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	Church, The - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03744a.htm The term church is the name employed in the Teutonic languages to render the Greek ekklesia (ecclesia), the term by which the New Testament writers denote the society founded by Jesus Christ.
	Catholic - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03449a.htm The combination "the Catholic Church" (he katholike ekklesia) is found for the first time in the letter of St. Ignatius to the Smyrnaeans, written about the year 110.
	Convent - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04340c.htm (1) A religious community of either sex when spoken of in its corporate capacity. (2) The buildings in which resides a community of either sex.
	Christianity - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03712a.htm An account is given of Christianity as a religion, describing its origin, its relation to other religions, its essential nature and chief characteristics, but not dealing with its doctrines in detail nor its history as a visible organization.
	Cardinal - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03333b.htm A dignitary of the Roman Church and counsellor of the pope.

	Cause - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03459a.htm Cause, as the correlative of effect, is understood as being that which in any way gives existence to, or contributes towards the existence of, any thing; which produces a result; to which the origin of any thing is to be ascribed.
	Cathedral - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03438a.htm The chief church of a diocese.
	Condition - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04211a.htm That which is necessary or at least conducive to the actual operation of a cause.
	Crusades - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04543c.htm Expeditions undertaken, in fulfilment of a solemn vow, to deliver the Holy Places from Mohammedan tyranny. The origin of the word may be traced to the cross made of cloth and worn as a badge on the outer garment of those who took part in these enterprises.
	Communion of Saints - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04171a.htm The doctrine expressed in the second clause of the ninth article in the received text of the Apostles' Creed: "I believe... the Holy Catholic Church, the Communion of Saints".

	Cleric - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04049b.htm A person who has been legitimately received into the ranks of the clergy.
	Chronology, General - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03738a.htm Mathematical chronology determines the units to be employed in measuring time, and historical chronology which fixes in the general course of time the position of any particular occurrence, or, as it is generally termed, its date.
	Character - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03584b.htm A consideration of the term as it is used in psychology and ethics.
	Creation - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04470a.htm Like other words of the same ending, the term creation signifies both an action and the object or effect thereof. Thus, in the latter sense, we speak of the "kingdoms of creation", "the whole creation", and so on.
	Certitude - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03539b.htm The word indicates both a state of mind and a quality of a proposition, according as we say, "I am certain", or, "It is certain".

	Consciousness - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04274a.htm In its widest sense it includes all sensations, thoughts, feelings, and volitions, in fact the sum total of mental life.
	Chapel - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03574b.htm When St. Martin divided his military cloak (cappa) and gave half to the beggar at the gate of Amiens, he wrapped the other half round his shoulders, thus making of it a cape (capella). This cape, or its representative, was afterwards preserved as a relic and accompanied the Frankish kings in their wars, and the tent which sheltered it became known also as cappella or capella. In this tent Mass was celebrated by the military chaplains (capellani). When at rest in the palace the relic likewise gave its name to the oratory where it was kept, and subsequently any oratory where Mass and Divine service were celebrated was called capella, chapelle, chapel.
	Ceremony - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03538b.htm In liturgy, an external action, gesture, or movement which accompanies the prayers and public exercise of divine worship.
	Consent (in Canon Law) - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04283a.htm The deliberate agreement required of those concerned in legal transactions in order to legalize such actions.
	Cloister - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04060a.htm The English equivalent of the Latin word clausura (from claudere, "to shut up").

	Copernicus, Nicolaus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04352b.htm Latinized form of Niclas Kopernik, the name of the founder of the heliocentric planetary theory; born at Torun (Thorn), 19 February, 1473, died at Frauenburg, 24 May, 1543.
	Christendom - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03699b.htm In its wider sense this term is used to describe the part of the world which is inhabited by Christians.
	Charlemagne - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03610c.htm Biography of the emperor covering his political, military, and religious entanglements.
	Christian Art - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03710a.htm Also called ecclesiastical art.
	Cardan, Girolamo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03332a.htm Italian physician and mathematician. (1501-1576)

	Carthusian Order, The - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03388a.htm The name is derived from the French chartreuse through the Latin cartusia, of which the English "charterhouse" is a corruption.
	Canada - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03227a.htm Comprises all that part of North America north of the United States, with the exception of Newfoundland, and Labrador.
	Consecration - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04276a.htm An act by which a thing is separated from a common and profane to a sacred use, or by which a person or thing is dedicated to the service and worship of God by prayers, rites, and ceremonies.
	Contingent - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04331a.htm Aside from its secondary and more obvious meaning (as, for instance, its qualification of the predicable accident, of a class of modal propositions, and so on), the primary and technically philosophical use of the term is for one of the supreme divisions of being, that is, contingent being, as distinguished from necessary being.
	Clement of Alexandria, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04045a.htm Fairly lengthy article on his life and writings.

	Common Sense, Philosophy of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04167a.htm The term common sense designates (1) a special faculty, the sensus communis of the Aristotelean and Scholastic philosophy; (2) the sum of original principles found in all normal minds; (3) the ability to judge and reason in accordance with those principles (recta ratio, good sense).
	Castile and Aragon - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03410b.htm The united kingdom which came into existence by the marriage (1469) of Isabella, heiress of Castile, with Ferdinand the Catholic, King of Aragon.
	Commandments of God (The Ten Commandments) - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04153a.htm The fundamental obligations of religion and morality and embodying the revealed expression of the Creator's will in relation to man's whole duty to God and to his fellow-creatures.
	Clement VIII, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04027a.htm Reigned 1592-1605.
	Confirmation - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04215b.htm Describes its origin from Biblical texts and how it has been handed down through the ages. The rite is briefly described, and the minister, matter, form, recipient, effects, necessity and sponsors are detailed.

	Cauchy, Augustin-Louis - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03457a.htm French mathematician, b. at Paris, 21 August, 1789; d. at Sceaux, 23 May, 1857.
	Chastity - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03637d.htm The virtue which excludes or moderates the indulgence of the sexual appetite.
	Catholic University of America - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03455a.htm A pontifical institution located in Washington, D.C. It comprises the Schools of the Sacred Sciences, Philosophy, Law, Letters, and Science, each of which includes several departments.
	College - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04107b.htm The word college, from the Latin collegium, originally signified a community, a corporation, an organized society, a body of colleagues, or a society of persons engaged in some common pursuit.
	Clean and Unclean - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04010c.htm The distinction between legal and ceremonial, as opposed to moral.

	Canterbury - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03299b.htm The Ancient Diocese of Canterbury was the Mother-Church and Primatial See of All England, from 597 till the death of the last Catholic Archbishop, Cardinal Pole, in 1558.
	Calendar, Christian - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03158a.htm Includes history and Saint's days.
	Calvinism - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03198a.htm Calvin succeeded Luther in point of time and was committed to a struggle with Zwingli's disciples at Zurich and elsewhere, known as Sacramentarians.
	Corpus Christi, Feast of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04390b.htm This feast is celebrated in the Latin Church on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday to solemnly commemorate the institution of the Holy Eucharist.
	Category - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03433a.htm The term was transferred by Aristotle from its forensic meaning (procedure in legal accusation) to its logical use as attribution of a subject.

	Charles Borromeo, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03619a.htm Biographical article on the Archbishop of Milan, Cardinal, a leading light of the Catholic Reformation.
	Cyril of Jerusalem, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04595b.htm Bishop, Doctor of the Church, d. 386.
	Charles V, Emperor - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03625a.htm Born at Ghent, 1500; died at Yuste, in Spain, 1558; was a descendant of the house of Hapsburg, and to this descent owed his sovereignty over so many lands that it was said of him that the sun never set on his dominions.
	Concordat - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04196a.htm In general, a concordat means an agreement, or union of wills, on some matter.
	Custom (in Canon Law) - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04576a.htm An unwritten law introduced by the continuous acts of the faithful with the consent of the legitimate legislator.

	Chapter - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03582b.htm Designates certain corporate ecclesiastical bodies, said to be derived from the chapter of the rule book, which it was the custom to read in the assemblies of monks.
	Contemplative Life - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04329a.htm A life ordered in view of contemplation; a way of living especially adapted to lead to and facilitate contemplation, while it excludes all other preoccupations and intents.
	Celestine II, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03478a.htm Reigned 1143-1144.
	Chaplain - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03579b.htm Discusses the types including court, beneficed, parochial, domestic, pontifical, and military.
	Canon of the New Testament - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03274a.htm The idea of a complete and clear-cut canon of the New Testament existing from the beginning, that is from Apostolic times, has no foundation in history.

	Canice, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03250a.htm Irish priest, monastic founder, missionary to Scotland, d. 600.
	Crosier - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04515c.htm The Pastoral Staff is an ecclesiastical ornament which is conferred on bishops at their consecration and on mitred abbots at their investiture, and which is used by these prelates in performing certain solemn functions.
	Chalcedon, Council of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03555a.htm The Fourth Ecumenical Council, held in 451, from 8 October until 1 November inclusive, at Chalcedon, a city of Bithynia in Asia Minor.
	Chevreul, Michel-Eugène - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03650b.htm Chemist, physicist, and philosopher, b. at Angers, France, 31 August, 1786; d. at Paris, 9 April, 1889.
	Confucianism - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04223b.htm An article by Charles F. Aiken. Reviews the key teachings and history of Confucianism, and its relation to Christianity.

	Christ, Order of the Knights of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03698b.htm A military order which sprang out of the famous Order of the Temple.
	Candles - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03246a.htm The word candle (candela, from candeo, to burn) was introduced into the English language as an ecclesiastical term, probably as early as the eighth century.
	Clement V, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04020a.htm Reigned 1305-14.
	Cistercians - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03780c.htm Religious of the Order of Cîteaux, a Benedictine reform, established at Cîteaux in 1098 by St. Robert, Abbot of Molesme in the Diocese of Langres, for the purpose of restoring as far as possible the literal observance of the Rule of St. Benedict.
	Coriolis, Gaspard-Gustave de - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04370a.htm French mathematician. (1792-1843)

	Conversion - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04347a.htm Refers to a moral change, a turning or returning to God and to the true religion.
	Cinites - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03776b.htm A tribe or family often mentioned in the Old Testament, personified as Qayin from which the nomen gentilicium Qeni is derived.
	Councils, General - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04423f.htm Article looking at the definition, place in church governance and short historical sketches of each council until Vatican I.
	Circumcision - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03777a.htm The Hebrew word, like the Greek (peritome), and the Latin (circumcisio), signifies a cutting and, specifically, the removal of the prepuce, or foreskin, from the penis.
	Conclave - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04192a.htm The closed room or hall specially set aside and prepared for the cardinals when electing a pope; also the assembly of the cardinals for the canonical execution of this purpose.

	Cassini, Giovanni Domenico - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03405b.htm Italian astronomer. (1625-1712)
	Capuchin Friars Minor - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03320b.htm An autonomous branch of the first Franciscan Order.
	California - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03170a.htm Includes history, population, education, resources, and religion.
	Celibacy of the Clergy - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03481a.htm The renunciation of marriage implicitly or explicitly made, for the more perfect observance of chastity, by all those who receive the Sacrament of Orders in any of the higher grades.
	Cassiodorus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03405c.htm Roman writer, statesman, and monk, b. about 490; d. about 583.

	Cambrai, Archdiocese of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03209c.htm Comprises the entire Département du Nord of France.
	Contemplation - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04324b.htm The idea of contemplation is connected with that of mystical theology.
	Corinth - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04363b.htm A titular archiepiscopal see of Greece.
	Communicatio Idiomatum - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04169a.htm A technical expression in the theology of the Incarnation. It means that the properties of the Divine Word can be ascribed to the man Christ, and that the properties of the man Christ can be predicated of the Word.
	Canon of the Old Testament - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03267a.htm Signifies the authoritative list or closed number of the writings composed under Divine inspiration, and destined for the well-being of the Church.

	Callistus III, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03187a.htm Born near Valencia in Spain, 31 December, 1378; died at Rome, 6 August, 1458.
	Cyprian of Carthage, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04583b.htm Long article on this bishop and martyr.
	Cura Animarum - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04572a.htm Technically, the exercise of a clerical office involving the instruction, by sermons and admonitions, and the sanctification, through the sacraments, of the faithful in a determined district, by a person legitimately a ppointed for the purpose.
	Canaan, Canaanites - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03569b.htm The Hebrew word Kenaan, denoting a person.
	Cistercian Sisters - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03790a.htm The first Cistercian monastery for women was established at Tart in the Diocese of Langres (now Dijon), in the year 1125, by sisters from the Benedictine monastery of Juilly, and with the co-operation of St. Stephen Harding, Abbot of Cîteaux.

	Clement IV, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04019a.htm Reigned 1265-68.
	Chicago, Archdiocese of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03653a.htm Diocese created 28 November, 1842; raised to the rank of an archdiocese, 10 September, 1880.
	Creed - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04478a.htm In general, a form of belief.
	Clement VII, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04024a.htm Reigned 1523-34.
	Clement XIII, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04032a.htm Reigned 1758-69.

	Clement XI, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04029a.htm Reigned 1700-1721.
	Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04084a.htm The last in the group of the four great uncial manuscripts of the Greek Bible, received its name from the treatises of St. Ephraem the Syrian (translated into Greek) which were written over the original text.
	Cross, The True - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04529a.htm (1) Growth Of the Christian Cult; (2) Catholic Doctrine on the Veneration of the Cross; (3) Relics of the True Cross; (4) Principal Feasts of the Cross.
	Canon - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03252a.htm Ecclesiastical person.
	Codex Vaticanus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04086a.htm A quarto volume written in uncial letters of the fourth century.

	Collect - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04103a.htm The name now used only for short prayers before the Epistle in the Mass, which occur again at Lauds, Terce, Sext, None, and Vespers.
	Correction, Fraternal - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04394a.htm The admonishing of one's neighbor by a private individual with the purpose of reforming him or, if possible, preventing his sinful indulgence.
	Cosmology - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04413a.htm In our day cosmology is a branch of philosophical study, and therefore excludes from its investigation whatever forms the object of the natural sciences.
	Celestine V, Pope Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03479b.htm Benedictine priest and hermit, d. 1296.
	Counsels, Evangelical - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04435a.htm The difference between a precept and a counsel lies in this, that the precept is a matter of necessity while the counsel is left to the free choice of the person to whom it is proposed.

	Conscience - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04268a.htm The individual, as in him customary rules acquire ethical character by the recognition of distinct principles and ideals, all tending to a final unity or goal, which for the mere evolutionist is left very indeterminate, but for the Christian has adequate definition in a perfect possession of God by knowledge and love, without the contingency of further lapses from duty.
	Cyprus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04589a.htm An island in the Eastern Mediterranean, at the entrance of the Gulf of Alexandretta.
	Contrition - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04337a.htm Lat. contritio, a breaking of something hardened.
	Charles Martel - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03629a.htm French monarch, born about 688; died at Quierzy on the Oise, 21 October, 741.
	Concordat of 1801, The French - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04204a.htm This name is given to the convention of the 26th Messidor, year IX (July 16, 1802), whereby Pope Pius VII and Bonaparte, First Consul, re-established the Catholic Church in France.

	Columbus, Christopher - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04140a.htm Lengthy biographical article on the explorer.
	Concupiscence - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04208a.htm In its widest acceptation, concupiscence is any yearning of the soul for good; in its strict and specific acceptation, a desire of the lower appetite contrary to reason.
	Credence - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04476a.htm A small table of wood, marble, or other suitable material placed within the sanctuary of a church and near the wall at the Epistle side, for the purpose of holding the cruets, acolytes' candles, and other utensils required for the celebration of the Holy Sacrifice.
	Cope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04351a.htm A vestment which may most conveniently be described as a long liturgical mantle, open in front and fastened at the breast with a band or clasp.
	Chair of Peter - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03551e.htm From the earliest times the Church at Rome celebrated on 18 January the memory of the day when the Apostle held his first service with the faithful of the Eternal City.

	Capaccio and Vallo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03307b.htm Suffragan diocese of Salerno.
	Chivalry - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03691a.htm Considered from three points of view: the military, the social, and the religious.
	Canons and Canonesses Regular - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03288a.htm According to St. Thomas Aquinas, a canon regular is essentially a religious cleric.
	Clermont - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04053a.htm Comprises the entire department of Puy-de-Dôme and is a suffragan of Bourges.
	Christmas - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03724b.htm Provides a detailed overview of the holiday from the fourth century through the modern age. Includes links to related topics.

	Covetousness - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04462a.htm Generally, an unreasonable desire for what we do not possess.
	Citation - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03791a.htm A legal act through which a person, by mandate of the judge, is called before the tribunal for trial.
	Courts, Ecclesiastical - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04447a.htm Legislative, judicial, and executive power to be exercised over the church, without any interference on the part of civil society.
	Categorical Imperative - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03432a.htm A term which originated in Immanuel Kant's ethics.
	Celestine IV, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03479a.htm Reigned October-November 1241.

	Cupola - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04569d.htm A spherical ceiling, or a bowl-shaped vault, rising like an inverted cup over a circular, square, or multangular building or any part of it.
	Calvin, John - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03195b.htm Born at Noyon in Picardy, France, 10 July, 1509, and died at Geneva, 27 May, 1564.
	Concubinage - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04207a.htm The meaning of the term in Roman law, and consequently in early ecclesiastical records and writings, was much the same; a concubine was a quasi-wife, recognized by law if there was no legal wife.
	Cleef, Joost van - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04010e.htm Flemish painter. (1520-1556)
	Crown of Thorns - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04540b.htm Mentioned by three Evangelists and is often alluded to by the early Christian Fathers, such as Clement of Alexandria, Origen, and others, but there are comparatively few writers of the first six centuries who speak of it as a relic known to be still in existence.

	Caius - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03144a.htm Third-century Christian author.
	Clement I, Pope Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04012c.htm Lengthy article on Clement I, also called Clemens Romanus, the fourth pope and the first of the Apostolic Fathers.
	Callistus II, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03185a.htm Date of birth unknown; died 13 December, 1124.
	Catherine of Siena, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03447a.htm Third Order Dominican, hermit, reformer, mystic, d. 1380. Biographical article by Edmund G. Gardner.
	Candlesticks - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03248a.htm Provides the history of their use in Christian churches.

	Candlemas - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03245b.htm Also called: Purification of the Blessed Virgin, Feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple.
	Clerke, Agnes Mary - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04051b.htm Astronomer, born at Skibbereen, County Cork, Ireland, 10 February, 1842; died in London, 20 January 1907.
	Cosmas and Damian, Saints - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04403e.htm Short hagiography of these twins, physicians, and martyrs. They died on 27 September, probably in the year 287.
	Clement X, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04028b.htm Reigned 1670-1676.
	Clovis - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04070a.htm King of the Salic Franks. (466-511)

	Calvary, Mount - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03191a.htm The place of the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
	Clement IX, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04028a.htm Reigned 1667-1669.
	Cyril of Alexandria, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04592b.htm Article on this Doctor of the Church, and anti-Nestorian theologian.
	Christopher Wharton, Blessed - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15607c.htm Biography of the English priest and martyr, who died in 1600.
	Chaucer, Geoffrey - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03642b.htm Summary of the author's life and literary contributions.

	College, Apostolic - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04112a.htm This term designates The Twelve Apostles as the body of men commissioned by Christ to spread the kingdom of God over the whole world and to give it the stability of a well-ordered society.
	Constantius, Flavius Julius - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16027c.htm Roman emperor (317-361).
	Camaldolese - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03204d.htm A joint order of hermits and cenobites, founded by St. Romuald at the beginning of the eleventh century.
	Contumacy (in Canon Law) - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04340a.htm Contumacy, or contempt of court, is an obstinate disobedience of the lawful orders of a court.
	Catacombs, Roman - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03417b.htm The subject is covered under the headings: I. Position; II. History; III. Inscriptions; IV. Paintings; V. Sarcophagi; VI. Small Objects Found in the Catacombs; and VII. Catacombs outside Rome.

	Cincture - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03776a.htm More commonly called in England, the girdle is an article of liturgical attire which has been recognized as such since the ninth century.
	Corsica - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04396b.htm The third island of the Mediterranean in point of size, only Sicily and Sardinia being of greater extent.
	Clement VI, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04023a.htm Born 1291 in the castle of Maumont, departmentof Corrèze, France, elected pope, 7 May, 1342, at Avignon, where he died 6 December, 1352.
	Ceylon (Sri Lanka) - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03547c.htm An island to the south-east of India and separated from it only by a chain of reefs and sand-banks called Adam's Bridge.
	Constantine the Great - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04295c.htm Information on the Roman emperor.

	Cherubim - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03646c.htm Angelic beings or symbolic representations thereof, mentioned frequently in the Old Testament and once in the New Testament.
	Canticle of Canticles - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03302a.htm One of three books of Solomon, contained in the Hebrew, the Greek, and the Christian Canon of the Scriptures.
	Cathedra - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03437a.htm Three uses of the word are detailed.
	Corinthians, Epistles to the - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04364a.htm The historical and internal evidence that they were written by St. Paul is overwhelmingly strong.
	Colonna - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04125c.htm A celebrated family which played an important role in Italy during medieval and Renaissance times.

	Cluny, Congregation of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04073a.htm The earliest reform, which became practically a distinct order, within the Benedictine family.
	Cajetan, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03145a.htm Also known as St. Gaetano. Biography of the founder of the Theatines.
	Constantinople, First Ecumenical Council of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04308a.htm Called in May, 381, by Emperor Theodosius, to provide for a Catholic succession in the patriarchal See of Constantinople, to confirm the Nicene Faith, to reconcile the semi-Arians with the Church, and to put an end to the Macedonian heresy.
	Cassian, John, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03404a.htm Article on the monk and ascetic writer, who attempted to convey the teaching and way of life of the desert fathers and mothers to the fledgling monastic movement in Gaul.
	Cyril and Methodius, Saints - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04592a.htm Also called Constantine and Methodius. Biography of these ninth-century brothers, Apostles of the Slavs.

	Chartreuse, La Grande - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03636a.htm The mother-house of the Carthusian Order lies in a high valley of the Alps of Dauphine.
	Callistus I, Pope Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03183d.htm Martyr, d. about 223. Also known as Callixtus or Calixtus.
	Cathari - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03435a.htm From the Greek katharos, pure, literally "puritans", a name specifically applied to, or used by, several sects at various periods.
	Constantinople, Third Ecumenical Council of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04310a.htm The Sixth General Council was summoned in 678 by Emperor Constantine Pogonatus, with a view of restoring between East and West the religious harmony that had been troubled by the Monothelistic controversies.
	Charleston - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03630a.htm The Diocese of Charleston (Carolopolitana) comprises the entire state of South Carolina, U.S.A.

	Contract - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04332a.htm The canonical and moralist doctrine on this subject is a development of that contained in the Roman civil law. In civil law, a contract is defined as the union of several persons in a coincident expression of will by which their legal relations are determined.
	Clementines - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04039b.htm The name given to the religious romance in two forms as composed by Pope St. Clement I.
	Charity, Sisters of, of St. Vincent de Paul (New York) - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03607a.htm Motherhouse at Mt. St. Vincent-on Hudson, New York; not to be confused with the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul founded earlier.
	Codex - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04080b.htm The name given to a manuscript in leaf form, distinguishing it from a roll.
	Christian Archæology - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03705a.htm That branch of the science which is the study of ancient Christian monuments.

	California, Vicariate Apostolic of Lower - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03177a.htm Located in Mexico.
	Clement III, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04018a.htm Reigned 1187-1191.
	Constantinople, Council of, in Trullo - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04311b.htm Particular council held in A.D. 692.
	Clement II, Pope - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04017a.htm Reigned 1046-47.
	Civil Allegiance - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03794b.htm The duty of loyalty and obedience which a person owes to the State of which he is a citizen.

	Constantinople - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04301a.htm Capital, formerly of the Byzantine, now of the Ottoman, Empire. (As of 1908, when the article was written.)
	Criticism, Textual - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04497a.htm The object of textual criticism is to restore as nearly as possible the original text of a work the autograph of which has been lost.
	Ceva, Thomas - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16024a.htm Mathematician. (1648-1737)
	Carroll, John - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03381b.htm First American bishop. (1735-1815)
	Campanella, Tommaso - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03221b.htm In-depth article on the strange career of the Italian anti-Aristotelian Dominican writer.

	Conventuals, Order of Friars Minor - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04344a.htm One of the three separate bodies, forming with the Friars Minor and the Capuchins what is commonly called the First Order of St. Francis.
	Clandestinity (in Canon Law) - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04001a.htm Strictly speaking, clandestinity signifies a matrimonial impediment introduced by the Council of Trent to invalidate marriages contracted at variance with the exigencies of the decree "Tametsi", commonly so called because the first word of the Latin text is tametsi.
	Christopher Robinson, Blessed - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13099b.htm Wrote an account of the martyrdom of St. John Boste. Was himself martyred for being a priest, in 1598.
	Colombia - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04121b.htm Forms the north-west corner of the South American Continent.
	Cork, Diocese of - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04370b.htm In Ireland, suffragan of Cashel.

	Charles Garnier, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06388b.htm Short biography of the Jesuit missionary and martyr.
	Corpus Juris Canonici - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04391a.htm The term corpus here denotes a collection of documents; corpus juris, a collection of laws, especially if they are placed in systematic order.
	Confessor - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04215a.htm A title of honour to designate of the Faith who had confessed Christ publicly in time of persecution and had been punished with imprisonment, torture, exile, or labour in the mines, remaining faithful in their confession until the end of their lives.
	Codex Sinaiticus - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04085a.htm A Greek manuscript of the Old and New Testaments, of the greatest antiquity and value; found on Mount Sinai, in St. Catherine's Monastery, by Constantine Tischendorf.
	Constance - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04286c.htm Formerly the seat of a diocese.

	Chapter House - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03584a.htm A building attached to a monastery or cathedral in which the meetings of the chapter are held.
	Charity and Charities - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03592a.htm In its widest and highest sense, charity includes love of God as well as love of man.
	Clare of Assisi, Saint - http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04004a.htm Cofounded the "Poor Clares" with St. Francis.