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Ibagué
Suffragan of Bogotá, in the Republic of Colombia, South America.
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Ibar, Saint
A pre-Patrician Irish saint, who laboured in the present County Wexford from 425 to 450, recognized the jurisdiction of St. Patrick, and was confirmed in his episcopacy.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07613b.htm
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Ibarra
Diocese in Southern Ecuador, suffragan of Quito, created by Pius IX.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07613c.htm
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Ibas
Elected Bishop of Edessa in 439 as successor of Rabbulas, one of the most ardent supporters of St. Cyril; d. 457.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07614a.htm
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Iberville, Pierre Le Moyne, Sieur d'
Founder of the colony of Louisiana, b. at Villemarie, Montreal, 16 July, 1661; d. at Havana, 9 July, 1706.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07614b.htm
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Ibora
A titular see in the Province of Helenopont, suffragan of Amasia.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07615a.htm
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Iceland
The island called Iceland, is considered, because of its population and history as forming a part of Europe, is situated in the North Atlantic Ocean.
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Ichthys (Fish), Symbolism of the
The symbol itself may have been suggested by the miraculous multification of the loaves and fishes or the repast of the seven Disciples, after the Resurrection, on the shore of the Sea of Galilee, but its popularity among Christians was due principal
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06083a.htm
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Iconium
A titular see of Lycaonia.
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Iconoclasm
The name of the heresy that in the eighth and ninth centuries disturbed the peace of the Eastern Church, caused the last of the many breaches with Rome that prepared the way for the schism of Photius, and was echoed on a smaller scale in the Frankish
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07620a.htm
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Iconography, Christian
The science of the description, history, and interpretation of the traditional representations of God, the saints and other sacred subjects in art.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07625a.htm
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Iconostasis
A great screen or partition running from side to side of the apse or across the entire end of the church, which divides the sanctuary from the body of the church, and is built of solid materials such as stone, metal, or wood, and which reaches often
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Idaho
Probably from an Arapahoe Indian word, "Gem of the Mountains", the name first suggested for the territory of Colorado.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07627a.htm
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Idatius of Lemica
Chronicler and bishop. (d. 468)
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Idea
The word was originally Greek, but passed without change into Latin. It seems first to have meant form, shape, or appearance, whence, by an easy transition, it acquired the connotation of nature, or kind.
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Idealism
The characteristic of those who regard the ideas of truth and right, goodness and beauty, as standards and directive forces.
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Ideas, Association of
A principle in psychology to account for the succession of mental states.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02004a.htm
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Idioms, Communication of
A technical expression in the theology of the Incarnation. It means that the properties of the Divine Word can be ascribed to the man Christ, and that the properties of the man Christ can be predicated of the Word.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04169a.htm
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Idiota
The nom de plume of an ancient, learned, and pious writer whose identity remained unknown for some centuries.
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Idolatry
Etymologically denotes divine worship given to an image, but its signification has been extended to all divine worship given to anyone or anything but the true God.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07636a.htm
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Idumea
The country inhabited by the descendants of Edom.
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Iglesias de la Casa, José
A Spanish of the coterie gathered about Meléndez, Valdés, born at Salamanca, 31 October, 1748; died 1791.
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Iglesias, Diocese of
A suffragan of Cagliari in Sardinia.
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Ignacio de Azevedo, Blessed
Portuguese Jesuit, missionary to Brazil, martyred with thirty-nine companions by Huguenot pirates near the island of Palma in 1570.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07639b.htm
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Ignatius Loyola, Saint
Founder of the Jesuits. (1491-1556)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07639c.htm
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Ignatius of Antioch, Saint
Bishop of Antioch. (d. c. 115)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07644a.htm
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Ignatius of Constantinople, Saint
Patriarch of Constantinople. (799-877)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07647a.htm
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Igneus, Blessed Peter
Peter Igneus, so-called because he successfully underwent trial by fire. Vallombrosian monk, Cardinal of Albano, d. 1089.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11768c.htm
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Ignorance
Lack of knowledge about a thing in a being capable of knowing.
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IHS
A monogram of the name of Jesus Christ.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07649a.htm
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Ildephonsus, Saint
Archbishop of Toledo. (d. 667)
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Illegitimacy
As generally defined, and as understood in this article, illegitimacy denotes the condition of children born out of wedlock.
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Illinois
One of the United States of America, bounded on the north by Wisconsin, on the west by the Mississippi, which separates it from Iowa and Missouri, on the south by the confluent waters of the Mississippi and the Ohio, which separate it from Kentucky,
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07653a.htm
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Illinois Indians
An important confederacy of Algonquian tribes formerly occupying the greater part of the present state of Illinois, together with the adjacent portions of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Missouri.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07660a.htm
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Illtyd, Saint
Fifth-century Welsh saint.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07661a.htm
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Illuminated Manuscripts
A large number of manuscripts covered with painted ornaments.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09620a.htm
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Illuminati
False Spanish mystics.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16046a.htm
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Illuminati
Secret society founded in 1776.
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Illuminative Way
The word state is used in various senses by theologians and spiritual writers.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14254a.htm
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Illyria
A district of the Balkan Peninsula, which has varied in extent at different periods.
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Images, Veneration of
It is an uncompromising attitude in the late Jewish history, together with the apparently obvious meaning of the First Commandment, that are responsible for the common idea that Jews had no images.
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Imagination
The faculty of representing to oneself sensible objects independently of an actual impression of those objects on our senses.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07672a.htm
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Imbonati, Carlo Giuseppe
Cistercian of the Reform of St. Bernard, orientalist, biographer, theologian; born at Milan; flourished in the latter half of the seventeenth century.
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Imhof, Maximus von
German physicist, born 26 July, 1758, at Rissbach, in Bavaria; died 11 April, 1817 at Munich.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07674b.htm
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Imitation of Christ
A work of spiritual devotion, also sometimes called the "Following of Christ". Its purpose is to instruct the soul in Christian perfection with Christ as the Divine Model.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07674c.htm
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Immaculate Conception
In the Constitution Ineffabilis Deus of 8 December, 1854, Pius IX pronounced and defined that the Blessed Virgin Mary "in the first instance of her conception, by a singular privilege and grace granted by God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, t
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07674d.htm
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Immaculate Conception, Congregation of the
Article covers several groups of this name.
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Immanence
Latin, in manere, to remain in. The quality of any action which begins and ends within the agent.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07682a.htm
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Immanuel
Signifies "God with us" (Matthew 1:23), and is the name of the child predicted in Isaias 7:14: "Behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and his name shall be called Emmanuel".
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05404a.htm
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Immortality
By immortality is ordinarily understood the doctrine that the human soul will survive death, continuing in the possession of an endless conscious existence.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07687a.htm
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Immunity
An exemption from a legal obligation (munus), imposed on a person or his property by law, custom, or the order of a superior.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07690a.htm
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Imola
Diocese; suffragan of Bologna.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07692a.htm
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Imola, Innocenzo di Pietro Francucci da
Italian painter; b. at Imola, c. 1494; d. at Bologna, c. 1550.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07693a.htm
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Impanation
An heretical doctrine according to which Christ is in the Eucharist through His human body substantially united with the substances of bread and wine, and thus is really present as God, made bread.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07694a.htm
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Impediments, Canonical
Canon law uses the word impediment in its restricted and technical sense, only in reference to marriage, while impediments to Holy orders are spoken of as irregularities.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07695a.htm
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Imperative, Categorical
A term which originated in Immanuel Kant's ethics.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03432a.htm
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Imperfect Contrition
The Council of Trent has defined contrition as "sorrow of soul, and a hatred of sin committed, with a firm purpose of not sinning in the future".
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02065a.htm
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Imposition of Hands
A symbolical ceremony by which one intends to communicate to another some favour, quality or excellence (principally of a spiritual kind), or to depute another to some office.
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Impostors
That there would be hypocrites who would take advantage of a profession of piety to mask their own evil designs had been clearly foretold by Christ in the Gospels.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07698b.htm
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Improperia
The reproaches which in the liturgy of the Office of Good Friday the Saviour is made to utter against the Jews, who, in requital for all the Divine favours and particularly for the delivery from the bondage of Egypt and safe conduct into the Promised
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07703a.htm
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In Commendam
A phrase used in canon law to designate a certain manner of collating an ecclesiastical benefice.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07719a.htm
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In Cœna Domini
A papal Bull, so called from the feast on which it was annually published in Rome, viz, the feast of the Lord's Supper, or Maundy Thursday.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07717c.htm
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In Partibus Infidelium
A term meaning "in the lands of the unbelievers," words added to the name of the see conferred on non-residential or titular Latin bishops.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08025a.htm
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In Petto
An Italian translation of the Latin in pectore, "in the breast", i.e. in the secret of the heart.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08025b.htm
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Incardination and Excardination
In the ecclesiastical sense the words are used to denote that a given person is freed from the jurisdiction of one bishop and is transferred to that of another.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07704a.htm
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Incarnate Word and Blessed Sacrament, Order of the
Founded in the early part of the seventeenth century by Jeanne Chezard de Matel.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07706a.htm
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Incarnate Word, Sisters of Charity of the
This congregation, with simple vows, was founded by Rt. Rev. C.M. Dubuis, Bishop of Galveston.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07705a.htm
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Incarnation, The
The Incarnation is the mystery and the dogma of the Word made Flesh.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07706b.htm
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Incense
An aromatic substance which is obtained from certain resinous trees and largely employed for purposes of religious worship.
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Incest
Sexual intercourse between those who are related by blood or marriage.
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Inchbald, Elizabeth
Novelist, dramatist, and actress; b. at Staningfield, near Bury St. Edmunds, 15 Oct., 1753; d. at Kensington, London, 1 Aug., 1821.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07717b.htm
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Incorporation of Church Property, Civil
Christianity at its very beginning, found the concept of the corporation well developed under Roman law and widely and variously organized in Roman society. It was a concept that the early Christians soon adapted to their organization and, as a means
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Index of Prohibited Books
The exact list or catalogue of books, the reading of which was once forbidden to Catholics by the highest ecclesiastical authority.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07721a.htm
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India
The peninsula is separated on the north from Tibet and Central Asia by the Himalaya, Hindu Kush, and Karakoram mountains, and some lower ranges divide it from Afghanistan and Baluchistan.
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Indian Missions, Bureau of Catholic
An institution originated (1874) by J. Roosevelt Barley, Archbishop of Baltimore, for the protection and promotion of Catholic Indian mission interests in the United States of America.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07745a.htm
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Indiana
One of the United States of America, the nineteenth in point of admission.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07738a.htm
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Indianapolis
Diocese; suffragan of Cincinnati, established as the Diocese of Vincennes in 1834, but by brief dated 28 March, and promulgated 30 April, 1898, the pope changed the see to Indianapolis.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07744a.htm
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Indians, American
History, customs, and language are covered here.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07747a.htm
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Indies, Patriarchate of the East
In consequence of an agreement between the Holy See and the Portuguese Government in 1886.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07758a.htm
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Indifferentism, Religious
The term given, in general, to all those theories, which, for one reason or another, deny that it is the duty of man to worship God by believing and practicing the one true religion.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07759a.htm
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Individual, Individuality
An individual being is defined by St. Thomas as "quod est in se indivisum, ab aliis vero divisum" (a being undivided in itself but separated from other beings).
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Individualism
The tendency to magnify individual liberty, as against external authority, and individual activity, as against associated activity.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07761a.htm
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Indo-China
The most easterly of the three great peninsulas of Southern Asia, is bounded on the north by the mountains of Assam, the Plateau of Yun-nan, and the mountains of Kwang-si; on the east by the province of Kwang-si (Canton), the Gulf of Tong-king, and t
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Induction
Induction is the conscious mental process by which we pass from the perception of particular phenomena (things and events) to the knowledge of general truths.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07779a.htm
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Indulgences
A remission of the temporal punishment due to sin, the guilt of which has been forgiven.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07783a.htm
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Indulgences, Apostolic
Those which the Roman pontiff, the successor of the Prince of the Apostles, attaches to the crosses, crucifixes, chaplets, rosaries, images, and medals which he blesses, either with his own hand or by those to whom he has delegated this faculty.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07788a.htm
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Indult, Pontifical
General faculties granted by the Holy See to bishops and others, of doing something not permitted by the common law.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07789a.htm
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Ine, Saint
King of West Saxons, d. 728.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07789b.htm
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Infallibility
In general, exemption or immunity from liability to error or failure; in particular in theological usage, the supernatural prerogative by which the Church of Christ is, by a special Divine assistance, preserved from liability to error in her definiti
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07790a.htm
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Infamy
Loss of a good name.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08001a.htm
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Infanticide
Child-murder; the killing of an infant before or after birth.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08001b.htm
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Infessura, Stefano
Lawyer and antipapal chronicler. (1435-1500)
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08002a.htm
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Infidels
As in ecclesiastical language those who by baptism have received faith in Jesus Christ and have pledged Him their fidelity and called the faithful, so the name infidel is given to those who have not been baptized.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08002b.htm
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Infinity
The infinite, as the word indicates, is that which has no end, no limit, no boundary, and therefore cannot be measured by a finite standard, however often applied; it is that which cannot be attained by successive addition, not exhausted by successiv
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08004a.htm
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Infralapsarians
The name given to a party of Dutch Calvinists in the seventeenth century, who sought to mitigate the rigour of Calvin's doctrine concerning absolute predestination.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08007a.htm
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Ingen-Housz, Jan
Investigator of the physiology of plants, physicist, and physician. (1730-1799)
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Inghirami, Giovanni
Italian astronomer, b. at Volterra, Tuscany, 16 April, 1779; d. at Florence, 15 August, 1851.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08007b.htm
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Ingleby, Venerable Francis
English martyr, born about 1551; suffered at York on Friday, 3 June, 1586.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08007c.htm
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Ingolstadt, University of
Founded by Louis the Rich, Duke of Bavaria.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08007d.htm
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Ingram, Venerable John
English martyr, born at Stoke Edith, Herefordshire, in 1565; executed at Newcastle-on-Tyne, 26 July, 1594.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08008a.htm
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Ingres, Jean-Auguste Dominique
A French painter, b. at Montauban, 29 August, 1780; d. at Paris, 14 January, 1867.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08008b.htm
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Ingulf
Abbot of Croyland, Lincolnshire; d. there 17 December 1109.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08010a.htm
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Ingworth, Richard of
A Franciscan preacher who flourished about 1225.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08010b.htm
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Injustice
The violation of another's strict right against his reasonable will, and the value of the word right is determined to be the moral power of having or doing or exacting something in support or furtherance of one's own advantage.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08010c.htm
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Innocent I, Pope
Reigned 401-417.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08011a.htm
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Innocent II, Pope
Reigned 1130-1143.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08012a.htm
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Innocent III, Pope
Reigned 1198-1216.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08013a.htm
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Innocent IV, Pope
Reigned 1243-1254.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08017a.htm
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Innocent IX, Pope
Reigned 1591.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08020a.htm
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Innocent V, Blessed Pope
Reigned 1276.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08018a.htm
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Innocent VI, Pope
Reigned 1352-1362.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08018b.htm
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Innocent VII, Pope
Reigned 1406.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08019a.htm
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Innocent VIII, Pope
Reigned 1484-1492.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08019b.htm
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Innocent X, Pope
Reigned 1644-1655.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08020b.htm
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Innocent XI, Pope
Reigned 1676-89.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08021a.htm
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Innocent XII, Pope
Reigned 1691-1700.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08022a.htm
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Innocent XIII, Pope
Reigned 1721-24.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08023a.htm
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Innsbruck University
Opened at Innsbruck in 1562 by Blessed Peter Canisius, at the request and on the foundation of the Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08024b.htm
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Inquisition
By this term is usually meant a special ecclesiastical institutional for combating or suppressing heresy.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08026a.htm
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Inquisition, Canonical
Either extra-judicial or judicial: the former might be likened to a coroner's inquest in civil law; while the latter is similar to an investigation by the grand jury.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08038a.htm
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Insane, Asylums and Care for the
The Church, from the earliest times, arranged for the care of the insane.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08038b.htm
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Insanity
The dividing line between sanity and insanity, like the line that distinguishes a man of average height from a tall man, can be described only in terms of a moral estimate.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08041a.htm
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Inscriptions, Early Christian
Divided into three main classes: sepulchral inscriptions, epigraphic records, and inscriptions concerning private life.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08042a.htm
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Inspiration of the Bible
Covered in four sections, I. Belief in Inspired books; II. Nature of Inspiration; III. Extent of Inspiration; IV. Protestant Views on the Inspiration of the Bible.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08045a.htm
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Installation
This word, strictly speaking, applies to the solemn induction of a canon into the stall or seat which he is to occupy in the choir of a cathedral or collegiate church.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08050a.htm
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Instinct
The term usually includes the idea of a purposive adaptation of an action or series of actions in an organized being, not governed by consciousness of the end to be attained.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08050b.htm
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Institute of Mary
The official title of the second congregation founded by Mary Ward.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08054a.htm
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Institute of Mission Helpers of the Sacred Heart
There are houses of the institute in New York, Trenton, Porto Rico, and Baltimore.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08055a.htm
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Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Irish
Founded by Frances Mary Teresa Ball, under the direction and episcopal jurisdiction of the Most Rev. D. Murray, Archbishop of Dublin.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08055b.htm
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Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools
A society of male religious approved by the Church, but not taking Holy orders, and having for its object the personal sanctification of its members and the Christian education of youth, especially of the children of artisans and the poor.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08056a.htm
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Institutes, Roman Historical
Collegiate bodies established at Rome by ecclesiastical or civil authority for the purpose of historical research, notably in the Vatican archives.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08061a.htm
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Institution, Canonical
In its strictest sense the word denotes the collation of an ecclesiastical benefice by a legitimate authority, on the presentation of a candidate by a third person.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08065a.htm
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Intellect
The faculty of thought.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08066a.htm
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Intendencia Oriental y Llanos de San Martín
Vicariate Apostolic in the province of Saint Martin, Colombia, South America, created 24 March, 1908, and entrusted to the Society of Mary.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08069a.htm
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Intention
An act of the will by which that faculty efficaciously desires to reach an end by employing the means.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08069b.htm
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Intercession
To go or come between two parties, to plead before one of them on behalf of the other.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08070a.htm
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Intercession, Episcopal
The right to intercede for criminals, which was granted by the secular power to the bishops of the Early Church.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08072a.htm
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Interdict
Originally in Roman law, an interlocutory edict of the praetor, especially in matter affecting the right of possession; it still preserves this meaning in both Roman and canon law.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08073a.htm
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Interest (in Economics)
A value exacted or promised over and above the restitution of a borrowed capital.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08077a.htm
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Interest (in Psychology)
Defined as a kind of consciousness accompanying and stimulating attention, a feeling pleasant or painful directing attention, the pleasurable or painful aspect of a process of attention, and as identical with attention itself.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08075a.htm
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Interims
Temporary settlements in matters of religion, entered into by Emperor Charles V (1519-56) with the Protestants.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08077b.htm
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Internuncio
The name given in the Roman Curia to a diplomatic agent who, though not belonging to the five highest classes of the papal diplomatic service (legatus a latere, nuncio with full powers of a legatus a latere, legate, nuncio of the first class, and nun
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08078a.htm
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Introduction, Biblical
Designates the part of Scriptural science which is concerned with topics preliminary to the detailed study and correct exposition of Holy Writ, and also, it is given to a work in which these various topics are actually treated.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08078b.htm
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Introit
The Introit (Introitus) of the Mass is the fragment of a psalm with its antiphon sung while the celebrant and ministers enter the church and approach the altar.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08081a.htm
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Intrusion
The act by which unlawful possession of an ecclesiastical benefice is taken.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08082a.htm
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Intuition
A psychological and philosophical term which designates the process of immediate apprehension or perception of an actual fact, being, or relation between two terms and its results.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08082b.htm
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Inventory of Church Property
An inventory is to be made at the beginning of a given administration; when the period of management has expired, the out-going official must produce all the things which appear in this inventory or were added later, excepting those which have been c
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08084a.htm
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Investiture, Canonical
The act by which a suzerain granted a fief to his vassal, and the ceremonies which accompanied that grant.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08084b.htm
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Investitures, Conflict of
The terminus technicus for the great struggle between the popes and the German kings Henry IV and Henry V, during the period 1075-1122.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08084c.htm
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Invincible Armada, The
A fleet intended to invade England and to put an end to the long series of English aggressions against the colonies and possessions of the Spanish Crown.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01727c.htm
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Invitatorium
The invitation addressed to the faithful to come and take part in the Divine Office.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08089a.htm
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Iona, School of
The modern name derived by change of letter from Adamnan's Ioua; in Bede it is Hii; the Gaelic form is always I or Y, which becomes Hy by prefixing the euphonic h.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08090a.htm
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Ionian Islands
A group of seven islands and a number of islets scattered over the Ionian Sea to the west of Greece.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08091a.htm
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Ionian School of Philosophy
Includes the earliest Greek philosophers, who lived at Miletus, an Ionian colony in Asia Minor, during the sixth century B.C., and a group of philosophers who lived about one hundred years later and modified the doctrines of their predecessors in sev
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08092a.htm
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Ionopolis
A titular see in the province of Paphlagonia, suffragan of Gangres.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08093a.htm
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Iowa
One of the North Central States of the American Union, and is about midway between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08093b.htm
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Ipolyi, Arnold
Bishop of Grosswardein (Nagy-Várad), b. at Ipoly-Keszi, 20 Oct., 1823; d. at Grosswardein, 2 December 1886.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08097a.htm
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Ippolito Galantini, Blessed
Founder of the Congregation of Christian Doctrine of Florence; b. at Florence of obscure parentage, 12 October. 1565; d. 20 March, 1619.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08097b.htm
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Ipsus
A titular see of Phrygia Salutaris, suffragan of Synnada.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08098a.htm
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Ireland, Ven. William
Jesuit martyr, born in Lincolnshire, 1636; executed at Tyburn, 24 Jan., 1679.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08130a.htm
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Irenaeus, Saint
Article on the bishop of Lyons, Father of the Church, d. late second or early third century.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08130b.htm
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