Commandments of the Church

She, also, set the heart's passion for its children before the law of the land or the commandments of the Church.

The precepts here implied came to be regarded as special Commandments of the Church.

In Catholicism, the "Commandments of the Church" may also be called "Precepts of the Church".

In the Roman Catholic Church, the Commandments of the Church or Precepts of the Church are certain laws considered binding on the faithful.

A century later (1470) the catechism of Dietrick Coelde, the first, it is said, to be written in German, explicitly set forth that there were five Commandments of the Church.

Among these are a treatise on the Eucharist, instructions on the Decalogue and on the Commandments of the Church, a refutation of divination, and particularly a Catechism, entitled in Chinese Conversations of the Angels.

If the least thing had passed her lips in the nature of sustenance, neither her youth nor the fact that she was being half starved in her prison could save her from dangerous suspicion of contempt for the commandments of the Church.

Father Joseph sat down at the large table, ready to write, and the Cardinal dictated to him those duties, of a new kind, which shortly afterward he dared to have given to the King, who received them, respected them, and learned them by heart as the commandments of the Church.