How to Use Catholicism in a Sentence

Catholicism

noun
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  • In the Catholicism of my youth, a woman’s only role was to birth and raise more Catholics.
    — Clare Egan, Longreads, 13 Feb. 2024
  • It's combined with a form of Catholicism that places John the Baptist above Christ.
    — Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 22 June 2023
  • There are remnants of Catholicism and the roaring ’20s in the collection.
    — Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Now, of course, this is what Catholics say, too, but Catholicism has changed tremendously over the centuries.
    — Lauren Green, Fox News, 4 Apr. 2023
  • But Catholicism has been known to the Mongols since the early 13th century.
    — Huaiyu Chen, The Conversation, 24 Aug. 2023
  • So why in a faith based on reason, such as Catholicism, should prayer be any different?
    — Mike Kerrigan, wsj.com, 5 May 2023
  • In Catholicism incorruptible saints give witness to the truth of the resurrection and life that is to come.
    — Raja Razek, CNN, 26 May 2023
  • The thing that connects their being Polish and Puerto Rican would of course be Catholicism.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 29 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • Her journey away from Catholicism started with her divorce in 2006.
    — Rachel Hatzipanagos, Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2023
  • To many, Rome is the epicenter of Catholicism, the seat of the Vatican and home to a seemingly infinite number of churches.
    — David Laskin Martin Pauer, New York Times, 1 May 2023
  • The point is that Native myths, Catholicism, and science fiction all ask versions of the same question: How preordained is destiny?
    — Jason Kehe, Wired, 3 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • Last lent in February 2023, Wahlberg discussed the balance of practicing Catholicism in the public eye while on Today.
    — Natasha Dye, Peoplemag, 11 Feb. 2024
  • Tying them all together is the presence of Roman Catholicism.
    — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2023
  • The work embraces a devotion to Catholicism, which, during the time of Shakespeare, was a sect subject to widespread persecution.
    — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 22 Mar. 2024
  • This is why the Spanish, who arrived in the 1500s and set out to control the people by converting them to Catholicism, banned the cultivation and possession of the crop, which fell into disuse.
    — Cindy Carcamo, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The name could have originated from a number of places, but one theory is that Catholic priests could have used the site to practice their religion when Catholicism was banned in Ireland.
    — Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Orthodox Christianity is one of the largest Christian communions in the world — after Catholicism and the Protestant church.
    — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Pope Francis comes from a strain of Catholicism that recognizes that Christian teachings can be sharply at odds with capitalism.
    — Liza Featherstone, The New Republic, 2 June 2023
  • In Catholicism, Carnival precedes a 40-day period of fasting known as Lent.
    — Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024
  • There is a rich social-justice tradition in Roman Catholicism, yet many conservative Catholics are foot soldiers of the right.
    — Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Catholic schools that do not follow the catechism and tenets of Catholicism, or worse, defiantly adopt policies that contradict them, are not truly Catholic schools.
    — cleveland, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Interestingly, even though some of her notable books have Catholic themes or elements to them, Godden did not convert to Catholicism until the 1960s.
    — Sarah Schutte, National Review, 21 Jan. 2024
  • Since the founding of this country, no Christian denomination has centered poor immigrants and refugees the way Catholicism has.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2023
  • The word soon became synonymous with both resurgent Catholicism and certain types of horror flicks that dealt with the religious, the supernatural, and the satanic.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Mariko has converted to Catholicism, and at times is uncomfortable hearing the Protestant Blackthorne curse out the representatives of her faith.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Williams converted to Catholicism and converted her Harlem apartment into a rehab for addicted musicians in the ‘50s and ‘60s.
    — Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Some of it is warranted, while some of it is completely baffling, like the most recent reference in an actually unreadable op-ed that seemed to link Dimes Square, Trump hats, and…Catholicism.
    — Serena Dai, Bon Appétit, 10 Aug. 2022
  • In others, Warhol’s queerness takes precedence over his Catholicism: Two works featured in the exhibit are made entirely of semen on cotton, and a pair of drawings from the 1950s depict reclining nude men.
    — NBC News, 7 Dec. 2021

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