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CANONICAL AGE
The age required by ecclesiastical law for the valid or licit reception of the sacraments or the exercise of an ecclesiastical office.
All items in this dictionary are from Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.
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