Catholicism

Example Sentences

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If these statues were really an endorsement of Catholicism, it is difficult to explain why so many people of diverse faiths—and none—want them installed.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026

JD Vance converted to Catholicism in 2019, during a time when he was being heavily bankrolled by esoteric Catholic billionaire Peter Thiel.

From Salon • Apr. 15, 2026

"The Pope is the Pope, we owe him a certain amount of deference, but I don't think that Catholicism wants the obedience of cadavers. We are living, thinking persons," he says.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026

The rise of Catholicism in the continent is accelerating the shift away from the church’s traditional European heartland and toward the global south.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026

The expression suggests the parochialism of the Catholicism in which I was raised.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez