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How To Use canonist In A Sentence

• Many canonists hold that the subdiaconate, being of merely ecclesiastical institution, was formerly amounted one of the minor orders of the Church, and infer that before the time of Urban II (1099), Abbots could have given that order. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
• However, the consensual theory of the Church canonists would have been attentive to and would have valorized ‘the freedom and autonomy of the individual in the crucial matter of marriage’.
• Interest on money is forbidden; the prohibition of usury is, indeed, as Roscher says, the centre of the whole canonistic system of economy, as well as the foundation of a great part of the ecclesiastical jurisdiction.
• A real expert in canon law would not expect to be taken seriously by merely coming onto a blog under a pseudonym and calling himself a canonist. Fellay speaks: The talks begin in the autumn of 2009
• The term ‘conjugal rights’ has long characterized ways of speaking about marriage both in the canonistic tradition and in the secular legal systems of the West.
• In its details, whether we regard the haughty claims of delegated omnipotence advanced by Rome, or the carefully studied historical and canonistic arguments built up by Sarpi, the quarrel has lost actuality. Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction
• This is the distinction of a canonist, not a theologian.
• Like 99 percent of Catholics, I am neither theologian, canonist, nor clergyman.
• German canonist and pedagogist, b. of simple countryfolk on 6 March, The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
• We now permit priests to leave the active ministry and remain good Catholics, albeit ‘reduced to the lay state ‘- as infelicitous a phrase as the canonists have ever devised.’