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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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MECHANISM

The theory that all living things, not excluding the human soul, are only more or less complex machines. In this view all organic life is only a function or variant of matter, following the same basic laws of physics and chemistry.

Tue27 January
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Tuesday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. Angela Merici, Virgin

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It is the Optional Memorial of St. Angela Merici (1474-1540). St. Angela was born in northern Italy. In 1516, she founded the Order of Ursulines, the first teaching order for women approved by the Church.…

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