(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.
Quakerism
Definition:
(n.) The peculiar character, manners, tenets, etc., of the Quakers.
Example Sentences:
(1) That’s when the police riot squad arrived, because of course you cannot set fire to a bar with cops in it.” He recalled injured protestors being treated in nearby Washington Square Park and Quakers from the local church coming to help.
(2) The bar on religious weddings was meant to reassure the faithful, but the Church of England has twisted the weird and novel distinction between religious and secular marriages into an excuse to oppose the whole reform , while it is left to Labour's Yvette Cooper to speak for liberal Jews and Quakers who resent the continuing bar on them offering ceremonial equality.
(3) Although the UK's main churches oppose the reform, other faiths, including the Quakers, Unitarians and liberal Judaism, support marriage rights for gay couples and have said they would like to conduct the ceremonies.
(4) With Methodists , Quakers, United Reformed Presbyterians and many other denominations across the UK and the world taking action on climate change by selling off their investments in coal, oil and gas, the question is how great an impact will the moral authority conferred by religious groups have?
(5) In just three weeks Richard Harries, the former Bishop of Oxford, has set up a Commission on Civil Society , which has already held emergency hearings on the bill all round the UK, backed by Christian Aid, Women's Institutes, the Countryside Alliance, 38 Degrees , Oxfam, vegans, Quakers, the British Legion and scores more.
(6) has only had a couple of performances in Quaker meeting houses, but more are planned in the coming months.
(7) A computerized literature (MEDLINE) search and the Quaker Oats Co identified published and unpublished trials as of March 1991.
(8) Quakers and Unitarians already allow same-sex marriage, and the Methodist church last week agreed to revisit its stance.
(9) There’s a cosy shared kitchen that serves as an informal gathering spot, as well as a pretty, light-filled library, which is used for reading and weekly Quaker meetings.
(10) Francis used the history of the Quakers who founded Philadelphia to argue that Christians have a special duty to welcome all people of all faiths into a community united by brotherly love.
(11) Quaker Meeting House, Mon to 28 Aug Collisions Dance Company: Intertwine, Edinburgh Intertwine.
(12) His mother was an archaeologist and his father was an English teacher at a private Quaker school, Bootham, in York.
(13) David Lean, on the other hand, was raised a strict Quaker and was always in rebellion against restraint – so he was married six times and, on his own, he might have pushed Laura and Alec a degree or two further than made Coward comfortable.
(14) I think that one of Quaker schools’ strengths is that we do not believe we have a monopoly over the truth and actively encourage our students to question authority.
(15) She was a member of the Society of Friends (Quakers), working with the Friends' Ambulance Unit during the war and with displaced persons in post-war Germany.
(16) They come from a world that is closer to David Cameron's Bullingdon Club than Dench's Quaker roots in Yorkshire.
(17) Between 2014-2016, the Friends Ugandan Safe Transport Fund , a US-based Quakers association, reports that they supported more than 1,800 LGBT individuals to escape Uganda.
(18) There were people from the trade union, the church, from Amnesty and the Quakers, too."
(19) And again I think of the most vivid symbol of this increasingly strange country that I might have ever seen: that shed at the bottom of a garden attached to what used to be a council house, where Quaker Court’s city trader goes about his daily business.
(20) When Carol Steele came to Rhamu, Kenya, in 1983 as a Quaker, Peace, and Service volunteer, there was little or no contact or cooperation between the Government Health Center personnel and the traditional birth attendants of the surrounding villages.