While most patriarchs in the Eastern Catholic Churches have jurisdiction over a " ritual church " ( a group or diocese of a particular Eastern tradition ), all Latin Rite patriarchs, except for the Pope, have only honorary titles.

Roman Catholics view the Bishop of Rome as the " Successor of Peter " to serve as universal pastor to the entire Church, though all the particular Churches in communion with him have their own distinct pastoral heads, who, taken as a college in union with the Successor of Peter, are considered to be the subject of supreme power in the universal Church.

Other congregations specialize in a particular theology or religious practice ( UU Christian Churches in New England, for instance, or congregations which focus on the spiritual practice of justice and service ).

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.

The Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches had developed from early on the idea of infallibility of the Church — that the Church may speak entirely without error in particular councils or edicts ; or that, in a less definable way, the Church is infallibly directed so that it always stands in the truth ; and indeed, and claim that the Church has the promise of Jesus that it shall do so.

: The universal Church cannot be conceived as the sum of the particular Churches, or as a federation of particular Churches.

It is not the result of the communion of the Churches, but, in its essential mystery, it is a reality ontologically and temporally prior to every individual particular Church.

This applies both to the local particular Churches, such as dioceses or eparchies, in the Catholic Church and to the " sui iuris " ( autonomous ) Churches within it.

Although seven-shape books may not be as popular as in the past, there are still a great number of churches in the South, in particular Primitive Baptist, Independent Fundamental Baptist, and Churches of Christ, as well as Conservative Mennonites throughout North America, that regularly use seven-shape songbooks in Sunday worship.

The Eastern Catholic Churches ( historically known by the now non-complimentary term Uniate Churches, which is still in use in some areas, and also by the inaccurate term eastern-rite Churches ) are autonomous, self-governing ( in Latin, sui iuris ) particular churches in full communion with the Bishop of Rome, the Pope.

The term Eastern Catholic Churches refers to 22 of the 23 autonomous particular Churches in communion with the Bishop of Rome.

( Every diocese is a particular Church, but not an autonomous one in the sense in which the word is applied to these 22 Churches.

Theologically, all the particular Churches can be viewed as " sister Churches ".

The Second Vatican Council spoke of the Eastern Catholic Churches as " particular Churches or rites ".

It makes no difference what part of the world is involved, what form of regime, what particular issue.

The first eight of these eighteen statements, which received at least one-half of the votes, were duplicated to form an analysis checklist for the particular manager, and when this particular manager roleplayed in other situations, the members checked any items that appeared.

Thus, when more than one distinct form leads to a particular cell in the X-region, a chain of information cells must be created to accommodate the forms, one cell in the chain for each form.

The following items may be specified in actual or symbolic form in the operands of those instructions which refer to the particular items: channel, unit, combined channel and unit, combined arm and file, unit record synchronizers, inquiry synchronizers, and alteration switches.

Although the particular form of conceptualization which popular imagination had made in response to the experience of spirit was undoubtedly defective, the raw experience itself which led to such excesses remains with us as vividly as ever.

Plato in Cratylus connects the name with ( apolysis ), " redeem ", with ( apolousis ), " purification ", and with ( aploun ), " simple ", in particular in reference to the Thessalian form of the name,, and finally with ( aeiballon ), " ever-shooting ".

ANOVA is a particular form of statistical hypothesis testing heavily used in the analysis of experimental data.

Although " android " is used almost universally to refer to both sexes, and those of no particular sex, " android " technically refers to the male form, while " gynoid " is the feminine form.

When looking at variations it needs to be kept in mind that different groups of people do not always sign one way and not the other, rather they prefer and use a particular form of a sign more often.

The term may also refer to the physical region where the electron can be calculated to be, as defined by the particular mathematical form of the orbital.

" Thus Ambrose refused to be drawn into a false conflict over which particular local church had the " right " liturgical form where there was no substantial problem.

They are usually considered closest in form to British broadside ballads and in terms of style are largely indistinguishable, however, they demonstrate a particular concern with occupations, journalistic style and often lack the ribaldry of British broadside ballads.

The different regulatory arrangements sometimes result in particular technologies being developed first for either the U. S. or in Europe depending on the more favorable form of regulation.

According to Berlet and Lyons, " Conspiracism is a particular narrative form of scapegoating that frames demonized enemies as part of a vast insidious plot against the common good, while it valorizes the scapegoater as a hero for sounding the alarm ".

This form of utilitarianism holds that what matters is the aggregate happiness ; the happiness of everyone and not the happiness of any particular person.

Speakers of Czech and Slovak usually understand both languages in their written and spoken form, thus constituting a pluricentric language, though some dialects or heavily accented speech in either language might present difficulties to speakers of the other ( in particular, Czech speakers may find Eastern Slovak dialects difficult to comprehend ).

Conservative Jews who reject the concept of verbal revelation believe that God revealed his will to Moses and other prophets in a non-verbal form — that is, God's revelation did not include the particular words of the divine texts.

As a consequence, in particular, in the system of coordinates given by the polar representation, the equations then take the form

Besides the advantages offered by such a plan, in setting immediately before the eyes of the student the final results of the investigation in a more concrete form, and thereby rendering easier his insight into the nature of particular Indo-European languages, there is, I think, another of no less importance gained by it, namely that it shows the baselessness of the assumption that the non-Indian Indo-European languages were derived from Old-Indian ( Sanskrit ).

A Covenant-breaker or the act of Covenant-breaking is a term used by Bahá ' ís to refer to a particular form of what some might call " heresy ".

The particular form of Palden Lhamo at Lhamo La-tso is Gyelmo Maksorma, " The Victorious One who Turns Back Enemies ".

These summaries may either form the basis of the initial description of the data as part of a more extensive statistical analysis, or they may be sufficient in and of themselves for a particular investigation.

It is this spirit which explains some of the anomalies of American Catholic higher education, in particular the wasteful duplication apparent in some areas.

Thus, a Rabbi, a Catholic priest, and an agnostic might agree that, in this particular case, the best approach is to withhold extraordinary medical care, while disagreeing on the reasons that support their individual positions.

Towards the end of Steiner's life, a group of theology students ( primarily Lutheran, with some Roman Catholic members ) approached Steiner for help in reviving Christianity, in particular " to bridge the widening gulf between modern science and the world of spirit.

Stoutly Catholic, the inhabitants have retained some of their past as can be still seen in their own particular style of costume.

In parallel with these philosophies Thomism continued under the protection of the Catholic Church ; in particular, the Jesuit order.

The Catholic Church comprises those particular churches, headed by bishops, in communion with the Pope, the Bishop of Rome, as its highest authority in matters of faith, morality and Church governance.

Decisions of Catholic Church councils — in particular, those of the Council of Tours ( 1163 ) and of the Third Council of the Lateran ( 1179 )— had scarcely more effect upon the Cathars.

Visiting Ireland also gave him the opportunity to preach against what he saw as the excesses of the Roman Catholic Church, in particular the use of ritual.

African culture thus remained strong among slaves to the end of French rule, in particular the folk-religion of Vodou, which commingled Catholic liturgy and ritual with the beliefs and practices of Guinea, Congo, and Dahomey.

Some of them founded Action Française in 1898, during the Dreyfus Affair ; it became an influential movement throughout the 1930s, in particular among the conservative Catholic intellectuals.

The encyclical acknowledges that " perhaps not everyone will easily accept this particular teaching ", but points out that the Roman Catholic Church cannot " declare lawful what is in fact unlawful ", because she is concerned with " safeguarding the holiness of marriage, in order to guide married life to its full human and Christian perfection.

Some secularists reject the use of " Judeo-Christian " as a code-word for a particular kind of Christian America, with scant regard to modern Jewish, Catholic, or Christian traditions, including the liberal strains of different faiths, such as Reform Judaism and liberal Protestant Christianity.

Pacelli, who knew German conditions well, emphasized in particular protection for Catholic associations (§ 31 ), freedom for education and Catholic schools, and freedom for publications.

" In modern times a minority of Roman Catholic theologians have argued that polygyny, though not ideal, can be a legitimate form of Christian marriage in certain regions, in particular Africa.

At the same time, Aristotelian rhetoric, owing to a revival of Thomistic philosophy initiated by Rome, regained ground in what was left of Catholic education in France, in particular at the prestigious Faculty of Theology of Paris, now a private entity.

The Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue is the central office of the Catholic Church for the promotion of interreligious dialogue in accordance with the spirit of the Second Vatican Council, in particular the declaration Nostra Aetate.

For instance, in Germany, theological faculties at state universities are typically tied to particular denominations, Protestant or Roman Catholic, and those faculties will offer denominationally bound ( konfessionsgebunden ) degrees, and have denominationally bound public posts amongst their faculty ; as well as contributing ‘ to the development and growth of Christian knowledge ’ they ‘ provide the academic training for the future clergy and teachers of religious instruction at German schools .’

Some groups venerate their ancestors ; some faith communities, in particular the Catholic Church, venerate saints as intercessors with God.

The theses debated and criticized the Church and the Pope, but concentrated upon the selling of indulgences and doctrinal policies about purgatory, particular judgment, Catholic devotion to Mary, " The Mother of God ", the intercession of and devotion to the saints, most of the sacraments, the mandatory clerical celibacy, including monasticism, and the authority of the Pope.

Ironically, although Portugal introduced Christianity and the customs related to Catholic practice to Brazil, the country has begun to adopt some aspects of Brazilian-style Carnival celebrations, in particular those of Rio de Janeiro with sumptuous parades, samba and other Brazilian musical elements.

Brace feared the impact of the parents ' poverty, in general, and their Catholic religion, in particular, on the youth.

For example, in both Protestant & Catholic churches, the plants brought in to decorate for the holiday may be each " sponsored " by individuals in memory of a particular loved one, or in honor of a living person on a significant occasion, such as their Confirmation day.

The type of rosary and number of beads may vary between religious communities, depending on a particular Catholic devotion.