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  2. Religious order (Catholic) - Wikipedia

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    Another difference was that a professed religious of solemn vows lost the right to own property and the capacity to acquire temporal goods for themselves, but a professed religious of simple vows, while being prohibited by the vow of poverty from using and administering property, kept ownership and the right to acquire more, unless the ...

  3. Jesuit formation - Wikipedia

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    Jesuit formation, or the training of Jesuits, is the process by which candidates are prepared for ordination or brotherly service in the Society of Jesus, the world's largest male Catholic religious order. The process is based on the Constitution of the Society of Jesus written by Ignatius of Loyola and approved in 1550. There are various ...

  4. Dominican Order - Wikipedia

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    The Order of Preachers (Latin: Ordo Prædicatorum, abbreviated OP), commonly known as the Dominican Order, is a Catholic mendicant order of pontifical right that was founded in France by a Castilian priest named Dominic de Guzmán. It was approved by Pope Honorius III via the papal bull Religiosam vitam on 22 December 1216.

  5. Catholic higher education - Wikipedia

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    By definition, Catholic canon law states that "A Catholic school is understood to be one which is under control of the competent ecclesiastical authority or of a public ecclesiastical juridical person, or one which in a written document is acknowledged as Catholic by the ecclesiastical authority" (Can. 803). Although some schools are deemed ...

  6. Jesuits - Wikipedia

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    The donation of a hacienda to the Jesuits was the spark igniting a conflict between 17th-century Bishop Don Juan de Palafox of Puebla and the Jesuit colegio in that city. Since the Jesuits resisted paying the tithe on their estates, this donation effectively took revenue out of the church hierarchy's pockets by removing it from the tithe rolls.

  7. Friar - Wikipedia

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    There are also Dominican Orders within the Anglican Communion, such as the Order of Christ the Saviour. [5] The Augustinians, founded in 1244 (the "Little Union") and enlarged in 1256 (the Grand Union). They are also known as the Hermits of St. Augustine or the Austin Friars. Their rule is based on the writings of Augustine of Hippo. The ...

  8. Lay brother - Wikipedia

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    Lay brother is a largely extinct term referring to religious brothers, particularly in the Catholic Church, who focused upon manual service and secular matters, and were distinguished from choir monks or friars in that they did not pray in choir, and from clerics, in that they were not in possession of (or preparing for) holy orders.

  9. Congregatio de Auxiliis - Wikipedia

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    What the Jesuits attacked was the Dominican theory of predetermination, which they regarded as incompatible with human freedom. [ 2 ] The debates continued for five years and in 1594 became public and turbulent at Valladolid , where the Jesuit Antonio de Padilla and the Dominican Diego Nuño defended their respective positions.