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Catholics is a novel by Northern Irish- Canadian writer Brian Moore. It was first published in 1972, and was republished in 2006 by Loyola Press with an introduction by Robert Ellsberg and a series of study questions.
Catholics is a 1973 television film directed by Jack Gold. Based on the novel of the same name by Brian Moore, who also wrote the screenplay for the film, it stars Trevor Howard, Martin Sheen and Cyril Cusack.
The film has also been released under the title Conflict.
Usage examples of "catholics".
Nazis to suppress the Communists, as the Catholics had been suppressed after 1605.
Elliot Rose, in Cases of Conscience, published in 1975, the year in which the Vietnam War ended, drew a parallel between Catholics who refused to conform in the reign of Elizabeth and James I, and protesters against the Vietnam War.
Like so many of the beleaguered Catholics in England, men and women, the laity as well as the axxi priesthood, nobles and serving people, Father Weston wondered whether a new reign might not bring relief.
But for many Catholics, the spiritual dimension was the one that counted.
Furthermore, the English Catholics might take refuge in Flanders against oppression at home.
There was to be no invasion, no imposition of a foreign Catholic sovereign of England: the English Catholics would reach their own solution to the subject of the succession.
In all these refuges in the spring of 1603 there was an anticipation that the heavy yoke of penalties imposed upon Catholics under Elizabeth would soon be lifted.
Various Catholics in its ranks then dropped to their knees and begged his blessing.
English Catholic world would be blasted apart by that conspiracy known to history as the Gunpowder Plot, and many Catholics would die bloodily at the hands of the state.
In a bull Regnans in Excelsis, which was to have a catastrophic effect on the fortunes of English Catholics, he formally excommunicated the English Queen and released her subjects from their allegiance to her.
Both these princes were of course Catholics, descended in the Lancastrian line from John of Gaunt, yet another son of Edward III.
He gathered together a band of swordsmen, including certain youthful Catholics who saw in such a rebellion an opening to secure religious toleration.
The Earl of Huntly and his wife Henrietta Stuart, both Catholics, were members of the inner royal circle.
As the vice tightened, Catholics were explicitly forbidden to keep not only Catholic servants but a Catholic schoolmaster: since every master had to have a licence to teach.
In order to keep the Catholics under further control, an Act against Popish Recusants was passed in 1593 forbidding the convicted gentry from travelling more than five miles from their estates.