Because they have kept the faith of their medieval fathers, English Catholics have always strongly resented the charge of being `` un-English ''.

In his own evidence, he countered the charge of dealing with Catholics, swearing that " papists have been hired and suborned to witness against me.

Babington met John Ballard, a Jesuit priest who put Babington in charge of organising English Catholics.

The charge was circulated that they wished to dishonor the Host, which Catholics believe is the body of Jesus Christ.

“ A charge of ‘ pro-Franco ’ cannot be sustained, except in the generic sense that most Spanish Catholics were initially supportive of Franco ....

From this, Catholics believe that Peter was given charge over Christ's whole flock, that is, the Church.

The Catholics of the town later built a church which was placed under the charge of Fr.

Bishop Bennett encouraged Catholics of the area to go out and actively help to develop this new diocese that he had been put in charge of.

Equally significant, Pope John has said that Catholics themselves bear some responsibility for Christian disunity.

`` All too frequently '', points out James O'Gara, managing editor of Commonweal, `` Catholics run roughshod over Protestant sensibilities in this matter, by failure to consider the reasoning behind the Protestant position and, particularly, by their jibes at the fact that Protestant opinion on birth control has changed in recent decades ''.

In this connection, it has been observed that the increasing number of Irish Catholics, priests and laity, in England, while certainly seen as good for Catholicism, is nevertheless a source of embarrassment for some of the more nationalistic English Catholics, especially when these Irishmen offer to remind their Christian brethren of this good.

From time to time there has been debate over repealing the clause that prevents " Papists " ( Roman Catholics ) or those who marry one from ascending to the British throne.

The latter document has been criticised for claiming that non-Christians are in a " gravely deficient situation " as compared to Catholics, but also adds that " for those who are not formally and visibly members of the Church, salvation in Christ is accessible by virtue of a grace which, while having a mysterious relationship to the Church, does not make them formally part of the Church, but enlightens them in a way which is accommodated to their spiritual and material situation.

Gabriel Marcel explicitly rejected existentialism, due to Sartre, but not phenomenology, which has enjoyed a wide following among French Catholics.

Although polls show that many Catholics dissent from church teaching on contraception, there has nevertheless been a resurgence of support for it in certain quarters.

He was the first leader of the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ), a coalition of Catholics and Protestants that under his leadership became and has since remained the most dominant in Germany.

While the Catholic Church has a defined doctrine on original sin, it has none on the eternal fate of unbaptized infants, leaving theologians free to propose different theories, which Catholics are free to accept or reject.

Nazareth today still has a significant Christian population, made up of Maronites, Orthodox Christians, Roman Catholic, Melkite Eastern Catholics, Anglicans, Baptists, Evangelicals and Copts, among others.

Old Catholics often refer to the Church Father St. Vincent of Lerins and his saying: " We must hold fast to that faith which has been believed everywhere, always, and by all the Faithful.

Tom Veal has noted that the early play The Two Gentlemen of Verona reveals no familiarity on the playwright's part with Italy other than " a few place names and the scarcely recondite fact that the inhabitants were Roman Catholics.

Meanwhile, in 2002 material from the band's original 17-track demo tape was released as an EP, Pixies, on Cooking Vinyl in the U. K. and SpinArt Records in the U. S .; Frank Black has also used these labels to release solo work and albums with The Catholics.

Father Franziscus Stratman, senior Catholic chaplain at Berlin University wrote " The souls of well-disposed people are in a turmoil as a result of the tyranny of the National Socialists, and I am merely stating a fact when I say that the authority of the bishops among innumerable Catholics and non-Catholics has been shaken by the quasi-approval of the National Socialist movement ".

Only in French-speaking countries has there been a development of ceremonies, quite distinct from the sacrament of Confirmation, for young Catholics to profess their faith publicly, in line with their age.

But in other instances, Mary McAleese has been criticised for certain comments, such as a reference to the way in which Protestant children in Northern Ireland had been brought up to hate Catholics just as German children had been encouraged to hate Jews under the Nazi regime, on 27 January 2005, following her attendance at the ceremony commemorating the sixtieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp .< ref >

The principal growth in the numbers of Catholics in modern Britain has been through immigration.

Sedevacantism ( derived from the Latin words sedes " seat " und vacans " vacant ")") is the position, held by a minority of Traditionalist Catholics, that the present occupant of the papal see is not truly Pope and that, for lack of a valid Pope, the see has been vacant since the death of either Pope Pius XII in 1958 or Pope John XXIII in 1963.

Catholic doctrine holds that any bishop can validly ordain any baptised man to the priesthood or to the episcopacy, provided that he has the correct intention and uses a doctrinally acceptable rite of ordination, whether or not he has official permission of any sort to perform the ordination, and indeed whether or not he and the ordinand are Catholics.

* To rebut the accusation of denying the catholicity and indefectibility of the Church, they say that, between the death of every Pope and the election of his successor, there is a sede vacante period during which there is no visible Head of the Church, and — while mainstream Catholics hold that, according to the dogmatic constitution Pastor aeternus of the First Vatican Council, which speaks of " perpetual successors " in the pontificate, there must be, apart from such transitory periods, a perpetual presence of the Bishop of Rome, not merely of his office — that the absence of a Pope has become a long-term feature of the Church's structure.

But the legend of Cobb as a Southern white Protestant who despised blacks, Catholics and anyone who wasn't like him was fanned by sportswriter Al Stump, his first biographer, whose veracity has been called into question.

In 1960 Ceylon nationalized its sectarian -- preponderantly Christian -- schools, to the rejoicing of most of its 7,000,000 Buddhists and the lament of its 800,000 Roman Catholics.

Challenges have been made against the Act of Settlement, especially its provisions regarding Roman Catholics and preference for males.

The Holy See accepts as valid the ordinations of the Old Catholics in communion with Utrecht, as well as the Polish National Catholic Church ( which received its orders directly from Utrecht, and was — until recently — part of that communion ); but Roman Catholicism does not recognise the orders of any group whose teaching is at variance with what they consider the core tenets of Christianity ; this is the case even though the clergy of the Independent Catholic groups may use the proper ordination ritual.

The Parliamentary government had its way but it became clear that the division was not between Catholics and Protestants, but between Puritans and those who valued the Elizabethan settlement.

For British Catholics its effects were disastrous both socially and politically: Catholics were denied the right to vote and sit in the Westminster Parliament for over a century ; they were also denied commissions in the army, and the monarch was forbidden to be Catholic or to marry a Catholic, a prohibition still in force.

In the case of both Catholics – ( Western and ) Eastern Catholic, Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Orthodox, they are usually leaders of territorial units called dioceses ( or its equivalent in the east, an eparchy ).

La Vérité de la Religion Chrétienne Réformée ( 1717 ) was a controversial treatise which in its four parts attacks the characteristic doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church ; it was translated into English, for the use of the Roman Catholics of his diocese of Dromore, by Dr. Ralph Lambert, afterwards bishop of Meath.

In May 2006, the International Methodist-Catholic Dialogue Commission completed its most recent report, entitled " The Grace Given You in Christ: Catholics and Methodists Reflect Further on the Church ," and submitted the text to Methodist and Catholic authorities.

In such cases its competence includes marriages between two Catholics, between a Catholic and non-Catholic, and between two non-Catholic parties whether one or both of the baptized parties belongs to the Latin or an Eastern Rite.

He encourages Catholics to remember the importance of keeping Sunday holy, urging that it not lose its meaning by being blended with a frivolous " weekend " mentality.

The Whig Party recovered its strength and unity by supporting moral reforms, especially the reform of the electoral system, the abolition of slavery and emancipation of the Catholics.

Though the people of Venice generally remained orthodox Roman Catholics, the state of Venice was notable for its freedom from religious fanaticism and it enacted not a single execution for religious heresy during the Counter-Reformation.

The Orthodox Church holds that it was illicit to add the phrase, and also objects to its content, although both Catholics and Orthodox have agreed that the formula " and through the Son ", articulated at the Council of Florence, is theologically unproblematic.

Maximilian's policies of religious neutrality and peace in the Empire afforded its Roman Catholics and Protestants a breathing-space after the first struggles of the Reformation.

St Mary's Roman Catholic Church was the first Catholic church to be built in Wales after the Reformation, and its construction followed the relaxation of laws against Catholics in 1778.

In fact, the colony established the Church of England as its official church in 1702 and explicitly barred Catholics from voting in 1718.

In this context the PCI opened its doors to many Catholics, and a debate started about the possibility of contact.

The first order of business of the revolutionaries therefore was to strive for the reform of the confederal state, with its discrimination of the Generality Lands, and of particular minorities ( Catholics, Jews ), in the direction of a unitary state, in which the minorities would be emancipated, and the old entrenched interests superseded by a more democratic political order.

The Abbey of Hautvillers, including its vineyards, was destroyed in 1560 during the War of Religion between the Huguenots and Catholics.

Cajun music is evolved from its roots in the music of the French-speaking Catholics of Canada.

Following such an argument, if the Church were to fall away from faith through Scripture ( a possibility which Roman Catholics deny but Protestants affirm ), its authority would be negated.