Formerly these offices as well as those of the other chancery officers from the Regent down were occasions of venality, until popes, especially Benedict XIV and Pius VII, gradually abolish that.

Benedict XIV ( Const.

Meanwhile, under the direction of Benedict XIV ( pope 1740 – 1758 ), a special congregation collected much material for an official revision, but nothing was published.

This view was reinforced by Pope Benedict XIV, who ordered a ban on Chinese rituals.

* A manual of theology in 4 vols, Theologia eclectica, moralis et scholastica ( Augsburg, 1752 ; revised by Pope Benedict XIV for the 1753 edition published at Bologna )

Also Lord Chesterfield, Thomas Gray, George Lyttelton, Thomas Hollis, Metastasio, Benedict XIV and Heinrich von Brühl were among his correspondents

* 1751 – Pope Benedict XIV suppresses the Patriarchate of Aquileia and establishes from its territory the Archdiocese of Udine and Gorizia.

In 1750, on the illness of her father, she was appointed by Pope Benedict XIV to the chair of mathematics and natural philosophy and physics at Bologna.

* 1675 – Pope Benedict XIV ( d. 1758 )

At first, he called himself Benedict XIV, but afterwards altered the title to Benedict XIII ( the previous Benedict XIII having been considered an antipope ).

A man fond above all of asceticism and religious celebrations, according to Cardinal Lambertini ( later Pope Benedict XIV ) he " did not have any idea about how to rule ".

Pope Benedict XIV ( 31 March 1675 – 3 May 1758 ), born Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini, was Pope from 17 August 1740 to 3 May 1758.

Benedict XIV denounced these practices in these two bulls.

Bust of Benedict XIV by Pietro Bracci, Museum of Grenoble

On 22 December 1741, Benedict XIV promulgated the papal bull " Immensa Pastorum principis " against the enslavement of the indigenous peoples of the Americas and other countries.

On 18 May 1743, Benedict XIV signed a document addressed to the Archbishops and Bishops of the Kingdom of Poland regarding marriage, communicating his dissatisfaction with the dissolution of Christian marriages, even long-stable ones, by the Ecclesiastical Courts of Poland without due cause or in violation of canon law.

Benedict XIV was also responsible, along with Cardinal Passionei, for beginning the catalogue of the Vatican Library.

Tomb of Benedict XIV, St. Peter's basilica.

* Castrato – Benedict XIV was one of the first Popes to voice displeasure regarding the use of castrated males in Church choir services.

* Cardinals created by Benedict XIV

* Pope Benedict XIV Portrait at the Vatican Museum.

simple: Pope Benedict XIV

It speaks volumes that despite his involvement in the murders of Benedict VI and John XIV, and the atrocities that ensued once he became pope in 984, he still had enough support to keep him in power for eleven months.

* Critics of sedevacantism argue that this also means that the theory advanced by the seventeenth-century theologian and Doctor of the Church Robert Bellarmine that a pope who fell into heresy would automatically forfeit his office and could be formally deposed has been overruled by Church authority by Benedict XIV in " De Synodo Dioecesano " ( 10, 1, 5 ) and by the 1917 Code of Canon Law, Can.

To the north and south of the rock of the Doms, partly on the site of the Bishop's Palace, which had been enlarged by John XXII, was built the Palace of the Popes, in the form of an imposing fortress consisting of towers, linked to each other, and named as follows: De la Campane, de Trouillas, de la Glacière, de Saint-Jean, des Saints-Anges ( Benedict XII ), de la Gâche, de la Garde-Robe ( Clement VI ), de Saint-Laurent ( Innocent VI ).

* Benedict of Peterborough's ( Benedictus Abbas ) De vita et gestis Henrici II.

*" The Journey of Benedict Goës from Agra to Cathay "-Henry Yule's translation of the relevant chapters of De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas, with detailed notes and an introduction.

After revelations concerning sex abuse of seminarians by founder Marcial Maciel Pope Benedict XVI appointed Cardinal Velasio De Paolis his delegate to examine the Legionaries ’ constitution and conduct a visitation of its lay affiliate Regnum Christi.

As a result of the visitation, Benedict XVI named Archbishop ( now Cardinal ) Velasio De Paolis as the Papal Delegate to oversee the Legion and its governance on July 9, 2010.

On June 11, 2007 Pope Benedict XVI issued a Motu Proprio beginning with the words Constitutione Apostolica, subtitled De aliquibus mutationibus in normis de electione romani pontificis which reinstates the traditional norms for the vote required to elect the Pope.

Charles De Koninck ( 1906 – 1965 ), James A. Weisheipl ( 1923 – 1984 ), William A. Wallace, and Benedict Ashley are among its representatives.

It was used by Christ Himself, by St. Paul, by St. Cyril of Jerusalem, by St. Clement and Origen at Alexandria, by St. Augustine, who wrote a special treatise thereon ( De catechizandis rudibus ), also, in later times, by Gerson, chancellor of the University of Paris, who wrote " De parvulis ad Christum trahendis "; Clement XI and Benedict XIV gave to it all the weight of their authority, and one of the greatest of all catechists was St. Charles Borromeo.

It cites its sources thus: “ See her life, compiled by a contemporary writer, and published by Papebroke, the Bollandist, on the 27th of April, p. 497, and Benedict XIV De Canoniz.

There was some discussion in the eighteenth century as to whether a stepfather could marry the widow of his deceased stepson ; but it was authoritatively decided, as Benedict XIV states ( De Syn.

Pope Benedict XVI named Velasio De Paolis as Sebastiani's successor.

Canonically, only two distinctions were ever of any consequence: first, that between those who entered religion " per modum professionis " and " per modum simplicis conversionis " the former being monachi and the later oblati ; secondly, that between the oblate who was " mortuus mundo " (" dead to the world ," that is, who had given himself and his goods to religion without reservation ), and the oblate who retained some control over his person and his possessions – the former only ( plene oblatus ) was accounted a persona ecclesiastica, with enjoyment of ecclesiastical privileges and immunity ( Benedict XIV, " De Synodo Dioce.

* Peace ( 2010 ), featuring Benedict Philipp, Joshua Madine, Tom Cully, Stefan Leadbeater, James Threadgill, Jakob De Menezes-Wood, Daniel Fontannaz, James Mordaunt and Ralph Skan as vocal soloists.

According to John L. Allen, Jr., " In addition, three decades of bishops ’ appointments by John Paul II and Benedict XVI, both unambiguously committed to “ Humanae Vitae ,” mean that senior leaders in Catholicism these days are far less inclined than they were in 1968 to distance themselves from the ban on birth control, or to soft-pedal it.

Ruth Benedict made a distinction, relevant in this context, between " guilt " societies ( e. g., medieval Europe ) with an " internal reference standard ", and " shame " societies ( e. g., Japan, " bringing shame upon one's ancestors ") with an " external reference standard ", where people look to their peers for feedback on whether an action is " acceptable " or not ( also known as " group-think ").

", i. e., " Benedict XVI, Pontifex Maximus, in the year of Our Lord 2005, the first year of his pontificate.

*" St. Benedict XI., Pope and Confessor ", Butler's Lives of the Saints

Pope Benedict XIII ( 2 February 1650 – 21 February 1730 ), born Pietro Francesco Orsini, later Friar Vincenzo Maria Orsini, O. P., was pope from 1724 until his death.

** Benedict J. Semmes, Jr., American admiral ( d. 1994 )

These included Lt. General Ben Lear, Colonel Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lt. General Walter Krueger, General George S. Patton, Jr., and Major J. L. Benedict.

'" The script was written in English by Gibson and Benedict Fitzgerald, then translated by William Fulco, S. J., a professor at Loyola Marymount University, into Latin, reconstructed Aramaic, and Hebrew.

* Les moines d ' Occident depuis saint Benoît jusqu ' à saint Bernard ( The Monks of the West from St. Benedict to St. Bernard ) ( Paris: J. Lecoffre Fils et Cie., 1877 )

MaryAnn Baenninger, Ph. D., is the fourteenth president of the College of Saint Benedict.

On Monday, December 12, 2011, Pope Benedict appointed the Reverend Fathers Gaetan Proulx, O. S. M., and Denis Grondin, Jr. as Auxiliary Bishops-elect of the Archdiocese of Quebec to serve under Archbishop Lacroix.

In 1825, Benedict Joseph Fenwick, S. J., a Jesuit from Maryland, became the second Bishop of Boston.

Benedict Joseph Fenwick, S. J., on May 6, 1810, at St. Peter's Church in Manhattan.

Pope Benedict XVI completed his graduate ( major seminary ) theological studies for the priesthood here before his presbyteral Ordination on 29 June 1951 ; he was ordained along with his older brother, the now-famous boys ' choir director, Monsignor Georg Ratzinger, P. A., by Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber.

* St Benedict of Nursia, 6th cent., Italy, author of the so-called Rule of St Benedict, regarded as the founder of western monasticism

The British then launched their attack on Washington, D. C., from their warships in the Patuxent at Benedict.

* In 1780, HMS Vulture, a Swan class sloop bearing 16 six-pounders and a crew of 99 seamen delivered Major John Andre to his meeting with General Benedict Arnold, near Haverstraw, N. Y., to finalize plans for Arnold's surrender of West Point to the British.

In 2001, a four-issue limited series titled Excalibur, featuring Captain Britain, Meggan, Psylocke, Black Knight, Sir Benedict, Captain U. K., and Crusader X, and written by Raab, detailed Captain Britain's rise to become king of the extra-dimensional realm of Otherworld.

" The League includes on its website endorsements from such prominent clerics as Cardinal Edward Egan ( former Archbishop of New York ), Cardinal Roger Mahony ( former Archbishop of Los Angeles ), Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver, and Archbishop Edwin O ' Brien of Baltimore, as well as Father Benedict Groeschel, C. F. R., all of whom have endorsed the League's activities and exhorted Catholics to become members.

The current Camerlengo is Tarcisio Bertone, S. D. B., appointed by Pope Benedict XVI in 2007.

Founded on 16 March 1976, by Brother Benedict Kirby, O. Ss. S., it is the only Brigittine monastery of men in the world and the first since the nineteenth century when they were dispersed, largely due to the European wars.

Shortly after his ordination, Kenrick accepted an invitation from Bishop Benedict Joseph Flaget, P. S. S., to join the Diocese of Bardstown, Kentucky, in the United States.