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* A complete bibliography is appended to the article by F. Cabrol in the Catholic Encyclopaedia, vol.

( 1913 ) " Simony ", Catholic Encyclopaedia '

The Catholic Encyclopaedia of 1913 had this to say about the growth of the legend ( translations in italics added ):

He is also called Sophonias as in the New Catholic Encyclopaedia and in Easton's Dictionary.

* The Catholic Encyclopaedia: fetishism-The Catholic View.

* Pope Eugenius IV in the Catholic Encyclopaedia

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* Catholic Encyclopaedia ( passim )

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This interpretation is disputed by, for example, the Catholic Encyclopaedia, noting that the Israelites of the time were decidedly barbarous ; that Mosaic law ( which forbade human sacrifice ) was at this time widely disrespected ; and that there are several other examples of rash vows to God with similarly terrible consequences.

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* Catholic Encyclopaedia ( passim )

* Kenneth W. Milano's Encyclopaedia Kensingtoniana entry for Kensington Anti-Irish Catholic Riots May 1844

Talking of his home life, he continues " I'm astonished to think that, apart from some Catholic Truth Society pamphlets, some books on saints, there were, essentially, no books in the house, except one set, the Junior World Encyclopaedia, which I certainly read again and again.

According to The Catholic Encyclopaedia, lines of the Muratorian fragment are preserved in " some other manuscripts ", including codices of Paul's Epistles at the abbey of Monte Cassino.

Ott, Michael, “ Fulbert of Chartres ,” in The Catholic Encyclopaedia.

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* Catholic Encyclopaedia account of Anacletus II

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* Botulph, from the Catholic Encyclopaedia website.

* Stonyhurst's entry in the 1912 Catholic Encyclopaedia

* Roman Catholic Encyclopaedia Entry for Ushaw College

With the exception of the Roman Catholic and the Orthodox Catholic Churches, most churches make no moral distinction between rhythm and mechanical or chemical contraceptives, allowing the couple free choice.

By the end of the century the Roman Catholic Church was beginning to make itself felt, mainly through such institutions as hospitals but also through its attitude towards organized labour.

In the Roman Catholic Church, abbots continue to be elected by the monks of an abbey to lead them as their religious superior in those orders and monasteries that make use of the term ( some orders of monks, as the Carthusians for instance, have no abbots, only priors ).

A purely historical or mechanical succession of ministers, bishops or pastors would not mean ipso facto true apostolic succession in the church, Reformed tradition, following authentic Catholic tradition, distinguishes four realities which make up the true apostolic succession, symbolized, but not absolutely guaranteed, by ministerial succession.

" These are likely the same Cathari mentioned in Canon 8 of the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea in 325 AD, which states "... f those called Cathari come over the Catholic faith, let them first make profession that they are willing to communicate full communion with the twice-married, and grant pardon to those who have lapsed ..."

Determined to make Dublin a Protestant city, Queen Elizabeth I of England established Trinity College in 1592 as a solely Protestant university and ordered that the Catholic St. Patrick's and Christ Church cathedrals be converted to Protestant.

This and Ophelia's burial ceremony, which is characteristically Catholic, make up most of the play's Catholic connections.

While Constantinople experienced a succession of councils alternately approving and condemning doctrine concerning hesychasm considered as identified with Palamism ( the last of the five senses in which, according to Kallistos Ware, the term is used ), the Western Church held no council in which to make a pronouncement on the issue, and the word " hesychasm " does not appear in the Enchiridion Symbolorum et Definitionum ( Handbook of Creeds and Definitions ), the collection of Roman Catholic teachings originally compiled by Heinrich Joseph Dominicus Denzinger.

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.

Travelling mostly across Western Europe, he promised several backers as well as four Roman Catholic Popes that he would make Christianity the state religion of the Ottoman sultanate if he ever succeeded to the Imperial throne.

The clinic received a large amount funding from John D. Rockefeller Jr. and his family, which continued to make donations to Sanger's causes in future decades, but generally made them anonymously to avoid public exposure of the family name, and to protect family member Nelson Rockefeller's political career since openly advocating birth control could have led to the Catholic Church opposing him politically.

Though his absence from the 1958 conclave did not make him ineligible – under Canon Law any Catholic male may be elected – the College of Cardinals usually chose the new Pope from among themselves.

' Such concordats allowed the Catholic Church to organize youth groups, make ecclesiastical appointments, run schools, hospitals, and charities, or even conduct religious services.

The Oxford Dictionary of Popes acknowledges that this legend was widely believed for centuries, even among Catholic circles, but declares that there is " no contemporary evidence for a female Pope at any of the dates suggested for her reign ," and goes on to say that " the known facts of the respective periods make it impossible to fit female Pope in ".

Pope Urban VIII did make a public statement about private revelations and their dissemination in the Catholic Church in his Constitution, Sanctissimus Dominus Noster of 13 March 1625.

The term, which derives ultimately from the Latin recusare ( to refuse or make an objection ), was first used to refer to those who remained loyal to the Roman Catholic Church and did not attend Church of England services, with a 1593 statute determining the penalties against " Popish recusants ".

In Great Britain and Ireland, it was a reaction to Cisalpinism, the stance of moderate lay Catholics who sought to make patriotic concessions to the Protestant state to achieve Catholic emancipation.

After the 1492 Alhambra decree, which resulted in the majority of Granada's Jewish population being expelled, the Jewish quarter ( ghetto ) was demolished to make way for new Catholic and Castilian institutions and uses.

Forever Amber ( 1947 ) was condemned by the Catholic Legion of Decency, which successfully lobbied 20th Century Fox to make changes to the film.

Some Catholic scholars state that " vocabulary, grammar, and style make it doubtful that the book could have been put into its present form by the same person ( s ) responsible for the fourth gospel ".

The Catholic Encyclopedia does make it clear that the European invaders had some difficulty identifying and differentiating between the various native peoples they encountered.

Western Christianity makes up about 90 % of Christians worldwide with the Roman Catholic Church accounting for over half, and various Protestant and related denominations make up another 40 %.