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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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CONGREGATIO DE AUXILIIS

A commission to settle the theological controversy on grace and free will, established by Pope Clement VIII and continued by Pope Paul V. The Dominicans and Jesuits were parties to the dispute. After nine years of ineffective discussion Pope Paul V in 1607 dissolved the commission and reserved the decision to the Holy See. A decision has never been promulgated.

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Saturday of the Thirty-First Week in Ordinary Time

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The Roman Martyrology includes these commemorations: —Blessed John Duns Scotus (1266-1308), a Scottish Franciscan priest and theologian who died in 1308. He was beatified in 1993 and the the founder of the Scotistic School in Theology, and until the time of the French Revolution his thought…

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