Catholicism as a cloak

Tom converted to Catholicism.

(1995) The HarperCollins Encyclopedia of Catholicism .

He is a recent convert to Catholicism.

Global Catholicism, Portrait of a World Church .

Henry embraced Catholicism on 25 July 1593.

Polish Catholicism has confounded skeptics and critics before.

Relativism, cafeteria Catholicism, and the like are ubiquitous.

And many for Catholicism. And many for Islam.

GV Pope Francis brings a fairly modern vision of Catholicism.

Charlie is torn between his devout Catholicism and his Mafia ambitions.

By the end of the 7th century, their conversion to Catholicism was all but complete.

Yet it is on this point that Polish Catholicism sees for itself a special, historic role.

Yet Latin America s Catholic population appears to be leveling off, due to falling birth rates and conversions out of Catholicism.

GLENDALE, CALIFORNIA Catholicism, among the most tradition bound religions, contains at its core a paradox that has become increasingly sharp.

Catholicism or, more accurately, the celibate male mythos at the heart of the institutional church rests on centuries of sexism.

But the bank known as the Institute for Works of Religion, founded in 1942, does not have deep roots in Catholicism.

During the same period of colonization, 700,000 Portuguese immigrants settled in Brazil, bringing their own particular kind of Catholicism with them.

The forms of religiosity in Islam today are more or less the same as those found in Catholicism, Protestantism, and even Judaism.

Catholicism in its heyday combined a fairly decentralized administration, under the sway of stand alone bishops, with a uniform set of beliefs.

Catholicism in its heyday combined a fairly decentralized administration, under the sway of stand alone bishops, with a uniform set of beliefs.

During the years when West European societies were undergoing their process of secularization indeed, of de Christianization'' Polish Catholicism underwent an extraordinary revival.

Christianity's holiest days always seem to incite fresh disputes between Roman Catholicism and Russian Orthodoxy, between the first Rome and the third Rome.

Catholicism has been the predominant religion in France for more than a millennium, though it is not as actively practised today as it was.

Rather than Africans changing their beliefs fundamentally, they ended up supplementing and or disguising them with elements of the religion of the Portuguese slavers, Catholicism.

Many supporters of Opus Dei have expressed the belief that the criticisms of Opus Dei stem from a generalised disapproval of spirituality, Christianity, or Catholicism.

With communism discredited and Catholicism waning, the connection mental, psychological, even spiritual of the land with defense of the fatherland, appears to be Poland's last political certainty.

The larger lesson is that this monarchical model of Catholicism, together with the hierarchy that attends it, has remained pretty much the same since the Counter Reformation.

Why is it that, at a time when America and Russia can begin to work together, Catholicism and Orthodoxy prefer to keep going after each other's throats?

Her family had long called her Rose, but she also received the name for her confirmation in the Church, one of the most important rites of passage in Catholicism

The books in the series have been criticised for their attitude to religion, especially Catholicism, by the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights and Focus on the Family.

In 1673, the Duke of York's conversion to Roman Catholicism became public, and he married a Catholic princess, Mary of Modena, who was only six and a half years older than Anne.

Those of us who believe in a multidimensional culture will be grateful to him for his enormous efforts, thus for his catholicism in the original sense of the word, his all embracing concerns.

Peasants created their own kind of rural Catholicism in Brazil, combining magic, superstition, the presence of amulets, prayers of strength and protection, women of prayer, and the pious , according to social scientist Max Silva D'Oliveira.

Today, there are roughly 700,000 Serb refugees in Serbia from Croatia and Bosnia who are unable or unwilling to return to their homes, including virtually all of Croatia s Serbs, except those converted to Catholicism to become Croats.

Even while traveling to Russian lands, became apparent that the Vatican plans to make Sophia their representant of Catholicism failed as was soon demonstrated when immediately after her wedding she returned to the faith of her ancestors.

I got accused in a few blogs that I was actually sent by the Pope to preach the Trinity and Catholicism in the Middle East, so you you believe who you want. I gave you my version of the story.

The combination of the highest share of Catholics in the world with a decline in the share of religious adherents leaves Francis facing a strategic dilemma. Either he can focus on regaining Latin America for the Catholic Church, or he can place longer term bets on Sub Saharan Africa, where both the population and Catholicism are now growing faster than anywhere else in the world.