(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.
Lutheranism
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Lutherism
Example Sentences:
(1) These four antigens consisted of S of MNSs blood group, Lua of Lutheran blood group, and K and Kpa of Kell-Cellano blood group.
(2) Previous analyses of adoptees from Lutheran Social Services of Iowa developed a multifactorial model of adoptee alcohol abuse that related abuse to three factors: biologic background of alcohol-related problems, biologic background of antisocial problems and exposure to an adoptive family where family members had alcohol-related problems.
(3) This study reports the results of a survey of forty-four Lutheran Churches in the New York metropolitan area.
(4) The CD44 inhibitor Lutheran [In(Lu)]-related p80 molecule has recently been shown to be identical to the Hermes-1 lymphocyte homing receptor and to the human Pgp-1 molecule.
(5) Of these, 34 were vaccinated at Curran Lutheran Hospital, Zorzor, Liberia, mostly by the intradermal (i.d.)
(6) Sensitivity is shown to be equal to that of manual technics for ABO, Lewis, Lutheran as well as K, S, M, Kpb, Xga, U and Vel antibodies detection.
(7) Joining Williams at Copenhagen's Lutheran cathedral was Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa and religious leaders from Tuvalu, Zambia, Mexico and Greenland.
(8) Thus Aua and Aub antigens appear to be carried on the same red cell membrane structures as those carrying the Lutheran determinants.
(9) Thirty-three cases of pediatric Lassa fever were identified at Curran Lutheran Hospital and Phebe Hospital in Liberia between January 1980 and March 1984.
(10) Thus, it appears that the Kell and Lutheran systems are not suitable for paternity testing because of their low probability of exclusions.
(11) Red cells (RBCs) of individuals with the In(Lu) gene are characterized by suppression of the Lutheran, P1, i, and other blood group antigens, acanthocytosis, and abnormal electrolyte metabolism.
(12) The sera of these patients and eluates from their red cells displayed reactivity consistent with a Lutheran-related antibody.
(13) No further linkage information was obtained from determinations of the Lutheran blood groups carried out in family no.
(14) I still think of myself as a Lutheran, just one who doesn't go to church.
(15) This observation may explain the discrepancy in different families concerning a possible relationship between Swa and Lutheran.
(16) These structures, of apparent molecular weight (Mr) 79,000 and 85,000, are identical in appearance and mobility on a 10% SDS polyacrylamide gel to the Lutheran glycoproteins identified by alloanti-Lub.
(17) Willem is interested, he explains, in “cartoons that the early Lutherans did to mock and attack the Catholic church.
(18) A Lutheran, she said she feels discriminated against in a society where the Catholic church runs religion classes in the schools and is now supporting further restrictions on abortion.
(19) Two cases of Lassa fever were found serologically during a one-month survey of all pediatric admissions at Curran Lutheran Hospital, 2.4% of those children who had serum pairs collected.
(20) If you belonged to the Lutheran state church, you had to go a camp for two weeks before confirmation, as I did.