Evangelization

A term initially used to refer to the nascent reforming movements, especially in Germany and Switzerland, in the 1510s and 1520s. The term was later replaced by "Protestant" in ...

evangelize

Religion; General religion

To explain ones beliefs to another in the hope that they might wish to adopt them. The word is sometimes used as a synonym for "Proselytize" -- to actively attempt to convert ...

evangelical

Politics; Political Science

Strictly speaking, the term refers to anything that is contained in the four gospels in the New Testament, or to the Protestant churches that emphasize salvation by faith rather ...

Vespers

Religion; Catholic church

One of the Divine Offices of the Roman Catholic Church, held at twilight.

the christian faithful

Religion; Catholic church

Those who have been incorporated into Christ in Baptism and constituted as the people of God, the Church (871). The term "lay faithful" refers to the laity, all the faithful ...

disciple

Religion; Catholic church

Those who accepted Jesus' message to follow him are called his disciples. Jesus associated his disciples with his own life, revealed the mystery of the Kingdom to the disciples ...

magi

Religion; Catholic church

The wise men who came from the East to pay homage to the newborn Savior (528).

suicide

Religion; Catholic church

The willful taking of one's own life; a grievous sin against the fifth commandment. A human person is neither the author nor the supreme arbiter of his life, of which God is ...

prudence

Religion; Catholic church

The virtue which disposes a person to discern the good and choose the correct means to accomplish it. One of the cardinal moral virtues that dispose the Christian to live ...