Maassen, Friedrich Bernard Christian Professor of law (1823-1900)

Protectories - The institutions for the shelter and training of the young, designed to afford neglected or abandoned children shelter, food, clothing and education

Protestant Episcopal Church - Protestant denomination born from Anglicanism

Protestantism - Discussion of Protestant beliefs and doctrines

Prothonotary Apostolic - A member of the highest college of prelates in the Roman Curia

Protocol - The formula used at the beginning of public acts drawn up by notaries; also, the compact register in which notaries register these acts; finally, the first draft of these acts

Protopope - A priest of higher rank in the Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic Churches, corresponding in general to the Western archpriest or dean.

Protus and Hyacinth, Saints - Martyrs in the Valerian persecution (257-259)

Prout, Father - The name by which Irish author Father Francis Mahony is generally known

Provancher, Léon Abel - Quebec naturalist (1820-1892)

Proverbs, Book of - One of the Sapiential writings of the Old Testament

Providence, Congregations of (I) - Focuses on the Daughters of Providence in particular

Providence, Congregations of (II) - Focuses on the Sisters of Providence in particular

Providence, Congregations of (III) - Focuses on the Sisters of Charity in Montreal

Providence, Congregations of (IV) - Describes the Sisters of Sainte Anne in Turin

Providence, Congregations of (V) - Sisters of the Institute of Charity

Providence, Diocese of - Diocese in Rhode Island in the United States

Providence, Divine - Providence is God Himself considered in that act by which in His wisdom He so orders all events within the universe that the end for which it was created may be realized.

Province, Ecclesiastical - An ecclesiastical administrative district under the jurisdiction of an archbishop.

Provincial - An officer acting under the superior general of a religious order, and exercising a general supervision over all the local superiors in a division of the order called a province.

Provincial Council - A deliberative assembly of the bishops of an ecclesiastical province, summoned and presided over by the metropolitan, to discuss ecclesiastical affairs and enact disciplinary regulations for the province.

Provision, Canonical - A term signifying regular induction into a benefice

Provisors, Statute of - The English statute usually so designated is the 25th of Edward III . . .

Provost - An official in a chapter

Prudence - One of the four cardinal virtues

Prudentius, Aurelius Clemens - Biographical article on the poet

Prudentius - Bishop of Troyes (d. 861)

Prüm - Former Benedictine abbey near Trier, founded in 720

Prusias ad Hypium - Titular see, suffragan of Claudiopolis in the Honoriad.

Prussia - The Kingdom of Prussia covers 134,616 square miles and includes about 64.8 per cent of the area of the German Empire.

Przemysl - Latin see in Galicia, suffragan of Lemberg

Przemysl, Sambor, and Sanok - Eastern Catholic diocese of Western Galicia in Austria

Psalms - The Psalter, or Book of Psalms, is the first book of the 'Writings', i.e. of the third section of the printed Hebrew Bible of today.

Psalms, Alphabetic - Psalms that begin with the successive letters of the alphabet.

Psalterium - The Book of the Psalms only concerns us here in so far as it was transcribed and used for liturgical purposes. . .

Psaume, Nicholas - Bishop of Verdun (1518-1575)

Psellus, Michael - Byzantine statesman, scholar and author (1018-1078)

Psychology - The science which treats of the soul and its operations

Psychotherapy - That branch of therapeutics which uses the mind to influence the body

Ptolemais - Titular see in Egypt, metropolis of Thebais Secunda.

Ptolemais - Also called Saint-Jean d'Acre

Ptolemy the Gnostic - Second-century heretic and personal disciple of Valentinus.

Public Authority - The moral power of command, supported by physical coercion, which the State exercises over its members

Publican - A member or employee of the Roman financial companies who collected the taxes.

Public Honesty (Decency) - A diriment matrimonial impediment consisting in a relationship, which arises from a valid betrothal, or from a marriage approved by the Church but not consummated.

Pueblo Indians - Indians of central New Mexico and northeastern Arizona

Puget, Pierre - Painter, sculptor, architect, and naval constructor (1622-1694)

Pugh, George Ellis - American jurist and statesman (1822-1876)

Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore - Life and work of the architect

Puiseux, Victor-Alexandre - French mathematician and astronomer (1820-1883)

Pulaski, Casimir - Polish-American patriot and soldier (1748-1779)

Pulati - Ancient diocese located in former Albania

Pulcheria, Saint - Empress of the Eastern Roman Empire, staunch opponent of Nestorianism and Eutychianism, d. 453

Pulci, Luigi - Italian poet (1432-1484)

Pullen, Robert - Medieval theologian (d. 1147)

Pullus, Robert - Twelfth-century Cardinal, English philosopher and theologian

Pulpit - An elevated stand to preach on

Punishment, Capital - The infliction by due legal process of the penalty of death as a punishment for crime.

Puno - Diocese near Lima, Peru

Purcell, John Baptist - Archbishop of Cincinnati (1800-1883)

Purgative Way - Stages in the spiritual life

Purgatorial Societies - Pious associations or confraternities in the Catholic Church, which have as their purpose to assist in every possible way the poor souls in purgatory.

Purgatory - A place or condition of temporal punishment for those who, departing this life in God's grace, are, not entirely free from venial faults, or have not fully paid the satisfaction due to their transgressions.

Purgatory, St. Patrick's - This celebrated sanctuary in Donegal dates from the days of St. Patrick . . .

Purim - Jewish feast that commemorates the deliverance of the Jews from Haman

Puritans - In its original meaning it signified those who strove for a worship purified from all taint of Catholicism . . .

Pusey and Puseyism - Anglican divine, patristic scholar, voluminous writer, preacher and controversialist (1800-1882)

Pustet - The name of a family of well-known Catholic publishers.

Putative Marriage - A matrimonial alliance which is commonly reputed to be valid, and is sincerely believed by one at least of the contracting parties to be so in the eyes of the Church, because entered into in good faith; but which in reality is null and void, owing to the existence of a diriment impediment

Puteanus, Erycius - Belgian humanist and philologist (1574-1646)

Putzer, Joseph - Theologian and canonist (1836-1904)

Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre - French painter (1824-1898)

Puyallup Indians - Tribe of Salishan linguistic stock in Washington

Pyrker, Johann Ladislaus von Oberwart - Hungarian priest (1772-1847)

Pyrrhonism - A system of skepticism founded by the Greek philosopher Pyrrho

Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism - Concise summary of doctrines attributed to Pythagoras