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Catholic Word of the Day: AGENT, 06-02-11
CatholicReference.net ^ | 06-02-11 | Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary

Posted on 06/02/2011 8:33:22 AM PDT by Salvation

Featured Term (selected at random):

AGENT

In scholastic philosophy and theology, an efficient cause, namely that which by its activity produces existence or change in another. (Etym. Latin agens, doing, active, effecting; also cause, agent; from agere, to do, drive, conduct.)

All items in this dictionary are from Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.


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Did you know the root of this word was from Latin?

Different meaning of the word "agent" too!

1 posted on 06/02/2011 8:33:26 AM PDT by Salvation
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To: Salvation

I just thought of the phrase “Agent Orange.”

effecting change......oh, my!


2 posted on 06/02/2011 8:34:21 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: JRandomFreeper; Allegra; BlackVeil; Straight Vermonter; Cronos; SumProVita; AnAmericanMother; ...

Catholic Word of the Day – links will be provided later by another FReeper.  (Would anyone like to help with this?)

 

Augustinianism

Meekness

Disposition

Pew

Authentic Interpretation

Dissimulation

Silvanus

Sacred Heart

Bar

Maestro di Camera

Natural Knowledge of God

Lollardism

Blessing

Agent

 

 

 

 

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3 posted on 06/02/2011 8:40:43 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Salvation

In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own. It is easier to acquire wealth and power by this combination than by deserving them, and to effect this, they have perverted the purest religion ever preached to man into mystery and jargon, unintelligible to all mankind, and therefore the safer for their purposes. ~T. Jefferson


4 posted on 06/02/2011 10:28:03 AM PDT by bodfish ((Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity.))
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To: Salvation

Augustinianism

Meekness Disposition

Pew

Authentic Interpretation

Dissimulation

Silvanus

Sacred Heart

Bar

Maestro di Camera

Natural Knowledge of God

Lollardism

 Blessing

 Agent  

Links to older "Word of the Day" threads.

5 posted on 06/02/2011 4:43:59 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: bodfish

So what is your point in posting that here? Jefferson is well known as an anti-Christian. Are you one as well?


6 posted on 06/02/2011 4:54:19 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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