When not celebrating Mass but still serving a liturgical function, such as the semiannual Urbi et Orbi papal blessing, some Papal Masses and some events at Ecumenical Councils, cardinal deacons can be recognized by the dalmatics they would don with the simple white mitre ( so called mitra simplex ).

There, after a solemn Papal Mass, the new pope was crowned with the triregnum ( papal tiara ) and he gave for the first time as pope the famous blessing Urbi et Orbi (" to the City and to the World ").

Aware of the necessity of restoring discipline and morality at Rome to ensure success without, he at once proceeded to reduce the cost of the papal court after the manner of the Dominican Order to which he belonged, compel residence among the clergy, regulate inns, expel prostitutes, and assert the importance of the ceremonial in general and the liturgy of the Mass in particular.

Churches designated as papal basilicas, in particular, possess a papal throne and a papal high altar, at which no one may celebrate Mass without the pope's permission.

From the adjective have been formed the nouns " the Pontifical " ( the liturgical book containing the prayers and ceremonies for rites used by a bishop ) and " pontificals " ( the insignia of his order that a bishop uses when celebrating Pontifical Mass, not papal insignia, such as the papal tiara ).

Once at the high altar, he would begin to celebrate Solemn High Mass with full papal ceremonial.

The priests concluded that, while it was important to dispense the Mass and sacraments, the condition of sedevacantism ( Sede vacante, the empty papal see ) in the Roman Catholic Church resulted in a vacuum of canonical ecclesiastical authority.

Sarpi told Dohna that he greatly disliked saying Mass, and celebrated it as seldom as possible, but that he was compelled to do so, as he would otherwise seem to admit the validity of the papal prohibition.

* Mitre worn by Pope John Paul I at his papal inauguration Mass.

Likewise, Pope Benedict XVI, during the second papal visit to Cuba, flew here for Mass and other activities, from his visit to León and Guanajuato in Mexico, before moving on to Havana.

The blessing of the rose now takes place in the Hall of Vestments ( camera dei parimenti ), and the solemn Mass in the papal chapel.

In 1565 it is recorded in the diary of the papal chapel choir that Cardinal Vitelli requested the choir to be assembled at his house and held a private test of some Mass settings in order to see ‘ whether the words could be understood ’.

While the psalms of Terce were being chanted, he read the prayers of preparation for Mass, during which his buskins and papal slippers were put on.

Whereas in the older papal Mass, only the pope, the deacon, and the subdeacon would receive Holy Communion, in modern Papal Masses, many communicants receive, the pope himself administering Communion to some of them.

A Mass of the Sacred Heart won papal approval for use in Poland and Portugal in 1765, and another was approved for Venice, Austria and Spain in 1788.

" Upon the death of Manuela Camagni, a Memor Domini who served in this capacity, in November 2011, she was referred to as a member of the papal family and the pope said Mass for her and sent condolences to the CL movement.

The sedia gestatoria was used for the Pope's solemn entrance into a church or hall and for his departure on the occasion of liturgical celebrations such as a papal Mass and for papal audiences.

A distaste of this nature does not constitute irregularity, but a papal dispensation is required, in order to excuse from the use of wine at the purification of the chalice and the ablution of the priest's fingers at the end of Mass.

A papal inauguration is a liturgical service of the Catholic Church within Mass celebrated in the Roman Rite but with elements of Byzantine Rite for the ecclesiastical investiture of a pope.

The modern papal inauguration, developed from the form used for John Paul I, takes place during Mass ( usually in the piazza outside Saint Peter's Basilica ) and involves the formal bestowal of the pallium, the symbol of the pope's universal jurisdiction, on the newly elected pope by the senior Cardinal Deacon.

John promptly complied, and the letter was passed to Humbert of Mourmoutiers, the cardinal-bishop of Silva Candida, who translated the letter into Latin and brought it to the Pope, who ordered a reply to be made to each charge and a defense of papal supremacy to be laid out in a response.

* The papal nuntius in Cologne, Fabio Chigi, and the Venetian envoy Alvise Contarini acted as mediators.

He had previously acted as papal apocrisiarius or legate at Constantinople, and was held in high repute for his learning and virtue.

From 1697 to 1710 he acted as papal nuncio to the Kingdom of Portugal, where he is believed to have formed those unfavourable impressions of the Jesuits which afterwards influenced his conduct towards them.

He also acted as a papal judge-delegate at that time.

In 1421 he acted as papal delegated judge in a quarrel between the king of Sweden and the bishop of Uppsala.

Little evidence of Robert's activities survives from his time as bishop, although it is known that he acted as a papal judge-delegate in 1165.

Although he was in charge of the project for the papal villa, the Villa Pamphili, now Villa Doria Pamphili, outside the Porta San Pancrazio in Rome, he may have had professional guidance on the design of the casino from the architect / engineer Girolamo Rainaldi and help with supervising its construction from his assistant Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi.

Pecci was named papal assistant in 1843.

Note the presence of multiple assistant priests and ministers, and the mitre and the papal tiara s placed on the altar

In early times the privilege of papal election was not reserved to the cardinals, and for centuries the pope was customarily a Roman priest and never a bishop from elsewhere ; to preserve apostolic succession the rite of consecrating the pope as a bishop had to be performed by someone who was already a bishop.

In 1533, Leland received papal dispensation for four benefices, on condition that he became subdeacon within two years and priest within seven.

Matthew in turn was a former Catholic priest who had left the Church to be ordained as a bishop in the Old Catholic Church, which had separated from mainstream Catholicism in 1873 over the issue of papal infallibility.

Johann Joseph Ignaz von Doellinger ( February 28, 1799 – January 14, 1890 ) was a German theologian, Catholic priest and church historian who rejected the dogma of papal infallibility.

In the Catholic Church, a priest, deacon, or bishop may be dismissed from the clerical state as a penalty for certain grave offenses, or by a papal decree granted for grave reasons.

When the officers returned to Suite 603 at 2: 30 am on January 7, they found: street maps of Manila with routes plotting the papal motorcade, a rosary, a photograph of the pontiff, bibles, crucifixes, papal confessions, and priest clothing, including robes and collars.

* Holy Orders ( Permission to marry is only given to those ordained clergy who have been fully laicized ( relieved of active ministry, and then dismissed from the clerical state, a process which is begun by the ( arch -) diocese or religious order community and is finally granted by the Roman Curia at the Vatican subject to papal approval: either the Congregation for Bishops-if the cleric was a bishop, the Congregation for the Clergy-if the cleric was a secular, or diocesan, priest or deacon, or the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life-for those clergy who are members of religious orders or secular institutes or other, unvowed societies.

The story told by Eulogius, bishop of Alexandria, in which Novatian was an archdeacon of Rome consecrated a priest by the pope to oversee the papal succession, is contradicted by Cornelius and is based on a later state of affairs in which Roman deacons were statesmen rather than religious ministers.

Following the publication of the papal bull Ad fructus uberes by Pope Martin IV in 1281, Henry supported the secular clergy against the Mendicant Orders over the question of the ' reiteration of confession ' ( the obligation to confess to their parish priest, at least once a year, sins already confessed to a friar ).

Since the reign of Paul VI, the only non-cardinals present in conclave after the pronunciation of Extra omnes (" everyone out ") by the master of papal liturgical celebrations are the master himself and the priest chosen to give a homily on the subject of electing the pope, and even they depart after the homily.

Once more at Constance, he attended the ordination of bishop Gebhard and was ordained priest himself by the papal legate.

The triple crown ( the papal tiara | tiara ) represents the pope's three functions as " supreme pastor ", " supreme teacher " and " supreme priest ".

Thus the procedures of the Church tribunal were covered by papal secrecy ( called at that time secrecy of the Holy Office ), but the crime of the priest was not: " These matters are confidential only to the procedures within the Church, but do not preclude in any way for these matters to be brought to civil authorities for proper legal adjudication.

* Joseph Jakob von Heckenstaller, priest, vicar capitular ( appointed 14 April 1803 ; was also named first a vicar general of the metropolite in Salzburg, and soon a papal delegate as " vicar capitular apostolic ", but never raised to episcopacy ; resigned 16 February 1818 ).

* Cardinal Georges Cottier ( Carouge 1922-) is a Swiss priest of the Dominican Order and emeritus theologian of the papal household.

In 1517 Pope Leo X issued a papal bull granting Fugger and his heirs the Patronage to the church and being able to choose the priest.

He was arrested for the crime of being a Catholic priest ; and instead of taking the oath against papal authority for his freedom, he refused.

The Pope heard the news from a priest whom the khan had sent as envoy to the papal court.

Eymard overcame a number of difficulties to reach his goals, including poverty in his family and in his newly founded community, his father's initial opposition to his only son ’ s desire to be a priest, years of serious illness and pain, a Jansenistic striving for inner perfection and the difficulties of getting diocesan and later papal approval for his new religious community.