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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The Roman Catholic Church.

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Examples

  • While I believe the doctrine is true as formally defined by the Catholic Church, I have at the same time made clear my belief that Rome's insertion of the phrase, a millennium ago, into the creed recited in the Latin Church was a needless blow to church unity.

    Archive 2007-02-01 Mike L 2007

  • While I believe the doctrine is true as formally defined by the Catholic Church, I have at the same time made clear my belief that Rome's insertion of the phrase, a millennium ago, into the creed recited in the Latin Church was a needless blow to church unity.

    The filioque issue narrowed Mike L 2007

  • It took King Henry VIII's want of a divorce and Martin Luther's offense at the Pope's transgressions to prompt the translation of the religious scriptures into English and German, which is not to ignore or understate similar problems with the Holy Bible, the core document of the Latin Church, which had its own linguistic odyssey making its way from the mystery of the Classic Greek to the vulgarity of common understanding.

    Dr. Naif A. Al-Mutawa: The Future Depends On What The Meaning of "Was" Was Dr. Naif A. Al-Mutawa 2011

  • It took King Henry VIII's want of a divorce and Martin Luther's offense at the Pope's transgressions to prompt the translation of the religious scriptures into English and German, which is not to ignore or understate similar problems with the Holy Bible, the core document of the Latin Church, which had its own linguistic odyssey making its way from the mystery of the Classic Greek to the vulgarity of common understanding.

    Dr. Naif A. Al-Mutawa: The Future Depends On What The Meaning of "Was" Was Dr. Naif A. Al-Mutawa 2011

  • Whereby a rite that has spiritually nurtured the Latin Church for more than four centuries was recognized as fully valid.

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

  • Christians were still sorting out exactly what should and shouldn't be considered scripture in the fourth century, after all, so somehow calling a fourth-century manuscript of Christian scriptures a Bible seems a bit like referring to the medieval Latin Church as "Catholic."

    Interesting AP Story About Codex Sinaiticus Leigh 2008

  • Christians were still sorting out exactly what should and shouldn't be considered scripture in the fourth century, after all, so somehow calling a fourth-century manuscript of Christian scriptures a Bible seems a bit like referring to the medieval Latin Church as "Catholic."

    Archive 2008-07-20 Leigh 2008

  • In November 2006, Father Manuel, the parish priest at the Latin Church and school in Gaza wrote:

    The Summer of 2007: People Power Verses the Empire 2007

  • It will not be doubted that these feastings were accompanied by dances, when it is recollected that, according to Scaliger, the bishops were called in the Latin Church

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • The empire of Russia is two thousand leagues in extent, and there are not six men who are aware of the points disputed by the Greek and Latin Church.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

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