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catholicize

VERB
  1. cause to adopt Catholicism

How To Use catholicize In A Sentence

  • Prior to eliminating any Protestant or Buddhist, he had first to Catholicize the fabric of Vietnam.
  • Does Bishop Thomas Muthee want to "de-Catholicize communities and nations? Common Sense Political Thought
  • The region was effectively Catholicized during the Counter-Reformation.
  • This is a superstitious, heavily Catholicized region where rapt attention is paid the priests who hold court and scare the locals.
  • In between Carnival and Easter, Lupercalia became catholicized into St. Valentine's Day. TheTrumpet.com: Front Page
  • I interpret this latest little burst of controversy as signalling several things: Some traditionalist Catholics I'd call them Catholic triumphalists would like to over-catholicize the Taize movement. Philocrites: Brother Roger's communion with the bishop of Rome.
  • Portuguese sought to catholicize them by very harsh means, and succeeded only in attracting their dislike. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
  • The concerns about JFK's Catholicism were centered on whether or not he would take orders from Rome or tend to "Catholicize" policy --- particularly with respect to education and the separation of church and state. Romney To Give JFK Speech!
  • In the years since Magellan landed on Guam, our people have been colonized, proselytized, Catholicized, and subsidized.
  • However, today, any sacred meaning in them has been transferred to the saints and Catholicized ceremony.
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