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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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PROMULGATION

The act of announcing a law publicly, with the effect of obliging its observance from the date expressed. Laws enacted by the Holy See are promulgated by publication in the official Acta Apostolicae Sedis. They have binding force three months after the date affixed to the Acta. However, in a special case the Pope is free to promulgate a law in other ways.

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Thursday of the Twenty-Eighth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. Hedwig, Religious; St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Virgin

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The Church offers the choice of Optional Memorials today: —St. Hedwig (1174-1243): Hedwig was the aunt of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, was married at an early age to Henry, Duke of Silesia. After their six children had been born, they both strove to advance in sanctity and to enrich Silesia and Poland…

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