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1910 New Catholic Dictionary

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The Congregation that attends to all matters which concern religious orders and their members, bound by simple or solemn vows, and also secular third orders. The affairs may be questions arising between bishops and religious or between the religious themselves, or cases in which a religious is the complainant or defendant. Dispensations for religious. from the common law are also in the power of this Congregation.