The designation of five Catholic theologians to attend the World Council of Churches assembly in New Delhi as `` official '' observers reverses the Church's earlier stand.

But the simple truth is that higher education has never really been an official American Catholic project ; ;

The official name of the celebration in the Roman Rite liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church is " The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed ".

Since 1972, the Roman Catholic Church uses the name " Anointing of the Sick " both in the English translations issued by the Holy See of its official documents in Latin and in the English official documents of Episcopal conferences.

' Although members are asked to confess serious sins to him, unlike the Roman Catholic Church, he is not the instrument of divine forgiveness, merely a guide through the repentance process ( and a judge in case transgressions warrant excommunication or other official discipline ).

Ecclesiastical Latin, the Roman Catholic Church ’ s official tongue, remains a living legacy of the classical world to the contemporary world.

* Cardinal ( Catholicism ), a senior official of the Catholic Church

A cardinal is a senior ecclesiastical official, usually an ordained bishop, and ecclesiastical prince of the Catholic Church.

Similarly, the Catholic Institute for International Relations ( CIIR, now known as " Progressio "), a human rights organization which identifies itself with liberation theology, had summarized Contra operating procedures in their 1987 human rights report: " The record of the contras in the field, as opposed to their official professions of democratic faith, is one of consistent and bloody abuse of human rights, of murder, torture, mutilation, rape, arson, destruction and kidnapping.

* Catechism of the Catholic Church, an official exposition ( catechism ) of the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church

While an official movement exists in Lutheran congregations celebrate Eucharist weekly, using formal rites very similar to the Roman Catholic and " high " Anglican services, it was historically common for congregations to celebrate monthly or even quarterly.

* Episcopal Conference, an official assembly of bishops in a territory of the Roman Catholic Church

The rules of modern fencing originated from France, where the first known book on fencing, Treatise on Arms, was written by Diego de Valera between 1458 and 1471, shortly before dueling came under official ban by the Catholic Monarchs.

The Concordat of 1801 re-established the Roman Catholic Church in France with effect from Easter Sunday, 18 April 1802, restoring the names of the days of the week with the ones they had in the Gregorian Calendar, while keeping the rest of the Republican Calendar, and fixing Sunday as the official day of rest and religious celebration.

He was the first chancellor ( top official ) of the FRG, 1949 – 63, and until his death was the founder and leader of the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ), a coalition of conservatives, ordoliberals, and adherents of Protestant and Catholic social teaching that dominated West Germany politics for most of its history.

In 1860, he reached an agreement with the Vatican, reintroducing official Roman Catholic institutions, including schools, to the nation.

The 1984 Lateran Treaty revision abolished the Roman Catholic Church as the official state religion, while recognizing the role it plays in Italian society.

Within the Catholic church, Italian is known by a large part of the ecclesiastical hierarchy, and is used in substitution for Latin in some official documents.

For differing reasons, belief in Mary's immaculate conception in the Catholic doctrinal form is not part of the official doctrines of the Eastern Orthodox, Anglican and Protestant churches.

Limbo is not an official doctrine of the Catholic Church or any other Christian denomination.

At any rate, these theories are not the official teaching of the Catholic Church, but are only opinions that the Church does not condemn, permitting them to be held by its members, just as is the theory of possible salvation for infants dying without baptism.

The team was named for the great jazz song most identified with New Orleans – " When the Saints Go Marching In ", and it was no coincidence that the franchise's official birth was announced on November 1, which is the Catholic All Saints ' Day.

It was in relation to the latter that, in November 2008, the United States Court of Appeals in Cincinnati decided that a case over sexual abuse by Catholic priests could proceed, provided the plaintiffs could prove that the bishops accused of negligent supervision were acting as employees or agents of the Holy See and were following official Holy See policy.

Legalism remained influential until the emperors of the Han Dynasty adopted Daoism and later Confucianism as official doctrine.

This is our doctrine of apostolic succession " neither depends on, nor is secured by, " an official succession of ministers, whether bishops or presbyters, from apostolic times, but rather by fidelity to apostolic truth ".

Blitzkrieg itself is not an official doctrine and historians in recent times have come to the conclusion it did not exist as such:

Legalism remained influential until the emperors of the Han Dynasty adopted Daoism and later Confucianism as official doctrine.

He wrote " Dialectical thinking should be taken more seriously by Western scholars, not discarded because some nations of the second world have constructed a cardboard version as an official political doctrine.

Although Lollardy can be said to have originated from interest in the writings of John Wycliffe, the Lollards had no central belief system and no official doctrine.

Once established as ruler of the USSR, General Secretary Stalin re-titled the official Socialism in One Country doctrine as “ Marxism-Leninism ”, to establish ideologic continuity with Leninism, whilst opponents continued calling it “ Stalinism ”.

Later Catholics who disagreed with the doctrine of Papal Infallibility as made official by the First Vatican Council ( 1870 ) had no bishop and so joined with Utrecht to form the Union of Utrecht.

The Church has no official teaching regarding the fate of infants who die without Baptism, and theologians of the Church hold various views ( for instance, some have asserted that they go to Limbo, which has never been official Catholic doctrine ).

Catholic doctrine holds that any bishop can validly ordain any baptised man to the priesthood or to the episcopacy, provided that he has the correct intention and uses a doctrinally acceptable rite of ordination, whether or not he has official permission of any sort to perform the ordination, and indeed whether or not he and the ordinand are Catholics.

Theocracy is a form of government in which official policy is governed by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided, or is pursuant to the doctrine of a particular religion or religious group.

During the reign of King Henry VIII of England, the official teaching was identical with the Roman Catholic Church's doctrine before and after Henry's break with Rome by declaring that the Pope had no jurisdiction in England.

The first official acceptance of the Unitarian faith on the part of a congregation in America was by King's Chapel in Boston, from where James Freeman began teaching Unitarian doctrine in 1784, and was appointed rector and revised the Prayer Book according to Unitarian doctrines in 1786.

The plan originated as a 1979 field training exercise war game, and metamorphosed into official Warsaw Treaty battle doctrine, until the late 1980s – thus why the People ’ s Republic of Poland was a nuclear weapons base, first, to 178, then, to 250 tactical-range rockets.

... in the madness of statements by these artificially-lit establishment figures quoting the official doctrine of the day, or in the madness of the staged and fictional scenes from the rest of my film, which presented the consequences of their utterances ?”

The doctrine was also invoked by U. S. Under-Secretary of State Sumner Welles in a declaration of July 23, 1940, that announced non-recognition of the Soviet annexation and incorporation of the three Baltic states — Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania — and remained the official U. S. position until the Baltic states gained formal international recognition as independent states in 1991.

The Green Party of Canada, in 2002 adopted the Six Principles of the Global Greens as its official doctrine.

In the former Eastern bloc countries, the official doctrine viewed cooking as a mere necessity, and women should work " for the society " in factories, not at home.

The resulting Articles of Religion remain official United Methodist doctrine.

This rule itself however, being legal doctrine, is not explicitly included anywhere within the written law and is only found in the official commission reports and ministerial commentaries accompanying the bill.

It is claimed waggishly in church doctrine that Dobbs inspired L. Ron Hubbard to create his own cult when he remarked to him that the general public may be pink, " but their money is green " Ivan Stang also claims that in 1986, an official SubGenius ordainment for Hubbard was paid for and mailed to his address, only two weeks before the Scientology founder's death.

Others were actively involved in the promotion of the Church's Social doctrine, an official Catholic answer to socio-economic distress that was meant to prevent the appeal of socialism and improve capitalism.