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• Unam Sanctam: (Latin the One Holy , i.e. Church ), the Bull on papal ...
• Unclean and Clean: The distinction between legal and ceremonial, as opposed to ...
• Unction, Extreme: A sacrament of the New Law instituted by Christ to give ...
• Ungava: A Canadian territory lying north of the Province of Quebec, ...
• Uniformity Acts: These statutes, passed at different times, were vain efforts ...
• Unigenitus: A celebrated Apostolic Constitution of Clement XI, ...
• Union of Brest: Brest -- in Russian, Brest-Litovski; in Polish, Brzesc; in the ...
• Union of Christendom: The Catholic Church is by far the largest, the most ...
• Unions of Prayer: A tendency to form unions of prayer among the faithful has ...
• Unitarians: A Liberal Protestant sect which holds as it distinctive tenet ...
• Unitas Fratrum: (MORAVIAN BRETHREN, or UNITAS FRATRUM). DEFINITION AND ...
• United States of America, The: BOUNDARIES AND AREA On the east the boundary is formed by the ...
• Unitive Way: The word state is used in various senses by theologians and ...
• Unity: The marks of the Church are certain unmistakeable signs, or ...
• Universalists: A Liberal Protestant sect -- found chiefly in North America -- ...
• Universals: The name refers on the one hand to the inclination towards ...
• Universe: Universe (or "world") is here taken in the astronomical sense, ...
• Universe, Relation of God to the: 1. Essential Dependence of the Universe on God (Creation and ...
• Universities: The principal Catholic foundations have been treated in ...
• University College (Dublin): A constitutional college of the National University of ...
• Unjust Aggressor: According to the accepted teaching of theologians, it is ...
• Unyanyembe: Vicariate apostolic in German East Africa, separated from ...

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