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Catholicism

[kuh-thol-uh-siz-uhm] / kəˈθɒl əˌsɪz əm /


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This affair with Rodin, who was 35 years her senior, ended before World War One, and she channelled some of her passion to the spiritual, embracing Catholicism and being received into the church.

From BBC • Feb. 7, 2026

Vatican II wasn’t intended to reinvent Catholicism, which no council has the authority to do.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

"For me, in Catholicism, Jesus was born in a manger. He wasn't born in a tent with faceless parents, with nothing."

From Barron's • Dec. 2, 2025

Even Vance’s relatively recent conversion to Catholicism is tied up in this.

From Salon • Nov. 26, 2025

Only now do I trouble to notice what intricate differences separated home Catholicism from classroom Catholicism.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez