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• Images, Veneration of: I. IMAGES IN THE OLD TESTAMENT The First Commandment would ...
• Imagination: ITS NATURE Imagination is the faculty of representing to ...
• Imbonati, Carlo Giuseppe: Cistercian of the Reform of St. Bernard, orientalist, ...
• Imhof, Maximus von: German physicist, born 26 July, 1758, at Rissbach, in Bavaria ...
• Imitation of Christ: A work of spiritual devotion, also sometimes called the ...
• Immaculate Conception: The doctrine In the Constitution Ineffabilis Deus of 8 ...
• Immaculate Conception, Congregation of the: I. Congregation of the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady (The ...
• Immanence: ( Latin in manere , to remain in) Immanence is the ...
• Immanuel: Emmanual ( Septuagint Emmanouel ; A.V., Immanuel ) ...
• Immortality: ( Latin, in, mortalis; German, Unsterblichkeit ) By ...
• Immunity: ( Latin immunitas ). Immunity means an exemption from a ...
• Imola: (Imolensis) Diocese ; suffragan of Bologna. The city is ...
• Imola, Innocenzo di Pietro Francucci da: Italian painter ; b. at Imola, c. 1494; d. at Bologna, c. ...
• Impanation: An heretical doctrine according to which Christ is in the ...
• Impediments, Canonical: I. GENERAL NOTION OF AN IMPEDIMENT The Latin word ...
• Imperative, Categorical: A term which originated in Immanuel Kant'sethics. It ...
• Imperfect Contrition: Attrition or Imperfect Contrition (Latin attero , "to wear ...
• Imposition of Hands: A symbolical ceremony by which one intends to communicate to ...
• Impostors: Under this heading we may notice a certain number of ...
• Improperia: The Improperia are the reproaches which in the liturgy of the ...

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