism) An impediment that nullifies marriage.


antipapist

(Roman Catholicism) One who subscribes to antipapism.


Borromean

en-adj

Borromean (comparative more Borromean, superlative most Borromean)

more Borromean (comparative)
most Borromean (superlative)

/bɒɹəˈmiːən/

(Roman Catholicism) of or relating to Saint Charles Borromeo or any religious orders or institutions that trace their origin to him


Blackloism

(Roman Catholicism, historical) The beliefs of the Blackloists.


Blackloist

From Blackloe + -ist, from the alias of Thomas White (1593–1676), an influential member of the group.

(Roman Catholicism, historical) One of a school of dissident English Roman Catholics in the 17th–18th centuries, opposed to ultramontanism and advocating obedience to secular authorities and dogmatic views similar to Jansenism.


Marianist

And Catholic Marianists, for their part, have looked for ultimate authority instead in the miraculous realm of mystical visions and end-time prophecy. Mainly because of their passionate commitment to anti-abortion activism, Catholic conservatives have thus far wielded a far greater public presence than either separatists or Marianists.

1999, Michael W. Cuneo, The Smoke of Satan, JHU Press, →ISBN, page 179:

(Roman Catholicism) A member of the Society of Mary, a congregation of Roman Catholic brothers and priests who look to the Virgin Mary as a model of faith and spirituality.


archconfraternity

/ˌɑː(ɹ)t͡ʃˌkɒnfɹəˈtɜː(ɹ)nɪti/

From arch- + confraternity, calque of Ecclesiastical Latin archiconfrāternitās.

calque

(Roman Catholicism) A religious confraternity that, as a special concession of the Holy See, can join or affiliate with, and extend privileges to, other similar brotherhoods.

arciconfraternita

religious confraternity that can join with and extend privileges to other similar brotherhoods


manteletta

(Roman Catholicism) A long silk or woollen vestment, fastened in front, with a low collar and no sleeves, worn by cardinals, bishops, abbots, and the prelates of the Roman court.


material heresy

en-noun

material heresy (plural material heresies)

Calque of Ecclesiastical Latin haeresis māteriālis.

calque

Coordinate term: formal heresy

(Roman Catholicism) An opinion that is objectively contradictory to the teachings of the Church, and as such heretical, but which is uttered by a person without the subjective knowledge of it being so.


prozymite

prozymites (plural)
Prozymite (alternative)

Borrowed from German Prozymit, from Medieval Latin prozymīta, from Byzantine Greek προζυμίτης (prozumítēs), from Ancient Greek προζύμιον (prozúmion, “leaven”) + -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs, suffix forming masculine nouns meaning being connected to or a member of something, or coming from a particular place). προζύμιον is derived from προ- (pro-, suffix meaning ‘before, in front’) + ζύμη (zúmē, “leaven, yeast”) + -ιον (-ion, suffix forming nouns). The English word is analysable as, by surface analysis, pro- + zym- + -ite.

der

Whosever shall obstinately blame the faith of the Holy See of Rome and its sacrifices, let him be anathema, and let him not be deemed Catholic, but a prozymite heretic, that is to say, Defender of the Leaven.

1867, [Alexis-François] Artaud de Montor, “153. St. Leo IX.—a.d. 1049.”, in [William Hayes] Neligan, editor, The Lives and Times of the Roman Pontiffs, from St. Peter to Pius IX. … Translated from the French, New York, N.Y.: Published by D[enis] & J[ames] Sadlier & Co., […], →OCLC, pages 284–285:

The inclusion not only of [Michael I] Cerularius, but of all his followers, and the denunciation of the Greeks as prozymite heretics, does look like a condemnation of the whole Byzantine church until it should change its practices.

1989, Colin Morris, “Greeks and Saracens”, in The Papal Monarchy: The Western Church from 1050 to 1250 (Oxford History of the Christian Church), Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 2001, →ISBN, part I (The Papal Reform Movement and the Conflict with the Empire (c. 1046–1122), page 139:

For example, Greeks using leavened bread for the consecration, were in opposition with the unleavened bread of the Latin Church, and stigmatised as fermentarians or prozymites.

2014, Hara Procopiou, “Barley Meal Processing in the Aegean World: A Look at Diversity”, in Annelou van Gijn, John C. Whittaker, Patricia C. Anderson, editors, Exploring and Explaining Diversity in Agricultural Technology (Early Agricultural Remnants and Technical Heritage (EARTH); 2), Oxford, Havertown, Pa.: Oxbow Books, →ISBN, section 2 (The Agricultural Process: Tools and Techniques in Cultural Context):

Eastern Orthodox Church
Eastern Orthodox Church

(Roman Catholicism, historical, derogatory) One who administers the Eucharist with leavened bread, in particular a member of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

Prozymit

one who administers the Eucharist with leavened bread


First Communion

en-noun

First Communion (plural First Communions)

(Roman Catholicism) The first time that a person, usually a child, receives the sacrament of Communion.

Erstkommunion

first time that a person receives the sacrament of Communion

(Roman Catholicism) The celebration of the former, consisting of a solemn mass and generally a following private party.

Erstkommunion

celebration consisting of a mass and a party


protopriest

(Roman Catholicism) The first cardinal priest in the order of precedence in the College of Cardinals, who has the honour of pronouncing the formal prayer for the new pope at the papal inauguration.


S.J.

SJ (alternative)
S. J. (alternative)
SI (alternative)
S.I. (alternative)
S. I. (alternative)
SJ (alternative)
S. J. (alternative)

Society of Jesus
Society of Jesus#English

(Roman Catholicism) Abbreviation of Society of Jesus. (the Jesuits)


vicar forane

Borrowed from Latin vicārius forāneus. See forane.

(Roman Catholicism) A priest entrusted by the bishop with a certain degree of leadership in a territorial division of a diocese or a pastoral region.


patriarchal church

patriarchal church (plural patriarchal churches)

(Roman Catholicism) A church in Rome that previously served as the seat for one of the 5 patriarchs during visits to the city, St John Lateran, St Peter’s, St Paul’s outside the Walls, St Mary Major’s, and St Lawrence’s outside the Walls.


Canon

* As an English, Scottish, and Irish surname, variant of Cannon.
* As a French topographical surname, from placenames derived from canne (“reed, cane, tube”).
* As a Chaldean/Chaldean Neo-Aramaic surname, variant of Kanon, Kanoun, from [script needed] (Kānūn), the Classical Syriac name of the ninth and tenth months of the Assyrian calendar, from ܟܢܘܢ ܒ.

(Roman Catholicism, with definite article) The Canon of the Mass.


St. Francis

Saint Francis (alternative)
Saint-Francis (alternative)
St-Francis (alternative)
St.-Francis (alternative)
St Francis (alternative)

St. Francis be my ſpeed, how oft to night / Haue my old feet ſtumbled at graues?

c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii], page 76:

(Roman Catholicism) Saint Francis of Assisi

Any of several saints
Saint Francis of Assisi


Pornocracy

Monsters of impurity, avaricious wretches, poisoners, have occupied the papal see. A learned bishop (Maret of the General Council) expresses himself with holy indignation in reference to the frightful enormities of the tenth century. This epoch deserves to be designated under the title of the Pornocracy; that is to say, the governmentof prostitutes, for Theodora, Marozia, and other ladies of rank at that time, placed on the pontifical throne their paramours and their sons, who were no better than themselves.

1870 July, Jean-Henri Merle d’Aubigné, “Art. VII.—Dr Merle D’Aubigne on the Council and Infallibility. The Council and Infallibility: An Address Delivered at Geneva, 10th December 1869, by M. Merle D’Aubigne, D.D. Paris: Michel Levy, 1870.”, in The British and Foreign Evangelical Review, volume XIX, number LXXIII, London: James Nisbet & Co., Berners Street; Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, →OCLC, page 591:

(Roman Catholicism, historical) Alternative letter-case form of pornocracy.


Sunday obligation

(Christianity, chiefly Roman Catholicism) the obligation to attend a church service (mass) on Sundays; failing to fulfil this obligation without excuse constitutes a grave sin


Febronianism

Derived from the pseudonym Justinus Febronius adopted by Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, coadjutor bishop of Trier, in publishing his book De statu ecclesiae et legitima potestae Romani pontificis; + -ism.

Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholic Church

(Roman Catholicism, historical) A powerful movement within the Roman Catholic Church in Germany in the latter part of the 18th century, directed towards the nationalizing of Catholicism, the restriction of the power of the papacy in favour of that of the episcopate, and the reunion of the dissident churches with Catholic Christendom.


in partibus infidelium

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin in partibus īnfidēlium (literally “in the regions of the infidels”), so named because such bishops were assigned sees corresponding to territories that had passed under the control of other religions, and so did not imply a duty of residence or diocesan responsibilities.

bor+

in partibus (alternative)
i.p.i. (alternative)

(Roman Catholicism, historical, postpositive) Of a bishop or see: merely titular, without regular jurisdiction, and serving to assist some other bishop or to act as delegates of the pope where no hierarchy had yet been established.


coredemptrix

Mary's involvement in salvation was said to make her coredemptrix along with Christ.

2001, “Mariology”, in Walter A. Elwell, editor, Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, Baker Academic, →ISBN, page 736:

(chiefly Roman Catholicism) A female coredeemer.


His Eminence

(Roman Catholicism) An honorific style for a cardinal


pre-scrutiny

(Roman Catholicism) In electing a pope, the phase before scrutiny, during which ballot papers are prepared and scrutineers are selected.


Canon of the Mass

(Roman Catholicism) The oldest anaphora used in the Roman rite of Mass.


parish priest

(Roman Catholicism) The main priest serving a parish.


Reminiscere Sunday

From Latin Reminiscere (“Remember!”), the beginning of the introit of the day's mass, traditionally drawn from Latin translations of Psalm 25.

(Roman Catholicism) The second Sunday in Lent.


Oculi Sunday

From Latin oculi (“eyes”), from the 1st word of the introit of the day's mass, traditionally a Latin translation of Psalm 25:15.

(Roman Catholicism) The third Sunday in Lent.


dry mass

From dry + mass. In the liturgical sense, a calque of Ecclesiastical Latin missa sicca.

calque

Alongside the mass as a means of providing access to the consecrated elements, there is the oddity of the holding of masses without any consecration. These ‘dry masses’ are one of the more shadowy elements of medieval devotion, ill-documented and little considered.

1995, Robert N. Swanson, Religion and Devotion in Europe, c.1215–c.1515, page 139:

(Roman Catholicism, historical) A demonstrative celebration of most of the liturgy of the Mass, omitting the consecration of the elements.


Novus Ordo

/ˈnɒ.vəs ˈɔːdəʊ/

/ˈnəʊ.vəs ˈɔːdəʊ/

Ellipsis of Ecclesiastical Latin Novus Ordō Missae (“New Order of the Mass”).

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A Catholic may consider the Novus Ordo banal, but he may not proclaim that the new rite is invalid.

2004, Michael Daniel, “What Constitutes a Valid Consecration?”, in CatholicCulture.org:

[…] the material in the interview indicated to me that he’s celebrating a Novus Ordo Mass in Latin.

2006, The Catholic World Report, volume 16:

I’ve heard many make the case that the Novus Ordo actually more closely resembles the Mass of the first 1000 years of Church history than the recent practice of the Tridentine (Latin) Masses. Surely Jesus didn’t speak Latin at the Last Supper. But many others point out that what has become of the Novus Ordo Mass was not what was originally intended either.

2019, Matthew Warner, “Which is Better: Latin Mass or Novus Ordo?”, in National Catholic Register:

(Roman Catholicism) The version of the Roman Rite of the Mass established in 1969, the Mass of Paul VI, usually celebrated in a vernacular language.


Roman Canon

(Roman Catholicism) The Canon of the Mass, the oldest anaphora of the Roman rite of the Mass.


Gelasian dyarchy

Father Murray is concerned to restate the Gelasian dyarchy in democratic terms.

1953, Religion in Life, volume 23, page 178:

Between secularists and anticlericals who would subject the Church to the state or entirely separate the institutions, and fanatical medievalists and curialists who would, against all reasonable hope, cling to their own inaccurate versions of theocracy, the pope steered a middle course that recalled the Gelasian dyarchy.

1962, Newman C. Eberhardt, A Summary of Catholic History, volume 2, page 161:

Determining the popes’ view of the relationship between church and state was their interpretation of “the Gelasian dyarchy,” the ancient papal teaching that “this world is ruled by two powers.”

2004, Robert Krieg, Catholic Theologians in Nazi Germany, →ISBN, page 18:

(Roman Catholicism, politics) The doctrine, traced back to Pope Gelasius I, that there are two authorities governing human affairs, the spiritual authority of the church and the temporal authority of the empire or secular government.


two swords

Allegorical interpretation of Luke 22:38, “Behold, here are two swords”.

The most clear-cut definition of the Pope's possession of the two swords was given in Boniface VIII’s famous bull Unam Sanctam, which stressed the unity of Christendom under its single head.

1952, C. W. Previté-Orton, The Shorter Cambridge Medieval History, volume 2, page 943:

[…] the dispute between the two swords cut deep into the countryside in ways that the authors of ecclesiastical and revolutionary policy neither intended nor anticipated.

2004, Matthew Butler, Popular Piety and Political Identity in Mexico's Cristero Rebellion: Michoacán, 1927–29, →ISBN, page 3:

In the crusader theology, the two swords were totally united and not divided as Bernard would have it.

2009, Peter Lodberg, Religion, Politics, and Law, →ISBN, page 146:

(chiefly history, Roman Catholicism) Spiritual and temporal power, church and state.


formal heresy

Calque of Ecclesiastical Latin haeresis fōrmālis.

calque

Coordinate term: material heresy

(Roman Catholicism) The teaching or expression of an opinion in the conscious knowledge that it is contradictory to the teachings of the Church, and as such heretical.


Camaldolese

From Italian camaldolese, from Camaldoli + -ese. The order was founded by Sain Romuald around 1012 in Camaldoli, Tuscany, Italy.

(Roman Catholicism) Pertaining to the Camaldolese Order of Italy.


Camaldolese

(Roman Catholicism) A monk or nun belonging to the Camaldolese Order of Italy.

camaldolese

mon or nun belonging to the Camaldolese Order


Iotaba

From Latin Iotaba, from Ancient Greek Ἰωτάβη (Iōtábē).

Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholic Church#English

(Roman Catholicism) A titular see in Tiran, Palestina, Roman Catholic Church (located on the island)


advocatrix

From Latin advocātrīx, from advocāre (“advocate”) + -trīx (“-ess”, forming feminine agent nouns), from ad- (“to, toward, on behalf of”) + vocāre (“speak”). By surface analysis, advocate + -trix.

(chiefly Roman Catholicism) A female advocate, especially as a title of Mary, mother of Jesus.


Poor Clares

From the order's namesake Saint Clare and its vows of poverty.

(Roman Catholicism) The Order of Saint Clare.


provicar

/pɹəʊˈvɪkə(ɹ)/

(Roman Catholicism) The deputy of a vicar apostolic.


collectarium

/ˌkɒˌlɛkˈtɛəɹi.əm/

(Roman Catholicism) A book that contains the collects (type of prayer).


plenary indulgence

en-noun

plenary indulgence (plural plenary indulgences)

From plenary + indulgence, a calque of Ecclesiastical Latin indulgentia plēnāria.

calque

(Roman Catholicism) An indulgence that remits all of a person’s sins, and thus the whole of their time in purgatory.


partial indulgence

en-noun

partial indulgence (plural partial indulgences)

From partial + indulgence, a calque of Ecclesiastical Latin indulgentia partiālis.

calque

(Roman Catholicism) An indulgence that remits part of a person’s sins, and thus part of their time in purgatory.


Introibo

/ˈɪntɹəʊiːbəʊ/

From Ecclesiastical Latin introībō ad altāre Deī (“I shall go in towards the altar of God”), the first line spoken.

bor

At the Introibo he noticed at his right, as usual, his guardian angel, who acted as the angel mentioned by St. John in the Apocalypse, standing before the altar and bearing a golden censer.

1959, Henri Béchard, The Visions of Bernard Francis de Hoyos, S.J.: Apostle of the Sacred Heart in Spain, a Biography, page 72:

In place of the humble but hopeful supplication of the Introibo, we have the narcissistic, desperate anguish of 1, punctuated by a blues refrain in the key of death and loss, drunkenness, violence, and sexuality.

1964, John William Corrington, The Anatomy of Love and Other Poems, page 9:

As imposing and plump as Buck Mulligan standing on top of a spiral stairway whilst intoning an “Introibo”, his slowly magnifying body brings to mind a purplish balloon, of a sort that you might buy for your child in Parc Montsouris.

1994, Georges Perec, translated by Gilbert Adair, A Void, page 273:

(Roman Catholicism) The prayers spoken by the priest at the foot of the altar at the start of a Tridentine Mass.


Precious Blood

Calque of Ecclesiastical Latin pretiōsus sanguis.

calque

As the month of May is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, and the month of June to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, so the present month is dedicated to the Precious Blood.

1885, “The Precious Blood”, in Franciscan Annals, volume 9, number 103, page 193:

This was almost a parody of the procession conducted by Henry III when he took the Precious Blood to the raised shrine of Edward the Confessor.

2003, Valerie I. J. Flint, “Conversion and Compromise in Thirteenth-Century England”, in Kenneth Mills, Anthony Grafton, editors, Conversion: Old Worlds and New, →ISBN, page 19:

His palms were anointed with chrism and the oil of catechumens; he alone among laymen could now handle the chalice and drink of the Precious Blood at Mass.

2010, Elena Maria Vidal, Madame Royale: A Novel, →ISBN, page 253:

(Roman Catholicism) The blood of Jesus Christ, especially in the form it is believed to take in the consecrated wine of the Eucharist.


Extraordinary Form

the Extraordinary Form (canonical)
extraordinary form (alternative)

Calque of Ecclesiastical Latin forma extraordinaria, coined by Benedict XVI in 2007 in Summorum pontificum, which referred to the Tridentine Mass as the extraordinary form of the Roman Rite.

As noted above, communities adhering to the extraordinary form follow the calendar in force in 1962.

2013, The Liturgy Documents: Supplemental Documents for Parish Worship, Devotions, Formation and Catechesis, volume 4, page 642:

But what about the Extraordinary Form? How is the Traditional liturgy enriched by the New Mass?

2017, Matthew Arnold, Confessions of a Traditional Catholic, page 173:

It needs to be admitted that Benedict XVI, in his letter to bishops accompanying the motu proprio, also noted something not asserted in prior documents, namely, that many young people are attracted to the Extraordinary Form and should not be denied its celebration.

2018, Kevin M. Irwin, Context and Text: A Method for Liturgical Theology, revised edition:

(Roman Catholicism) The Tridentine liturgy according to the rubrics in force shortly before the Second Vatican Council.


Ordinary Form

Back-formation from Extraordinary Form; see there for more.

(Roman Catholicism) The version of the Roman Rite introduced after the Second Vatican Council, usually celebrated in the vernacular.


personal ordinariate

en-noun

personal ordinariate (plural personal ordinariates)

From ordinariate, the office or jurisdiction of a church ordinary; personal by analogy with personal prelature, implying that members are part of the ordinariate as individual persons, rather than because they live in a particular diocesan territory.

(Roman Catholicism) A canonical structure equivalent to a diocese, administered by an ordinary and providing for the pastoral needs of former Anglicans who have joined the Catholic Church.


Ordinariate

Indeed, only former Anglicans can offer themselves for priestly formation in the Ordinariate (art. 10 §4).

2013, Gerard Mannion, “A (Strange) Sort of Homecoming?”, in Martyn Percy, Robert Boak Slocum, editors, Point of Balance: The Weight and Measure of Anglicanism, page 116:

[…] the recently promulgated Missal for Ordinariate usage, under the title Divine Worship, represents a momentous development in the history of Catholic worship […]

2018, Clinton Allen Brand, “Very Members Incorporate: Reflections on the Sacral Language of Divine Worship”, in Uwe Michael Lang, editor, The Fullness of Divine Worship: The Sacred Liturgy and its Renewal, page 197:

But membership growth of this kind is limited, and many of the parochial communities of the Ordinariate have not yet achieved the sufficient size and stability necessary for long-term sustainability.

2021, Timothy P. Perkins, “The evangelizing mission of the Ordinariate”, in Tracey Rowland, editor, The Anglican Patrimony in Catholic Communion: The Gift of the Ordinariates, page 65:

personal ordinariate
personal ordinariate

(Roman Catholicism) The personal ordinariates established in 2011–12 for Anglicans entering the Catholic Church, considered as a collective.


ghostly father

My ghostly fader, I me confesse,
First to God and then to you,
That at a window,—wot ye how?—

c. 1415-1440 (date written), Charles, Duke of Orléans, reproduced by E. K. Chambers, Early English Lyrics: Amorous, Divine, Moral and Trivial (1907), p. 31

Now will I to my Ghostly fathers Cell, / His Help to craue, and my good hap to tell.

c. 1591–1595 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] Romeo and Juliet. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Iohn Danter, published 1597, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:

Therfore I saye, that a general confession only in saying to a Ghostly Father, I am a sinner without specifying the deadly sinnes in particular, is no sufficient knowledge for the Ghostly Father to iudge rightly of euery sinner, that demandeth absolution of him, whose sinnes are to be remitted, and whose sinnes are to be retained.

1625, Louis of Granada, translated by Richard Hopkins, A Memoriall of a Christian Life […] , page 184:

About the latter End of January, 1676, Thomas Thwing, a Priest, and William Rushton, another Popish Priest, who was my ghostly Father, came to my House at Shippon Hall, in Yorkshire […]

1680, The Papists bloody Oath of Secrecy […] ; republished as Samuel Johnson, William Oldys, editors, The Harleian Miscellany […] , volume 7, 1746, page 274:

The second remedy is frequent confession to a discreet ghostly father.

1741, Charles Gobinet, The Instruction of Youth in Christian Piety […] , volume 1, page 172:

(obsolete, Roman Catholicism) confessor (priest who hears one’s confessions)


Oratory

(Roman Catholicism) The Oratory of Saint Philip Neri, a society of priests and lay brothers founded in 1575.


prince-primate

prince-primate (plural prince-primates or princes-primate)

prince-primates (plural)
princes-primate (plural)
prince primate (alternative)

From prince + primate, a calque of German Fürstprimas. In the case of the archbishop of Esztergom, the title derived from his status as primate of Hungary and a prince of the Holy Roman Empire from 1715.

vorst-primaat

Soon, on the right, appears the cathedral of Grann [Esztergom], a miniature of St. Peter’s, in something like red porphyry, built within this century by the prince-primates, at their own private expense […]

1884, John Fallon, “From Passau to Pesth, along the Danube. Part II”, in The Irish Monthly, volume 12, page 453:

These factors may have convinced Pope Pius XII to pass over other figures in the Hungarian Church and select Mindszenty in August 1945 to be cardinal at Esztergom and thus prince-primate of Hungary.

2006, Paul Hanebrink, In Defense of Christian Hungary: Religion, Nationalism, and Antisemitism, 1890–1944, →ISBN, page 228:

(Roman Catholicism, historical) An honorary title given to an especially prominent archbishop with certain secular prerogatives, in particular:

The act of the Confederation also seemed to hold forth some hope that the new federation might develop a growing community of its German member states. Apart from the presidency of the prince-primate, it mentioned the establishment of two colleges, those of the kings and princes.

1964, Hajo Holborn, A History of Modern Germany, 1648–1840, page 371:

Confederation of the Rhine
Confederation of the Rhine

The prince-primate of the Napoleonic Confederation of the Rhine, Karl von Dalberg.


Neocatechumenal

Borrowed from Spanish Neocatecumenal, equivalent to neo- + catechumenal.

In short, the ritual life of a Neocatechumenal community consists of at least two liturgical events per week.

2007, Goran Pavel Šantek, “Becoming Sacred: The Use of the Body in Identity Transformation”, in Senses and Religion, →ISBN, page 76:

(Roman Catholicism) Of or pertaining to the Neocatechumenal Way, a community-based Catholic movement founded in Madrid in 1964.


Döllingerism

It will be only under the pressure of hard necessity that Döllingerism will ever consent to regard itself as a German sect.

1872 August 10, “Döllinger at the Munich Jubilee”, in The Spectator, volume 45, number 2302, page 1006:

There is nothing new in Döllingerism. It is the old story, as old as human shame and sin, of the vanity which is a law to itself, and the pride which will not stoop to obey.

1874, Thomas William Marshall, Protestant Journalism, page 156:

The Vatican Council, through its definition of the doctrine of Papal Infallibility, had stirred up a muddy undercurrent of heretical and schismatic feeling among certain elements of the intellectuals, and Döllingerism was quite rampant, particularly in university sections.

1933, Celestine N. Bittle, A Romance of Lady Poverty: The History of the Province of St. Joseph of the Capuchin Order in the United States, page 224:

(Roman Catholicism, dated) Support for Ignaz von Döllinger, a 19th-century German Catholic theologian who rejected papal infallibility.


Salve Regina

Borrowed from Latin salvē rēgīna (“hail, queen”), the opening of the prayer in that language.

bor+

The fifth remark is, that any person who cannot read or hear the Novena read, can make it by saying every day five Salve Reginas and five Ave Marias, saying first an act of contrition, and observing as far as possible the directions here given.

1852, A Novena in Honour of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel […], page 7:

(Roman Catholicism) A hymn to the Virgin Mary, one of the Marian antiphons, also prayed as part of the rosary.


Cisalpine

The adjective is derived from cisalpine (“on this side of the Alps (chiefly the south side where Rome is located)”). Sense 2 (“of or pertaining to cisalpinism”) was popularized by the Cisalpine Club which was founded in England in 1792.
The noun is derived from the adjective.

They [volume XIII of the works of Henri François d'Aguesseau] shew the conflict between the cisalpine and transalpine opinions on papal power, so late as the reign of Lewis XIV, and the great difficulty, by which, even at that period, the former obtained the ascendant.

1821, Charles Butler, “The English Jesuits—Father [Robert] Persons”, in Additions to the Historical Memoirs Respecting the English, Irish, and Scottish Catholics, from the Reformation to the Present Time, volume III, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, footnote *, page 157:

[N]ot being swayed by the spirit of either the ultramontane or the cisalpine school, by impracticable philosophical Jansenism, by abominable, gross, and hypocritical Jesuitism, nor by a collection of irrelevant doctrines based on contested principles, let us fix the following ones, which are essential......

1845 June, “Art. IV.—1. Revelations of Spain, in 1845. By an English Resident, 2 vols. 8vo. London: 1845. Colburn. […] [book reviews]”, in The Dublin Review, volume XVIII, number XXXVI, London; Dublin: Thomas Richardson and Son [et al.], →OCLC, page 403:

Within the first decades of the Sixteenth Century the University of Padua had secured a primacy in Europe which was to last for close upon three hundred years. […] [T]he academic pilgrimage, […] had become a daily, crowded transaction, in which the newcomers, no longer strangers and pilgrims, but fellow-citizens indeed, met the Cisalpine students on equal terms. As jurists or artists they were incorporated according to their place of origin into one or other of the Ultramontane "nations," each of which possessed its statutory rights and customs and shared in the administration of university business and in the privileges which the City-Commune was always eager to bestow.

1923 October–December, Leonard Penlock, “Cardinal Pole and His Friends at Padua”, in The Dublin Review, volume 173, number 347, London: Burns Oates & Washbourne, →OCLC, page 210:

One of the best arguments for the Anglican position can be found in Gallican or Cisalpine Catholicism, whose roots go back to Roman Gaul but whose branches stem from the Port-Royal movement of the 17th century.

1945 August 26, Norman B. Godfrey, “Letters [Cisalpine Catholicism]”, in Clifford P[helps] Morehouse, editor, The Living Church: A Weekly Record of the News, the Work, and the Thought of the Episcopal Church, volume CXI, number 9, Milwaukee, Wis.: Morehouse-Gorham Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 2:

[T]he "Constitutions of Narbonne" […] detailed further measures for governance in a collegial spirit by establishing a fixed triennial interval for the convening of general chapters and instated alternating locations for chapter meetings, oscillating between cisalpine and ultramontane provinces.

2014, Nicholas W. Youmans, “Non sic erit inter frateres. Internal Structures of Obedience in Early Minorite Relational Constructs”, in Mirko Breitenstein, Julia Burkhardt, Stefan Burkhardt, Jens Röhrkasten, editors, Rules and Observance: Devising Forms of Communal Life (Vita Regularis: Ordnungen und Deutungen religiosen Lebens im Mittelalter [Ordered Life: Orders and Interpretations of Religious Life in the Middle Ages]; treatise 60), Berlin: LIT Verlag, →ISBN, part I (Creation of Norms), page 35:

Synonym of Gallican (“of or pertaining to Gallicanism (“the doctrine that the church of France is autonomous, especially in relation to the pope”)”)

Gallican

In pointing to some of these excesses on both sides, I have it not in contemplation to canvass, argue or even to refute errors either ultramontane or cisalpine, but merely to secure to myself a tenable position, […]

1824, Francis Plowden, “Of Tithes and Other Church Property”, in Human Subordination: Being an Elementary Disquisition Concerning the Civil and Spiritual Power and Authority, to which the Creator Requires the Submission of Every Human Being. […], Paris: Printed by J. Smith, […], and published by W[illiam] Simpkin and R[ichard] Marshall, […], →OCLC, page 72:

Lord Stourton [i.e., Charles Stourton, 17th Baron Stourton] had declined to join the Cisalpine Club, which consisted of men opposed to what they considered the excessive claims of an ultramontane section, but he remained a supporter of the views held by the dissolved Catholic Committee; […]

1936 May, Joscelyne Lechmere, “A Great Catholic Historian. John, Cardinal Lingard, 1771–1851”, in The Ecclesiastical Review: Monthly Publication for the Clergy, volume IV (10th series; volume XCIV overall), number 5, Philadelphia, Pa.: Board of Trustees of the American Ecclesiastical Review for the Catholic University of America, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 474:

(UK) Of or pertaining to cisalpinism (“a movement in 18th–19th century Britain among Roman Catholics which took the view that allegiance to the Crown was compatible with allegiance to the pope, and that Roman Catholics should be emancipated from various legal restrictions”).

Cæsar had by this time nearly 30,000 men. The Cisalpine territories in mere enthusiasm had raised twenty-two cohorts for him.

1879, James Anthony Froude, chapter XXI, in Cæsar: A Sketch, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 356:

Yes, 'tis old Gallus owns the heritage / Seen on the side of yon Cisalpine slope; / The homestead with the spreading pine for cope, / The thatched roof covers but a single stage.

1927, José-Maria de Heredia, “Villula”, in Merle St. Croix Wright, transl., Translations from José-Maria de Heredia, New York, N.Y.: Harold Vinal, →OCLC, page 49:

The antiquarian [Marcus Terentius] Varro, quoting Cato [the Elder], says that the Insubres grew pigs so fat that they could barely stand, and both Polybius and Strabo say that Cisalpine pork fed all Italy. Strabo further says […] that the viticulture there was so prosperous that Cisalpine wine casks were as big as houses.

2018, Carolynn E[lizabeth] Roncaglia, “The Roman Conquest”, in Northern Italy in the Roman World: From the Bronze Age to Late Antiquity, Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, Part I (The Creation of Northern Italy), page 23:

Alternative letter-case form of cisalpine (“on this side of the Alps (chiefly the south side where Rome is located)”)


Cisalpine

Synonym of Gallican (“an adherent to, and supporter of, Gallicanism”)

Gallican

Some of the Cisalpines carried their opposition to the monastic orders so far as to be very unfriendly to the French émigrées nuns, for whose expulsion from England Sir J. Mildmay introduced a Bill in 1800.

1897, Wilfrid Ward, The Life and Times of Cardinal Wiseman, 2nd edition, volume 1, page 203, note 1:

But the Cisalpines began to be overshadowed by the ultramontane spirit in the 1830s, and it was not until after the Second Vatican Council a hundred and thirty years later that English Roman Catholics again asked themselves whether they were primarily English or primarily Roman.

1992, D[enis] G. Paz, Popular Anti-Catholicism in Mid-Victorian England, →ISBN, page 83:

Just as with the Blackloists and Jansenists (and perhaps even more so), suspicion of the supernatural came to characterize the Cisalpines, although this time it had little to do with their doctrine of grace and more to do with the Cisalpines’ desire to make Catholicism comprehensible to a sceptical age.

2013, Francis Young, English Catholics and the Supernatural, 1553–1829, →ISBN:

(UK) In 18th–19th century Britain, a Roman Catholic opponent of ultramontanism and advocate of Catholic emancipation through compromise and obedience to secular authorities.


TLM

en-noun

TLM (countable and uncountable, plural TLMs)

Traditional Latin Mass
Traditional Latin Mass#English

(Roman Catholicism) Initialism of Traditional Latin Mass.


Traditional Latin Mass

the Traditional Latin Mass (canonical)
TLM (alternative initialism)

Then, on July 7, 2007, Benedict XVI promulgated his motu proprio Summorum Pontificum, generally liberating the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass.

2017, Matthew Arnold, Confessions of a Traditional Catholic, page 157:

(Roman Catholicism) The form of the Roman Rite Mass that was general before the Second Vatican Council, celebrated in the Latin language and now typically according to texts promulgated in 1962 (the Extraordinary Form).


Traditional Latin Mass

Traditional Latin Mass (plural Traditional Latin Masses)

Traditional Latin Masses (plural)
TLM (alternative initialism)

In one case, in August 2022, one particular Chicago parish which typically celebrated Traditional Latin Masses, stated that they would suspend all public Masses because they would not adhere to Pope Francis’s new guidelines on the subject.

2023, John Trigilio et al., Catholicism All-in-One for Dummies, →ISBN, page 283:

(Roman Catholicism) A Mass celebrated in this form.


Counter-Reformer

Counter-Reformers (plural)
counterreformer (alternative)
Counterreformer (alternative)
counter-reformer (alternative)

From Counter- + Reform + -er or Counter- + Reformer.

(Roman Catholicism, historical) A proponent of the Counter-Reformation.


crusade bull

crusade bulls (plural)
Bull of the Crusade (alternative)

(historical, Roman Catholicism) A papal bull providing indulgences, dispensations from certain religious obligations, and absolution from certain ecclesiastical censures for the participants in a crusade, including those making donations for the cause.

bulle de la sainte croisade

bull providing indulgences, etc., for participants in a crusade


Paschal Triduum

Learned borrowing from Latin Trīduum Paschāle.

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The Triduum was seen more as a preparation for Easter than as embracing Easter, more as a Triduum of the Passion than as the Paschal Triduum

1995, Roger Greenacre, Jeremy Haselock, The Sacrament of Easter, Gracewing, page 105:

The high point of the entire liturgical year is the Paschal Triduum, which begins on Holy Thursday evening and lasts until Easter Sunday evening. The Paschal Triduum celebrates the paschal mystery of Jesus Christ, who dying has destroyed our death, and by rising restored our life.

2015, Mark G. Boyer, The Liturgical Environment, 3rd edition, Liturgical Press, page 262:

2020, Christopher Carstens, Principles of Sacred Liturgy, Liturgy Training Publications (Hillenbrand Books), page 202,
The three-day Paschal Triduum is its own season and is the center of the sacramental year. The Easter season follows the Paschal Triduum and concludes with Pentecost.

(Roman Catholicism) A period of three days that begins with the liturgy on the evening of Maundy Thursday.


magisteriology

These studies have not pointed out these errors and inadequacies in order to discredit the hierarchical magisterium but rather to make possible a realistic magisteriology that will properly reflect the true nature of the teaching and witnessing of the Church.

1970, Charles E. Curran, Robert E. Hunt, Dissent in and for the Church: Theologians and Humanae Vitae, page 66:

It is also a necessary corrective today for the absolute tutiorism [rigorism] implicit in much of the oracular magisteriology which still abides at every level of the church.

1980, Daniel C. Maguire, “The Encyclopedia of Bioethics”, in Theological Studies, volume 41, number 4, →DOI, page 757:

Here was the clearest statement yet of the “Magisteriology” of the dissenting theologians: the teaching of Humanae Vitae was not in fact morally binding, and it was the great task of theologians to help ordinary laypeople to understand this.

2015, Peter M. Mitchell, The Coup at Catholic University: The 1968 Revolution in American Catholic Education, →ISBN:

(Roman Catholicism, rare) Theology of the magisterium, i.e. the teaching authority of the church. More precisely the study of how to interpret the teachings of the church.


offensive to pious ears

Calque of Ecclesiastical Latin piārum aurium offēnsīvus.

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And Bishop Ullathorne concluded by condemning the journal as “containing propositions which are respectively subversive of the faith, heretical, approaching to heresy, erroneous, derogatory to the teaching of the Church, and offensive to pious ears.”

1910, William John Sparrow-Simpson, Roman Catholic Opposition to Papal Infallibility, page 121:

It is therefore impossible from Exsurge Domine alone to determine whether proposition 36 is condemned as heretical or merely as “offensive to pious ears.”

1969, Harry J. McSorley, Luther: Right or Wrong? An Ecumenical-Theological Study of Luther’s Major Work, The Bondage of the Will, page 252:

An investigatory commission in Oxford in 1378 declared that some of Wycliffe’s criticism were not incorrect in se but could be offensive to pious ears.

2009, Christopher M. Bellitto, “The Reform Context of the Great Western Schism”, in Joëlle Rollo-Koster, Thomas M. Izbicki, editors, A Companion to the Great Western Schism (1378–1417), →ISBN, page 317:

(Roman Catholicism) Describing a doctrine or proposition that is not heretical, but formulated improperly or ambiguously and hence liable to cause scandal. A formal censure.


menologium

en-noun

menologium (plural menologiums or menologia)

menologiums (plural)
menologia (plural)
Menologium (alternative)

From Medieval Latin mēnologium, from Ancient and Byzantine Greek μηνολόγιον (mēnológion), from μήν (mḗn, “month”) + λόγιον (lógion, “writing, record, announcement”), itself from λόγος (lógos, “writing, recording”). Doublet of menologion, menologe, and menology.

ménologe

a monthly list of information, particularly in Christian contexts

menology

chiefly Mesopotamian contexts or inexact

A calendar of the days of the month or of all the days of the year divided by month, particularly as a table of information divided in this way and

(Roman Catholicism, often capitalized) A work providing biographies of uncanonized members of a religious order in similar style to a martyrology, frequently read within the order but forbidden for use with the liturgy itself.

(Roman Catholicism, uncommon, often capitalized) Synonym of martyrology, a hagiography of Catholic saints.


father confessor

en-noun

father confessor (plural father confessors)

(Roman Catholicism) A priest who hears confession and then gives absolution.


Memorare

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin memorāre (“remember”, imperative), from the opening of the prayer in Latin, “Memorare, O piissima Virgo Maria …”.

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With this in mind, the second part of the Memorare is the prayer of one who is aware of his or her sin and unworthiness and humbly seeks the mother’s mercy, prayers, and intercession.

2002, María Ruiz Scaperlanda, The Seeker’s Guide to Mary, →ISBN, page 157:

(Roman Catholicism) A prayer for the intercession of the Virgin Mary, beginning in English, “Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary …”


Bogus Ordo

(Roman Catholicism, slang, derogatory) Synonym of Novus Ordo.


holy year

(Roman Catholicism) Synonym of jubilee (“special year in which plenary indulgences and remission from sin can be granted”)


undern-song

(chiefly Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, dated, obsolete) Synonym of terce (“the service appointed for the third hour of daylight”)


star-cover

(Eastern Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism) Synonym of asterisk (“An instrument with radiating arms resembling a star which is placed over the diskos”).


apostolic exhortation

en-noun

apostolic exhortation (plural apostolic exhortations)

(Roman Catholicism) A magisterial document written by the pope.


apostolic letter

apostolic letter (plural apostolic letters)

(Roman Catholicism) An ecclesiastical letter issued by the pope.


apostolic constitution

apostolic constitution (plural apostolic constitutions)

(Roman Catholicism) The most solemn form of legislation issued by the pope.


camerlingate

(Roman Catholicism) The dignity of the camerlengo (cardinal who presides over the Apostolic Chamber in pontifical interregnum).

(Roman Catholicism) period, between the death of a pontiff and the election of his successor, in which a camerlengo is in charge of governing the Church in the administrative field.


College of Cardinals

(Roman Catholicism) The body of all cardinals of the Catholic Church.


conclaved

konklaaviin osallistuva

participating in a closed, private, or secret meeting

"Brothers, we have a Pope!" Bennelli exclaimed. "But I request that you remain conclaved, until I consult the man whom we elected. I shall return within the hour."

2007, Peter M. Sciarrotta, “Seeing is Believing”, in The Seven Angels of the Apocalypse, 2nd edition, Bloomington, Ind.; Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire: AuthorHouse, →ISBN:

Participating in a closed, private, or secret meeting.

(Roman Catholicism) Of a cardinal: attending, or secluded in, a closed assembly to elect a pope.

konklaaviin osallistuva

of a cardinal: attending, or secluded in, a closed assembly to elect a pope