His mother was a devout woman, so Ampère was also initiated into the Catholic faith along with Enlightenment science.

Towards the end of Steiner's life, a group of theology students ( primarily Lutheran, with some Roman Catholic members ) approached Steiner for help in reviving Christianity, in particular " to bridge the widening gulf between modern science and the world of spirit.

In 1980, Hayek, a non-practicing Roman Catholic, was one of twelve Nobel laureates to meet with Pope John Paul II, " to dialogue, discuss views in their fields, communicate regarding the relationship between Catholicism and science, and ' bring to the Pontiff's attention the problems which the Nobel Prize Winners, in their respective fields of study, consider to be the most urgent for contemporary man.

Durkheim's seminal monograph, Suicide ( 1897 ), a study of suicide rates amongst Catholic and Protestant populations, pioneered modern social research and served to distinguish social science from psychology and political philosophy.

The document is an overview of the Catholic Church's teachings about humanity's relationship to society, especially in reference to economics, poverty, social justice, culture, science, technology and ecumenism.

The structure of the poem, according to McGann, is influenced by Coleridge's interest in higher criticism, and its function " was to illustrate a significant continuity of meaning between cultural phenomena that seemed as diverse as pagan superstitions, Catholic theology, Aristotelian science, and contemporary philological theory, to name only a few of the work's ostentatiously present materials.

His immediate predecessor had actively promoted a synthesis between the Catholic Church and secular culture ; faith and science ; and divine revelation and reason.

As such, historians have attributed a number of fundamental changes to the period, notably the increasingly rapid progress of science and technology, the secularization of politics, and the diminution of the absolute authority of the Roman Catholic Church as well as the lessening of the influence of all faiths upon national governments.

in library science from The Catholic University of America in 1971.

As a Catholic missionary, Ricci strongly criticized the " recondite science " of geomancy along with astrology as yet another superstitio absurdissima of the heathens: " What could be more absurd than their imagining that the safety of a family, honors, and their entire existence must depend upon such trifles as a door being opened from one side or another, as rain falling into a courtyard from the right or from the left, a window opened here or there, or one roof being higher than another?

He was a professor of political science at Providence College, a Catholic university in Providence, Rhode Island, from 1987 to 2002.

* April-First clear recorded use of the word science in English with its modern usage as restricted to the natural and physical sciences ( by Catholic theologian and mathematician W. G. Ward writing in the London-published Dublin Review ).

According to Monsignor Munro, the Roman Catholic bishop of St Andrew's Cathedral in Glasgow, his 1888 University of Glasgow Gifford Lectures on the " science of religion " represented nothing less than " a crusade against divine revelation, against Jesus Christ and Christianity ".

Due to her career in science and medicine, she drifted from her Catholic Christian upbringing but remained somewhat entrenched in her religious beliefs.

Unlike many former historians ( e. g. Voltaire and Condorcet ), who denigrated the Middle Ages, he endeavored to show that the Roman Catholic Church had helped foster Western science in one of its most fruitful periods.

In 1876 the college became a constituent college of the Catholic University of Ireland, and later offered Royal University of Ireland degrees in arts and science.

The college boasts two research institutes: the Von Hügel Institute founded in 1987 to carry out research on Catholic Social Teaching ; and the Faraday Institute which explores the relationship between religion and science.

In a time when religious dominance in Western culture was threatened by the rising power of science and secular humanists, this architecture found great favor with the Catholic Church as a clear statement of the proper relationship of the earthly and the spiritual worlds.

During a time when the popular and official science and culture in Italy were still influenced by the Roman Catholic Church, Mantegazza was a staunch liberal and defended the ideas of Darwinism in anthropology, his research having helped to establish it as the " natural history of man ".

Bachelor of Arts degrees are awarded in biology, catechists ( formerly known as religious education ), chemistry, classics, communication arts ( multimedia, journalism, and TV / radio ), drama, economics, English ( drama, British and American literature, Western and world literature, and writing ), French, German, history, humanities and Catholic culture, legal studies, music ( sacred music ), philosophy, political science, psychology, sociology, Spanish, and theology.

It offers degrees in biology, chemistry, classics, communication, comparative cultures and literary studies, computer science, economics, education, engineering science, English, fine arts, French, German, global studies, history, an honors program, interdisciplinary studies ( including American, Asian, Catholic, film, gender, Latin American / Latino and medieval studies ), law, mathematical science, military career, modern languages and literatures, nursing, philosophy, physics, political science, pre-health curriculum / programs ( including medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and optometry / podiatry ), psychology, sociology, Spanish, speech-language pathology / audiology, theology, and writing.

That the soul sinned in its pre-existent state, and on that account was incarcerated in the body, the Catholic Church regards as a fiction which has been repeatedly condemned.

Yet she would not write apologetic fiction of the kind prevalent in the Catholic literature of the time, explaining that a writer's meaning must be evident in his or her fiction without didacticism.

She wrote ironic, subtly allegorical fiction about deceptively backward Southern characters, usually fundamentalist Protestants, who undergo transformations of character that to O ' Connor's thinking brought them closer to the Catholic mind.

Andrew M. Greeley ( born February 5, 1928, Oak Park, Illinois ) is an Irish-American Roman Catholic priest, sociologist, journalist and fiction writer.

In his review of the movie in the Catholic publication America, Jesuit priest John O ' Malley used the terms " devout fiction " and " well-intentioned fraud " to refer to the writings of Clemens Brentano.

Typically, the best novels of the 19th century addressed the ' national question ' via the relationship between landlord and tenant and was written either by a member of the landlord class who used fiction to call for an improved relationship based on mutual respect, or by a member of the Catholic middle class who was sympathetic to the tenants.

He wrote several books of fiction and non-fiction, including a history of the Crusades which has a polemical aspect ( at the close of the book he suggests the Catholic Church be declared a criminal organisation ) but also contains excerpts from several Arabic sources never previously translated into German.

Says the Catholic Encyclopedia: " at the present day, it is freely admitted that Solomon is not the writer of the Book of Wisdom, which has been ascribed to him because its author, through a literary fiction, speaks as if he were the Son of David.

* Guillaume Apollinaire's short fiction " L ' Hérésiarque " (" The Heresiarch " or " The Heretic ") describes two heretical Christian gospels written by the excommunicated Catholic cardinal Benedetto Orfei.

Kapur extended this pluralist defence to his own approach: ' I would describe all history as fiction and interpretation ... sk any Catholic and they'll give you a totally different aspect of history ... History has always been an interpretation ...

* Pius XV, in the Babylon 5 science fiction saga, is a fictional early 22nd Century Pope of the Roman Catholic Church.

* In the Babylon 5 science fiction saga, Pius XV is a fictional early 22nd Century Pope of the Roman Catholic Church.

The plot incorporates the American military, the Catholic Church and outlandish science fiction experiments, with these elements progressed mostly in the lead episode and the last two episodes.

Amongst French authors, he shows nothing but contempt for the Romantics but adores the poetry of Baudelaire and that of the nascent Symbolist movement of Paul Verlaine, Tristan Corbière and Stéphane Mallarmé, as well as the decadent fiction of the unorthodox Catholic writers Auguste Villiers de l ' Isle-Adam and Barbey d ' Aurevilly.

These two novels are commentaries disguised as fiction which angered both the Catholic Church and the Spanish colonial government, and which eventually led to Rizal's 1896 trial and execution.

Because of the mixture of Yankovic's real life and fiction, many of the film's fabricated information was accepted by fans as real, such as Yankovic being born in a Saint Vitus hospital ( Saint Vitus is the Catholic patron saint of comedy ), or the film's pun which claimed his birth in an elevator signified his " rise to the top ".

Another work of speculative fiction that tackles many of the same themes ( albeit from a Catholic perspective ) is Tim Powers ' Declare.

Powers has written four successful books of fiction, The Last Catholic in America ( 1973 ), Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?

According to the writer Timothy Dufort, by 1969, all Church of England bishops had acquired Old Catholic lines of apostolic succession recognised by the Holy See.

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.

* 1710 – Alban Butler, English Catholic priest and writer ( d. 1773 )

Peter Stanford, a Catholic journalist and writer, wrote, regarding Fatal Silence: the pope, the resistance and the German occupation of Rome ( written by Robert Katz ; ISBN 0-297-84661-2 ; Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003 ): " Vatican still refuses to open all its files from the period – which seems to me to be a conclusive admission of guilt – but Katz has winkled various papers out of God's business address on earth to add to the stash of new information he has uncovered in America in the archives of the Office of Strategic Services.

Italian writer Luigi Malerba used the confusion among the leaders of the Catholic Church, which was created by Adrian's unexpected election, as a backdrop for his 1995 novel, Le maschere ( The Masks ), about the struggle between two Roman cardinals for a well-endowed church office.

Another Christian writer, the Catholic priest Father Andrew Greeley, freely applies the term " myth " to Christianity.

The English Roman Catholic writer G. K. Chesterton said of More that " He may come to be counted the greatest Englishman, or at least the greatest historical character in English history.

* October 9 – József Kossics, Catholic priest, writer, ethnologist ( d. 1867 )

* Gertrude the Great, German Catholic nun and spiritual writer

* December 26 – József Kossics, Catholic priest, writer, and ethnologist ( b. 1788 )

* April 11 – Miklós Küzmics, Hungarian Slovenes writer, Catholic priest ( b. 1737 )

* October 17 – John Pitts, Catholic scholar and writer ( b. 1560 )

* May 15 – Alban Butler, English Catholic priest and writer ( b. 1710 )

* September 15 – Miklós Küzmics, Hungarian Slovenes writer, Catholic priest ( d. 1804 )

* October 24 – Alban Butler, English Catholic priest and writer ( d. 1773 )

Notable members of the Industrial Workers of the World have included Lucy Parsons ; Helen Keller ; Joe Hill ; Ralph Chaplin ; Ricardo Flores Magon ; James P. Cannon ; James Connolly ; Jim Larkin ; Paul Mattick ; Big Bill Haywood ; Eugene Debs ; David Dellinger ; Elizabeth Gurley Flynn ; Sam Dolgoff, Monty Miller ; Indian Nationalist Lala Hardayal ; Frank Little ; ACLU founder Roger Nash Baldwin ; Harry Bridges, briefly, later helped form ILWU ; Minnesota Governor Floyd B. Olson ; Buddhist beat poet Gary Snyder ; Fredy Perlman ; Australian poets Harry Hooton and Lesbia Harford ; graphic artist Carlos Cortez ; artist Kevin McCoy ; counterculture icon Kenneth Rexroth ; Surrealist Franklin Rosemont ; Rosie Kane and Carolyn Leckie, former Members of the Scottish Parliament ; labor and environmental organizer Judi Bari ; folk musicians Utah Phillips, Harry McClintock, Anne Feeney, and David Rovics ; crime writer Jim Thompson ; Finnish folk music legend Hiski Salomaa ; Catholic Workers Dorothy Day and Ammon Hennacy.

At least one Roman Catholic writer does not consider Mormons and members of some other religious groups to be separated brethren.

Saint Teresa of Ávila, also called Saint Teresa of Jesus, baptized as Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada, ( March 28, 1515October 4, 1582 ) was a prominent Spanish mystic, Roman Catholic saint, Carmelite nun, and writer of the Counter Reformation, and theologian of contemplative life through mental prayer.

* Robert Isaac Wilberforce ( 1802 – 1857 ), second oldest son of William Wilberforce, a clergyman, Catholic convert and writer

From the earliest record for Nuku ' alofa, the early writer always refer to the settlement as Noogollefa ( 1797 ), Nioocalofa ( 1806 ), Nukualofa ( 1826 by Methodist ) and Noukou-Alofa ( 1842 by French Catholic Priest ).

* Theophilus Riesinger, Catholic priest, exorcist and writer

* John Austin ( 1613 – 1669 ), English Catholic writer

Father Jaime Luciano Balmes y Urpiá () ( August 28, 1810 – July 9, 1848 ), Catalan Spanish Catholic priest, eminent as a political writer and a philosopher.