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Roman Catholics. Very severe laws, commonly called the penal laws, were passed against Roman Catholics, generally under the name of Papists (see that title), after the Reformation, an Act of Elizabeth, for instance, 13 Eliz. c. 2, punishing with the penalties of a pr'munire (see that title) any person bringing into this country any Agnus Dei, cross, picture, etc., from Rome; an Act of James, 3 Jac. 1, c. 5, penalizing the sale or purchase of Popish primers; and an Act of William and Mary (11 & 12 Wm. 3, c. 4), punishing any Papist assuming the education of youth with imprisonment for life. Exclusion from Parliament was effected by the requirement of the Declaration against Trans-ubstantiation (see TRANSUBSTANT- IATION) from members of either House by 30 Car. 2, s. 2, and disfranchisement by the requirements of the Oath of Supremacy by 7 & 8 Wm. 3, c. 27, s. 19; while 7 & 8 Wm. 3, c. 24, effected (until 1791) exclusion from the profession of barrister, attorney, or solicitor by requirin...
Catholicness
The quality of being catholic universality catholicity...
non Catholic
Not Roman Catholic not adhering to the Catholic religion...
Catholic
Universal or general as the catholic faith...
Catholical
Catholic...
Catholicity
The state or quality of being catholic universality...
Catholicly
In a catholic manner generally universally...
Roman Catholic
Roman Catholic, means and apply to the church which regards the Pope of Rome as its spiritual head. [Christian Marriage Act, 1872 (15 of 1872), s. 3]...
VerbarNe Temere
A decree of the Congregation of the Council declaring invalid so far as the laws of the Roman Catholic Church are concerned any marriage of a Roman Catholic or of a person who has ever been a Roman Catholic if not contracted before a duty qualified priest or the bishop of the diocese and at least two witnesses The decree was issued Aug 2 1907 and took effect on Easter Apr 19 1908 The decree by its terms does not affect mixed marriages those between Roman Catholics and persons of another faith in Germany...
Jesuits
Jesuits, members of the Society of Jesus, a Roman Catholic religious order, founded in 1534 by Ignatius Loyola and confirmed by a Bull of Paul III. in 1540, its main object being to stem the tide of the Reformation by active propaganda. The Roman Catholic Relief Act, 1829 (10 Geo. 4, c. 7), by ss. 28-37, rendered Jesuits liable to banishment on conviction on indictment from the United Kingdom, and an attempt was made in 1902 to enforce the Act. See Law Journal Newspaper, 1st Feb., 1902, for judgment of Mr. Kennedy at the Marlborough Street Police Court on refusing a summons, and R. v. Kennedy, (1902) 86 LT 753, in which the High Court held that they had to jurisdiction to compel Mr. Kennedy to issue the summons; the sections were virtually a dead letter [Re Smith, (1914) 1 Ch 937], and are now repealed as to Great Britain by the Roman Catholic Relief Act, 1926 (16 & 17 Geo. 5, c. 55). See ROMAN CATHOLICS....
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