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Catholicism

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


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She had converted to Catholicism in the 1990s, telling The Times: "To have a church which calls a sin a sin and has done with it is a blessed relief."

From BBC Jul. 10, 2026

Vermeer converted to Catholicism around the time of his marriage to Catharina Bolnes in 1653.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 26, 2026

The first half of Communion, on Vance’s journey from evangelical Christianity to atheism to Catholicism, takes the reader through his disillusionment with the conservative evangelical churches of his youth.

From Slate Jun. 18, 2026

He picked Catholicism in 2019, in the midst of a lot of online chatter that created the illusion that “trad” Catholics were the next big political trend.

From Salon Jun. 15, 2026

A Catholic who lived most of his week without a sense of communal Catholicism, I relied upon conscience as never before.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez




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