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Find accurate definitions of over 5,000 Catholic terms and phrases (including abbreviations). Based on Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.

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NEO-ORTHODOXY

A general term applied to various movements in Protestantism to restore the faith of the people in such basic Christian mysteries as the existence of a personal God, the Incarnation and Redemption, the necessity of prayer, and life after death.

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Wednesday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time

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The Roman Martyrology commemorates Sts. Processus and Martinian whose bodies lie in a chapel at St. Peter's in Rome. During the time when Sts. Peter and Paul were prisoners in the Mamertine, legend says that these two jailors together with forty others were converted through the prayers and miracles…

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