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Catholic: Encyclopedia - Catholic

Catholic (literally meaning: according to (kata-) the whole (holos) or more generally "universal" in Greek) is a Christian religious term with a number of meanings: The term catholic (lower-case c) can refer to the notion that all Christians are part of one Church, regardless of denominational divisions. This "universal" interpretation is often used to understand the phrase "one holy catholic and apostolic Church" in the Nicene Creed, the phrase "the catholic faith" in the Athanasian Creed, and the ph ...

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Catholic: New Age Spiritual Dictionary on Catholic

Catholic

Latin for "universal, all-inclusive."

(See also: Catholic, Body Mind and Soul)

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Catholic: Craft Witchcraft Dictionary on CATHOLIC

CATHOLIC: with a small 'c', means: open to all', a generic name borrowed by the first Christians to entice people into their churches.

(See also: CATHOLIC, Witchcraft, Wicca, Paganism, Pagan Dictionary)

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Catholic: Encyclopedia - Catholic Answers

Catholic Answers, based in El Cajon, California, is one of the largest lay-run apostolates of Roman Catholic apologetics and evangelization in the United States. It was founded in 1979 by Karl Keating in response to a fundamentalist church in San Diego that was distributing anti-Catholic propaganda in the form of tracts placed on the cars of Catholics attending Mass. Some were by notorious anti-Catholic Jack Chick. Its mission statement explains its purpose: Catholic Answers is an apostolate dedicated to serving ...

Catholic: Encyclopedia - Catholic King

The sobriquet Catholic King is a title awarded by the Pope as head of the Roman Catholic Church to a monarch who in the eyes of the papacy embodies Catholic principles in his or her personal live and state policies. The title remains attached to monarchs descended from whoever received the original sobriquet, unless withdrawn by a pope. The sobriquet can be awarded to either a king or a queen. One of the rights of being a Catholic King is that a queen may wear white, rather than the normal black, when meeting a pope. Two surviving European monarchies have the sobriquet Catholic King: those of Be ...

Catholic: Encyclopedia II - Catholic - Present-day usage

While other Christian denominations also lay claim to the description "catholic", including the Eastern Orthodox Church and those Protestant Churches possessing an episcopate (bishops), the term "Catholic Church" is usually associated with the Church that is also called the Roman Catholic Church, whose over one billion adherents are about half of the estimated 2.1 billion Christians. At the First Vatican Council of 1870, it referred to itself as the "Holy, Catholic, Apostolic and Roman Church",[1] but normally, both before and afterwards, it ...

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Catholic: Encyclopedia - Cafeteria Catholic

A Cafeteria Catholic is a derogatory term used to describe certain members of the Catholic community that selectively subscribe to only certain parts of the faith as a cafeteria goer would pick and choose only those items that appeal to him or her. The term has been in use since the issuance of Humanae Vitae, an official document which forbade practicing Catholics from using any form of birth control that was not based on the rhythm method or abstinence. Many Catholics have ignored such pronouncements yet maintain their connection to the Church. Such attitudes have been described by Conservative Catholi ...

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Catholic: Encyclopedia - Catholic order

Catholic religious orders are organizations of laity and clergy in the Roman Catholic Church who live under a common rule. They are to be distinguished from Holy Orders, the sacrament which bishops, priests, and deacons receive. What distinguishes members of religious orders from the rest of the laity and the clergy is that they try to imitate Jesus of Nazareth by taking vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. They may additi ...

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Catholic order - List of Roman Catholic orders

Catholic: Encyclopedia - Catholic marriage

In the theology of Catholicism, marriage is an inseparable bond between a man and a woman, created by human contract and ratified by divine grace. It is one of the seven sacraments. The nature of the conventant requires that the two participants be one man and one woman, that they be free to marry, that they willingly and knowingly enter into a valid marriage contract, and that they validly execute the performance of the contract. On the exact definition of each of these steps hinge all the arguments and technical points ...

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Catholic: Encyclopedia - Catholic Emancipation

Catholic Emancipation was a process in Great Britain and Ireland in the late 18th century and early 19th century which involved reducing and removing many of the restrictions on Roman Catholics which had been introduced by the Act of Uniformity, the Test Acts and the Penal Laws. Requirements to abjure the spiritual authority of the Pope and transubstantiation placed major burdens on Roman Catholics, though some received p ...

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Catholic: Encyclopedia - Catholic Spirituality

The Spiritual life for Roman Catholics. Once a Catholic has accepted the faith (fides quae creditur) by making a personal act of faith (fides qua creditur), then one lives out faith throught spirituality. Although all Catholics are expected to pray together at Mass, there are many different forms of spirituality and private prayer which have developed over the centuries. Each of the major religious orders of the Catholic Church has its own unique spirituality - its own way of approaching God in prayer and in living out the Gospel. ...

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Catholic: Encyclopedia - Albanian Catholic Church

The Albanian Catholic Church is a Byzantine Rite church sui juris of the Catholic Communion. Not to be confused with the Italo-Albanian Catholic Church, this church consists of the Byzantine Catholics living in Albania. Its present leader is Most Rev. Hil Kabashi, OFM, Apostolic Administrator of Albania Meridionale. Other related archivesAlbania, Apostolic Administrator, Byzantine Rite, Catholic Communion, Italo-Albanian Catholic Church, OFM, church, sui juris

Catholic: Encyclopedia - Catholic Encyclopedia

The Catholic Encyclopedia (also referred to as the "Old Catholic Encyclopedia" today) is an English-language encyclopedia published in 1913 by the The Encyclopedia Press, designed to give "authoritative information on the entire cycle of Catholic interests, action and doctrine". Catholic Encyclopedia - History. The writing of the encyclopedia began on January 11, 1905 under the supervision of five editors: Charles G. Herbermann, Professor of Latin and Librarian of the College of the City ...

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Catholic: Encyclopedia - Armenian Catholic Church

After the Armenian Apostolic Church, along with the rest of Oriental Orthodoxy formally broke off communion from the Chalcedonian churches, numerous Armenian bishops made attempts to restore communion with the Catholic Church. In 1195 during the Crusades, the church of the Armenian kingdom of Cilicia entered into a union with the Catholic Church which lasted until Cilicia was conquered by Tatars in 1375. The union was later re-established during the council of Florence in 1439, but did not have any real effects until the year 1740, wh ...

Catholic: Encyclopedia - Catholics for a Free Choice

Catholics for a Free Choice is a lobbying group formed in 1973 in response to the opposition of the Catholic Church to the Roe v. Wade decision. The founders of the organization, Joan Harriman, Patricia Fogarty McQuillan, and Meta Mulcahymade, members of the National Organization of Women, claimed that the Catholic bishops did not represent all Catholics on the issue of abortion. Though originally limited to the United States, the organization extended the scope of its opposition to Church teachings in South America a ...

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Catholic: Encyclopedia - Traditionalist Catholic

Traditionalist Catholic and traditional Catholic are terms used to refer to Roman Catholics who want to see the worship and customs of the general body of Roman Catholics return to those prevailing before the reforms of the 1960s. Many of them claim that, since then, the presentation and the understanding of the Church's teaching have changed, at least in emphasis, to an unacceptable degree; some exclude from the meaning of the two terms those whose views on this matter are more liberal. Traditionalist Cath ...