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catholicism
/kəˈθɔləˌsɪzəm/
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What does catholicism mean?
noun
- The state or quality of being catholic or universal; catholicity.
- Liberality of sentiment; breadth of view.
- The faiths, practices and doctrines of the Catholic Church, usually the Roman Catholic Church.
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Yet there have remained some survivals both in Protestantism and in Catholicism which may be regarded with curiosity.
The difference between Puritanism and Catholicism is not about whether some priestly word or gesture is significant and sacred.
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The normal woman, in so far as she has any religion at all, moves irresistibly toward Catholicism, with its poetical obscurantism.
She always held that Catholicism was the highest form of spiritualism--using the word in its highest meaning--and from this attitude she never wavered.
He was possessed with a "great moral idea," the idea of making Catholicism the ruler of the world, that he might be the ruler of Catholicism.