catholic
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Not every editor is quite as catholic with a little c, as ecumenical, as excited about such a range of writing as I am.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2026
BBC News NI has learned that a young mother from the catholic community fled her home three weeks ago, claiming her children were subjected to sectarian abuse.
From BBC • Sep. 2, 2025
When she spoke to wide audiences, her language was careful and catholic; one often had the sense that she was trying to say as little as possible beyond her talking points.
From Salon • Dec. 13, 2024
Ms. Pressman’s eye was impeccable, and her tastes were catholic.
From New York Times • Apr. 22, 2024
But a strange and catholic selection of citizens tiptoed to the chapel door and peered in and went away—lawyers and laborers and clerks and bank tellers, most of them past middle age.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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