What's the difference between catholicism and catholicity?
Catholicism
Definition:
(n.) The state or quality of being catholic or universal; catholicity.
(n.) Liberality of sentiment; breadth of view.
(n.) The faith of the whole orthodox Christian church, or adherence thereto.
(n.) The doctrines or faith of the Roman Catholic church, or adherence thereto.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nightmarish visions of suicide bombers and dead children, a rushed conversion to Catholicism, and a mental breakdown over the war on Iraq.
(2) Next week, when Pell is giving evidence at the royal commission, I look forward to your comments about Catholicism and what our church needs to do to drag itself into the modern world.
(3) Tony Blair is a strong Christian who converted to Catholicism.
(4) She points out that people from Martinique, for example, would not be subject to the proposed nationality restrictions because the Caribbean island is an officially designated region of France and goes on to name a number of Front National members from ethnic minority backgrounds, including Charlotte Soula, the office manager of Marine Le Pen who is of Algerian origin (and a convert from Islam to Catholicism).
(5) His mother, who worked as a cleaner and a secretary, converted to Catholicism when she married his father, a Polish soldier who came over at the tail end of the second world war.
(6) Catholicism teaches against abortion by human interference, since life begins with conception.
(7) Yet her crisis was resolved only when she converted onwards to Roman Catholicism, a decision whose ramifications would be felt in every aspect of her life and art.
(8) Protestantism, Catholicism, Judaism and Islam all get both barrels.
(9) In his discussion of bioethical issues in the Philippines, de Castro focuses primarily on: (a) the impact of Roman Catholicism on the public debate over topics such as abortion, contraception, and population policy, and (b) the issue of justice in the allocation of the country's inadequate health resources.
(10) He’s also a convert to Catholicism whose conservative zeal possibly outstrips the pope’s, a master of the upper-middlebrow reactionary style originated by William F Buckley, and the owner of a Twitter account specializing in bad predictions and more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger sermonizing.
(11) Since 1990, the number of people identifying with no religion in particular has almost doubled to 46 million, largely at the expense of Catholicism and mainstream Protestantism.
(12) If, as a French king said to explain his conversion to Catholicism, Paris was worth a mass , the viability of the Labour party is worth an accommodation with internal pluralism.
(13) Another was his increasingly detached attitude to Catholicism.
(14) However, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, the leader of the Catholic church in England and Wales, gave a strong indication of his support for remaining in the EU earlier this month, saying there was a “long tradition in Christianity, and in Catholicism in particular, of believing in holding things together”.
(15) Catholic scholars – including Professor Starr – tend to take an indulgent view of the church’s evangelizing mission, while Native American advocates like Lopez view the imposition of Catholicism as a violation of the Indians’ longstanding spiritual traditions, just as the Spanish conquest disrupted and violated their way of life more generally.
(16) The attitudes of Catholicism and Judaism to scrupulosity are presented and the similarity between their management programmes and present-day behavioural psychotherapy is noted.
(17) Around the time of her conversion to Catholicism, Spark's son, who became a painter, embraced Judaism, claiming that his maternal grandmother was Jewish thus making him a Jew; Spark always maintained that although her father was Jewish, her mother was not.
(18) While evangelical Christianity has seen explosive growth in China , Catholicism has lagged behind.
(19) He now discarded his left-wing image and donned the pristine mantle of traditional Catholicism, rallying his troops in favour of the 1974 referendum to abolish the new divorce laws.
(20) I was confused, not having had much contact with Catholicism.
Catholicity
Definition:
(n.) The state or quality of being catholic; universality.
(n.) Liberality of sentiments; catholicism.
(n.) Adherence or conformity to the system of doctrine held by all parts of the orthodox Christian church; the doctrine so held; orthodoxy.
(n.) Adherence to the doctrines of the church of Rome, or the doctrines themselves.
Example Sentences:
(1) In Tirana, Francis lauded the mutual respect and trust between Muslims, Catholics and Orthodox Christians in Albania as a "precious gift" and a powerful symbol in today's world.
(2) Among non-Hispanic whites in the 1980s, Catholic total fertility rates (TFRs) were about one-quarter of a child lower than Protestant rates (1.64 vs. 1.91).
(3) The vice chancellor of the Catholic University, Greg Craven, wrote in the Australian that stripping either dual or sole nationals of citizenship via a ministerial decision “would be irredeemably unconstitutional.
(4) A Catholic boys’ school has reversed its permission to allow civil rights drama Freeheld, starring Julianne Moore and Ellen Page as a lesbian couple, to shoot on location in New York State.
(5) At Weledeh Catholic School in Yellowknife, for example, it’s used to determine when to hold playtime indoors (wind chill below -30C, since you asked).
(6) At a dinner party, say, if ever you hear a person speak of a school for Islamic children, or Catholic children (you can read such phrases daily in newspapers), pounce: "How dare you?
(7) Yet when the final bill for compensating the thousands of victims of that abuse is counted, the cost will be shouldered, in the main, by the Irish taxpayer rather than the Catholic church.
(8) "Whether Jain or Sikh or Buddhist or Sufi or Zoroastrian or Jewish or Muslim or Baptist or Hindu or Catholic or Baha'i or Animist or any other mainstream or minor religion or movement, we are taught as a tolerant society to accept a diversity of ideologies.
(9) It quickly became evident that there was an opportunity to take the idea beyond a one-off event between Anglicans and Catholics and reach out to other religions, like the Muslim community.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest The St Peter’s XI practise under the Vatican flag.
(10) She was also a pacifist and lived her Catholic faith, no matter how difficult that made her life.
(11) However, Catholic women who receive communion at least once a week are less likely to be sexually active and substantially less likely to use medical contraceptive methods.
(12) The draft released last Monday had been hailed by some church observers and gay rights groups as “a stunning change” in how the Catholic hierarchy talked about gay people.
(13) "They have given Mexicans the most bitter Christmas," Armando Martínez, the president of the College of Catholic Attorneys, told reporters.
(14) • The Catholic church's near monopoly of influence in education means that the ultimate power in each school is the local Catholic bishop.
(15) Using similar procedures, Study 2 was conducted with practicing Catholics attending parochial high schools.
(16) After visiting the H-blocks, the Catholic archbishop Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich compared the conditions to "the sewer pipes in the slums of Calcutta".
(17) The Irish people, once so willing to heed to the clergy, decisively determined that Catholic bishops possess little credibility these days when it comes to knowing what’s in the best interests of children.
(18) Compared with Catholics and Protestants, Jews had significantly higher rates of major depression and dysthymia, but lower rates of alcohol abuse.
(19) They had also told of a lack of community cohesion and a loss of faith and connectedness to the Catholic church communities.
(20) Many claims made against them echo with uncanny precision those once made against Jews and Catholics.