catholicism

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To the vast majority of Frenchmen there was only one choice, Catholicism or non-catholicism, and the cult of the Supreme Being was just as much non-catholicism as that of Reason Robespierre, blind and satisfied, went on his way rejoicing.

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  1. Same as catholicity, 1 and 2. Not an infallible testimony of the catholicism of the doctrine. Jer. Taylor, Diss. from Popery, ii., Int.
  2. [capitalized] Adherence to the Roman Catholic Church; the Roman Catholic faith: as, a convert to Catholicism.

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  • They were literary and fine, full of good sense, of ideas, and of generosity Neo-catholicism on the one hand, and Socialism on the other, have stultified France. —  The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters
  • But please love his catholicism, that at his age can relish the Sartor, born and inveterated as he is in old books. —  The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I
  • His credibility to speak on any subject in reference to catholicism is nill, and should be summarily ignored. okay, Buck. —  Propeller Most Popular Stories
  • We have mohammad, the illiterate bronze scumbag who married and raped a child of 9, we have catholicism which has paid out literally billions of dollars to victims of rape by these so called "men of god" and in judaism we have the little known practice of Metzitzah. —  Planet Atheism
  • What a joke, I can't believe so many people have fallen for the social control of catholicism which was created as a form of government to rule over people and keep them ignorant. —  WNDU - Home - Headlines
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  1. = French catholicisme = Spanish catolicismo = Portuguese catholicismo = Italian cattolicismo = Dutch catholicismus = German katholicismus, from New Latin *catholicismus: see catholic and -ism.
 

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