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Chrysostom’s admonition regarding the payment of tithes 14. 1.
Cistercian order, under Abbot Bernard, shone with true monastic observance 52. 2.
Clement V saw and acknowledged his error regarding commendams original: "commendis" - ecclesiastical benefices held in trust 132. 2.
What it means to profess as a cleric 8. 2.
Who is a perfect cleric 8. 2.
Who is a half-cleric 8. 2.
Regular cleric 8. 2.
A cleric is not one in the eyes of the law who is not bound to his own church and his own title 124. 2.
A cleric ought not to be enrolled in the churches of two cities at once 125. 2; he may serve two outside the city due to a shortage of priests, ibid.
A cleric cannot make a will regarding goods acquired through the church 140. 1.
The status, number, and practice of the clergy in each of the ancient churches 4. 2.
How the reformation of the clergy is to be instituted 149. 1.
What is donated to a cleric in view of his person must be distinguished from what is donated to the same church in view of the institution 140. 2.
Total ownership of temporal goods is not taken away from the cleric 140. 2.
It was a sin for a cleric to retain his patrimony while enjoying the goods of the church 9. 1.
Clerics ought to live canonically 73. 1.
Clerics used to enjoy food and clothing from the community of ecclesiastical goods 4. 2.
Clerics as blind leaders 33. 1.
Who were the wealthy clerics and how they existed 8. 1.
Younger clerics were fed and instructed in one place 73. 1.
Clerics hunt for the wealth of laypeople through servility 43. 2.
Clerics do not have true ownership of ecclesiastical goods 74. 1.
How clerics distributed oblations 48. 2.
All clerics are bound to reside in their benefices 121. 2.
All clerics are bound to chant in the church itself and assist in the external worship of the divine office 123. 2.
Clerics as fathers of the monks 9. 1.
Clerics resemble sparrows 49. 2.
How clerics ought to dispense ecclesiastical revenues 25. 1.
How clerics are to be brought to their own confession 51. 2.
Clerics seek riches under the pretext of alms 30. 1.
Iniquity of the clergy 34. 1.
Insolence of the clergy 34. 1.
Discipline of junior clerics 73. 1.
Luxury of the clergy 34. 2.
Finery of the clergy 41. 2.
Furnishings of the clergy 34. 1.
Sustenance of the clergy 26. 1.
The number of clerics to be prescribed according to the quantity of ecclesiastical resources 128. 2.
Free testaments of clerics are approved in certain cases 143. 2.
Testaments of clerics for pious causes are unjustly prohibited by the Pope 141. 1. 2.
For what reason Councils and Canons prohibit the testaments of clerics 140. 1.
The life of clerics ought to be common 72. 1.
The license granted to clerics to make a will is examined 141. 2.
It is in no way permitted for clerics to have anything of their own 74. 2.
All dignities are to be conferred upon clerics by their own church 124. 2.
Stipends are to be given to clerics according to the merit of their service 121. 1.
The clerical state was most remote from any monk 48. 2.
Clerics, by their office, were fed only as poor men 5. 2.
The Cluniacs on the manual labor of monks 49. 1.
Cluniac monks lived dissolutely 52. 2.
Canute the Great, King of England, having once traveled to Rome out of devotion, complained before the Pope, among other things, about the exactions of annates original: "annatarum" - a year's revenue of a benefice paid to the Pope 117. 2.
Celestine writes that an injury is done to the clergy if laymen are assumed into the Bishopric 121. 1.
Why the heaven is now like brass a biblical metaphor for God withholding blessings (Deut 28:23) 15. 2.
Monasteries embraced luxury and stripped off piety 17. 1.
Cenobites monks living in community are much more obligated to poverty than clerics 44. 1.
When and how the collation appointment/bestowal of benefices came to the canons and their chapters 86. 2.
The contributions of the faithful in the early Church were free and very abundant 5. 1.
Simoniacal collation of benefices 91. 1.
The true and proper collation of an ecclesiastical benefice 88. 2.
The name of collators or donors of benefices unheard of in the Church for many centuries 84. 1.
What collators ought to observe regarding persons to be beneficed 128. 2.
It is demonstrated that commendams and pensions are now becoming illegitimate 130. 2.
A commendam does not make a Prelate, but a procurator 130. 2.
Formula for commendams 130. 2.
The proper and intrinsic nature of all commendams 130. 2.
The commendatary holder of a commendam cannot confer his fruits, according to Hostiensis a prominent canonist 131. 1.
Whether commendataries can, with a safe conscience, confer the fruits of churches commended to them for their own uses 133. 1; they place no distinction between ecclesiastical and patrimonial goods, ibid.
Whether military commendataries are under the same obligation as other commendataries 133. 2.
The duty of commendataries of goods 131. 2.
Absolute ownership is given to commendataries more than to titulars 131. 1.
Gratian’s fabrication concerning the property of clerics 75. 1.
Commutation of tithes 17. 1.
Commutations of ecclesiastical things to be avoided 68. 1.
The Council of Agde prohibited one Abbot from being placed over two ministries 125. 2.
The Council of Basel attempted to cut away the abuses of the Roman Curia and simoniacal exactions with a sharp scythe 114. 1. 2.
The Council of Constance prohibited tithes 107. 2.
The Council of Constance labored with utmost strength so that the Roman Curia might be reformed as simoniacal 113. 2.
The Council of Chalcedon rejected absolute ordinations 124. 2.
The Council of Chalcedon prohibited by a general precept that a cleric of one church be ordained in another 124. 2.
The Council of Chalcedon decreed that it is not permitted for a cleric to be enrolled in the churches of two cities at once 125. 2.
The Lateran Council vehemently reprobated commendams 132. 2.
The Council of Metz sharply rebuked the King because he gave monasteries to laymen in commendam 132. 1.
The Council of Paris under Louis and Lothair suffered grave scandal from Roman simony 106. 2.
The Council of Urban II holds invalid an ordination made without a title 124. 2.
The Council of Trent most severely prohibited the plurality of benefices 126. 2.
The law of the Council of Chalcedon concerning the commendation of vacant monasteries 131. 1.
The Fathers of the Council of Trent were unwilling to touch the root of all evils, which is fixed most deeply in the Roman Curia 133. 1.
Councils which taught the legitimate use of ecclesiastical revenues 26. 1.