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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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QUOTATIONS, IMPLICIT

Citations in the Bible from uninspired sources. The Holy See has on various occasions admitted the fact in principle but cautioned about the threat to biblical inerrancy. For if these uninspired sources are in error, it must be established that the Bible does not condone the error.

Tue22 September
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Tuesday of the Twenty-Fifth Week in Ordinary Time

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The Roman Martyrology commemorates Sts. Maurice and Companions (d. 287), Christian soldiers who were massacred in Switzerland around the year 287 A.D. because they refused to offer sacrifices to pagan gods. They are also called the Theban Legion or Forty…

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