(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.
Orthodoxy
Definition:
(n.) Soundness of faith; a belief in the doctrines taught in the Scriptures, or in some established standard of faith; -- opposed to heterodoxy or to heresy.
(n.) Consonance to genuine Scriptural doctrines; -- said of moral doctrines and beliefs; as, the orthodoxy of a creed.
(n.) By extension, said of any correct doctrine or belief.
Example Sentences:
(1) Likewise, Merkel's Germany seems to be replicating the same erroneous policy as that of 1930, when a devotion to fiscal orthodoxy plunged the Weimar Republic into mass discontent that fuelled the flames of National Socialism.
(2) A good chunk of the Trump base consists of people who consider themselves to be losers from four decades of political and economic orthodoxy.
(3) Others, such as Guardian TV critic Charlie Brooker's recent show, even attracted a large teenage audience - who, if industry orthodoxy is to be believed, are more likely to be surfing the internet than watching TV these days.
(4) How dare this unqualified mother of three challenge RGCB orthodoxy or attack the hypocrisy of those who condemned viable neighbourhoods as slums in order to build their own golden city from which anyone with choice escaped?
(5) Only in Wales does something resembling political orthodoxy seem to be holding; but then again, it is not that long since Plaid Cymru was temporarily booting Labour out of some of its post-industrial heartlands.
(6) In the early 80s determined efforts were made to “deselect” Labour members of parliament who disagreed with leftwing orthodoxy.
(7) For three decades politicians and pundits have decreed that electoral success can only be achieved on the basis of an establishment corporate orthodoxy they decreed to be "the centre".
(8) Once you narrow this,” she said, pointing to the boulevard, “you’ll never get it back.” Kurth believed that council planners were trained in today’s orthodoxy and so felt they must change their city.
(9) In 1997, the Globe was hardly the first space to challenge theatrical orthodoxy, but it was the first to return the event so wholeheartedly to the audience, and the first to do so in a way that felt so essentially English.
(10) It's just that when all the options are bad, they would much prefer to go with the orthodoxy that has served business well in the past.
(11) It was summed up by Michael Heseltine in his 2013 report on industrial policy: “Unless we make it worthwhile for footloose capital to come here, it won’t.” This orthodoxy has been swallowed by all the main political parties.
(12) But political opposition in Germany and IMF orthodoxy in Washington demands that the rescue package comes with strings attached: a tough series of public sector cuts designed to reassure international investors that the government can become creditworthy again.
(13) As a result, it has now become the new orthodoxy to say that the 2015 election may well be settled in Scotland, because the SNP’s gains (or lack of them) may decide whether Labour emerges on 7 May as the largest single party in the new parliament.
(14) What better symbol of the crankiness of the current protests against economic orthodoxy could David Cameron and Nick Clegg wish for?
(15) Vote Leave embroiled in race row over Turkey security threat claims Read more “I think the public are seeing through this and I think that at moments in our history – 1939, 1982 – we have gone against the orthodoxy of the establishment.
(16) The free-market orthodoxy of the past three decades not only helped create the crisis we're living through, but gave credibility to policies that have led to slower growth, deeper inequality, greater insecurity and environmental degradation all over the world.
(17) The financial crisis has shattered the free-market orthodoxy that drove policy for a generation.
(18) The fascinating question for this team though, is how that instinct translates within the modern orthodoxy of Klinsmann's 4-2-3-1.
(19) The party's paramount leader, Deng Xiaoping, tacked between reform and party orthodoxy as he tried to hold the leadership together.
(20) But to shape the future we need to understand the past.” One might expect that those words were aimed at Peter Thiel, the Facebook board member who has bucked Silicon Valley political orthodoxy by backing Donald Trump’s xenophobic, Islamophobic, sexist, anti-science, and increasingly dictatorial campaign for president.