privilege, clerical The privilege consists in this, that the clerics are not under the jurisdiction of the lay courts even in merely temporal matters, which would otherwise belong to the competence of such courts. Clerics should be tried only by an ecclesiastical court, unless otherwise legitimately provided for in particular places. This benefit forbids any … Continue reading “privilege, clerical”
Privilege
privilege A more or less permanent concession made by the legislator against or beyond the law. The emperors and the popes, especially since the 8th century, granted privileges. They may be acquired either orally or in writing, either by direct concession or by communication. This latter means partaking of a privilege either by extension or … Continue reading “Privilege”
Privatus, bp. of Lambaesis
Privatus, bp. of Lambaesis Privatus (2), once bp. of the important but shortlived city of Lambaesis in Numidia, the present Tazzt or Tezzulot (Momms.). He was condemned for heresy and multa et gravia delicta, by 90 bishops at a council under Donatus, bp. of Carthage (Cypr. Ep. 59, xiii.; 10), and apparently under the Roman … Continue reading “Privatus, bp. of Lambaesis”
Privation, Ecclesiastical
Privation, Ecclesiastical is one of the vindictive, i.e. positive, penalties (in opposition to the censures) which the ecclesiastical laws inflict in the Church of Rome on prebendaries for grave and repeated offences against the discipline of the Church. It is the suspension of an ecclesiastic from his office and prebend. It differs from the disciplinary … Continue reading “Privation, Ecclesiastical”
Privation
Privation is a philosophical term which, according to Plato, is limitation, imperfection, the inherent condition of all finite existence, and the necessary cause of evil. Leibnitz (Causa Dei, 69, 72; Essai suo la bonte de Dieu, 1iere partie, 29, 31; 3ieme partie, 378), after Augustine, Aquinas, and others, held similar views. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, … Continue reading “Privation”
Privatio Comunionis
Privatio Comunionis (deprival of the Communion), one of the punishments inflicted on offending members of the clerical body during the earlier centuries. Those punishments included suspension, degradation, privatio communionis, or deprivation, corporal chastisement, and excommunication. Privatio was of two kinds, namely, a restriction to conmmunio peregrina, or to comnmunio laica. The former had reference to … Continue reading “Privatio Comunionis”
private revelations
private revelations Those manifestations of secrets which are made to a particular person. There are three kinds: natural, which result from natural causes diabolical, which proceed from the devil Divine, by which God sometimes illuminates and instructs a person for his own salvation or that of others They are distinct. from visions and apparitions, in … Continue reading “private revelations”
Private, Privately
Private, Privately one’s own, is translated “private” in 2Pe 1:20 (see under INTERPRETATION). See BUSINESS, B. is translated “privately” in Mat 24:3; Mar 4:34, RV (AV, “when they were alone”); Mar 6:32 (AV only); Mar 7:33, RV; Mar 9:28; Mar 13:3; Luk 10:23; Act 23:19; Gal 2:2. Contrast Gal 2:14. Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New … Continue reading “Private, Privately”
Private Judgment
private judgment One of the foremost characteristics of Protestantism, i.e., the claim that every man is competent to settle for himself the meaning of Scripture with regard to matters of faith and morals. Against this the teachings of the Council of Trent declared, and the Vatican Council reaffirmed, that “that is to be regarded as … Continue reading “Private Judgment”
Private Confession
Private Confession SEE CONFESSION. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature