Roman_Catholic_ChurchWordNet Explorer

the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy

any of several churches claiming to have maintained historical continuity with the original Christian Church

the remission by the pope of the temporal punishment in purgatory that is still due for sins even after absolution

canonical prayers recited daily by priests (e.g. the breviary of the Roman Catholic Church)

a Roman Catholic office honoring the Virgin Mary; similar to but shorter than the Divine Office

an office read or sung before a burial mass in the Roman Catholic Church

(Roman Catholic Church) vespers of the office for the dead

(Roman Catholic Church) the act of a penitent disclosing his sinfulness before a priest in the sacrament of penance in the hope of absolution