Crossword clues for catholicism
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Catholicism \Ca*thol"i*cism\, n. [Cf. F. catholicisme.]
The state or quality of being catholic or universal; catholicity.
--Jer. Taylor.Liberality of sentiment; breadth of view.
The faith of the whole orthodox Christian church, or adherence thereto.
The doctrines or faith of the Roman Catholic church, or adherence thereto.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"faith and practice of the Catholic church," 1610s, from Catholic + -ism.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The state or quality of being catholic or universal; catholicity. 2 Liberality of sentiment; breadth of view.
Wikipedia
Catholicism (from Greek , , "universal doctrine") is the branch of Christianity composed of churches that describe themselves as Catholic, which share certain traditions in theology, doctrine, liturgy, ethics, and spirituality. Notably, these traits often include the episcopal polity, sacramental theology and apostolic succession.
"Catholicism" and "Catholic" in this sense refer to various Christian churches, as well as their beliefs and practices. This sense is to be distinguished from the use of these words to refer to the Roman Catholic Church (consisting of the Latin Catholic Church and the 23 Eastern Catholic Churches which are in full communion with the Holy See of Rome), as well as the Eastern Orthodox Church (commonly called the "Orthodox Church"), and churches of the Anglican Communion which all consider themselves within the universal and apostolic church.
In the sense of indicating historical continuity of faith and practice from the first millennium, the term "catholic" is employed by many other historic churches, such as the Anglican Communion, Lutheran churches, Methodist churches, Moravian churches, and Reformed churches, all of which claim to be "heirs of the apostolic faith", as delineated in the Nicene Creed. These Christian denominations consider themselves to be catholic, teaching that the term "designates the historic, orthodox mainstream of Christianity whose doctrine was defined by the ecumenical councils and creeds" and as such, most Reformers "appealed to this catholic tradition and believed they were in continuity with it."
Within the Anglican Communion, the Oxford Movement promoted Anglo-Catholicism, which reemphasized the importance of doctrines such as the Real presence of Christ in the Eucharist and apostolic succession.
Usage examples of "catholicism".
The Rhone Valley and the Midi seem to have been marked both by anticlericalism and militant Catholicism, and the revolutionary settlement was most widely accepted in the Seine Valley, the Paris region and in the poorest regions of central France, where the attraction of a better stipend for curates may well have been a decisive factor.
The Catholicism of the Matern family, as one might expect of a family of millers, was dependent on the wind, and since there was always a profitable breeze on the Island, the Matern mill ran year in year out, deterring them from the excessive churchgoing that would have antagonized the Mennonites.
Placed on this height Catholicism was certainly developed by means of conflicts and compromises, not, however, by conflicts with Ebionitism, which was to all intents and purposes discarded as early as the first century, but as the result of the conflict of Christianity with the united powers of the world in which it existed, on behalf of its own peculiar nature as the universal religion based on the Old Testament.
Thus despite pathological fears of Catholicism among nineteenth-century American evangelical Protestants, since the 1820s a political alliance has existed on and off between the Jacksonian tradition in the South and West and sections of the Catholic Irish in the Northeast.
Inquisition, Jesuitry, in one word, all the peculiarities of Catholicism developed through the power of the same formal process of reasoning, so that Protestantism itself, which the Catholics reproach with rationalism, developed directly out of the rationalism of Catholicism.
Ramon told Luis many times the government wanted to sweep away old Spain, a society built on Catholicism, monarchy, and the military, buttressed by birthright and honor.
Other than the change from Spanish priests to Mexican priests and the resulting outlawry of the Penitente sect of Catholicism, New Mexico hardly noticed the change from Spanish to Mexican governors.
Even the strongest Protestants hated civil turmoil more than they did Catholicism, and the people as a whole felt instinctively that if the crown was put up as a prize for unscrupulous politicians there would be no end of strife.
Being an Amatl Indian, Padre Luis had long been able to accord native Toltecan beliefs with the pageantry and hagiography of Catholicism.
Sullivan bitterly remonstrated against George Bush for speaking at a private Christian school, whose past president had some rather pointed condemnations of Catholicism.
George Bush for speaking at a private Christian school, whose past president had some rather pointed condemnations of Catholicism.
This time, writing in the New York Times, Sullivan bitterly remonstrated against George Bush for speaking at a private Christian school, whose past president had some rather pointed condemnations of Catholicism.
But my uncle, whose religion had been sadly undermined at court, was a terrible caviller at the holy mysteries of Catholicism.
And behind the high altar -- what would Catholicism be without the Witch who blackens every confessional with her shadow?
Under his tutelage the Orthodox bishopry was abolished, and to this day there is much animosity here towards Roman Catholicism, an animosity compounded by that faith's historical arrogance and its deplorable preoccupation with sin and guilt.