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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.

Browsing by the letter 'W'

  • WAGE
  • WAGERING
  • WAKE
  • WALDENSES
  • WALSINGHAM, OUR LADY OF
  • WAR
  • WAR OF AGGRESSION
  • WASHING OF THE FEET
  • WASHING OF THE HANDS
  • WASHINGTON, THE NATIONAL SHRINE OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
  • WATER, BLESSED
  • WATER, LITURGICAL USE OF
  • WAX
  • WEALTH
  • WEDDING
  • WEDNESDAY
  • WESTERN CHURCH
  • WESTERN SCHISM
  • WEXFORD
  • WHEAT AND GRAPES
  • WHITE
  • WHITE CANONS
  • WHITE FATHERS
  • WHITE FRIARS
  • WHITE LADIES
  • WHITE MONKS
  • WHITE RUSSIAN BYZANTINES
  • WHITE SCAPULAR
  • WHITE SISTERS
  • WHOLE CHRIST
  • WHORE (biblical)
  • WIDOW
  • WIFE
  • WILL
  • WILL OF GOD
  • WILL TO BELIEVE
  • WIMPLE
  • WINDING SHEET
  • WINE
  • WINEPRESS (biblical)
  • WINGED LION
  • WINGED MAN
  • WINGED OX
  • WISDOM
  • WISDOM, SEAT OF
  • WITNESS
  • WOLF
  • WOMEN, ORDINATION OF
  • WOMEN'S LIBERATION
  • WONDER-WORKING
  • WORD AND DEED
  • WORD OF GOD
  • WORD, THE
  • WORDS OF ABSOLUTION
  • WORDS OF INSTITUTION
  • WORK
  • WORLD
  • WORLD MIND
  • WORLD SOUL
  • WORLD WITHOUT END
  • WORLDLINESS
  • WORSHIP
  • WRITTEN WORD
  • WRONG
  • WYCLIFISM

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Today in the United States is the Optional Memorial of Thanksgiving Day in the dioceses of the United States. In 1621 colonists in New England gave communal thanks and praise to God for his abundant mercies and blessings. This became a tradition and in 1863 Thanksgiving Day was proclaimed a legal holiday.…

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