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...organization of people who live to achieve a common purpose through a form of promised or vowed life to God. Some well known Relgious Orders include the ...nless they are also ordained priests. They commit themselves, for the love of God, to observe as binding certain counsels from the Christian Gospel.

...language of the Church is Latin, although Italian is the working language of the Vatican administration. ...called sees or, in the East, eparchies). These diocese are grouped into 1 of 23 particular rites - the Latin Rite being the most common, but with there

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...Sancta Sedes''). Catholics worldwide consider each pope to be the succesor of [[St. Peter]]. The current Pope is Benedict XVI. ...ficate without being canonically and properly elected to it. The existence of an antipope is usually due either to doctrinal controversy within the Churc

...s”, and then describes Christians partaking of the Eucharist on the “table of the Lord.” Thus, the word “table” here is a synonym for “altar.” ...race like that which is conferred on male deacons. Canon 19 of the Council of Nicaea (held in AD 325) seems to indicate that deaconesses were not ordaine