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Rescue, Crusade of

Rescue, Crusade of Charitable organization founded in England by Cardinal Vaughan to provide homes for destitute Catholic children. In 1928 there were 599 children in the Society’s homes and the crusade was also responsible for 92 others in Canada. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary

Rescue

Rescue “to take out” (ek, “from,” haireo, “to take”), is used of “delivering” from persons and circumstances, and translated “rescued” in Act 23:27. See DELIVER, No. 8, PLUCK. Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words

Rescripts, Papal

Rescripts, Papal (Lat. re-scribere, “to write back”) Rescripts are responses of the pope or a Sacred Congregation, in writing, to queries or petitions of individuals. Some rescripts concern the granting of favours; others the administration of justice, e. g. the interpretation of a law, the appointment of a judge. Sometimes the favour is actually granted … Continue reading “Rescripts, Papal”

rescripts

rescripts (Latin: rescribere, to write back) Written answers by the pope, generally through curial channels, to petitions, reports, or queries. Lesser decisions and grants are made in these simplest of papal documents. In dispensations the rescript sometimes empowers the local bishops to dispense, at other times it contains a direct dispensation. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary

Rescript

Rescript or CODEX RESCRIPTUS, a manuscript, the original writing of which had been virtually wiped out, and the works of some saint or father written over it. A codex of this class is that called Codex Ephraemi in the Imperial Library of Paris. Several works of the Syrian father were written on portions both of … Continue reading “Rescript”

Rescissory Act

Rescissory Act an act of the Scottish Parliament passed on the restoration of Charles II, annulling all acts passed between 1638 and 1650 for religion and the Reformation; denouncing the Solemn League and Covenant and the Glasgow Assembly of 1638, and declaring that the government of the Church, as an essential royal prerogative, belongs alone … Continue reading “Rescissory Act”

Resaias

Resaias RESAIAS.See Raamiah. Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible Resaias re-sayas, re-sas (, Rhesaas; the King James Version Reesaias): One of the leaders with Zerubbabel in the return (1 Esdras 5:8) = Reelaiah in Ezr 2:2, Raamiah in Neh 7:7. The name is apparently duplicated in 1 Esdras 5:8 in the form Reelias. Fuente: International … Continue reading “Resaias”

Res Cogitans

Res Cogitans (Lat res, thing + cogitans from cogitare, to think) Descartes’ designation for thinking substance which along with extended substance (res extensa) constitute his dualism. The term presumably designates not only the individual mind which thinks but also the substance which pervades all individual minds. — L.W. Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy

Rerum Novarum

Rerum Novarum The title words of the Encyclical issued by Pope Leo XIII on 15 May 1891 on the condition of labor. The Encyclical applies the old doctrines of traditional teaching concerning rights and duties of property and the proper relation of employer and employee to modern labor conditions. It refutes the false theories of … Continue reading “Rerum Novarum”