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

( The John McCain campaign targeted Catholics with a " Catholic Voter Alert ," phone calls reminding voters of Bush's visit to BJU.

John Sigismund's most significant action was his conversion from Lutheranism to Calvinism, after he had earlier equalized the rights of Catholics and Protestants in the Duchy of Prussia under pressure from the King of Poland.

However, John A. T. Robinson and other scholars argued for a much earlier dating, based on the fact that the New Testament writings make no mention of ( 1 ) the Great Fire of Rome ( A. D. 64 ), one of the most destructive fires in Roman history, which Emperor Nero blamed on the Christians, and led to the first major persecution of believers ; ( 2 ) the final years and deaths of Paul, who wrote most of the epistles, Peter, whom Catholics recognize as the first pope, and the other apostles ; ( 3 ) Nero's suicide ( A. D. 68 ); or ( 4 ) the total destruction of the temple in Jerusalem ( A. D. 70 ), which Robinson thought should certainly have appeared, considering the importance of that event for Jews and Christians of that time.

He is regarded by many Catholics to be the first Pope whose body was discovered to be incorrupt, followed by Pope St. Pius X ( 1903 – 14 ) and Blessed Pope John XXIII ( 1958 – 63 ).

Several prominent former and or current newspaper editors and publishers have become Catholics as well – Charles Moore ( The Daily Telegraph ), John Wilkins and Clifford Longley ( The Tablet ) and Dr William Oddie ( The Catholic Herald ).

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.

Sedevacantists believe that Paul VI ( 1963 – 1978 ), John Paul I ( 1978 ), John Paul II ( 1978 – 2005 ) and Benedict XVI ( since 2005 ) have been neither true Catholics nor true Popes, by virtue of allegedly having espoused the heresy of Modernism, or of having otherwise denied or contradicted solemnly defined Catholic dogmas.

John A. Ryan, believed that established Catholic teachings conflicted with the American experience of religious freedom, holding that if Catholics ever became the majority group, they would be bound to enact, if possible, the kind of church-state relationship that existed in countries such as Spain.

Joseph LyonsAlthough the new party was basically the Nationalist Party under a new name, Lyons was chosen as leader of the party ( and thus became Leader of the Opposition ) rather than the old Nationalist leader John Latham, as it was recognised that ( as an affable family man with the common touch ) he was a far more electorally appealing figure than the aloof Latham, and his Labor background and his Catholicism would allow him to win traditional Labor support groups ( working-class voters and Irish Catholics ) over to the new party.

Theodoric threatened that if John should fail in his mission, there would be reprisals against the orthodox Catholics in the West.

Into the 1960 election, Catholics and evangelicals worked against each other, as evangelicals mobilized their forces to defeat Catholics Al Smith in 1928 and John F. Kennedy in 1960.

Sedevancantists and certain other traditionalist Catholics believe that the Great Apostasy began at the time of the Second Vatican Council, or with the election of Pope John XXIII, or shortly thereafter.

After the death of Pope John Paul II in 2005, Paisley expressed sympathy for Catholics stating " We can understand how Roman Catholics feel at the death of the Pope and we would want in no way to interfere with their expression of sorrow and grief at this time.

For bringing together Catholics and Jews in Boston, he was honored with The Knighthood of St. Gregory from Pope John Paul II during his November, 1999 trip to Rome.

His story became the subject of stage melodramas during the 19th century, most notably Dion Boucicault's hugely inaccurate 1884 play Robert Emmet, inaccuracies including Emmet and Sarah being portrayed as Roman Catholics, John Philpot Curran being portrayed as a Unionist, and Emmet being killed onstage by firing squad.

In 1868, a church had been constructed by Roman Catholics in Benwood dedicated to Saint John the Apostle and Evangelist and had been served by visiting priests from parishes in the surrounding area prior to 1875.

In 1970 the Roman Catholic Church, through the then Archbishop of Dublin John Charles McQuaid, lifted its policy of disapproval or even excommunication for Roman Catholics who enrolled without special dispensation.

The Byzantine emperor John VIII Palaeologus, pressed hard by the Ottoman Turks, was keen to ally himself with the Catholics.

The pontificate of Pope John XXIII and the Second Vatican Council also had a profound effect on the changing attititudes of Irish Catholics.

The Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais managed to create a sentimental moment in the massacre in his painting A Huguenot on St. Bartholomew's Day ( 1852 ), which depicts a Catholic woman attempting to convince her Huguenot lover to wear the white scarf badge of the Catholics and protect himself.

Those Catholics who worship in the extraordinary form of the Roman Rite use this calendar of John XXIII, while certain schismatic groups use an even older one.

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

Smith, he claimed, would be unduly influenced by the Pope, who Jones said was to Catholics " the voice of God.

By 1959, Jones had formally broken with Billy Graham, who had accepted the sponsorship of liberal Protestants and Roman Catholics for his 1957 New York City crusade.

Later Jones criticized other fundamentalists who were insufficiently separatistic, such as evangelist John R. Rice and Jerry Falwell, whose Moral Majority had embraced Catholics and Mormons.

In 1598, Henri issued the Edict of Nantes, which gave the Huguenots certain rights while deferring to Catholics.

After a series of bloody clashes, the French Wars of Religion ( 1562 – 1598 ), between Catholics and Protestants, the Catholic League formed in an attempt to break the power of the Calvinist gentry once and for all.

" Following the Protestant Reformation, France was riven by sectarian conflict as the Huguenots and Catholics strived for supremacy in the Wars of Religion until the 1598 Edict of Nantes established a measure of religious toleration.

in the castle while he administered to Roman Catholics from 1591 to 1598.

Another historic part filled by Amyraut was in the negotiations originated by Pierre le Gouz de la Berchère ( 1600 – 1653 ), first president of the parlement of Grenoble, when exiled to Saumur, for a reconciliation and reunion of the Catholics of France with the French Protestants.

As religious laws against Catholics increased, the castle became used as a prison from 1580 onwards ; by 1600 the castle prison contained 40 prisoners, Roman Catholic priests and recusants.

On 22 October 1854, Ballarat Catholics met to protest the treatment of Father Smyth.

By the 1830s and 1840s, nationalist leader Daniel O ' Connell was leading a demand for the Repeal of the Act of Union and the re-establishment of an Irish parliament in Dublin, only this time one to which Catholics could be elected, in contrast with the entirely Anglican assembly that had met in the old Houses of Parliament.

He met Anabaptists and Roman Catholics, including Jesuits and Oratorians, as well as Jews, broadening his religious education.

The document met with a mixed reception among Catholics ; many accepted it wholeheartedly, others wanted a clarification of some points, and still others were as shocked as their Protestant neighbors by the apparent broad scope of the condemnations.

In June 1870 Peter Reichersberger called on Catholics to unite and, in October, priests, representatives of Catholic federations and the Catholic gentry met at Soest and drew up an election programme.

This increase of Catholics was met by widespread prejudice and hostility, often resulting in riots and the burning of churches.

Although distinct from the Roman Catholic Church, since the 1960s most Old Catholics in communion with Utrecht have followed the liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council, which met periodically from 1962 to 1965.

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

At the " School of Catete ", he met and became friends with essayist and future novelist Octavio de Faria, an activist integrist Catholic and a leader of the group of rightwing Catholics organized around Centro Dom Vital, a think-tank created by the intellectual Jackson de Figueiredo shortly before his untimely death.

They established the Way of Saint James for pilgrims and invited Roman-rite Catholics (" Franks ") into Iberia, who established that rite in all Christianised portions, a change that was met with " uprisings ", such that the Mozarabic rite was permitted to be used in Toledo and León even after the Muslims had been expelled.

Until the passing of the Roman Catholic Relief Act in 1791 Lancaster's Roman Catholics met in a makeshift chapel in St Leonardsgate.

While a new chapel was being built, under the guise of a warehouse, by a wealthy merchant, named Pippard, the Catholics met stealthily for worship in the house of a Mr. and Mrs. Green in Dale Street, and the only friends of the proscribed ones were two large-hearted and tolerant Presbyterians who lived in adjoining houses, and who helped the Papists to gain, without observation, access to their temporary place of meeting.

The immigrants met up periodically for social events, and in the 1970s the organizations for Catholics, members of other Christian churches, and Hindus were formed.

She even met with local Catholics, something for which Knollys and Scrope were severely reprimanded.

At Oxford, Mayne met Edmund Campion and other Catholics, such as Gregory Martin, Humphrey Ely, Henry Shaw, Thomas Bramston, Henry Holland, Jonas Meredith, Roland Russell, and William Wiggs.

Kaas and Pacelli, " on account of the exclusion of Catholics as a political party from the public life of Germany, found it all the more necessary that the Holy See assure government guarantees to maintain their position in the life of the nation " Hitler, had from the beginning no other aim, than a war of extermination of the Church Pacelli, now Pope Pius XII, met the German Cardinals March 6, 1939, three days after his election.

In June 1859, the representatives of the German Catholics and Free Congregations met at Gotha, where a union between the two parties was effected under the name of Bund freireligiöser Gemeinden ( Confederation of free religious congregations ).

ARCIC has met with some hostile reaction from traditionalist Roman Catholics.

This move met with opposition from a group called Concerned Catholics, because they thought this would lead to a dilution of Catholic teaching, though the Anglican Church agreed to use the Catholic RE syllabus.

Catholics met secretly at each other ’ s homes to practice their faith.

This evangelical laborer in the vineyard of the Lord of peace so worked up the minds of his audience, that upon retiring from service, on the different roads leading to their respective homes, they gave full scope to the antipapistical zeal, with which he had inspired them, falling upon every Catholic they met, beating and bruising them without provocation or distinction, breaking the doors and windows of their houses, and actually murdering two unoffending Catholics in a bog.

She met many devout Catholics who were leaders beyond the realm of the Church.

An untold number of Korean Catholics also met their end ( estimations run around 10, 000 ), many being executed a place called Jeoldu-san in Seoul on the banks of the Han River.

In October 1972, a small group of Catholics and Protestants met to reflect on how persons of faith could be mobilized to influence U. S. policies that address the causes of hunger.