How To Use Catholic In A Sentence

Obviously, I'm not Catholic, but I think it takes a lot of effrontery for the media to try to dictate the doctrine for Catholics.
To say the Church was "forced" into these decisions is to abnegate the importance of free will, which is an essential element of Catholic dogma. Is That Legal?: Feel-Good History for the Paranoid Catholic: A Review of Thomas Woods' "How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization"
Red Deer Catholic schools are publicly funded schools within the province of Alberta.
Ireland we say 'aitch' that is the Presbyterians do - for some reason which escapes me Catholics say 'haitch' - another argument for integrated education. Behind the scenes at the UK's highest court
Named Tecumseh after the Shawnee leader, he was rechristened William in a Catholic ceremony at age 9, after he was informally adopted by a prominent Ohio politician when his father died.

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The New Style (NS.) was adopted by Catholic countries. Anson's Voyage Round the World The Text Reduced
But it is hard to sustain that insistence on the preservation of the Catholic tradition on the one hand with a total insistence on the diminution of a Protestant tradition on the other.
The Twelfth" officially commemorates the July 12, 1690, triumph of Protestant King William of Orange versus the Catholic he deposed from the English throne, James II, at the Battle of the Boyne south of Belfast. Latest Headlines - ABC 7 News
Pat came from a working-class Catholic family in Denver, where her father had worked as an electrician.
I was born into a staunch Roman Catholic family and was indoctrinated with those beliefs as I grew up.
Will R. Huysman on the Catholic Patristics starts off his new blog with a series of patristic catenae on a series of topics. Hyperekperissou
Believing in the authenticity of such apparitions is not even a requirement of Catholic faith.
He was only the second Catholic to receive the presidential nomination.
Cecil was a staunch Protestant but, like the king, took a relatively tolerant attitude towards Catholics.
Esler, a practising Catholic, says: " People aren't entering the priesthood.
She, too, was a convert to Roman Catholicism.
I had my first day at Kolbe Catholic College in Rockingham today and I really enjoyed it. First day at work
He establishes that Evangelical theology ‘lacks a unitary hermeneutic’ of Catholicism.
According to my teachers, only Catholics who kept the commandments had a real shot at Heaven.
Firstly, because this formalistic approach overlooks some real-life dynamics, such as that under the old Stormont regime Catholics were not unequal in law - their subjugation was a matter of informal arrangements. Irish Blogs
The mochos need to be reminded that laicity as is understood in Mexico does not allow them freedom to enforce what laws they want to make government compliant with Catholic principles. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
Catholic, a name vainly usurped by the Romanists, ii. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV.
Most Protestants only get as far as calling Catholic statues and icons a likeness.
They raised her a Catholic.
Such of these principles as the Council found expedient at present to formularize, were set forth by it in "The Dogmatic Constitution of the Catholic Faith. History of the Conflict between Religion and Science
Remember, if you will (I certainly do), that one of the selling points of the post-VII "reforms" was that they enriched Catholic life and worship by making them relevant and immediate rather than old-fashioned (for which read "dignified") and outdatedly stiff (for which read "reverent"). You report: Promotional Posters for the Traditional Latin Mass
Willis also skips over the secular and leftist politics that led Catholic ethnics and working-class voters to take their distance from liberalism and the Democratic Party in 1972.
In 1974, Lawrence Stone identified "the absence of charismatic leadership" during Edward VI's reign as one of the causes for political instability yet the behavior of Mary's household suggests that Catholics, in particular the Catholic dependents associated with Mary's household, had found in the princess householder a leader of sufficient thaumaturgical charisma that they were willing to risk death on her behalf. 95 From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
This Greek congregation afterwards bought a church in Brooklyn (St. Elias, 1892), and there was no Ruthenian church in Manhattan until the Greek Catholic church of St. George was opened in 1905. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
In the early nineteenth century, there were not enough priests to minister to the burgeoning Catholic community in the United States.
This, he said, had helped ease the poverty levels and called on the Church fraternity to emulate the Catholics' gesture.
Whether Terence O'Neill was committed to promoting the sorts of reforms which might have satisfied the Catholic minority is unknown.
But since he or his representative maintained for years that his proabortion rights stance is consistent with being a Catholic in good standing, with receiving Holy Communion, leading family prayers, and being visited by priest friends, I can't for the life of me figure out why I should see his doing such things on his deathbed as "signs of repentance" for the manifest grave sin of his proabortion rights stance. Sen. Ted Kennedy's right to a Catholic funeral
It is a truism of Catholic thinking that grace builds on nature.
This was true even though an education by Catholic monks offered alternative possibilities.
The ongoing row between the Catholic Church and the Spanish Government has erupted again after a judge banned the crucifix from a primary school. Spain: Parents win fight to remove class crucifix
The red (or Greene) flag of Catholicism that Anderson is missing in FO's work is probably "redemption" ... there is none. Signature Elements
After 1054, the Church was divided into the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church.
He's a Catholic conservative, with a distinctive intellectual pedigree.
But traditional catholic moral doctrine would oppose this on the grounds of the legitimacy of the state qua state.
Tolkien, a devout Catholic, was a combat veteran of World War I, and acutely sensitive to the murderous nihilism of modern warfare.
The conclusion is a pressing exhortation to Catholics to be discerning, and a pledge to undertake a critical dialogue with those affected by New Age influences.
The Catholic commission said Sunday it compiled what it called credible witness reports of "systematic violence in the form of assaults, murders, torture, abductions and wanton destruction of property against innocent civilians whose alleged crime is to have voted wrongly. ANC Daily News Briefing
Moreover it seems to me atrocious that we who insist on seven millions of Catholics supporting a church they call heretical, should dare to talk of our scruples (conscientious scruples forsooth!) about assisting with a poor pittance of very insufficient charity their 'damnable idolatry.' The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Church of England has always taken pride in its "comprehensiveness" - a British tolerance for theological diversity dating to Queen Elizabeth I, who combined element of Catholicism and Protestant ism to form a "bridge" between the two traditions. Pink Collars For Anglicans
To many people, John XXIII was the Kennedy pope, and Vatican II was his Camelot a glorious, Roman Catholic version of the New Deal and the New Frontier that would move Catholicism from the medieval past into a rosy future of social equality, in which mass would be celebrated in the vernacular, nuns' habits would be modernized, and the popemobile would replace the traditional gestatorial chair as a form of papal transportation. Philocrites: May 2005 Archives
At the age of thirteen, he had a traditional Jewish confirmation which was soon followed by an interest in Catholicism.
The Roman Catholic Church regards marriage as indissoluble.
After the Catholic rite, their 265 guests caravanned to the Four Seasons in Georgetown, where a Persian wedding ceremony, called an Aghd, was performed. 'I was hoping I didn't open the door and see Attila the Hun.'
Roman Catholic Church. immune from fallacy or liability to error in expounding matters of faith or morals by virtue of the promise made by Christ to the Church. The "Infallible" Shoulder Shot
It is nice to get a bit of the "other side" of the story ... my version of World History taught in freshman year of High School, al; though not strictly anti-Catholic, nevertheless really downplayed the accomplishments of the Church. Weird Things
During that period, Catholic schools have steadily become assimilated to the non-denominational schools in terms of curriculum, teaching methods, assessment and examinations.
When al Molqi took off, he was under the charge of Roman Catholic charity workers.
The Boston archdiocese's official newspaper said this week the Roman Catholic Church must face the question of whether to continue to require priests to be celibate.
The "nocent" Catholics who had been in the rebellion, but who had submitted and constantly adhered to the Peace of 1648, if they had taken lands in Connaught, were to be bound by that arrangement, and not restored to their former estates. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
Peruvians' notion of an afterlife very much follows Catholic notions of heaven, purgatory, and hell.
Why, then, should Catholic theology, because of its postulates, lemmata, and mysteries, be denied the name of a science? The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
The number of Catholics worldwide has exceeded one billion for the first time, according to figures released by the Vatican.
Therefore, they resisted what they perceived as American extremes of rationalism and indifferentism, precisely as did their Protestant and Catholic colleagues.
I do agree with you in that "the Dogma of Faith that Christ has constituted the Catholic Church indefectible, by His Own Virtue". Modern world: a desert of God
As a result, I started to find it easier to speak about spiritual issues with Catholics (lapsed Catholics, mostly).
His translation work, the Vulgate, became the offical Latin Bible used by the Roman Catholic Church of this day.
Pius IX had already refused to recognize the legitimacy of the Kingdom of Italy; and Catholics had been formally enjoined to abstain from voting in national elections.
Perhaps the most ecumenically minded Catholic independent schools are the twenty-one members of the Network of Sacred Heart Schools, and many Jesuit schools also have substantial non-Catholic enrollments.
It was the old Catholic order of things which, they lyingly declared, was the parent of all the social injustice of the time and which had therefore to be ended. Short essay on the French Revolution
The threat of all Darlington Catholics voting against him was the most astute piece of political blackmail I have ever seen.
I'm positive the Bishop will not appoint another Anglo-Catholic. GOODBYE CURATE
A Los Angeles artist who gave that city's art establishment a bursting sense of pride for having nurtured such an obstreperous talent, he earned his celebrity status in part by retaining the obsessions and wounds of a smart Catholic working-class kid from the suburbs of Detroit who had never entirely assimilated to his sun-splashed California home. How Will the Future Judge Him?
I think that is a great catechesis for many people because he might be reaching Catholics who never go to church and he is speaking to them in language they can understand. The Quiet Faith Behind Colbert's Right-Wing Funnyman
Among the Catholic institutions surveyed (including congregations of religious women and men, healthcare systems, and archdioceses and dioceses), the archdiocesan and diocesan responses were the weakest.
As they quickly let you know, they eat bread, not chapattis; drink in tavernas, not tea shops; many of them were Roman Catholic, not Hindu; and their musicians played guitars and sang fados.
Catholics are forbidden to join the Freemasons under pain of excommunication.
He felt insecure because his Catholic education was so exiguous — it amounted to one year at a Jesuit prep school in England. Daredevil
James had none of Elizabeth's fearful paranoia about Catholics and Puritans.
A small alien was sighted near a Roman Catholic high school in the barrio Caspana of Calama, a small city in Chile north of Antofagasta.
When the call to religious life and priesthood made itself known to me, I moved directly to a Roman Catholic seminary.
Like her, Maria was a Roman Catholic.
Catholic Church over which Cæcilianus presides, who give their services to this holy religion, and who are commonly called clergymen, be entirely exempted from all public duties, that by any error or sacrilegious negligence they may not be drawn away from the service due to the Deity, but may devote themselves without any hindrance to their own law. A Source Book for Ancient Church History
Her mother was a former Catholic, and Baker was raised in a non-denominational Christian church.
I have planned both a full Catholic mass, and a smaller, personal service in a funeral home chapel.
When he's not yammering ignorantly about the Catholic Faith and struggling to find new ways to square the circle, he's often quite good.
This year eight men will be ordained in Ireland to the priesthood of the Catholic Church.
Furthermore, although the pope and his bishops may truly believe a zygote is a "preborn child," the truth is that a great number of active Catholics do not, and they vote, in great numbers, accordingly. Michele Somerville: Catholic Bishops Endanger Church Tax Exempt Status
Navarre was a conservative, stable agrarian society in which Catholic Credit societies flourished in the late nineteenth century.
The laws of the Restoration period, especially the Test and Corporation Acts, kept the Catholic community on the margins.
He has attended several retreats at the abbey, run by the Catholic order of Benedictine monks.
He seems to have a great comfort level with these popes, which is, of course, very reassuring to American Catholics. CNN Transcript Apr 15, 2008
He insists he has no animosity towards ordinary Catholic people or nationalists.
For Cavour, leader of the unity movement called the Risorgimento, the biggest stumbling block to achieving his political goal was the Catholic Church. Emancipation
There are people within the Catholic Church who might argue that those who label themselves ‘gay’ or ‘lesbian’ aren't necessarily living unchastely.
He said that the Roman Catholic Church is a greater threat to relationships than Facebook: "Religious bigotry has fuelled the fragmentation of societies, the increase in prejudice and reactionary thinking". The End of Civilization As We Know It
The distinctive cultural trace of Brazil is anthropophagy -- from culture to technology, the legacy of a former, lazy European monarchy in a tropical country where the aborigines, after banqueting over the odd whitey, were merrily exterminated while Europeans and black slaves copulated freely, with no Catholic guilt involved (there's no sin below the Equator). Pepe Escobar: Is Brazil the New United States?
He portrays a whisky-sodden Catholic priest.
At the parish level, the fear of schism ensured that the church remained a militant one, committed to the policies of Catholic reform first promulgated by the council of Trent.
For liberals, such obstructionism proved yet again that the Catholic tradition could never truly be reconciled with secular democracy.
So also, in Catholic and Orthodox Christianity is the image of the Mother and Child.
Blaise" and mistake her for a philosopher or mathematician or maybe a Catholic saint with a throat cult. Other Crap
He is circulating a pastoral letter to Catholics in the capital this weekend, laying out his plans for a consultation exercise.
Catholic civil servants usually had to abandon any practical political project if they wished to proceed through the ranks.
By 1920 the Catholic population numbered about seventeen million and included some twenty-eight ethnic groups.
When I was a missionary in Africa (placed by a non-sectarian group working at a Catholic mission hospital), 70 percent of rural health care was done by missionaries.
Catholics no longer go to confession as a regular practice, and many Protestant services have eliminated or downplayed the confession of sins.
But Benedict, however "charming," is still stifling theologians who challenge ideas about Catholicism, says Thomas Reese, a Jesuit priest and former editor of the Jesuit-owned magazine America. U.S. visit will give pope a defining moment
Said stories were so popular that they grew into a religion known today as Catholicism/Christianity and featuring dark-age, daily wine to blood and bread to body rituals called the eucharistic sacrifice of the non-atoning Jesus. CNN.com
But they can not perform Catholic sacramental duties, such as hearing confession, offering Communion or giving last rites.
As a Catholic statement of missiology, it is almost encyclopedic in range.
This schism was an internal dispute within the Catholic Church resulting in French cardinals electing an "antipope" (Clement VII) in order to dispute the authority of recently elected Pope Urban VI. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
Later a refuge for Catholic priests in times of terror the Stuarts of Traquair supported Mary Queen of Scots and the Jacobite cause without counting the cost.
Founded in 1915 in Georgia, the "modern" Ku Klux Klan, an anti-Negro, anti-Catholic, anti-Semitic organization, reached its peak of power in the U.S. in the mid-twenties; is now moribund. Albert Lutuli - Nobel Lecture
As a young nun in 1871, MacKillop and 47 other nuns from her order were briefly dismissed from the Roman Catholic Church in a clash with high clergy. Mary MacKillop, First Australian Saint, Canonized
So Scalia's insistence that the Catholic Church does not consider capital punishment immoral rests on the word "practically" in the Church's catechism. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
The Synod's declarations prevailed de jure but not de facto in the Roman Catholic Church down to the Reformation era.
Curial officials insist that the health of the head of the Catholic Church is holding up and there's no cause for concern.
It was actually the standard view among Catholic theologians for that time; and even today, tutiorism might be safer than some of the alternatives for non-Catholics. Why tutiorism is now unsafe
On the island itself, due to the dominance of Roman Catholicism, the feast of saints and other Church holy days are observed.
“Korean society has a responsibility to help them,” said Samuel Kang Seong-joon, an activist of the archdiocese’s Catholic Human Rights Committee.
And, while I'm at it, I think that it's ridiculous to believe in transubstantiation, that considering the Bible to be the literal word of God reduces that supposedly omnipotent being to a muddle-headed maniac and that the Hindu caste system and Roman Catholic rules against contraception could have been invented by Satan. If Britain decides to ban the burqa I might just start wearing one
They gave their children a strict Catholic upbringing.
Well, let me tell you, I have been in very genteel society, without feeling any thing so human, so catholic, so pantheistical, (in the right sense,) as I did in making one of that queer company. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
The confidence of the Milanese redoubled when they learned that he had promised the members of the assembled clergy to maintain the catholic worship and clergy as already established, and had compelled them to take the oath of fidelity to the cisalpine republic. Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
Joan of Arc was canonized by the Roman Catholic Church in 1920.
I attended a Catholic school in the most unstructured, uninfluential way one can attend school.
It was not only the Roman Catholic book market that was censored in Protestant England.
In the Enquiry he called Catholics ‘devotees of superstition’ and Catholic liturgy ‘mummeries.’
He was admitted to a lay ministry program sponsored by the Milwaukee Archdiocese, a program that introduced him to contemporary theology and the history of Catholic social action.
I was in Rome in March and again in May, bookending a stay of several weeks in the south of Italy and in that most Catholic of countries, Malta.
About 75% of wedding ceremonies in the Unitarian church in Dublin are booked by young Catholics and divorcees who want to marry in a church setting.
Besides his paintings and glass-windows for Roman-Catholic cathedrals and Jewish synagogues, he created a rich plethora of prints.
It will potentially drive a wedge between the Catholic H.E.
Our targets were the TNI post, the house of the village chief, and a shop owned by the Catholic catechist.
In addition, female figures were prominent in the Irish Catholic hagiolatry of the area, harking back to the powerful position of goddesses and female druids in the pagan Celtic belief system, a status that carried over into early Celtic Christianity. Gutenber-e Help Page
And in a recent column in the Catholic New World, the archdiocesan newspaper, he called for a renewed civility in debates in the church and in the wider culture.
What was the amount of theological divergence which was conveyed by these terms Arian and Catholic, or to speak more judicially Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation
Other cartoons express a fear of collusion between British authorities, the rebellious Irish, and the Catholic Church.
Roman Catholic priests lead mass and deliver the sacrament.
Early examples of the genre often depicted real or imagined debates between a heretic and a Catholic and originated primarily in monastic communities, from the pens of such prestigious abbots as Bernard of Clairvaux and Peter the Venerable. A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
Finally, does anyone else note that Catholicism is a polytheist religion? Harlan Ellison on God
The 1614 Synod was significant for another reason in that it upheld the view by then traditional in Catholic theology, that treasonable activity against the state was inadmissible for Catholics.
(Zakát): thus he avoided the shame and scandal of mendicancy which, beginning in the Catholic countries of Southern Europe, extends to The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Funeral services for Adela Clara Sehon Pinkert, 86, of Levelland, will be at 10 a.m. on Saturday, May 30, 2009 at St. Michael's Catholic Church of Levelland with Rev. Martin Pina officiating and concelebrant Rev. Joseph Kurumbel, S.B. and Deacon Leo Cottoneir asssiting. The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal:Today's Headlines
And at a given moment one of these, hitherto dormant and unsuspected, would suddenly begin to brew, and go on growing till he was all one senseless panic, blind flight the only catholicon. Ultima Thule
Whereas the code delivered to Bronze Age men simply tumbles the wife in with all the other property, the Catholic catechetical tradition pulled her out of the inventory and makes a rather sharp distinction between the kind of coveting that happens when you've got your eye on the neighbor's Prius and the kind of coveting that happens when you've got your eye on the neighbor's missus. Latest Articles
Miss Vernon, as she gave a glance after him; it is hard that persons of birth and rank and estate should be subjected to the official impertinence of such a paltry pickthank as that, merely for believing as the whole world believed not much above a hundred years ago --- for certainly our Catholic Faith has the advantage of antiquity at least. '' Rob Roy
There are substantial Roma communities in all European countries, not just Romania and Bulgaria," said Virgil Bercea, the Greek Catholic bishop of Oradea. Romania Church Leaders Condemn Roma Deportations
In religion, he started as an ardent Catholic and then became a tub-thumping atheist.
Catholic clergy and religious were released. The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution and Revenge
A Roman Catholic hospital in Kumamoto, a provincial city in southern Japan, in December sought official approval of the system modelled on the “Babyklappe” in use in Germany. Japan Approves First ‘Baby Hatch’ | Impact Lab
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In his lifetime he saw the English Church sway from extreme Puritanism to near Catholicism.
C.S.S.R. -- a name deservedly held in great esteem in the Catholic community. Public School Education
Archbishop Brady made his comments at a press conference following the extraordinary meeting of the Catholic Bishops in Maynooth yesterday.
The review was being conducted in seven regional zones, plus another concentrating on catholic schools.
Catholic with a baptised non-Catholic constitutes a "relative" impediment and needs a special dispensation and provisoes, such as a guarantee to bring up the children in the Roman faith to give it validity. A Short History of Women's Rights From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. with Special Reference to England and the United States. Second Edition Revised, With Additions.
England shifted officially from a Catholic to a Protestant faith in the 16th century.
A 25-year-old Catholic policeman who had just joined Northern Ireland's police force was killed after a booby-trap bomb exploded as he got into his car in the town of Omagh, police and neighbors said. World Watch
The second Catholic woman chirps, ‘Well, my son is a Bishop.’
We think it would be found that among women conversions from Protestantism to Catholicism preponderate, and that among men the preponderance is the other way about. The Dominant Sex: A Study in the Sociology of Sex Differentiation, by Mathilde and Mathias Vaerting; translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul
But Frederick utterly rejected the idea of decreeing on his own authority innovations which would constitute a deviation from the great Christian Catholic Church, more especially as opinions were not agreed on them even at Wittenberg. Life of Luther
The Catholic Church, for one, is not about to give the operation its blessing.
He continues to campaign for the right of Catholics to be openly gay.
I've celebrated Mass with the Catholics and served as a choir director and cantor.
Well, I think the Catholic Church isn't looking to scapegoat anyone.
Hispanic creators of santos - carved and painted depictions of the Catholic saints - displayed their work at San Felipe Cathedral in Old Town.
-- where's the honest Catholic could say a word aginst that? The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two
David Card (at Princeton) did a study on the effects of the Canadian Catholic school system (government funded, government controlled curriculum, must take all-comers at high school level) on school outcomes. Matthew Yglesias » Schools and Competition
Richard Carrier: I predict Evangelicals and Catholics (and Mormons and Baptists and everyone else) will not be able to arrest the current trend in younger generations toward liberal non-denominationalism and the abandonment of the entire church-sermon model that Christianity has maintained so far. Interview with Richard Carrier
`What I'm saying is that my Catholicism, though I'm a true believer, doesn't permeate the whole of my life. OUT OF THE ASHES
For Catholics, when we receive Holy Communion, it is a statement that we are in full communion with those people with whom we are taking Communion.
A U.K. Catholic news site, TotalCatholic.com picked up word from Vaticanistas that the pope has "arthrosis". USATODAY.com News
She was some kind of a morbid Catholic, because that word succubus was unknown to the profane. Là-bas
The downside of the Catholic approach is that it can tend to dismiss all appeals to living discipleship as emotivism.
To each of the churches of this diocese a parish school is attached, where instruction is given in Catholic doctrine, music, English, and Portugese, as well as, in some instances, Guzerati and Mahratti. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
In the end she opts for the serious, renounces carnal love, and decides to become a Catholic.
He and his gang were planning to carry out random sectarian assassinations on Catholics in Belfast.
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Dogmatic people tend to be dogmatic about everything, whereas Catholic Faith says ‘Be dogmatic about the dogmatic truths of the Faith, but for the rest of life: Lighten up, bub!’
And in 1994, the first Republican Congress in 40 years won its revolution by getting 52 percent of the Catholic vote.
Though far remote from the ivy chaplet on Wisdom's glorious brow, yet his stump of withered birch inculcates a lesson of virtue, by reminding us, that we should take heed to our steps in our journeyings through the wilderness of life; and, so far as in him lies, he helps us to do so, and by the exercise of a very catholic faith, looks for his reward to the value he supposes us to entertain for that virtue which, from time immemorial, has been in popular parlance classed as next to godliness. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 437 Volume 17, New Series, May 15, 1852
I was baptized Roman Catholic, which a lot of people cannot say. Vatican denounces 'Angels & Demons' | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
In the 1990s, a number of bishoprics in Germany, Luxembourg and France began to support his beatification by the Roman Catholic Church.
The Catholic Church is full of people who either don't know or don't care about the distinction between definitive, irreformable doctrine and mere theological opinion. Archive 2007-10-01
It is now on display in the sacrarium of the Catholic parish church of Neu-St Heribert.
Thus far she has used Catholic iconography and explored Buddhism, and is now studying Kabbala, an ancient Jewish mystical tradition.
Roberts is a devout Catholic and is married to an ardent pro-life activist.
If I had just been trying to be popular then I would have gone, and in a funny kind of way, maybe it was because of my flipping Catholic childhood belief that you have got to try, that I stayed.
In a vivid display of interreligious unity, the Muslim cleric shared the stage with the Vatican's papal nuncio, Pietro Sambi, as well as other senior clergy, Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant.
Englishmen when I say that to insult and abuse a man for adopting another faith, however opposed to our own, and even ridiculous in itself, is an odious method in controversy, and for myself I see little to choose between a proselyte of the gate, a renegade Mason, and a demitted Roman Catholic. Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer
It would probably have led on to granting Catholics exemption from tithes and the authority of Anglican courts.
She explained to me briefly the difference between Roman Catholic and Protestant. SONS OF HEAVEN
Rubbing their eyes, they said in bewildered voices, Catholics shouldn't have voted for Obama? President Obama's Abortion Plan?
Believing he had been called by God to Christianize Ireland, he joined the Catholic Church and studied for 15 years before being consecrated as the church's second missionary to Ireland.
Compare Smith's reliance on masscult totems like the Star Wars movies to the catholic tastes of his fellow Sundance alum Quentin Tarantino, who teases fans with references to obscure spaghetti Westerns and borrows formal strategies from Jean-Luc Godard. Slate Articles
Mr McGuinness is keen to channel money to parents who want to start schools that bring Protestant and Catholic children together.
Catholic priests or Protestant ministers can be most stimulating in such a discussion.
President Clinton has been making a full-court press for Catholic voters.
The hundreds of spirits in the voodoo pantheon invest their power in both African imagery and in corresponding identities, including Catholic saints.
This may stem from the Roman Catholic view, where intimacy, even within the context of marriage, is considered a concession to base instincts, while sacred priests and nuns are celibate.
Having consolidated the line between the Catholic south and the rebellious north, he set about quartering the United Provinces by capturing strategic towns in a long succession of sieges.
But Milner's Catholicism was no mere ivory-tower ultramontanism.
In any event, the sense at the meeting was that the bishops need to focus on putting the Catholic house in order, concentrating on evangelization, catechesis, the Eucharist, and the priesthood.

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