the cleric. Incardination does not cease until the moment when that cleric is incardinated as a subject of another superior. An excardination from one diocese...

members a lifestyle of poverty, traveling, and living in urban areas for purposes of preaching, evangelization, and ministry, especially to less wealthy individuals...

conduct normal business even after the death of the pope, and also conduct the burial and the preparation for the new election. This process was evident...

popes unambiguously resigned with historical certainty, all between the 10th and 15th centuries. There are disputed claims of four popes having resigned,...

understood in terms of its theological, philosophical, and historical background, and the method and practice of scholarly scientific research. Consequently...

Simony (/ˈsɪməni/) is the act of selling church offices and roles or sacred things. It is named after Simon Magus, who is described in the Acts of the...

A solemn vow is a certain vow ("a deliberate and free promise made to God about a possible and better good") taken by an individual after completion of...

ordinances and regulations made by ecclesiastical authority (church leadership) for the government of a Christian organization or church and its members...

clerical state (commonly referred to as laicization, dismissal, defrocking, and degradation) is the removal of a bishop, priest, or deacon from the status...

canon law, it refers to a document issued by the pope on his own initiative and personally signed by him. Such a document may be addressed to the whole church...

clerics with special consideration of the formation and incardination and excardination of clerics and personal prelatures. Furthermore, the associations...

DDC, or DCanL (Doctor of Canon Law). A doctor of both laws (i.e. canon and civil) is a JUD (Juris Utriusque Doctor) or UJD (Utriusque Juris Doctor)...

1975 apostolic constitution, Romano Pontifici eligendo, and all previous apostolic constitutions and orders on the subject of the election of the pope. Universi...

formally recognized by the Catholic Church, the monarchs of France, Spain and Austria claimed this right at various times, making known to a papal conclave...

canon law with diocesan bishops and archbishops, meaning they have essentially the same authority as a diocesan bishop and archbishop. This type of apostolic...

especially those regarding marriage nullification and clerical trials and disciplinary procedures), and the Apostolic Penitentiary (which is a tribunal...

pontificis on 11 June 2007 and Normas nonnullas on 22 February 2013. These instructions amended the extensive set of rules and procedures issued on 22 February...

divided into eight chapters. The Latin title is taken from the incipit, and translates to 'advancing age'. It established a rule that only cardinals...

further using valid reasoning that both disagrees with the subject at hand and proves their own point valid. Despite being medieval in origin, this idiomatic...

(canons and canonesses regular who recite the Divine Office and serve a church and perhaps a parish); clerics regular (priests who take religious vows and have...

a diocese or an archdiocese for the exercise of administrative authority and possesses the title of local ordinary. As vicar of the bishop, the vicar...

the Catholic Church with some particular exception and in some autonomous particular Churches), and similarly to the diaconate. In other autonomous particular...

education of youth, and other spiritual and corporal works of mercy, are at the same time religious in the strictest sense of the word, and living a community...

the seal of confession under the gravest sin and under threat of the severest punishments both temporal and eternal." The Catechism of the Catholic Church...

In Christianity, the term secular clergy refers to deacons and priests who are not monastics or otherwise members of religious life. Secular priests (sometimes...

"of one's own right". It is used in both the Catholic Church's canon law and secular law. The term church sui iuris is used in the Catholic Code of Canons...

Catholics and parishes in the territory. Such an abbot is called a territorial abbot or abbot nullius diœceseos (abbreviated abbot nullius and Latin for...

pontifical right" is the term given to ecclesiastical institutions (religious and secular institutes, societies of apostolic life) either created by the Holy...

the faithful, the apostolic nuncio, various members of the Roman Curia, and the pope all have a role in the selection. The exact process varies based...

process of electing popes. It set the maximum number of electors at 120 and restated in a more formal context the rule he had already instituted that...