Secular clergy

Secular clergy

In the Catholic Church, secular clergy are religious ministers, such as deacons and priests, who do not belong to a religious order. While regular clergy take vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience and place themselves under a rule ("regulum"), secular clergy do not take vows and live in the world ("saeculum"). They are still bound to Canon law, which for Latin rite priests means that they are bound to obligations of celibacy and obedience. Like regular clergy, secular clergy are also bound to the recitation of the Divine Office.

A number of intra-Church conflicts have occurred due to the tensions between regular and secular clergy. Secular clergy always takes precedence of the regular clergy of equal rank. [CathEncy|wstitle=Secular Clergy]

One of the roots of the Philippine Revolution was the agitation of native secular priests for parish assignments. The powerful religious orders were given preferential treatment in these assignments, and were usually Spaniards who trained in European chapters. The agitation led to the execution of the "Gomburza "filibusteros"."

References


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Нужна курсовая?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Secular Clergy — • The secular cleric makes no profession and follows no religious rule Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Secular Clergy     Secular Clergy      …   Catholic encyclopedia

  • Secular clergy — Clergy Cler gy, n. [OE. clergie, clergi, clerge, OF. clergie, F. clergie (fr. clerc clerc, fr. L. clericus priest) confused with OF. clergi[ e], F. clerg[ e], fr. LL. clericatus office of priest, monastic life, fr. L. clericus priest, LL. scholar …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Secular Clergy — 1) The clergy who were not separated from the world by a written rule or by life in a monastic community; it included the bishops and priests who worked with the laity; often contrasted to the regular clergy who lived under a rule; word derived… …   Medieval glossary

  • secular clergy — In ecclesiastical law, the parochial clergy, who perform their ministry in seculo (in the world), and who are thus distinguished from the monastic or regular clergy …   Black's law dictionary

  • secular clergy — Those members of the clergy who did not belong to any monastery or religious house, as distinguished from the regular clergy who did …   Ballentine's law dictionary

  • Secular clergy — The members of the *clergy who worked in the world and were not bound by the rules of a monastic order. They were clerics who had been admitted to one of the orders, but who did not live under a monastic rule, e.g. parish priests …   Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases

  • secular clergy —  Белое духовенство …   Вестминстерский словарь теологических терминов

  • Clergy — Cler gy, n. [OE. clergie, clergi, clerge, OF. clergie, F. clergie (fr. clerc clerc, fr. L. clericus priest) confused with OF. clergi[ e], F. clerg[ e], fr. LL. clericatus office of priest, monastic life, fr. L. clericus priest, LL. scholar, clerc …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Secular — Sec u*lar, a. [OE. secular, seculer. L. saecularis, fr. saeculum a race, generation, age, the times, the world; perhaps akin to E. soul: cf. F. s[ e]culier.] 1. Coming or observed once in an age or a century. [1913 Webster] The secular year was… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Secular equation — Secular Sec u*lar, a. [OE. secular, seculer. L. saecularis, fr. saeculum a race, generation, age, the times, the world; perhaps akin to E. soul: cf. F. s[ e]culier.] 1. Coming or observed once in an age or a century. [1913 Webster] The secular… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
… Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”