Marianist, member of Society of Mary (S.M ., a religious congregation of the Roman Catholic church founded by William Joseph Chaminade at Bordeaux, Fr., in 1817.
The first catalog of forbidden books to include in its title the word index, however, was published in 1559 by the Sacred Congregation of the Roman Inquisition (a precursor to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith).
Roman legislation as well as the jurisdiction of a congregation of the Roman Curia was criticized as being incompatible with the traditional autonomy of the Eastern churches in legislation and administration.
Particularly pleasing to bishops of the Eastern Rite and to the ecumenical-minded was the provision that Oriental Patriarchs were all to be ex-officio members, whereas the cardinals were to be represented not as a body but only by the heads of the various congregations of the Roman Curia.
Later institutional inquisitions were established in Portugal in 1540 (abolished in 1821) and in Rome (for the Papal States and some other parts of Italy) in 1542; the latter was erected into the Congregation of the Holy Roman and Universal Inquisition, or Holy Office, one of the 15 secretariats into which the administrative reforms of Sixtus V (1585 90) divided papal government.
It has been brought down to Earth, onto the grounds of St. Michael's Pavilion, a low-income housing unit where a 19th-century monastery founded by the Congregation of the Passion, a Roman Catholic religious order, once stood.
In 2008, he joined a rival Anglican domination, but he has dreamed for years of leading his congregation into the Roman Catholic Church, he said in an interview.
Vincentian, also called Lazarist, member of Congregation of the Mission (C.M ., a Roman Catholic society of priests and brothers founded at Paris in 1625 by St . Vincent dePaul for the purpose of preaching missions to the poor country people and training young men in seminaries for the priesthood.
Some 26,000 citations of prior church legislation were listed, including approximately 8,400 from the Decretum Gratiani ("Decree of Gratian"), a 12th-century collection; 1,200 from general councils of the church; 4,000 from papal legislation; 11,200 from the norms of Roman congregations (the administrative bodies of the Roman Curia); and 800 from liturgical books.
An article on Sunday about dwindling congregations in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark misstated Jersey City's population in 1960, when descendants of European immigrants began leaving the city.
Photos: Before an invited congregation of 1,100 Roman Catholic officials and friends at Our Lady of Angels Church in Bay Ridge, three priests were ordained yesterday as auxiliary bishops.
