* Blessed Virgin Mary ( Roman Catholic ), called the New Ark of the Covenant by Christians of the Catholic tradition

All Christians who have a genuine relationship with God through and in Christ are part of the " true Church ", according to exemplary statements of evangelical Protestant theology, notwithstanding condemnation of the Catholic Church by some Protestants.

Widely accepted among Western Christians, including the Roman Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion, the Lutheran Church and most liturgical Protestant denominations, the Athanasian Creed has been used in public worship less and less frequently.

Catholic Christians, following the Canon of Trent, describe these books as deuterocanonical, meaning of " the second canon ," while Greek Orthodox Christians, following the Synod of Jerusalem ( 1672 ), use the traditional name of anagignoskomena, meaning " that which is to be read.

Three additional narratives are preserved in the Septuagint and the Theodotion versions, and are considered apocryphal by Protestant Christians and Jews, and deuterocanonical by Catholic and Orthodox Christians.

A breviary ( from Latin brevis, ' short ' or ' concise ') is a liturgical book of the Latin liturgical rites of the Catholic Church containing the public or canonical prayers, hymns, the Psalms, readings, and notations for everyday use, especially by bishops, priests, and deacons in the Divine Office ( i. e., at the canonical hours or Liturgy of the Hours, the Christians ' daily prayer ).

The Catholic Church teaches that salvation does not occur without faithfulness on the part of Christians ; converts must live in accordance with principles of love and ordinarily must be baptized.

Catholics maintain that the " one, holy, catholic and apostolic church " founded by Jesus subsists fully in the Roman Catholic Church, but also acknowledges other Christian churches and communities and works towards reconciliation among all Christians.

With more than 1. 1 billion baptized members, the Catholic Church is the largest church representing over half of all Christians and one sixth of the world's population.

It is especially important in the Catholic Church, but is also used in Orthodox and Eastern Catholic, as well as Anglican, and Lutheran churches, ( though less often in other Protestant churches ), and it emphasizes Jesus ' sacrifice — his death by crucifixion, which Christians believe brought about the redemption of mankind.

" This is called the doctrine of the hypostatic union, which is still held today amongst all Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox Christians, referred to as Chalcedonian Christianity.

The valid marriage of baptized Christians is one of the seven Catholic sacraments.

" On August 13, 2002 American Catholic bishops issued a joint statement with leaders of Reform and Conservative Judaism, called " Reflections on Covenant and Mission ", which affirmed that Christians should not target Jews for conversion.

The term " Catholic " is commonly associated with the whole of the church led by the Roman Pontiff, the Catholic Church, and whose over one billion adherents are about half of the estimated 2. 1 billion Christians.

Some of them claim to be the one true Catholic Church from which, in their view, other Christians, including those in communion with the Pope, have fallen away.

Many of those who apply the term " Catholic Church " to all Christians object to the use of the term to designate what they view as only one church within what they understand as the " whole " Catholic Church.

This practice is an application of the belief that not all who claim to be Christians are part of the Catholic Church, as Ignatius of Antioch, the earliest known writer to use the term " Catholic Church ", considered that certain heretics who called themselves Christians only seemed to be such.

The nineteenth-century immigration, whether Protestant or Roman Catholic, was not so much concerned, for very few if any among them held slaves: they were mostly in the Northern states where slavery had disappeared or was on the way out, or were too poverty-stricken to own slaves.

It was too bad he wasn't a Catholic himself.

Many of Charles's subjects felt this brought the Church of England too close to the Roman Catholic Church.

Mary spent the next 18 years in confinement, but proved too dangerous to keep alive, as the Catholic powers in Europe considered her, not Elizabeth, the legitimate ruler of England.

France's population was mostly Roman Catholic but it too underwent upheaval during the Protestant Reformation.

Furthermore, he tried to make Catholic property fall to the state, but when this caused too much protest from the Eastern Roman Emperor, he chose to banish a number of Catholics to a faraway province instead.

Catholic historians, such as John Lingard, thought Mary's policies failed not because they were wrong but because she had too short a reign to establish them and because of natural disasters beyond her control.

Bismarck believed that the Catholic Church held too much political power ; he was further concerned about the emergence of the Catholic Centre Party ( organised in 1870 ).

In Protestant England, the word communism was too culturally and aurally close to the Roman Catholic communion rite, hence English atheists denoted themselves socialists.

The Catholic accounts differ too widely among themselves to present a unified case.

The series was originally published between 1867 and 1873 by the Presbyterian publishing house T. & T. Clark in Edinburgh under the title Ante-Nicene Christian Library, as a response to the Oxford movement's Library of the Fathers which was perceived as too Roman Catholic.

Roman Catholic missionaries came too and so did Orthodox.

However, the pressure on the new ministry from advocates of Catholic Emancipation was too great and an Emancipation Bill was passed the next year.

The remaining art that was considered too " Roman Catholic " was sold to Cornelis Claesz van Wieringen, a fellow guild member, on the grounds that he remove it from the city.

Some Catholic contemporaries, such as the Catholic Radical Alliance, felt that he misused the term, and was too supportive of capitalism.

In British India, too, Leo established a Catholic hierarchy in 1886, and regulated some long-standing conflicts with the Portuguese authorities.

The Catholic Church, too, began to oppose Tutsi mistreatment of Hutus, and began promoting equality.

French philosopher Jean Guitton said that Pope Paul VI's intention was to assimilate the Catholic liturgy to the Protestant :" The intention of Paul VI with regard to what is commonly called the Mass, was to reform the Catholic liturgy in such a way that it should almost coincide with the Protestant liturgy — but what is curious is that Paul VI did that to get as close as possible to the Protestant Lord ’ s supper ... there was with Paul VI an ecumenical intention to remove, or least to correct, or at least to relax, what was too Catholic, in the traditional sense, in the Mass and, I repeat, to get the Catholic Mass closer to the Calvinist Mass.

" Huddled in a fold in the Pennsylvania hills, with bulbous Greek Catholic church domes rising over wooden houses, this once-prosperous anthracite town is rusty, dingy, mournful, too melodramatic to be desolate.

" During World War II, Jewish chaplains worked with Catholic priests and Protestant ministers to promote goodwill, addressing servicemen who, " in many cases had never seen, much less heard a Rabbi speak before.

Theological dialogue with the Roman Catholic Church has produced common documents that speak of " substantial agreement " about the doctrine of the Eucharist: the ARCIC Windsor Statement of 1971 ,< ref >

The Irish Catholic and German communities were outraged at Wilson's foreign policy, and his political position was critically weakened after he suffered a severe stroke in 1919 that rendered him unable to speak on his own behalf.

By this time, the Catholic church had begun to speak against his government.

Costello took the opportunity to reconfirm his beliefs in Catholicism on 12 April 1951, in his speech on Dr. Browne's resignation: " I have no hesitation in saying that we, as a Government, representing a people, the overwhelming majority of whom are of the one faith, who have a special position in the Constitution, when we are given advice or warnings by the authoritative people in the Catholic Church, on matters strictly confined to faith and morals, so long as I am here — and I am sure I speak for my colleagues — will give to their directions, given within that scope — and I have no doubt that they do not desire in the slightest to go one fraction of an inch outside the sphere of faith and morals — our complete obedience and allegiance.

Kolbe also used radio to spread his Catholic faith and to speak out against the atrocities of the Nazi regime.

In addition to their native tongue, they speak English, in contrast to their Montagnais cousins who are for the most part Roman Catholic, speaking the native language and French.

In 1967 the Mushuau Innu were settled in Utshimassits ( Davis Inlet ) on Iluikoyak Island located off the coast of Labrador Peninsula, inhibited the ability of the Mushuau Innu to continue their traditional caribou hunt on the mainland, therefore they were relocated in the winter of 2002 / 2003 to their new main settlement Natuashish ( speak: ‘ Nat-wah-sheesh ’), about 295 km north of Happy Valley-Goose Bay and 80 km southeast of Nain, Natuashish located on the mainland is only 15 km west of Utshimassits, ethnically they are Naskapi, speaking the Eastern Dialect ( Mushuau Innu or Davis Inlet variety ) of Iyuw Imuun and writing in Eastern Cree syllabics, but split off and headed to Eastern Labrador, very few ( if any ) are able to write in syllabics any more, the majority of the tribe is Catholic, which use the Montagnais Bible ( which does not use syllabics ) and therefore use the Latin alphabet, Reservation: Natuashish # 2, ca.

The Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches had developed from early on the idea of infallibility of the Church — that the Church may speak entirely without error in particular councils or edicts ; or that, in a less definable way, the Church is infallibly directed so that it always stands in the truth ; and indeed, and claim that the Church has the promise of Jesus that it shall do so.

The Roman Catholic Church also developed on the parallel and complementary idea of papal infallibility — that the pope may speak in the same capacity ; this idea was finally defined dogmatically at the First Vatican Council of 1870 and incorporated into doctrine.

The decision to have Obama speak at the university on May 17, 2009, was met with controversy because of the conflict between his views on abortion and those of the Catholic Church.

In the Mental Liberty Hall lectures were given each Sunday evening, and scientists, philosophers, socialists, atheists, Protestant ministers and Catholic priests were invited to speak — respectable decorum being the only limitation placed upon any speaker.

The approximately 3, 000 Wyandot in Quebec are primarily Catholic and speak French as a first language.

To speak Tok Pisin is to index a modern, Christian ( Catholic ) identity, based not on * hed * but on * save *, that is an identity linked with the will and the skill to cooperate.

There is a linguistic element to the religions, for the canton's German-speakers have been majority Protestant, whereas the Italian and Romansh speakers ( and their descendants who may no longer speak those languages ) are largely Roman Catholic.

The Catholic Encyclopedia and other hagiographical sources speak of three Saint Valentines that appear in connection with Feb 14th.

Castille's Moriscos were practically indistiguisable from the Catholic population: They did not speak Arabic and a large number of them were genuine Christians.

Islanders can often speak four or more languages and are mostly Roman Catholic.

He continued to speak in favour of Catholic emancipation, his eloquence being specially directed against those who maintained that a Roman Catholic could not be believed on his oath.

They believe that “ The emergent ideology is a perversion of the Word of God and the doctrine of the Church of the Nazarene .” The group circulated a petition to members of the denomination, which was presented by 500 members to the Board of General Superintendents in January 2009, with the desire that “ Our fervent hope and prayer is that the General Superintendents will respond by purging our denomination of the emergent cancer before it is too late .” Prior to the most recent General Assembly held in July 2009, the Concerned Nazarenes advocated revising the Articles of Faith to affirm biblical inerrancy: “ Old and New Testaments are inerrant throughout and the supreme authority on everything the scriptures teach .” Further, they are concerned about the teaching of open theism and biological evolution in Nazarene universities ; invitations to emergent church leaders Brian McLaren, Leonard Sweet, and Doug Pagitt to speak at Nazarene institutions ; and the use of “ experiential works-based techniques for prayer ”, including prayer labyrinths, prayer stations and retreats to Roman Catholic monasteries.

Evola's systematic and detailed references to ancient and modern texts make it difficult to speak about influences, though affinities could exist between Evola and Plato, Oswald Spengler, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Arthur de Gobineau, Friedrich Nietzsche, Meister Eckhart, Homer, Jacob Boehme, René Guénon and certain Catholic thinkers like Juan Donoso Cortés and Joseph de Maistre.

Bunjevci are Roman Catholic, and speak with an Ikavian accent ( Bunjevci dialect ) with certain archaic characteristics.

However, the Catholic League stresses that " it does not speak authoritatively for the Church as a whole.