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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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SENSUALISM

Addiction to sensual pleasures, especially carnal gratification. Also the theory that all human satisfaction is basically int he sense appetite. It corresponds psychologically to the doctrine of materialism in philosophy.

Fri26 December
Christmas

Feast of St. Stephen, First Martyr

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On the Second day within the Octave of Christmas the Church celebrates the Feast of St. Stephen, the first Christian martyr. Stoned outside Jerusalem, he died praying for his executioners. He was one of the seven deacons who helped the apostles; he was "filled with faith and with the Holy Spirit,"…

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