Angel de Saavedra Remírez de Baquedano
Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (Paccanarists)
Archdiocese of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh
Ancient Diocese of Saint Asaph
Jean-François Buisson de Saint-Cosme
Henri-Etienne Sainte-Claire Deville
Order of Saint James of Compostela
Diocese of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne
Prefecture Apostolic of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon
Louis de Rouvroy, Duc de Saint-Simon
Saint-Simon and Saint-Simonism
Abbey of Saints Vincent and Anastasius
Diocese of Saint Thomas of Guiana
Diocese of Saint Thomas of Mylapur
Jean-Baptiste de Saint-Vallier
Society of Saint Vincent de Paul
Salmanticenses and Complutenses
Coluccio di Pierio di Salutati
Samaritan Language and Literature
Diocese of San Carlos de Ancud
Vicariate Apostolic of the Sandwich Islands
Diocese of San José de Costa Rica
Prefecture Apostolic of San León del Amazonas
Diocese of San Marco and Bisignano
Diocese of Santa Agata dei Goti
Diocese of Santa Cruz de la Sierra
Prelature Nullius of Santa Lucia del Mela
Abbey Nullius of Santa Maria de Monserrato
Diocese of Sant' Angelo de' Lombardi
Diocese of Sant' Angelo in Vado and Urbania
Archdiocese of Santiago de Chile
Diocese of Santiago del Estero
Giovanni Sante Gaspero Santini
Diocese of São Carlos do Pinhal
Diocese of São Luiz de Cáceres
Diocese of São Luiz de Maranhão
Archiocese of São Salvador de Bahia de Todos os Santos
Archdiocese of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro
Diocese of São Thiago de Cabo Verde
Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato
Constantine, Baron von Schäzler
Theodore, Count von Scherer-Boccard
John Frederick Henry Schlosser
Clerks Regular of the Pious Schools
Burghard Freiherr von Schorlemer-Alst
Friedrich, Prince of Schwarzenberg
Established Church of Scotland
Armenian Catholic Diocese of Sebastia
Sophie Rostopchine, Comtesse de Ségur
Vicariate Apostolic of Senegambia
Notre-Dame de Saint-Lieu Sept-Fons
Jean-Baptiste-Louis-George Seroux d'Agincourt
Congregation of the Servants of the Most Blessed Sacrament
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Madame de Sévigné
Vicariate Apostolic of Northern Shan-si
Vicariate Apostolic of Southern Shan-si
Vicariate Apostolic of Eastern Shan-tung
Vicariate Apostolic of Northern Shan-tung
Vicariate Apostolic of Southern Shan-tung
Vicariate Apostolic of Northern Shen-si
Vicariate Apostolic of Southern Shen-si
Shrines of Our Lady and the Saints in Great Britain and Ireland
Marie-Dominique-Auguste Sibour
Vicariate Apostolic of Sierra Leone (Sierræ Leonis, Sierra-Leonensis)
St. Simeon Stylites the Younger
Simplicius, Faustinus, and Beatrice
Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati, Ohio
Sisters of the Little Company of Mary
American Federation of Catholic Societies
Catholic Church Extension Society
Society of Foreign Missions of Paris
Society of the Blessed Sacrament
Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Ancient Diocese of Sodor and Man
Prefecture Apostolic of Solimôes Superiore
Prefecture Apostolic of Northern Solomon Islands
Prefecture Apostolic of Southern Solomon Islands
Feasts of the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Diocese of Sovana and Pitigliano
Spanish Language and Literature
Diocese of Spalato-Macarsca (Salona)
Johann and Wendelin von Speyer
Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius
Gasparo Luigi Pacifico Spontini
Vicariate Apostolic of Stanley Falls
Henry Benedict Maria Clement Stuart
Diocese of Stuhlweissenburg (Székes-Fehérvàr)
Sulpicians in the United States
Prefecture Apostolic of Sumatra
Sophie-Jeanne Soymonof Swetchine
Syriac Language and Literature
Vicariate Apostolic of Eastern Sze-Ch'wan
Vicariate Apostolic of North-western Sze-ch'wan
(Lat. clerus sæcularis)
In the language of religious the world (sæculum) is opposed to the cloister; religious who follow a rule, especially those who have been ordained, form the regular clergy, while those who live in the world are called the secular clergy. Hence the expression so frequently used in canonical texts: "uterque clerus", both secular and regular clergy. The secular cleric makes no profession and follows no religious rule, he possesses his own property like laymen, he owes to his bishop canonical obedience, not the renunciation of his own will, which results from the religious vow of obedience; only the practice of celibacy in Holy Orders is identical with the vow of chastity of the religious. The secular clergy, in which the hierarchy essentially resides, always takes precedence of the regular clergy of equal rank; the latter is not essential to the Church nor can it subsist by itself, being dependent on bishops for ordination. (See CLERIC; REGULARS.)
Du CANGE, Glossarium, s.vv. Sæculum; Clericus.
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