How to Use Catholicism in a Sentence

Catholicism

noun
  • For the Jacobins, Catholicism stood in the way of the supreme god of self.
    Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 11 Aug. 2024
  • So why in a faith based on reason, such as Catholicism, should prayer be any different?
    Mike Kerrigan, wsj.com, 5 May 2023
  • The chatbot was meant to help curious users learn about Catholicism.
    Paolo Confino, Fortune, 12 June 2024
  • Lovell's devout Catholicism also played a huge role, Mone said.
    Kelly Meyerhofer, Journal Sentinel, 11 June 2024
  • In the Catholicism of my youth, a woman’s only role was to birth and raise more Catholics.
    Clare Egan, Longreads, 13 Feb. 2024
  • What set Buckley apart was less his politics than his Catholicism.
    Louis Menand, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
  • In Catholicism, Mass is something only the priests can offer.
    Jack Herrera, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Now, of course, this is what Catholics say, too, but Catholicism has changed tremendously over the centuries.
    Lauren Green, Fox News, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Then Huffman embarked on a lengthy complaint about how many people viewed Catholicism as a cult.
    Alec MacGillis, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
  • It's combined with a form of Catholicism that places John the Baptist above Christ.
    Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 22 June 2023
  • Conclave sees the beauty in those differences and how Catholicism persists, as flawed as its stewards may be.
    Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 12 Jan. 2025
  • The holiday has long ties to Catholicism and celebrates the night before the birth of Christ.
    Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2024
  • While much of the site’s roots are in Catholicism, the Fillers want the monastery site to draw people of all backgrounds, beliefs and ages.
    Anna Ortiz, Chicago Tribune, 31 May 2025
  • So how did converting to Catholicism affect your relationship with the idea of evil?
    Harper’s Magazine, Harpers Magazine, 16 July 2025
  • There are remnants of Catholicism and the roaring ’20s in the collection.
    Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Her journey away from Catholicism started with her divorce in 2006.
    Rachel Hatzipanagos, Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Schwartz can be forgiven for mistaking Vance’s views for Catholicism.
    Chicago Tribune, 23 Jan. 2025
  • In Catholicism incorruptible saints give witness to the truth of the resurrection and life that is to come.
    Raja Razek, CNN, 26 May 2023
  • But Catholicism has been known to the Mongols since the early 13th century.
    Huaiyu Chen, The Conversation, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Still, even serious Tolkien scholars have remained divided on how much weight to give to his Catholicism.
    Bradley J. Birzer, National Review, 24 Dec. 2023
  • Tying them all together is the presence of Roman Catholicism.
    Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Vance converted to Catholicism at Madeira church Vance's faith is strongly tied to Cincinnati.
    Bebe Hodges, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
  • The buoyant scene is not proof of a revival of Catholicism among increasingly secular Spaniards.
    Erika Page, Christian Science Monitor, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Turning the other cheek Vance, a convert to Catholicism, steered mostly clear of politics during his half-hour speech.
    Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2025
  • The thing that connects their being Polish and Puerto Rican would of course be Catholicism.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 29 Dec. 2021
  • The practice became more important to her when Catholicism, the religion in which she was raised, started to feel too restrictive.
    Scottie Andrew, CNN, 26 Oct. 2024
  • But that was my life up until that moment, 21 years of Catholicism, and living on Earth, and pop culture, and all that stuff resulted in that movie.
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 4 June 2025
  • Over time, cardinals became powerful members of the church in Rome and Italian Catholicism.
    Joanne M. Pierce, The Conversation, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Rome had been the capital of the West for centuries; and even if that status was long past, the city remained the capital of Roman Catholicism.
    Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Forced to convert to Catholicism, the slaves blended the two faiths into a syncretic religion that spread across the island and around the Caribbean.
    Patrick Oppmann, CNN, 19 Dec. 2024

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