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2 days ago · Exasperated by the demands of running a growing and fractious Order, Francis asked Pope Honorius III for help in 1219. He was assigned Cardinal Ugolino as protector of the Order by the pope. Francis resigned the day-to-day running of the Order into the hands of others but retained the power to shape the Order's legislation, writing a ...
5 days ago · pope, ( Latin papa, from Greek pappas, “father”), the title, since about the 9th century, of the bishop of Rome, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church. It was formerly given, especially from the 3rd to the 5th century, to any bishop and sometimes to simple priests as an ecclesiastical title expressing affectionate respect.
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3 days ago · They venerated the Virgin Mary as Our Lady of Mount Carmel, and from this veneration was derived the name Carmelite. In 1226 the rule of the order was approved by Pope Honorius III, and 21 years later St. Simon Stock, an Englishman, was elected superior of the order.
3 days ago · In January, 1029, Pope Innocent III issued his mandate to the prior and convent of Coventry to proceed to the election of a bishop, notwithstanding, as he says, the repeated prevarications of the king: if they did not do so he would himself appoint, and punish them for their disobedience.
4 days ago · Pope Sixtus III, who reigned from 432 to 440, commissioned its construction. The Basilica of Saint Mary Major is dedicated to Mary, called "Mother of God" by the Council of Ephesus convened in...
4 days ago · Pope Honorius III confirmed St Dominic’s Order on December 22, 1216. In July 1221, St Dominic became sick with a fever. He made his final Confession and died on August 6 at 51 years of age. Pope Gregory IX canonized St Dominic on July 13, 1234. His feast day is August 8.
4 days ago · I refer, among others, to the condemnations of Pope Honorius by the VIth and VIIIth Ecumenical Councils, and by Pope St. Leo II; to the famous pronouncement of Innocent III on the hypothesis of his own defection from the Faith; to the Bull of Paul IV Cum ex Apostolatus Officio, which, even taken as a merely disciplinary document ...
