Therese of Lisieux emerged as one of the most popular saints for Catholics in the 20th century, and a statue of her can be found in many European and North American Catholic churches built prior to the Second Vatican Council ( after which the number of statues tended to be reduced when churches were built ).

U. S. Aid supplies tended to go to Catholics, and the newly constructed Huế and Dalat universities were placed under Roman Catholic authority to foster a Catholic-skewed academic environment.

Although many Catholics supported the Italian intervention, they nonetheless remained supporters of the Bourbon monarchy at heart and tended to support anything that would weaken Bonaparte's polictial position.

But Paris was a violently anti-Huguenot city, and Parisians, who tended to be extreme Catholics, found their presence unacceptable.

U. S. Aid supplies tended to go to Catholics, and the newly constructed Huế and Đà Lạt universities were placed under Catholic authority to foster a Catholic academic environment.

These attacks were frequent in the first months of the civil war, and radicalised a large number of Catholics, including clergy, who had previously tended to support the reformist right wing Spanish Confederation of the Autonomous Right party.

In modern times the views of individual Roman Catholics have tended to divide into traditional and more modern understandings of the subject.

Traditionally, the Tories have done better among Protestant voters while Liberals have had more support from Catholics-accordingly, the Conservatives have tended to do slightly better in the easternmost region of the island which is more Protestant while the Liberals have tended to do better on the western end where there are more Catholics.

" There is a retention of ecclesiastical terms, and an explanation of the passages on which Protestants tended to differ rather sharply from Roman Catholics, as in the matter of the taking of the cup by the people, and elsewhere.

The RGL tended to draw its support from The Avalon peninsula, Bonavista South, and from Roman Catholics in Eastern Newfoundland.

The decree recognizes the right of Eastern Catholics to keep their own distinct liturgical practices.

Missionaries were allowed only on sufferance and Leopold was able to keep quiet the Belgian Catholics.

Several of the conspirators expressed worries about fellow Catholics who would be caught up in the planned explosion ; Percy was concerned for his patron, Northumberland, and when the young Earl of Arundel's name was mentioned Catesby suggested that a minor wound might keep him from the chamber on that day.

A strong Nativist movement sought to keep Catholics out of the country and to prevent those already present from advancing.

John Hume's plan to cut the Northern Ireland electricity grid in two and rely on the power generated by Coolkeeragh Power Station ( where many Catholics worked ) to keep Derry and environs in business while undermining the unionist strikers in the east was rejected by the British Secretary of State Merlyn Rees.

Similarly, the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, John FitzGibbon, wrote to the Privy Council in June 1798, " In the North nothing will keep the rebels quiet but the conviction that where treason has broken out the rebellion is merely popish ", expressing the hope that the Presbyterian republicans might not rise if they thought that rebellion was supported only by Catholics.

Roman Catholics understandably keep a low profile in town, since every July 12 the Orangemen ’ s Parade is celebrated by Mariposans with flourish.

* Prohibition on Roman Catholics ' owning a horse valued at over £ 5 ( in order to keep horses suitable for military activity out of the majority's hands )

It has the additional tasks of trying to return to full communion with the Holy See those traditionalist Catholics who are in a state of separation, of whom the Society of Saint Pius X ( SSPX ) is foremost, and of helping to satisfy just aspirations of people unconnected with these groups who want to keep alive the pre-1970 Roman Rite liturgy.

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

Sessions devoted to `` Ethics and Foreign Policy Trends '', `` Moral Principle and Political Judgment '', `` Christian Ethics in the Cold War '' and related subjects proved to be much livelier under this procedure than if Catholics were merely talking to themselves.

" In 2000, then-president Bob Jones III referred, on the university's web page, to Mormons and Catholics as " cults which call themselves Christian.

Anglicans and Old Catholics see themselves as a communion within the Catholic Church and Lutherans see themselves as " a reform movement within the greater church catholic ".

Traditionalist Catholics, even if they may not be in communion with Rome, consider themselves to be not only Catholics but the " true " Roman Catholics.

Many Protestants ( especially those belonging to the magisterial traditions, such as Lutherans, or those such as Methodists, that broke away from the Anglican Communion ) accept the teachings of the first seven councils but do not ascribe to the councils themselves the same authority as Roman Catholics and the Eastern Orthodox do.

Bismarck sought to appeal to liberals and Protestants but he failed because the Catholics were unanimous in their resistance and organized themselves to fight back politically, using their strength in other states besides Prussia.

The Catholics reacted by organizing themselves ; they strengthened the Centre Party.

Examination of these contributions indicates that Protestants, Catholics, and Jews are divided among themselves in their beliefs, and that there is no unanimity among the members of any religious establishment as to this subject.

At the Colloquy of Worms in 1557 which he attended only reluctantly, the adherents of Flacius and the Saxon theologians tried to avenge themselves by thoroughly humiliating Melanchthon, in agreement with the malicious desire of the Roman Catholics to condemn all heretics, especially those who had departed from the Augsburg Confession, before the beginning of the conference.

The Calverts intended the colony as a haven for Catholics fleeing England and as a source of income for themselves and their descendants.

Such Anglicans often refer to themselves as " Liberal Catholics ".

The Catholic Encyclopedia observes: " In this way the difficulties of the future emperor reveal themselves from the beginning ; he wished to spare the religious susceptibilities of French Catholics " and yet to support " the national susceptibilities of the Italian revolutionists — a double aim which explains many an inconsistency " in his policy.

But while the Orthodox Church sees corruption of doctrine and authority in the Catholic Church just as the Protestants do, they view Protestantism as essentially " throwing the baby out with the bathwater ", ultimately separating themselves from the Truth to a larger degree than the Catholics.

Knowing that the mission was not allowed to make any concessions on the point of religion and the territorial integrity of the provinces themselves ( the southern fortress cities of Breda ,'s-Hertogenbosch and Maastricht were in the Generality Lands ) Louis demanded — besides twenty million guilders and an annual embassy from the States-General to Louis asking pardon for their perfidy — either religious freedom for the Catholics or lordship over Utrecht and Guelders, merely to humiliate the Dutch a bit further.

A January 2007 poll found that 61 % of the French population describe themselves as Roman Catholics, 21 % as Atheists, 4 % as Muslims, 3 % as Protestants, 1 % as Buddhists, and 1 % as Jews.

A prayerful retreat helped him to further discern what he considered to be God's will for him, and, on 2 October 1928, he " saw " Opus Dei (), a way by which Catholics might learn to sanctify themselves through their secular work.

Meanwhile the regional situation disintegrated into disorder as both Catholics and Protestants armed themselves in ' self defence '.

While just 20 % of East Timorese called themselves Catholics in 1975, the figure surged to reach 95 % by the end of the first decade after the invasion.

Thus, Catholics are taught to carefully educate themselves as to revealed norms and norms derived therefrom, so as to form a correct conscience.

The Old Catholics having decided to separate themselves from the Church of Rome, Reinkens was chosen their bishop in Germany at an enthusiastic meeting at Cologne in 1873.

Although characterized by learning and acuteness, as well as by considerable breadth of spiritual sympathy, it was not accepted by Catholics themselves as embodying an accurate objective view of the doctrine of their church.