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Secularity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Secularity or secularism are also used in the meaning of laïcité, a concept related to the separation of state and religion. Secularity and secular are derived from the Latin word saeculum, an expression of time meaning one generation or century. In numerical descriptions, such as of a time series of numbers, a secular trend is the long-term upward or downward trend in the numbers, as opposed to a smaller cyclical variation with a periodic and short-term duration. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Secular   (543 words)

Secular Confusions The new meaning of secular is, in fact, closely related to two others: secularism and secularization that have been taken in an anti-religious direction, a direction that is inconsistent with the principles of a free and democratic society. defines "secular," the uses of the word that suggest that the secular is "non-sacred" in character arise as recently as the mid-nineteenth century. The distinction between the secular and the Church is, in a sense, properly jurisdictional. www.catholiceducation.org /articles/civilization/cc0080.html   (3279 words)

Los Angeles Lay Catholic Mission | February 2006 | God, Not Mammon , by Christopher Zehnder Secular clergy (today more typically called "diocesan clergy") make a vow of obedience to a bishop and a vow of celibacy, but they may own property. But the point is that the ideal, the norm, and expectation is common life, and that certainly is not the case with the secular clergy. "The problem," said Aurelio, "is that even the most reform-minded people are secular clergy, and they've begun to think that the secular clergy is the norm and religious are the special exception, instead of that religious life is the norm and the secular clergy are the derogation. www.losangelesmission.com /ed/articles/2006/0602cz.htm   (1921 words)

Archpriest Controversy Some of the secular clergy, resenting the growing influence of the Society in the affairs of the English Catholics and distrusting the political views of Father Persons, drew up a memorial against the Jesuits to be presented to the pope. This absolutely new form of ecclesiastical government was actively resented by a small but influential body of secular priests, who claimed that they had the sympathy of a larger number of their brethren. Though the Brief confirming the archpriest was at once accepted by the secular clergy, Blackwell insisted that the appellant priests should make reparation for the guilt of schism. www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/a/archpriest_controversy.html   (1026 words)

FindLaw for Legal Professionals - Case Law, Federal and State Resources, Forms, and Code The district court may find that only the clergy are invited to imbue these values, that other programs differ in both mission and means, or it may find that other professions similarly engage the students, through the unique lens of their respective professions by active mentoring through the powerful presence of lives well lived. It is both legitimate and secular to invite semi-official visitors to campus to reinforce in public school students the existence and the desirability of conforming to shared standards of community morality. The clergy certainly are not consigned to a disfavored status by the Establishment Clause, and they may participate freely in the public sphere. laws.lp.findlaw.com /5th/9740429.html   (15793 words)

Roman Catholic sex abuse cases - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The policy of Catholic clergy in dealing with the abuse, namely a failure to report what were criminal acts to the police, and efforts to pressure the victims, their families and independent witnesses into not reporting the incidents to civil authorities. Canon law (internal church law) was often given priority over secular criminal law, an action which led some Catholic Church leaders to be accused of "perverting the course of justice", itself a criminal act. The clergy were involved in every aspect of the lives of the families of their communities: from baptising the young to the weekly celebration of Mass, giving children First Communion to marrying couples and being the celebrant of their funerals. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roman_Catholic_Church_sex_abuse_scandal   (4443 words)

Chapter 3: God in La Mancha: Religious Reform and the People of Cuenca, 1500-1650 The sharpest split in the diocesan clergy was between the tiny fraction of priests who belonged to the chapters at Cuenca and Belmonte and those who served or lived in the parishes. On the other hand, the clergy's intimate ties to their communities meant that it would be harder to attain the Tridentine ideal of priests unattached to the pleasures and intrigues of the secular life. There is no Spanish study with which to compare the conquense clergy, but it would seem that writers have far underestimated the level of education among the secular clergy in central Castile during the latter half of the sixteenth century. libro.uca.edu /nalle/gmc3.htm   (14271 words)

Secular Clergy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23) In the language of religious the world (sæculum) is opposed to the cloister; religious who follow a rule, especially those who have been ordained, form the regular clergy, while those who live in the world are called the secular clergy. Hence the expression so frequently used in canonical texts: "uterque clerus", both secular and regular clergy. The secular clergy, in which the hierarchy essentially resides, always takes precedence of the regular clergy of equal rank; the latter is not essential to the Church nor can it subsist by itself, being dependent on bishops for ordination. www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/s/secular_clergy.html   (125 words)

Religion & Community - The Changing Role of Clergy Only a small minority of the clergy in her study were involved in activism that aimed to accomplish social reform or promote a legislative agenda. The public realm has grown increasingly secular, and clergy no longer command the respect and authority they once did, neither as public figures nor as the leaders of their flocks. The average age of clergy is climbing, as is the age at which new candidates for the ministry are entering seminary. www.polis.iupui.edu /RUC/Newsletters/Religion/vol5no2.htm   (3994 words)

Homosexuality and Catholic Priests When it comes to homosexuality, however, a significant percentage of clergy, perhaps as high as 40 percent, might be labeled "homophile." This percentage may be even higher among seminary graduates since the 1960s and in the seminaries themselves. In much of the medieval period, the concern about sexuality was not about the secular clergy (those who were the priests and bishops in the secular world), since until the end of the twelfth century they were allowed to marry and have families. Rather, the issue was with the regular clergy, that is, the monks, and also the nuns, who were not clergy. www.secularhumanism.org /library/fi/bullough_22_3_1.htm   (1035 words)

| Religion Makes a Difference: Clerical and Lay Cultures in the Courts of Northern Italy, 1000–1300 | The American ... This demarcation between the space reserved to the clergy for the celebration of the sacred mysteries of the Mass and the space of the laity in the nave of the church was quite pronounced: the sanctuary was raised above the nave, and the staircases visually marked the point of division. Secular topics dominate secular halls: communes and noble families alike tended to commemorate important military victories on their walls or to depict the jousts and hunting parties that entertained courtly society. The secular verse he mentions and repeats is on common pleasures and annoyances of everyday life: the joys of wine, the aggravation of fleas. www.historycooperative.org /journals/ahr/105.4/ah001095.html   (13439 words)

Chapter 6:Crime and Society in Early Modern Seville The regular clergy, those who had accepted the regulation of a religious order, were various enough to include cloistered nuns from noble families and monks who wandered the countryside begging for bread. One view of the priest with a condemned man at the gallows is that he was returning a stray sheep to the flock; another view is that he was mesmerizing the sheep, so that the creature would accept its fate as a sacrificial victim. Secular officials were very much in evidence at the public autos de fé at which the Inquisition subjected some people to penance and handed others to the secular authorities for execution. libro.uca.edu /perry/csms6.htm   (6636 words)

Lay Clergy The section of the medieval Church that was under least discipline and had only too little 'corporate sense' was the army of unbeneficed priests, deacons, and clerks in holy orders who were scattered about the country, in every variety of employment, often under no control beyond that of their lay employers. In 1382 William of Wykeham, desiring better education for the secular clergy, founded at Winchester a grammar school on a scale of unexampled magnificence, which became the model for later foundations of equal splendour, like Eton. The `seculars', who regarded themselves as the University proper, consisted of secular clergy, priests like Wyclif, or deacons and clerks in lower orders. www.newman-family-tree.net /Lay-clergy.html   (1482 words)

Matilda Joslyn Gage Website: Scholarship: The Inquisiiton: Definitions In other words, secular rulers held their crowns as fiefdoms from the church; the church was the feudal overlord of each sovereign. Since the laity were largely illiterate while the clergy were, at least, somewhat educated, by the middle of the fourteenth-century, the ability to read became the test of churchmanship and the benefit of clergy was extended to all who were literate. By the twelfth century, married clergy were attempting to keep their marriages a secret and the number of married priests was on the decline. www.pinn.net /~sunshine/gage/inquis/define.html   (2979 words)

The Open Door Web Site : History : The Church before the Reformation III :The Clergy The clergy is the name given to people who work for the Church - they include priests in each village or town, bishops who control each diocese (region) of the Church, cardinals who were the most important people in the Church, and finally, the pope. (or worldly) Clergy, so called because they were responsible for the organisation and control of the spiritual lives of the laity in the everyday world. they were "mendicant" clergy, travelling from village to village and from town to town, totally dependent on the charity of the people for their food and lodging. www.saburchill.com /history/chapters/chap5104.html   (655 words)

CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Cleric The clergy by Divine right form an order or state which is essentially distinct from that of the laity. That the distinction between clergy and laity was recognized in New Testament times is plain from St. Paul's statement that the bishops have been placed by the Holy Ghost to rule the Church (Acts 20:28), for the right to rule implies a correlative obligation to obey. They were received into the sacred ministry by the bishops for the purpose of supplying the dearth of the clergy in the outlying districts of the dioceses where no benefices existed. www.newadvent.org /cathen/04049b.htm   (1525 words)

[No title] The Fraternity of Mary: Queen of the Clergy, is a Private Association of the Faithful in accord with Canon Law. We are diocesan clergy who by private agreement among ourselves, are exercising our innate and fundamental right to form an association on our own initiative for ends related to the mission of the Church. Secularization of the Clergy and Clericalization of the Laity e. home.epix.net /~fomqc/webdoc1.html   (778 words)

GILLEEDS The parishioners, the secular clergy argued, were under the `power of the keys' of the local clergy. William of St. Amour and Gerard of Abbeville in the thirteenth, and John de Pouilli in the early fourteenth century, to name only the most notorious champions for the cause of the secular clergy, held that the friars were undermining the whole pastoral structure of the Church, a structure established by Christ himself. In several academic quaestiones and polemics with the champions of the cause of secular clergy, the friars argued that their activities were nothing but a useful supplement to the pastoral work of local secular priests. users.bart.nl /~roestb/franciscan/GILLEEDS.html   (5981 words)

Church & State The outstanding reforms of Leo IX, however, were against simony [buying and selling church office] and a requirement of celibacy for secular clergy in the Western Church [against a common practice of married clergy in both East and West]. The second reform of celibate clergy did not, and the pope met with resistance not only from lower clergy but also from some of the bishops. According to an eye witness one bishop was crushed to death by the crowd that poured in. www.churchofsaginaw.org /church/church_state.htm   (3022 words)

SparkNotes: High Middle Ages (1000-1200): Christianity, 1130-1244: Spiritual Invigoration, the Papal Monarchy, and ... It consisted of Rome's most prominent clergy and cardinals, and its functions were divided between 1) as body of advisers; 2) a judicial court; 3) a legal-theological forum to decide points of Church doctrine. Though secular clergy often bridled at this seemingly ignorant man on the verge of heresy, Pope Innocent III recognized Francis' potential to shore up faith and devotion, and so blessed the growing group as Church servants, a monastic order in the world. Thus, the clergy were in essence servants of the Devil, as Jehovah had in the meantime been cast out of Paradise and was Hell's master. www.sparknotes.com /history/european/middle2/aftersect8.html   (2791 words)

Definition of Clergy from dictionary.net The body of men set apart, by due ordination, to the service of God, in the Christian church, in distinction from the laity; in England, usually restricted to the ministers of the Established Church. If convicted of a clergyable felony, he is entitled equally to his clergy after as before conviction. Benefit of clergy (Eng., Law), the exemption of the persons of clergymen from criminal process before a secular judge -- a privilege which was extended to all who could read, such persons being, in the eye of the law, clerici, or clerks. www.dictionary.net /clergy   (162 words)

HISTORY OF THE FORMATION OF THE SOCIETY OF CLERKS SECULAR OF SAINT BASIL>   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23) Since the secular clergy was recruited largely from among married men, this custom became almost universal, for, as the episcopal office usually was not conferred upon men who were married, it developed, in a way, into a privilege of the religious who had taken the vow of celibacy. The Canons of the Society of Clerks Secular of Saint Basil (S.S.B.), shall, as far as possible, be in harmony with the intention of The Holy Canons of the early Fathers of the Church as cataloged in "The Pedalion" (The Rudder), said Canons to serve as 'canonical guidelines' for this Jurisdiction's Canons. Prelates and clergy not in communion with Holy Orthodoxy shall not participate in any portion of the funeral service, except members of The Holy Roman Catholic and Apostolic Church and those Churches in communion with it shall not be subject to this prohibition. www.reu.org /public/ssbdocs/ssbhistory.htm   (16795 words)

TABLE OF CONTENTS This was not the only manner in which the papacy interfered with secular justice, for, towards the end of the fifteenth century, the papal jurisdiction spread its aegis over the crimes of the laity as well as of the clergy. A similar storm was aroused when, in 1372, Gregory XI repeated the levy; the clergy of Mainz bound themselves by a solemn mutual agreement not to pay it, while Frederick, Archbishop of Cologne, pledged his assistance to his clergy in their refusal to submit. Thus its decadence and secularisation were rapid through the second half of the fifteenth century; but a lower depth was reached when, in 1500, Alexander VI created twelve Cardinals from whose appointment Cesare Borgia secured the sum of 120,000 ducats, and whose character may readily be surmised. www.uni-mannheim.de /mateo/camenaref/cmh/cmh119.html   (15026 words)

Priests in the Catholic Latin Rite May Marry All secular clergy have always had the moral right to marry provided certain conditions are met. Religious order priests due to the nature of their calling may not marry but do have the right to transfer to secular clergy status and then marry under prescribed conditions. It was early in the second millennium that the Latin (Western) Rite of the Church prohibited clergy to marry in contradiction to the clear and irreversible teachings found in the writings of Saint Paul in the authenticated New Testament: www.trosch.org /the/priests-marry.html   (2958 words)

clergy - OneLook Dictionary Search Clergy : Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info] CLERGY : 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info] Phrases that include clergy: benefit of clergy, secular clergy, regular clergy, alfriston clergy house, assemblies of the french clergy, more... www.onelook.com /?w=clergy&ls=a   (234 words)

Pastor, the Teacher, & the School (The) by Don Priest We may ask, for example, whether school-teachers are in some senses the clergy of a secular religion, and how the secular gospel parallels the Christian Gospel. What is the basis of the secular wisdom, and to whom or what does it witness? Are the modern clergy also operating more in their role as deacons than as pastor-teachers, and what implications does this have? www.newcreation.org.au /books/covers/196.html   (118 words)

Find in a Library: The secular clergy in the Diocese of Lincoln, 1495-1520. Find in a Library: The secular clergy in the Diocese of Lincoln, 1495-1520. The secular clergy in the Diocese of Lincoln, 1495-1520. WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries. www.worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/452ab1231a13c8d3.html   (57 words)

Catholic Oxford - A Brief Chronology 1340 The Queen’s College founded, for the secular clergy of the North. 1427 Lincoln College founded, for the secular clergy of the diocese of Lincoln. University and town purged of Royalists; 25 Anglican clergy ejected for their religious views. members.aol.com /oxfordlatinmass/chronology.htm   (1737 words)

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