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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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UNIGENITUS

Constitution of Pope Clement XI, published September 8, 1713, in which he condemned one hundred one Jansenist propositions of Pasquier Quesnel (1634-1719), including such doctrines as the irresistibility of grace and that all actions of a sinner, even prayer, are sins.

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Memorial of Sts. Cornelius, Pope, and Cyprian, Bishop, Martyrs; Ember Wednesday

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Today's Memorial of Saints Cornelius (d. 253) and Cyprian (190-258) commemorates two friends in the service of Christ and his Church. Cornelius, a Roman, was the twenty-first Pope during the reign of the Emperor Gallus and Volusian. He had to oppose Novatian, the first anti-pope, who believed that apostates…

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