Would we gain by keeping alive his memory and besmirching today's Roman Catholics by saying he had a Catholic heart??

Included are the following: Baptist Student Movement, Canterbury Club ( Episcopal ), Christian Science Organization, Friends' Meeting for Worship, Hillel ( Jewish ), Liberal Religious Fellowship, Lutheran Student Association, Newman Club ( Roman Catholic ), Presbyterian Student Fellowship, United Student Fellowship ( Congregational-Baptist ), and Wesley Fellowship ( Methodist ).

The Northfield churches include the following: Alliance, Congregational-Baptist, Episcopal, Lutheran ( Norwegian, Danish, Missouri Synod, and Bethel ), Methodist, Moravian, Pentecostal, and Roman Catholic.

In Poughkeepsie, N.Y.,, in 1952, a Roman Catholic hospital presented seven Protestant physicians with an ultimatum to quit the Planned Parenthood Federation or to resign from the hospital staff.

A year later in Albany, N.Y., a Roman Catholic hospital barred an orthopedic surgeon because of his connection with the Planned Parenthood Association.

The Roman Catholic Church, however, sanctions a much more liberal policy on family planning.

The Roman Catholic Church sanctions only abstention or the rhythm method, also known as the use of the infertile or safe period.

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.

The latter plays a prominent role in Roman Catholic theology and is considered decisive, entirely apart from Scripture, in determining the ethical character of birth-prevention methods.

The Roman Catholic natural-law tradition regards as self-evident that the primary objective purpose of the conjugal act is procreation and that the fostering of the mutual love of the spouses is the secondary and subjective end.

Today, the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches stand virtually alone in holding that conviction.

in fact, a contrast is often drawn in this regard with the `` impersonal '' Roman Catholic parish.

More than 1,000 were said to have been arrested -- 100 of them Roman Catholic priests.

Since the Protestant clergy for the most part wear gray or some variant from the wholly black suit, my Roman collar and black garb usually identify me in England as a Roman Catholic cleric.

And in this country Gustave Weigel's delineation of the line between the sacral and secular orders during the last presidential campaign served to provide a most impressive Roman Catholic defense of the practical autonomy of both church and state.

The Roman Catholic Church has excommunicated one of its priests, Father Feeney, for insisting that there is no salvation outside the visible church.

In mentioning this under `` salvation reconsidered '' I do not mean to imply that Roman Catholic doctrine has changed in this area but rather that it has become clearer to the world community what that doctrine is.

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.

The nineteenth-century immigration, whether Protestant or Roman Catholic, was not so much concerned, for very few if any among them held slaves: they were mostly in the Northern states where slavery had disappeared or was on the way out, or were too poverty-stricken to own slaves.

As a consequence, both countries share cultural aspects: language ( Portuguese ) and main religion ( Roman Catholic Christianity ).

With a membership currently estimated at over 85 million members worldwide, the Anglican Communion is the third largest Christian communion in the world, after the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Churches.

Its intent was to provide the basis for discussions of reunion with the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches, but it had the ancillary effect of establishing parameters of Anglican identity.

The Church of England ( which until the 20th century included the Church in Wales ) initially separated from the Roman Catholic Church in 1538 in the reign of King Henry VIII, reunited in 1555 under Queen Mary I and then separated again in 1570 under Queen Elizabeth I ( the Roman Catholic Church excommunicated Elizabeth I in 1570 in response to the Act of Supremacy 1559 ).

At this festival a couch was set up, on which the panoply of the hero was placed, a practice which recalls the Roman Lectisternium.

An ancient Roman festival, Actia, was named after Actium, in Nicopolis, the new city ( today Preveza, Greece ).

* One of the four Agonalia, this day in honor of Sol Indiges ; also the Septimontium festival ( Roman Empire )

Historian Nicholas Rogers, exploring the origins of Halloween, notes that while " some folklorists have detected its origins in the Roman feast of Pomona, the goddess of fruits and seeds, or in the festival of the dead called Parentalia, it is more typically linked to the Celtic festival of Samhain, derived from the Old Irish Samuin meaning " summer's end ".

In the neighbourhood of Larissa was celebrated a festival which recalled the Roman Saturnalia, and at which the slaves were waited on by their masters.

The month May was named for the Greek goddess Maia, who was identified with the Roman era goddess of fertility, Bona Dea, whose festival was held in May.

The earliest May Day celebrations appeared in pre-Christian times, with the festival of Flora, the Roman goddess of flowers, and the Walpurgis Night celebrations of the Germanic countries.

Roman drama, specifically Plautine comedy, was acted out on stage during the ludi or festival games.

In his discussion of the importance of the ludi Megalenses in early Roman theater, John Arthur Hanson says that this particular festival “ provided more days for dramatic representations than any of the other regular festivals, and it is in connection with these ludi that the most definite and secure literary evidence for the site of scenic games has come down to us ”.

During the Roman Empire, a festival of the birth of the Unconquered Sun ( or Dies Natalis Solis Invicti ) was celebrated on the winter solstice — the " rebirth " of the sun.

With Christianization, the festival in November ( not the Roman festival in May ) became All Hallows ' Day on November 1 followed by All Souls ' Day, on November 2.

It depicts the Cerealia | festival of Cerealia in a Roman street.

* Pope Gelasius I changes pagan Lupercalia festival into Roman Catholic Candlemas feast of Purification.

The Consualia, with its semi-mythical establishment by Romulus, and the Cerealia, the major festival of Ceres, were probably older than the earliest historically attested " Roman Games " ( Ludi Romani ) held at the Circus in honour of Jupiter in 366 BC.

Because Mercury was not one of the early deities surviving from the Roman Kingdom, he was not assigned a flamen (" priest "), but he did have a major festival on May 15, the Mercuralia.

Eventually the Roman emperor Caligula abandoned the Augustan wariness toward what was described as oriental cults, and it was in his reign that the Isiac festival of the Navigium Isidis was established in Rome.

Other scholars argue for the origin from the Roman name for the festival of the Navigium Isidis ( ship of Isis ), where the image of Isis was carried to the sea-shore to bless the start of the sailing season.

Mother's Day is an USA invention and it's not directly descended from the many celebrations of mothers and motherhood that have occurred throughout the world over thousands of years ; like the Greek cult to Cybele, the Roman festival of Hilaria, or the Christian Mothering Sunday celebration.

* In Talmudic times, Adar 28 was established as a minor festival to commemorate the rescinding of a Roman decree against Torah study, ritual circumcision, and keeping the Shabbat.

Flora, the Roman goddess in whose honor the festival was held, was a goddess of flowers, which generally begin to bloom in the spring.

Significantly, for Asterius the Christian feast was explicitly an entry from darkness into light, and although no conscious solar nature could have been expressed, it is certainly the renewed light at midwinter, which was celebrated among Roman pagans, officially from the time of Aurelian, as the " festival of the birth of the Unconquered Sun ".

During the reign of the Roman emperor Nero, sausages were associated with the Lupercalia festival.