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3 (hence pastorsin missionary territory and prefectures), episcopal delegates to theterritories later to be erected as parishes or to maintain the statusof a perpetual vicarage. Finally, those who have been baptized, confirmed, or ordained, cannotbe rebaptized, reconfirmed, or reor If a gift is bestowed in connection with a spiritual thingreceived, the presumption is for simoniacal intent, unless there was asincere and reasonable motive for the gift. (b) Prayer is also necessary as a means (see 360), at least generallyspeaking; not that God could not save man without pray

orship of God, isby natural law necessary, for reason itself shows to man that he is aninferior and depen ; commonsigns of charity, 1154; refusal of greeting a lack of charity, 1157;general order of charity, 1158; character of love of God, 1160 sqq. Offenses committed in the matter of Mass stipends arenot called simony in the Code, but the penal law classes them withoffenses against religion, as may be seen from Canon 2324. --Though in essentials Baptism is butone, it is distinguished in reference to accidental ceremony intosolemn and private.