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"Catholicism" Definitions
  1. the beliefs and principles of the part of the Christian Church that has the pope as its leader

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It was Latin Catholicism, not Catholicism; other forms of Catholicism had been practiced previously.
The number 250,000 includes branches of Catholicism besides Roman Catholicism.
It was Latin Catholicism; other forms of Catholicism had been practiced previously.
He had left Catholicism almost five decades before, but Catholicism had not entirely left him.
" American Catholicism, he argued, echoing the article's thesis, "has become different than mainstream European Catholicism and mainstream Latin American Catholicism," and has fallen "into the hands of the religious right.
" But, Mr. Taylor added, "American Catholicism evolved and, in the process, changed world Catholicism in significant ways.
That is to say, almost every Catholic distinctive — the list that distinguishes Catholicism from Orthodoxy, the longer list that distinguishes Catholicism from the Reformed churches, the still-longer list that distinguishes Catholicism from Mormonism or Seventh-Day Adventism or Christian Science, etc.
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - It might be called Cappuccino Catholicism.
Last year, he talked about converting from Catholicism to paganism.
Or is the Catholicism into which he was born ineradicable?
For decades, two separate structures have practised Catholicism in China.
Mary's Catholicism was on display the morning of her execution.
"Catholicism is the state religion [in Monaco]," Charlene has said.
Today marks the feast day of St. Matthew in Catholicism.
They hosted a television show where they railed against Catholicism.
He converted to Catholicism when Rachel was eight years old.
Catholicism exerts a strong hold over the legal system, divorce
What is your tie with catholicism and spirituality these days?
Catholicism stays with you whether you like it or not.
Once dominated by Catholicism, Ireland has become significantly more secular.
Somewhat to his surprise, Catholicism appealed to him the most.
There are many things that make it close to Catholicism.
Confucianism, Daoism, Buddhism, communism, Catholicism, capitalism, it's all in there.
But Catholicism did not even exist then, Jeannette pointed out.
But not by converting to my own religion, Roman Catholicism.
"For many Thais, Catholicism is synonymous with schools," Puttipong said.
Some facets of his Religion of Humanity resembled Roman Catholicism.
Catholicism was part of the fabric underpinning all social institutions.
It does not help that Catholicism is strongest in rural areas.
Catholicism and Spanish are gone, replaced by evangelical Christianity and Portuguese.
Certainly it presents one legitimate, if very specialized perspective on Catholicism.
And what brought the groups together [in my area] was Catholicism.
She converted to Catholicism ahead of her 2011 wedding to Albert.
Catholicism — all that blood and guts, song and sin — intrigued her.
"We are Jewish," says one old lady who switched from Catholicism.
The pope noted the positive impact of Luther's actions on Catholicism.
But within Catholicism there is also strong resistance to this interpretation.
Their Irish Catholicism isn't the political asset it used to be.
You talked about Catholicism with my mother while sexually violating me.
I learned that in Catholicism, you're guilty until proven less guilty.
The event caused O'Neill to reject Catholicism, and he began drinking.
The population is booming across the continent, and so is Catholicism.
Some Jews decided to stay, converting to Catholicism against their will.
She writes and speaks widely about religious freedom, Catholicism, and women.
Catholicism is as much a culture as it is a religion.
How the critique of Catholicism changes and yet remains the same.
In Latin America, Christianity used to be associated with Roman Catholicism.
U.S.-born Lindh converted from Catholicism to Islam as a teenager.
It was also about Catholicism, a proven hook for Met visitors.
It's not really an indictment on Catholicism or the Catholic Church.
"[He] gave Catholicism more cache [with a wider audience]," Dr. Andrus says.
It's not about church or Catholicism — you were made in God's image.
Catholicism in the entire New World may turn into a seamless web.
As measured by the number of faithful, global Catholicism is faring decently.
Nonetheless, the scandal threatens to accelerate the decline of Catholicism in Chile.
Mr Marshall provides convincing evidence that Catholicism survived well into Elizabeth's reign.
The industry has long had a weird obsession with religion — Catholicism specifically.
Much like Catholicism itself, it's all about embracing beautiful, deeply frustrating contradictions.
I wondered what it would mean for Catholicism if they found it.
Catholicism than from jurisprudence, and that it is utterly inapplicable to a
The discussion at the torture chamber was about what "true" Catholicism was.
But even among the pious and conservative, Catholicism does makes a difference.
Then in the 63s he was attracted by both Maoism and Catholicism.
The excesses of empire were easily matched by the excesses of Catholicism.
Raphael Zwolenkiewicz, who are reintroducing Catholicism to the neighborhood in unconventional ways.
"Nigerian Catholicism is almost feudal, and the priest is God," she says.
But our today is not actually quite what 1960s-era Catholicism imagined.
Luther conceived of a church in some ways very close to Catholicism.
Some Jews chose instead to convert to Catholicism and remain in Spain.
Gallagher says the concept of possession by spirit isn't limited to Catholicism.
Leo's life has been shaped as much by Catholicism as by conservatism.
Religion is a big part of the Philippines; Catholicism is very strong.
Quietly, his Catholicism begins to reemerge, with the possibility of an afterlife.
Her family was of Jewish heritage but had converted to Roman Catholicism.
People are saying you're the best thing to happen to Catholicism lately.
Catholicism has lost millions of followers in Latin America in recent years.
Is there a latent Catholicism in France that we failed to see?
Catholicism uses symbols, rituals and stories to convey God's message and grace.
A number of attendees seemed inspired by the medieval history of Catholicism.
The look anchored a collection with two central references: Catholicism and casinos.
Rather than reject Catholicism, he made a bet with the Supreme Being.
Mr Cipollone is a devout Catholic who introduced Laura Ingraham to Catholicism.
But my response was: We share some values with Catholicism, with religion.
The ban on abortion, though, "was intrinsic to Irish Catholicism, and for a long-time Catholicism was sort of an intrinsic part to being Irish," the FT's Orla Ryan, who is Irish, said on the World Weekly podcast.
They had spent the afternoon talking about Catholicism, the common good and morality.
But there is a palpable sense that Catholicism is in long-term decline.
What would it mean for Catholicism for us to discover intelligent life elsewhere?
Catholicism came to the Philippines in the 16th century with the Spanish conquerors.
The spread of Catholicism dates to 1505 with Portuguese colonisation and subsequent proselytisation.
Unlike Dev, I decided to announce Catholicism wasn't for me in high school.
The prevalence of Catholicism means Italians have an inclination towards the visual image.
Conversion from Catholicism to Islam is actually a means to divorce for some.
She is credited with helping to convert her husband to Catholicism in 2009.
Peter, her father, a Protestant from Yorkshire, converted to Catholicism before their marriage.
France is officially secular but Catholicism is deeply embedded in the country's culture.
Catholicism survived as a clan-based, rural religion without its old missionizing impulse.
These imitations existed in the shadow of racial apartheid and residual anti-Catholicism.
Certainly, too, the continuing relevance of Catholicism to French life has been underestimated.
But there is scant evidence that French people have been returning to Catholicism.
Although the Christian Democrats are no longer, Catholicism remains a major political force.
Today, the mainstream of conservative Catholicism is not reactionary and not remotely Trumpian.
In many ways, Catholicism is tangled with Latin-American countries' pasts and presents.
Now, it's time for Catholicism to change in order to fit our image.
For their freedom, runaways were required to renounce their faith and adopt Catholicism.
This change should transcend all the unfortunate liberal-conservative divisions in American Catholicism.
Secondly, the predominant religion is Islam, rather than Catholicism or the Orthodox Church.
"Anything, Roman Catholicism, Buddhism, LSD, I'm for anything that works," he once said.
The "hard" left had its origins in catholicism, populism and the Cuban revolution.
Meanwhile, Catholicism remained a political question at least as late as JFK's election.
There's a certainty with Catholicism that you feel no one else really has.
But within Catholicism, there are certainly maverick voices which take a more sceptical view.
His commentary on Judaism, Catholicism and Buddhism in a supposedly post-truth world sparkles.
These would become some of the most commonly known divisions between Catholicism and Protestantism.
What better way to ride the latest wave of pop culture's interest in Catholicism?
Daniel Rycharski, another video artist, attempts to reconcile his homosexuality with a deep Catholicism.
Not very monkish stuff, this, unless you take a very dim view of Catholicism.
There were phases when the "western" Metropolitan lapsed (from the Orthodox viewpoint) into Catholicism.
Paul D. Scalia, delivered an eloquent homily that emphasized the late justice's devout Catholicism.
Then there's Prince Charles and the Duke of Sandringham, who are disagreeing over Catholicism.
This dance has effectively left Catholicism with two teachings on marriage and the sacraments.
There are only five state-recognized faiths: Chinese Buddhism, Islam, Catholicism, Protestantism and Taoism.
You might expect that dance music would completely replace my complicated relationship with Catholicism.
Rather than coming into conflict with my life as a DJ, Catholicism complements it.
It's also home to a very religious population, with Catholicism as the dominant faith.
In Brazil, for example, Protestantism has grown rapidly as Catholicism has become less dominant.
James Schall, S.J., author of "Catholicism and Intelligence," is professor emeritus at Georgetown University.
At this stage he was a devout Marxist, spurning the Catholicism of his childhood.
I have no attachment to Catholicism; for me it's an aspect of the goddess.
The space is fitting because Wilde was deeply inspired by Catholicism throughout his life.
There's a suggestion of Catholicism in the spectacle of tormented male flesh, of course.
Do you feel that the designers, and the exhibition, were mostly respectful to Catholicism?
Like Spanish, Catholicism is another thing that connects us in ways good and bad.
He never wavered from his loyalty to a darker, unquestioning, archaic vision of Catholicism.
In much the same way that Huysmans converted to Catholicism, François converts to Islam.
The state authorizes just six official religions: Islam, Protestantism, Catholicism, Buddhism, Hinduism and Confucianism.
In 1998, she underwent another conversion, to Roman Catholicism, after talks with the Rev.
Josh is a Modern Orthodox Jew, and Olivia has converted from Catholicism to Judaism.
Cruz's paintings are also deeply connected with the influence of Catholicism in the Philippines.
Final Prayer's horror incorporates a lot of Catholicism, in a good and thoughtful way.
I never asked [James] Joyce not to mention Catholicism or the world of Dublin. Never.
The use of Catholicism is notable in a country notorious for its hostility toward religion.
These days, Catholicism still surfaces in European debates, albeit not usually as a decisive factor.
For me, Catholicism was a curse and a blessing; it was a double-edged sword.
They incorporate liberal feminist lessons within Catholicism, therefore preaching total inclusivity, total equality for minorities.
Catholicism played a big part in her family life, and abortion went against her religion.
However, this mammoth display of piety runs parallel to an increased softening in Filipino Catholicism.
But in Münster, a bastion of German Catholicism, a somewhat different female voice was raised.
Her age, devout catholicism, notorious menstrual problems, and intermittent depression all painted a nasty caricature.
Mingled with this Catholicism are the traditions of the enslaved Africans brought to the Americas.
But new global forces and methods are moving into the space vacated by traditional Catholicism.
Catholicism bears the brunt of the exodus (so much for the so-called "Francis effect").
Many countries have a traditional national religion, like Catholicism in Italy or Anglicanism in England.
The theological foundations for de Lubac's anti-racism were outlined in his 1938 book Catholicism.
The show isn't, er, preachy, and does not require much knowledge about Catholicism in particular.
His father, Wilhelm, came from a family of Jews who had converted to Roman Catholicism.
But he added that it would not address larger problems that are diminishing Catholicism here.
Both candidates regularly reference their Catholicism when describing their politics, but in very different ways.
Years later, a budding adolescent feminist, I railed against Catholicism as sexist, hypocritical, shame-obsessed.
His intent was to spark a debate within his church over a reformation of Catholicism.
Still, thousands of people in the New York area alone converted to Catholicism this year.
Yes, American Catholicism has lost millions of its baptized flock over the last 50 years.
Complaining that Mr. Ryan never spoke to him in person, he also raised his Catholicism.
The event's official website doesn't include a single mention of Catholicism, God, saints, nor religion.
While the Philippines is Asia's center of Catholicism, the city of Marawi is overwhelmingly Muslim.
The saint's story was a revelation to Ms. Cram, whose own mother converted to Catholicism.
For most of the 20th century, Catholicism and Irish identity were inseparable from one another.
Aside from a nation of serial colonizers and Catholicism-imposers with a wildly overrated cuisine?
Changes in Rome Meanwhile, change was stirring at the Vatican, the center of world Catholicism.
The times they are a-changin': The Catholic Church's discipline of clerical celibacy has been in place for nearly two thousand years, though the Church does already allow some exceptions — priests in eastern rite Catholicism and previously married Anglican priests who convert to Catholicism.
But in all cases, the people Ms. Ganiel interviewed for her work could not stop talking about Catholicism, defining their choices in terms of the church or against it; Irish Catholicism may be in decline, but its legacy continues to cast a long shadow.
Only five religious groups are allowed to exist in China: Buddhism, Daoism, Islam, Protestantism and Catholicism.
Roman Catholicism runs wide and deep throughout South and Central America and abortion is mostly prohibited.
Even now, the racist persecution of "witches" in the name of Catholicism remains in full effect.
With its large French-Canadian population, Canada was also the home of Catholicism in North America.
While Christians of any denomination can observe Holy Week, it's usually observed more strictly within Catholicism.
The women priests were my way back to the entering a dialogue with Catholicism, my history.
This reflects the Jesuit tradition of operating at the outer edge, between Catholicism and other cultures.
Elsewhere in the region, they are staying with Catholicism; in Chile they are abandoning faith altogether.
Many in the group seemed to have lapsed from the faith I was born into, Catholicism.
Tammas: It came from the idea of, like Catholicism, skateboarding is kind of a belief system.
Even today, Catholicism has maintained a visual focus in a way most Protestant traditions have not.
I learned that my true personal faith is Catholicism, though I freely confess my countless imperfections.
Still, the incorporation of a religion apart from Catholicism felt like a break from the norm.
Judaism is not one of China's five state-licensed religions: Buddhism, Catholicism, Islam, Protestantism and Taoism.
When Auguste Comte issued a "Catechism of Positive Religion," the continuity with Roman Catholicism was clear.
Suspicions among Catholic Democrats that Conroy's Catholicism played a role were bolstered Thursday night, when Rep.
There, Mother Angelica began writing booklets and recording audiocassettes to introduce Catholicism to her new neighbors.
De Carvajal was a converso, forced to adopt Catholicism but suspected of clandestinely practicing Jewish rituals.
While the English Reformation was underway, Europe was electrified by Martin Luther's doctrinal attack against Catholicism.
They reflect a Corbusier-to-Cardin era of French Catholicism with textured finishes and imaginative mounts.
Take the centrality of gathering in numerous religious traditions, including Catholicism, Islam and some Jewish practices.
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Those who condemn Father Martin represent a side of Catholicism that is divisive, offensive and exclusive.
To the Editor: Frank Bruni offers a tantalizing peek into the "what if" of American Catholicism.
Yet several scholars pointed to elements of American Catholicism that helped persuade schools to embrace sports.
She began to see a connection between what was rapidly becoming her social mission and Catholicism.
That fostered an intermingling of Catholicism and Irish identity that was "a toxic mix," he added.
She writes about infidelity and Catholicism, about married women who long to transgress and often do.
How would we react if the attorney general denounced Catholicism as a force undermining American society?
Asked about his current relationship to Catholicism, Arbery, already given to thoughtful pauses, paused even longer.
But Lutheranism is ultimately unsatisfying, and he converts to Catholicism, the religion of Lockwood's mother, Karen.
Though the city includes a range of religious observations today, Catholicism persists as the most popular.
What separates her from older generations is her Catholicism has almost nothing to do with God.
To be denied communion is essentially to be denied one's right to the holiness of Catholicism.
Only 11% said they quit Catholicism because they oppose the church or religious institutions in general.
Catholicism is in decline in Western Europe and America, but drastically on the rise in Africa.
A deeply religious man, he had converted to Roman Catholicism after growing up a Southern Baptist.
At the time, Spain was a multi-cultural state with three major religions: Catholicism, Islam, and Judaism.
She even agreed to convert to Catholicism for him, and they married three years later in 1916.
But by August of that year, she had changed faiths to Catholicism and had left Operation Rescue.
Newman retracted his earlier criticisms of Catholicism and in 1845 he converted and began defending Catholic teachings.
They converted at the urging of Mr. Denis's mother, Lola, but eventually switched back to Roman Catholicism.
Being around so much Catholicism impacted me, and I was very uncomfortable with the idea of abortion.
His flock includes people from across Africa, and a few Irish looking for an alternative to Catholicism.
If anything holds Belgium together through its third century of existence, Catholicism will not be the glue.
"For a lot of members, the outrage is personal, and it's not about Catholicism," Connolly told CNN.
" On Russia's President Vladimir Putin "I've learned that in Catholicism you are guilty until proven less guilty.
The Catholicism that the Jesuits and the Catholic Church taught my enslaved forefathers was rooted in discrimination.
Catholicism comes first for Annie and she has great sympathy for nuns, except for the mean ones.
The Christians wish the same except that, for them, Catholicism is life and anything else is heresy.
According to Sinclair, the shape of a candy cane and its color strongly represent Christianity and Catholicism.
Trump's Catholicism means she is the first Catholic first lady in the White House since Jacqueline Kennedy.
I suspect Feinstein was just as worried about Barrett's age and resume as she was her Catholicism.
I was baptized at 20 but I'd been interested in Catholicism since I was in high school.
Arthur Schlesinger, the historian, famously said that the deepest bias in the American people is anti-Catholicism.
As a classical liberal and a recent convert to Catholicism, I find all of this deeply dismaying.
Catholicism in America taught that all aspects of life could be sacred, Byrne said, maybe even basketball.
At Easter, thousands of people converted to Catholicism even as sex abuse allegations have rocked the church.
She was one of six children, and they all, for their own reasons, turned away from Catholicism.
She had spent years doing missionary work overseas, and now, she was ready to return to Catholicism.
A photographer went inside their lives, finding a powerful contrast to the Catholicism she grew up with.
Many were dark-skinned ("non-white"), who practiced a different religion (Catholicism), and spoke a different language.
Father Spadaro said he was alarmed by the retrofitting of a mystical apocalyptical worldview into conservative Catholicism.
Jeroom Heyndrickx, the acting director of the Ferdinand Verbiest Institute in Belgium, which studies Catholicism in China.
Founding Father Benjamin Franklin lamented immigrants from Germany for not learning English and for their Roman Catholicism.
"In most Christian religious like Catholicism and Protestantism, you are not supposed to kill yourself," Koenig said.
Catholic rule represented a holdover from the colonial French era, when the spread of Catholicism was promoted.
To experience Catholicism is to experience not just a religion but an aesthetic, too — and that's hardly accidental.
When it comes to Catholicism, 20 percent of adults identified as Catholic compared to 23 percent in 2009.
Catholicism had at once propped me up and held me down, told me I could and I couldn't.
Indonesia guarantees freedom of religion but the government recognizes only six: Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Protestantism, Catholicism and Confucianism.
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Still, the article raises questions that can be asked in a confirmation hearing without devolving into anti-Catholicism.
The children of Mexican migrants prefer English to Spanish, American music to Mexican and—increasingly—Protestantism to Catholicism.
It is about a certain tradition of aestheticism — the fascination with the lavish ceremonial aspects of traditional Catholicism.
Later, with the Portuguese, Roman Catholicism came to Goa and then, via the south China coast, to Japan.
Her entire family converted to Catholicism before the war but were still considered Jews under Nazi racial laws.
Catholicism — and, above all, Sara and Keith's investment in giving its age-old traditions a modern, intersectional update.
Grigorieva "truly loved Mel," a friend told PEOPLE, who noted that Grigorieva converted to Catholicism for the actor.
Hong Kong's general stance toward homosexuality stems from the outsized influence of Christianity and Catholicism in the city.
Rhode Island is still the most Catholic state in the country, with 41% of its residents following Catholicism.
Of course, this is only Easter's date within Western forms of Christianity, such as Roman Catholicism and Protestantism.
A law of 1905 entrenched the principle of laïcité, or strict secularism, after a struggle against authoritarian Catholicism.
The Sacred Heart (Sacratissimum Cor Iesu), for example, is an image of deep spiritual importance in Roman Catholicism.
Botticelli was painting, after all, before the very split that defined "Catholicism" as something other than Christianity itself.
It is about inherited, ready-made formulations, fossilized metaphors—most notably those of Irish-Catholicism and anti-Semitism.
In recent days, one propagandist for Trump spoke on television of her Catholicism in defense of this policy.
He converted to Catholicism as a teen-ager, freely but under the influence of his spiritually itinerant mother.
The section on post-Trent Catholicism is populated by highly dedicated priests, brilliant theologians and self-­confident nuns.
In Catholicism, the priest is thought of as a mediator through the sacraments between God and his people.
I guess at this point, I would describe myself as a Christian humanist who happens to practice Catholicism.
I was very interested in the visual aspect of Catholicism—the color palettes, the crosses, the ornate vs.
Friars were bringing images from Spain to Mexico to inspire and to teach the native populations about Catholicism.
Woodward's Catholicism, though, also compels him to part ways with many religious liberals on the issue of abortion.
Instead, he unified Spain around nationalism and Catholicism, complicating the transition after his death to a pluralistic democracy.
The tradition goes all the way back to St. Patrick, who is credited with bringing Catholicism to Ireland.
In the 1950s, distressed with the jazz world, she converted to Catholicism and temporarily retired from the stage.
I follow the pope, but the institutional church has a distinctly secondary place in my understanding of Catholicism.
The Portuguese, who landed here in the 15th century and took up the spice trade, introduced Latin Catholicism.
"I attribute my healing to my faith," says Morgan, who converted to Catholicism just over two years ago.
Ireland remains defined by its relationship with Catholicism, because it has yet to develop another way to be.
But by questioning the compatibility of radical environmental thinking with core Catholicism, they have touched a sensitive spot.
And given Scorsese's long proclivity toward looking for meaning in Catholic symbolism, Frank's own Catholicism starts to resurface.
Buttigieg: Malta was personally converted by St. Paul, so Catholicism is extremely deep and universal among the Maltese.
Mr. Duterte stressed that the country was Asia's bastion of Roman Catholicism, which steadfastly opposes same-sex marriage.
But the many Hindu religious orders are not hierarchical like those of Roman Catholicism, which has a pope.
He was confirmed in the Anglican faith (thus formally lapsing from Catholicism) while attending Eton College, Britain's poshest school.
With the start of the Cold War in 1945, American paranoia turned away from international Catholicism to international Communism.
And by unleashing that change, Luther brought the Christian faith, including Roman Catholicism itself, a new lease of life.
White's writings and speeches focused on four pillars of Klan ideology: white supremacy, anti-Catholicism, anti-Semitism, and temperance.
Jones's religion—he converted to Catholicism in 1921, much to the horror of his parents—grounded and enriched him.
Ahead of the First Monday in May, we're looking back at how different designers referenced Catholicism over the years.
And if you're easily invested in the fall of shady bureaucracies and indictments of Catholicism, it's worth a look.
PiS sees Catholicism as a key element of Polish identity while liberals say the Church wields too much power.
This is not the Catholicism of Robert Bresson, Dorothy Day, or Robert Gober, to name three very different Catholics.
An essential part of assuming office consisted of a series of oaths in which the monarch firmly eschewed Catholicism.
The colonial regime entwined Catholicism inextricably with the state; the church has enjoyed wealth, land and prestige ever since.
It's the language and the stories that even the casual observer of Catholicism has heard, but all told differently.
A convert from Catholicism, she was caught in the middle of the conflict that broke out along religious lines.
This type of anti-Catholicism has always been present but takes on special importance in today's polarized political climate.
In contrast, consider the visual culture of Protestantism — traditionally, though not exclusively, less aesthetically bold than that of Catholicism.
It is one thing for Elizabeth's great ally, the king of France, to convert to Catholicism without alerting her.
Roger David Casement was born in County Dublin in 1864 to Protestant parents (his mother later converted to Catholicism).
Although Serner, born Walter Seligmann in Bohemia, converted to Catholicism in 1909, to the Nazis he was a Jew.
In 1938, when my parents finally applied for a visa to Colombia, we were required to convert to Catholicism.
Catholicism forbade cremation, and crypts were already a public-health nightmare, so the only place to go was down.
"There's all these kinds of clashes that you have in Catholicism now because it's so ideologically divided," he said.
It gives the church greater access to a huge population where the growth of Protestantism is far outpacing Catholicism.
Our correspondent visited a stronghold of Catholicism to gauge how the possible deal is being seen by the faithful.
Mr. Colbert's comments came during a conversation that lasted nearly 20 minutes, covering topics from American politics to Catholicism.
And that flipped somewhat after the 1960s, when people began to see Catholicism just in terms of its prohibitions.
Dr. Pfau, who had converted to Roman Catholicism and become a nun, discovered her calling to help lepers coincidentally.
Brannox is revered for his religious text The Middle Way, a book that suggests a centrist approach to Catholicism.
No longer dominated by Catholicism, Christianity became a lot more complicated, but the eroticism of Jesus has remained constant.
Norma's conversion to Christianity, then to Catholicism, was sincere and I was honored to be part of that journey.
Catholicism first arrived in Siam, the old name for Thailand, in the mid 1500s with Portuguese missionaries and traders.
The museum yokes the spectacle of fashion and the spectacle of Catholicism in its largest costume exhibition to date.
Naturally, a story of demonic possession is going to have at least a slight overlay of Christianity, usually Catholicism.
Ahmari is a recent convert to Catholicism and advocates a greater role for the church in ordering public affairs.
It is true that identification with Catholicism is on the decline throughout South America, including Brazil, Argentina, and Chile.
Meanwhile, Catholicism remained strongest in Poland's historic eastern heartland, which developed a fiery sense of pride and suspiciousness of change.
In Europe, England, and America, at least, Catholicism was one of the major canvases on which these tensions played out.
Scott Walter, president of the conservative think tank the Capital Research Center, advised Yiannopoulos frequently on Republican politics and Catholicism.
But the culture of Catholicism remains robust, helped by the fact that the church retains its sway over elementary education.
Catholicism was presented as an answer to every problem in a way that students of the Muslim Brotherhood would recognise.
It seems the specter of Catholicism, often a major tenant of the Latinx identity, plays a part in the rift.
But when the larger world is so thin, it's hard to put something like neo-Catholicism in a larger context.
Its ancient cities are cradles of Christian art and learning, and Catholicism is in many ways the country's raison d'etre.
A Mexican monopoly Despite decades of Soviet-style repression during the 20th century, Catholicism survived and even thrived in Mexico.
That is particularly true of the Pentecostal churches which have gained ground in Latin America at the expense of Catholicism.
The first is laïcité, a strict form of secularism enshrined by law in 1905 after a struggle against authoritarian Catholicism.
She explained that during the Spanish Inquisition, scores of Jews living in Spain were forced to convert to Catholicism. Hey!
Other celebrities took a different approach to the prompt of "Catholicism," and associated the concept with Italian art ipso facto.
His is a social-justice strain of Catholicism, with a whiff of Latin America and of Pope Francis to it.
John F. Kennedy's Catholicism cut little ice with many of the Irish ex-New Dealers who lived on our street.
Catholicism responded in kind: Papal encyclicals denounced liberalism as a pestilence and an evil, mired in selfishness, materialism, and unbelief.
Those versed in the law and lore of Catholicism might be tempted to ask what all the fuss is about.
Yet the iconography, ritual, and allegory Catholicism has found its way into almost every piece of art I've ever made.
Catherine can find no fault with him beyond his baffling devotion to Roman Catholicism and his much maligned dachshund, Herman.
Mr. Choi was a former police officer who had also been a Buddhist monk and a convert to Roman Catholicism.
Their turn toward Catholicism occurred as the Church, on the cusp of Vatican II, was gingerly making peace with modernity.
"It is a real thing," said Julie E. Byrne, a professor of religion at Hofstra University who studies American Catholicism.
Longtime Miami residents kept their distance from the newcomers who spoke Creole and sometimes mixed in voodoo rituals with Catholicism.
There she absorbed not only the inner workings of the Abakuá but also the visual codes of Christianity, especially Catholicism.
We are accustomed to viewing Catholicism as a European religion, but that hasn't been the case in quite some time.
Their presence is both a nod to Barragán's lasting commitment to Catholicism and a tribute to the architect's personal friendships.
"Father Conroy's firing was unjust, apparently motivated by no little anti-Catholicism, as his new letter indicates," Father Martin said.
Faced with declining church attendance in the West, the Holy See is eager to promote Catholicism in the developing world.
As Europe grows more secular and as Islam takes root on the Continent, the face of French Catholicism is evolving.
Michael J. DeLaurentisElkins Park, Pa. To the Editor: Certainly, Catholicism deserves a place in any discussion of the religious left.
"I was fascinated by Catholicism in childhood, the tortures and the torments of the martyrs and of Jesus," he says.
Leaving Catholicism was the spiritual equivalent of a trapped animal gnawing off his own leg off to save its life.
And Catholicism is an especially fertile place for these anxieties to fester because Catholic imagery is so violent and grim.
So while Francis is not exactly flinging open the faith's doors to "sinners," his attempts to decentralize the church and become the "pope of the people" shows the quandary Catholicism is in today—where a fear of progression is at odds with the reality that, without modernization, Catholicism will continue its slow but steady decline.
"After Catholicism, it kind of got merged in with a celebration of the birth of Saint John the Baptist," she says.
From Elizabethan collars to battle-ready chainmail, we observed a frequent, confusing mixing of Catholicism with medieval representations of western royalty.
In parts of Europe where Catholicism is strong but also controversial, politicians have had to edge back from socially conservative positions.
" She responded that Catholicism "is the most socially acceptable politically conservative religion...their rich friends wouldn't understand if they became evangelicals.
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The winner of the Iowa caucuses in 2012 was Rick Santorum, who put his Catholicism at the forefront of his campaign.
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Most people in La Tuna and surrounding hamlets are members, she says, though traditional Catholicism still dominates the wider mountain region.
Francis has expressed great interest in visiting the most famous symbol of Mexican Catholicism, the shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe.
Ratzinger's main objection was that some theologies in the movement were utilizing Marxist class analysis, which is a philosophy Catholicism rejects.
"The implication that, as one legislator said, a 'family man' would be more suitable smacks of anti-Catholicism," Father Martin said.
A grandmother smothered him with "horrible unforgettable boundary-less love"; Catholicism imbued a spirit of rebellion and the ghost of faith.
About 77 percent of Lithuania's population of 2.9 million are Catholic, while Catholicism is a minority in the other two countries.
While those unfamiliar with Irish tradition or Catholicism might overlook the mistake, but for those in the know, it's pretty glaring.
While Celtic thus became a symbol of Irish Catholicism, Rangers, who had been formed earlier, developed a similarly robust Protestant character.
Every great faith I studied — Catholicism and Protestantism, Judaism and Islam, Buddhism and Confucianism — taught some version of the golden rule.
And it is making the most of every mention of Catholicism in the hacked Clinton campaign emails being released by WikiLeaks.
Part of Wolfe's genius was his realization that in science fiction, as in Catholicism, the literal and the metaphoric are intertwined.
Winston told me that Gallagher once took advantage of Socolovsky's absence from the office to pitch her on a Catholicism story.
But nationalist Catholic thinkers eventually contorted Hispanidad into a far-right defense of Spanish Catholicism as a civilizing force in history.
This past June, they released Silent Retreat, a photo series where they examine the complicated relationship between themself, Catholicism, and gender.
The novel was "Silence," by Shusaku Endo, a Japanese convert steeped in European literature and the history of Catholicism in Japan.
You don't need to value Canon Law or Catholicism to recognize that is an extremely serious matter for someone who does.
And sustaining a for-the-time-being Catholicism, as his immediate predecessors did, is not an achievement to be lightly dismissed.
Adapted from "To Change the Church: Pope Francis and the Future of Catholicism," forthcoming on March 27 from Simon and Schuster.
Nevertheless, I call him "the pope of hints" because of his ambivalent suggestions on several doctrinal and policy controversies in Catholicism.
Francis' predecessor, Benedict XVI, permitted the ordination of some married Anglican priests who converted to Catholicism to serve as Catholic priests.
Bishop Guo's diocese of Mindong in southeastern Fujian Province has been a center of Catholicism in China since the 17th century.
"I began to understand the range of Christian traditions beyond the Catholicism I was steeped in at South Bend," he said.
At a time when "liberal Catholicism" was a movement, not a contradiction, his faith tempered and gave values to his progressivism.
Whatever Newman would make of tinkering with his relics, he would probably have appreciated the diverse state of Catholicism in England.
"Jane Roe," coming out as a lesbian, then turning to strict Catholicism and repudiating both her lesbianism and Roe v. Wade.
By law, all citizens of Indonesia had to accept one of Indonesia's officially recognized religions: Islam, Christianity, Catholicism, Hinduism or Buddhism.
To the producers' credit, they didn't whitewash that from the show, namely that its religious dystopia would require scrubbing out Catholicism.
Ilo, a Public Voices Fellow, is a research professor at the Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology at DePaul University.
And the nation's top pollster recently described rising environmentalism as possibly the "new matrix" underlying the nation's cultural identity, replacing Catholicism.
Some Anglican priests who were already married when they converted to Roman Catholicism were able to continue to serve as priests.
Nevertheless, the engagement with Catholicism in this show isn't entirely oppositional — some artists also use Catholic imagery proactively in their work.
Named for their resemblance to the religious rites of penance in Catholicism, these structures have been observed on Earth and Pluto.
That same year he would convert to Catholicism and in 1922 he moved to Ditchling, where he learned wood carving and engraving.
Pastor Jeffress has called Catholicism a "counterfeit religion," said Mormonism is a cult, and claims that Islam is evil and promotes pedophilia.
These immigrants not only had different religious beliefs (Catholicism), but they were viewed by many as members of a different, inferior race.
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In earlier centuries, the very survival of Irish Catholicism owed much to the refuge offered in France and Belgium to Irish monastics.
As Catholicism and evangelicalism dominate the conversation on abortion and religion within the U.S., pro-choice Christian voices, like that of Rev.
She also suggested lying to him by saying the children could be converted from Judaism to Catholicism if they stayed in Tallahassee.
Saint Francis Xavier is one of the more popular saints in Catholicism (he's not like those other saints; he's a cool saint).
Among all respondents, levels of active adherence to Catholicism seemed to diminish dramatically with age, while the practice of Islam increased correspondingly.
Macron, who said he had discussed "the place of catholicism" in France with the pope, was raised in a non-religious family.
Paradoxically, though, as the long-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party lifted some restrictions on Catholicism, the church lost some of its religious monopoly.
The national standing of Catholicism, and of minority faiths, ticked upwards after a period when religion had been curbed by secularist governments.
Washington (CNN)House Speaker Paul Ryan made the case Thursday for Catholicism as a faith that can help solve the country's problems.
Followers of Catholicism can plug into the Confession Chatbot app to interact in a life-like two-way conversation with a bot.
Anders Arborelius, who converted to Catholicism when he was 20, is the country's first Catholic bishop of Swedish origin since the Reformation.
Instead, they believe it is all a myth that was manufactured by Spain to conquer Mexico by inspiring religious conversion to Catholicism.
He grew up in Cameroon and was "hand-picked to embody his family's Catholicism" by his father, according to ESPN's Jackie MacMullan.
Mr. Turnbull, who converted to Catholicism in 2002, said he and other political leaders had already called on Archbishop Wilson to resign.
Barrett, you see, talks readily and proudly about her Catholicism, making no bones about its presence at the center of her life.
When the Communists gained control of China in 1949, Catholicism was hit especially hard because of the Vatican's strident opposition to communism.
If he chooses Catholicism, he'll do so with full knowledge of its institutional sins, armed with truths the church continues to avoid.
Converting required months of preparation, diving into the abundance of rituals and traditions of Catholicism and the theology that underpins it all.
BAM celebrates Halloween by offering a survey of terrifying films from Mexico, where a strain of Catholicism-inflected, hallucinatory cinema reigned supreme.
Catchy songs and a moody, woodwind-heavy score by Enzo Avitabile enrich a setting steeped in poverty, corruption and a perverse Catholicism.
Our correspondent visited a stronghold of Catholicism in China's southeast to gauge how the possible deal is being seen by the faithful.
For such a small country, the vote has attracted enormous global attention, perhaps because Ireland remains a bastion of Catholicism in Europe.
Meanwhile, my own Catholicism was pulled back into its 1970s-era civil war, while Cromartie's fellow evangelicals have slipped backward as well.
Eduardo Humberto del Río García was born on June 20, 1934, in Zamora, an epicenter of conservative Roman Catholicism in southwestern Mexico.
The dump included one 2011 email exchange in which Jennifer Palmieri, now Clinton's communications director, made comments about conservatives who embraced Catholicism.
Chaldeans, who practice Eastern Rite Catholicism, descend from the ancient Assyrians of what is now northern Iraq, where they are increasingly rare.
Both groups have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State and vowed to carry out attacks across the Philippines, Asia's center of Catholicism.
Ruiz's page is a place where polarities and time periods blur—Catholicism bleeds into the erotic; classical antiquity is laced with BDSM.
Oaxacans practice a spunky form of Catholicism: in some villages, saints who fail to grant favors risk getting slugged by their petitioners.
In 1980, John Paul II created a provision by which some married Protestant ministers who converted to Catholicism could maintain their ministry.
In 2010, she announced that she had quit Catholicism, saying she objected to what she called anti-gay and anti-feminist views.
Though originally intended to include all religions, it was decided that a laser focus on Catholicism proved comprehensive enough for an exhibition.
The remains of saints are holy objects of veneration in Catholicism and have been objects of intense dispute for hundreds of years.
But die there he did: in 1900, of cerebral meningitis, at the age of 46, following a death-bed conversion to Catholicism.
Fillon's sincerely held Catholicism added another element to this — in 1982, he voted against a bill that would decriminalize same-sex relations.
Though one might think the abortion debate signals the declining importance of Catholicism, interestingly, there is only limited evidence of this notion.
Douthat's wariness of a "liberalizing" church touches not just on Catholicism per se, but on a wider question of modernity and ethics.
But even though Catholicism is the main religion in Mexico, this is an impressive feat to behold—whether you are religious or not.
Monks who go by the name of Trappists are from the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance, a branch of Roman Catholicism.
So, no, it isn't new to see Catholicism appear in pop culture, and it has proven to be both popular and stylistically effective.
Similar people once had similar views about Irish culture and Catholicism, back when the UK was the target of the Irish Republican Army.
The survey finds Catholicism slightly on the decline in its historic heartlands, but more fervently practised by its adherents than is Orthodox Christianity.
The latest locus of this surreal standoff is the German region of Bavaria, which has for centuries been a bastion of Teutonic Catholicism.
A source told PEOPLE that converting to Catholicism was a decision "of her own free will and choice" and continues to inspire her.
Although he lost his right to succession by coverting to Roman Catholicism, his son Albert is 40th in line to the British throne.
Under his son, Edward VI, the Church of England turned decisively Protestant; after Edward's death Henry's elder daughter, Queen Mary, restored Roman Catholicism.
He converted to Catholicism in 1845, was ordained a Catholic priest in 1847 and was elevated to the rank of cardinal in 1879.
Catholicism grew during the same period to six million worshipers from four million, while Protestantism increased to 38 million adherents, from 10 million.
Francis' rise helped reset the role of Catholicism in American public life, and prioritized political and economic messages on immigration and climate change.
Expect him to ask Clinton about an email exchange, revealed by WikiLeaks, in which one of her top aides disparaged Catholicism and Christianity.
Mr Gibson, similarly, has espoused contentious views in the name of his own hardline Christian faith, Sedevacantist Catholicism, so presumably he can sympathise.
According to Jones, evangelicalism now faces a steeper membership decline than Catholicism or liberal, mainline Protestant denominations, a change from earlier demographic trends.
The study also showed that the geographic and cultural centers of U.S. Catholicism are shifting, from Northeast/Midwest to the South and Southwest.
"To be sure, none of this is to repeat the odious claims of anti-Catholicism of papist conspiracies and dual loyalty," Michaelson writes.
For someone drawn to Catholicism by the promise of order and stability, any sign of change in the church will be unwelcome, threatening.
Still, now we know: Mr. Kaine, despite his Catholicism, and his personal identification as "pro-life," supports abortion rights, as does Hillary Clinton.
He was a harsh critic of Roman Catholicism, calling it a "false religion" and "pseudo-Christian," and likened its rites to pagan rituals.
Coming out is not easy in these traditional communities, where they have a tight connection not only to traditional culture, but also Catholicism.
A few years ago she converted to Catholicism, moved by its balance of otherworldliness and earthly compassion: "The sacraments elevate us," she said.
Catholicism arrived on the Korean peninsula via China in the 20153th century, and Protestant missionaries arrived in the 1880s to spread their faith.
As Native people entered the missions, conversion to Catholicism and Spanish names and language fractured tribal identities, hiding original peoples in plain sight.
After winning China's civil war in 1949, the Communist Party asserted control over all organized religions, but Catholicism came in for special scrutiny.
Catholicism in Africa grew by 238% between 1980 and 2015, according to the Centre for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University.
Their disparate internal struggles offer a window into the rich complexities of Catholicism in one of the most diverse cities in the world.
The site is associated with a particularly political fringe of Catholicism that sees geopolitics as a battleground between the religious and the faithless.
The process, developed by the Catholic church, teaches the tenets of Christianity and Catholicism to those who want to convert, like Ms. Chen.
Feminists were a radically dissenting voice, but they were lost in the general euphoria — about 90 percent of the population actively practiced Catholicism.
The council brought historic changes in the way Catholicism understood democracy, the Jewish faith, the role of lay Catholics, interfaith dialogue and liturgy.
She was baptized in the evangelical tradition, converted to Catholicism and joined the Society of Daughters of the Heart of Mary in 1957.
Barrett has emerged as a favorite of social conservatives who point to her devout Catholicism and trenchant legal writing on issues like abortion.
The birthers of 1856 added an even more devastating false claim that Frémont was an adherent of a dangerous and alien religion, Catholicism.
Among many liberals there is a palpable ambition, a sense that a sweeping opportunity to rout conservative Catholicism might finally be at hand.
Mr. Anderson's theme was that his religion was the only true religion while others, specifically Catholicism and Judaism, were false, the neighbor said.
This rhetorical trope has persisted despite radical redefinitions of what healthy sexuality means; one sexual culture overthrows another, but Catholicism remains eternally condemned.
When Spanish colonialists arrived in the 16th century, most of the Philippines converted to Catholicism, but the southern part retained its Muslim roots.
Players can either pick from a list of historical religions such as Buddhism and Catholicism or design their own from the ground up.
She was supposedly neither happy with Catholicism nor comfortable with the social life academia they joined when he became a professor after the war.
Diane Winston, MS, PhD, professor of media and religion at University of Southern California, calls Catholicism a sensual religion in the most literal sense.
I embraced Catholicism in my crisis-creating year, at first as a form of rebellion, but also in an effort to get those connections.
He said one of Trump's jokes -- which referenced an email published by WikiLeaks that purportedly shows Clinton aides joking about Catholicism -- fell particularly flat.
Mr Hamama is a member of the Chaldean community, who descend from the ancient Assyrians, speak Aramaic and practise Catholicism according to eastern rites.
An outsider to Catholicism, he likes the idea of saints, and transposes them and wildlife somewhere in New York streets and other unlikely places.
Then again, I'm an active churchgoer whose cultural ties to Catholicism (I'm third-generation Mexican-American) have kept him in the pews since birth.
Anohni: Well, it started in my childhood, when I realized that there was no seat for me in Judeo-Christian religions—particularly with Catholicism.
PiS, a nationalist, socially conservative party, sees Catholicism as a key element of national identity, while Polish liberals say bishops wield too much power.
Given its virtual monopoly on education, Catholicism is the No. 1 criterion for entry: Nonbaptized children invariably go to the bottom of the list.
In Chile's case, the effects of the military dictatorship, Catholicism, bourgeois neoliberalism, machismo, and patriarchy all conspire to constrict possibilities of thought and action.
Vaidyanathan, who converted from Hinduism to Catholicism while living in Dubai, said the Emirates' religious tolerance is commendable given the trends of the region.
Catholicism embraces the premise that everyone is intrinsically valuable, irreplaceable and possessed of inalienable dignity, regardless of condition, circumstance or the judgment of others.
He is very open about his struggles with addiction, has been sober for years now, and converted to Catholicism during the process of recovery.
Catholicism is Poland's dominant religion, and the church's political ally, the nationalist Law and Justice party (PiS), has been running the country since November.
Though he calls Jesuits his moral heroes, his is a rather Latin American social justice Catholicism, with a whiff of Pope Francis to it.
But there's another, quieter controversy brewing over Catholicism and fashion — not between the sacred and the profane but between different interpretations of the sacred.
When he converted to Catholicism and they moved in with his mother-in-law on the west side of town, his social milieu shifted.
The Catholicism of his youth, with its formality and rituals, had not given him the intimacy with God that he now found himself craving.
The Catholicism of a figure like Benedict, with his faith in the legibility of earthly and spiritual experience, presents a salve for this condition.
These churches do not recognize the Pope as the ultimate authority in Catholicism, nor does the Holy See recognize Chinese-selected bishops as legitimate.
The proposed law would capture Catholic priests told of abuse during confession, clashing with a central tenet of Catholicism, the confidentiality of the confessional.
But a mix of Calvinism and Catholicism meant that on issues like abortion, divorce and homosexuality, Scotland remained more conservative than England for decades.
Koczy's husband, Louis Pelosi, has disputed the claims, citing the family's need to convert to Catholicism as a necessary step to elude the Nazis.
She was raised Methodist but had always felt drawn to Catholicism, and while researching the novel and talking to priests, she decided to convert.
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Young women who aspire to lives of good works without the burden of a husband are quite able to do that now without Catholicism.
Mr. Friedrich grew up Lutheran and converted to Catholicism while living in the shelter, and his activism was partly a result of his faith.
LENS Juliette Robert set out to photograph women priests and bishops, who signified a powerful contrast to the conservative Catholicism Ms. Robert had known.
Catholicism gave China its first permanent Christian presence 2003 years ago and benefited mightily after Western military forces required China to allow in missionaries.
I was much more interested in the less literal connections, where designers seemed to wrestle with Catholicism and connect it to a modern condition.
During this time the country was led by a chaotic coalition government of leftists who opposed the rigid Catholicism of the Spanish ruling classes.
Back in the car, city-bound, with abortion the topic, he said his Catholicism kept him from viewing the act as anything but murder.
But as a vision of what populism and polarization could deliver to Catholicism and Western politics, it is not the most implausible of prophecies.
Catholicism plays an outsize role in the country's political life as well, despite the separation of church and state spelled out in its constitution.
In fact, for many Latinx people who grew up in the United States, Catholicism is most useful as a lifeline to their cultural heritage.
Professor Griffiths, a native Englishman who has taught at Duke Divinity School since 2008, converted from the Anglican church to Roman Catholicism in 1996.
When it was founded in 1922, the Irish state adopted a monolithic notion of identity, built on the twin pillars of nationalism and Catholicism.
The anti-Francis spirit in American Catholicism was the "schism" my Times colleague was asking about, and it clearly preoccupies the pope's inner circle.
"China is negotiating with the Vatican, but the political environment is tightening," said Sister Beatrice Leung, a professor in Taiwan who studies Chinese Catholicism.
Now the focus is on Mexicans and Muslims, whose religion is being denigrated in the same way as Catholicism was in the 85033th century.
Widespread anti-Semitism as the era began greatly diminished by 1965, and anti-Catholicism, meaning anti-Irish and anti-Italian prejudice, almost totally disappeared.
Although the vast majority of Bolivians consider themselves Christians, Ms. Añez's conservative Catholicism signaled to some the return of European domination of Bolivian culture.
A Protestant married priest who converts to Catholicism can stay married while working as a priest, as long as he has his wife's permission.
Monaco's motto is "Deo Juvante" (With God's Help) and the historical alliance between Monaco (whose state religion is Catholicism) and the Vatican trace back centuries.
But instead of a focus on Catholicism and its inherited sense of guilt, Season 2 delves into the need for alternatives to a higher power.
Generally, loyalty to Catholicism was holding up better than loyalty to what he called state-affiliated Protestant bodies, such as the national churches of Scandinavia.
But from 1980 onward, he underwent a revival in several strands of American religion including Pentecostalism, neo-Calvinism, traditionalist Roman Catholicism, and some Orthodox communities.
Patrick arrived in Ireland in 431 and converted the Pagans living on the island to Catholicism by using the shamrock to represent the Holy Trinity.
The mayor justified the decision to reduce the Patum's links to the church in the context of a secular society with weakening ties to Catholicism.
Duterte made the comment during a speech at a science and technology event, during which he questioned several aspects of Catholicism, The Associated Press reported.
With most of Europe still consumed by religious turmoil, many Protestant members feared Charles was part of a foreign plot to restore Catholicism over England.
Not surprisingly, Catholicism was the frequent bête-noire of liberals such as these, sometimes even pushing them into very illiberal support of anti-Catholic policies.
Duarte, who lived from 1610 to around 1678, belonged to the converso community of Antwerp—Jews who fled Portugal and Spain and converted to Catholicism.
This indirectness matters because within Catholicism the pope's formal words, his encyclicals and exhortations, have a weight that winks and implications and personal letters lack.
The PiS has sought to support more conservative, traditional values, embracing Catholicism and rejecting the promotion of LGBT rights ahead of parliamentary elections this year.
First, a caveat: I'm a lesbian convert to Catholicism who accepts the church's teaching on sexuality — so I'm not seeking any kind of sexual relationship.
In 1524, the first Spanish reconnaissance mission arrived in the highlands of Chiapas, bringing with them a missionary zeal to convert the natives to Catholicism.
When Irish and German Catholic immigrants came to the United States, including Bannon's own ancestors, they were viewed with suspicion partly due to their Catholicism.
The decline of Catholicism in Argentina, from 87 percent in 1995 to 65 percent last year, has also been significant, according to the Latinobarómetro poll.
The Irish church was once the bedrock of European Catholicism, exporting priests around the world, while shaping its home country's national identity, laws and culture.
The Urbi et Orbi service delivered by Pope Francis to the world is usually only given at Easter and Christmas, the holiest days in Catholicism.
As The Washington Post reported recently, Beijing is taking steps to suppress all five of China's officially sanctioned religions — Catholicism, Buddhism, Protestantism, Daoism and Islam.
Such a carnal approach to Catholicism also comes at the cost of critical engagement with the ironies of fashion — above all, with ironies of gender.
FRIEDMAN There's an implicit premise with all these garments that the designers are positively connected to Catholicism on some level, and I wonder about that.
In 214, the poet emigrated to Italy and later converted to Catholicism, but his early ideas on drama were protean and could serve many masters.
She injected Catholicism into government, swearing in her ministers in front of a large Bible and making speeches shadowed by an aide carrying a cross.
Elizabeth could not stay forever neutral in the Pan-European struggle between Roman Catholicism and reform, and in 1570 she was excommunicated by the pope.
After Eliot converted to Anglo-Catholicism, in the late twenties, he chastised Yeats for having resorted to a "highly sophisticated lower mythology" of supernatural lore.
Married priests are already allowed in Eastern Catholic Churches loyal to the pope, and Anglican priests who convert to Catholicism can remain married after ordination.
Rather, she believes that the dominant, traditional form of Irish Catholicism is losing ground, but that different spiritual outlets are emerging to fill the void.
Although the people of Herzogenweiler were deeply devout, theirs was a pre-Reformation sort of Catholicism—a murky brew of folklore, superstition, and pitiless religion.
Around 300,000 Jews lived in Spain when, in 1492, monarchs Isabella and Ferdinand ordered them and the country's Muslims to convert to Catholicism or leave.
The neighbor said the most common theme was that Mr. Anderson's religion was the only true faith while others — specifically Catholicism and Judaism — were false.
As Catholicism permeated world culture, the melody of the chant was repurposed into classical music, where it was used to convey a deathly, eerie tone.
It said he had violated the moral obligations of his employment when he divorced and remarried without annulling the first marriage, as prescribed under Catholicism.
Catholicism first arrived in Thailand in the mid-1500s with Portuguese missionaries and traders, and Catholics have over the years built respected schools and hospitals.
They had converted to Catholicism and never revealed this secret to her, or that her grandparents had perished as Jews in a Nazi concentration camp.
Born in 1774 to an Episcopalian family, she converted to Catholicism as a widow and founded the Sisters of Charity to care for the poor.
When I converted to Catholicism in my 20s, I seized my faith like a sword to be wielded against the world and the church's enemies.
A great filmmaker should be able to imbue a film with that power regardless of whether or not the audience are even familiar with Catholicism.
PiS, a nationalist, socially conservative party, sees Catholicism as a key element of Polish identity, while Polish liberals say the Church wields too much power.
These days, politicians can nod towards Catholicism as part of a political tactic but they are unlikely to let the faith fill their entire intellectual horizon.
In Catholicism and Eastern Orthodox Christianity, today — August 15 — commemorates the moment when the Virgin Mary was brought up to Heaven to join her son, Jesus.
But the grand jury's investigation, focusing on a state long seen as a heartland of blue-collar Catholicism, was the broadest fact-finding exercise to date.
I do not believe the central attraction of Catholicism for fashion designers and artistic dressers is something to run toward, but rather something to run from.
A Spanish mission was established in what is now the state of New Mexico in 1598 for the purpose of converting the indigenous peoples to Catholicism.
They are led by an aging monk, who beats Roman Catholicism into them with a whip and forbids their "demonic languages," forcing them to speak Spanish.
Leaders of the four "traditional religions"— Sunni Islam, Catholicism, Orthodoxy and Bektashi—frequently travel Europe together to promote the "Albanian model" of religious tolerance and harmony.
They—and the author himself—have amply chronicled his adventurous stints in exotic locations, his work as a secret agent, his love affairs and his Catholicism.
Although the Holy See's relations with Israel are far from problem-free, Catholicism has gradually moved to a more positive assessment of the state of Israel.
Moreover, your narrative on the growth of Protestantism in developing countries did not compare that trend with the parallel growth of Catholicism in those same regions.
He concluded that the sense of being Christian by default was vanishing across much of Europe, though loyalty to Catholicism remains quite robust in certain countries.
According to the white paper, China has 200 million believers among the five major religions, which it counts as Buddhism, Taoism, Islam, Catholicism and Protestant Christianity.
His contribution to the Satanic Panic rightfully earned him public infamy, as did his fear-mongering about feminism, LGBT rights, New Age spirituality, and even Catholicism.
Mr. Douthat seems to embrace a stricter set of guidelines and rules in Catholicism, so a concern about the loss of tradition and uniformity is understandable.
Again, region and religion matter: the Catholicism of the Gulf, tinged with aspects of African-derived belief, acts in "Sing" as a refutation of Protestant clarity.
The reasoning seems to be: Anything that celebrates Catholicism and opens it up to a broader audience is a good thing, and these exhibitions are that.
It is precisely the sort of delicate dance with faith Mr. Biden has performed his entire life — embracing Catholicism along with abortion rights and gay marriage.
Gabbard saw the questions about Buescher's membership in the Knights of Columbus as thinly-veiled anti-Catholicism, a view shared by many conservatives following the debate.
In his letters, Kenner opens up as never before, writing about such intimate matters as his decision, shared by his dying wife, to convert to Catholicism.
And it came more than two decades after survivors came forward in the 1990s, in Ireland, causing a crisis in a veritable redoubt of modern Catholicism.
There was the mega-LVMH cabinet reshuffle, the Met's announcement that the 2018 Costume Institute exhibit would take on Catholicism and a face-lift at Tiffany.
Others say that the outside world's binary view of Chinese Catholicism — of loyalist underground church members and government flunkies — misses more subtle realities on the ground.
Visitors will likely be entranced with this cultural mash-up, but come December, Malta's deep-rooted Catholicism is on full display in the celebration of Christmas.
The Catholicism of today builds nothing so gorgeous as Notre-Dame in part because it has no 21st-century version of that grand synthesis to offer.
" Far from seeing his faith and his sexuality at odds, Walden finds that "my Catholicism has been deeply shaped by my gay identity and vice versa.
It somehow segues into a description of the role of Roman Catholicism in Mr. Birbiglia's childhood as "this weird three-way with God" and his mom.
Nevertheless, this type of pop Catholicism centers local and more personal practices  — like Virgin Mary worship and home altars — that are more mutable, resilient, and personal.
Opinion My parents may not get to see the transformation of Catholicism they dreamed of when they married 50 years ago, but some changes are underway.
A religious-persecution subplot finds Shakespeare having to hide his connections to Roman Catholicism and also gives the show an excuse to indulge in bloody tortures.
Patrick, a Catholic, decided to move back to Belfast, and Susan — who was born Protestant but converted to Catholicism before they met — later joined him there.
Opinion My parents may not get to see the transformation of Catholicism they dreamed of when they married 50 years ago, but some changes are underway.
The history and mythology of Catholicism is intertwined with that of Vietnam in a letter written by a missionary priest, Jean-Théophane Vénard, to his father.
So the difference between Catholicism and basically any other Protestant sect is that the only way to salvation in the Church is through the sacramental life.
Nonetheless, they hated each other until, in 2004, Mr Ortega turned back to Catholicism and, in 2005, Cardinal Obando officially married him to his long-time mistress.
In Cuba, enslaved Africans brought to the country and forced to convert to Catholicism developed what eventually became Santeria, which preserves Yoruba traditions through music and storytelling.
The Vatican said the 12 included three women and a Muslim man who has decided to convert to Catholicism and is due to be baptised in June.
The priests arrive in Japan at a time when Catholicism is outlawed, and face violence and persecution in their evangelizing mission, which causes a crisis of faith.
East Grinstead has not always been so tolerant: in the 16th century three Protestants were burned there for their faith, as Queen Mary sought to restore Catholicism.

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