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g against God, society, and the individual if he destroysparts of his body when neither public good nor private safety demandsthat this can be done. The higher expression of adoration is internal: it doesnot depend on bodily acts or places, and it is offered by Angels aswell as by man. Such works are saying Mass, preaching,administering the Sacraments, singing in church, and visiting the poorand sick (John, vii. --The rule fordetermining whether the matter of defamation is serious or not is theamount of harm done by the defamation, and hence not one but severalfactors have to be considered.

(b) By reason of the vows, a religious is obliged to follow the threeevangelical counsels (see 2191 sqq. the parishioner will suffer froma refusal, for example, when Baptisms, Confessions, or Communions areneedlessly a Therecipient need not be a permanent resident in the territory by reasonof domicile or quasi-domicile; physical presence suffices. Condemnations, of error by the Church, 761 b.