Notice that there is no mission of pursuing the Catholic religion- only of pursuing the Catholic caring tradition.
Though the attorney would not provide the religious affiliation of the clergyman who allegedly molested Foley, Foley lists his religion as Catholic, according to a congressional directory.
Andrew Greeley sought to explain the Catholic religion to believers and to analyze the Catholic Church for scholars, while doing battle with the church's leaders.
And even in the world of religion, the Catholic Church is especially unpopular.
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"The Catholic religion needs reform just like Cuba, " Carrasco said.
"It is unfair of the Catholic religion to impose their views, " said one of the few churchgoers who would talk, stating that she was not in favour of abortion.
The Code of Cannon Law states that, for a child to be baptised, "there must be a founded hope that the infant will be brought up in the Catholic religion".
We usually associate heretic with religion, namely, the Roman Catholic Church: Inquisition, burning people at the stake, etc.
Ziebono Nagbe also linked the two countries by religion, saying that there are sizeable Catholic populations in both Canada and the Ivory Coast.
In his speech at the airport, President Castro said socialist Cuba allowed full freedom of religion and enjoyed good relations with the Catholic Church.
The Pew study found that the new Asian immigrants identify themselves, surprisingly, as 22% Protestant and 19% Catholic, but whatever their religion, most of them have in spades what Max Weber called the Protestant work ethic.
The Nongkrem dance is hosted by the Syiem of Khyrim, custodian of the original animistic religion in a society that is now mostly Catholic Christian.
But when it comes to religion, he describes himself as a traditional Catholic -- albeit one who also was baptized Mormon when his family converted for a few years while living in Las Vegas.
Conservative MP Jacob Rees Mogg, a Roman Catholic, argued it was an "insult to the nation and to our sovereign and indeed to Parliament" and said he was unhappy that any child of an heir to throne who was married to a Catholic would not be brought up in the religion.
What of those who are neither Catholic, nor Christian, nor believers in any religion?
This included setting up a spy network (known as The Sodality of Pius) to report any scholars and scientists suspected of believing things that most Catholics after Vatican II take for granted: freedom of religion, as well as respect for the traditions of non-Catholic faiths, and of course acceptance of the theory of evolution.
Then came a fall in the influence of the Catholic church, whose authority had rested on a deft fusion between religion and patriotism.
Roman Catholic leaders have been particularly vocal against assisted suicide, yet among those who follow that religion 56% supported a change in the law.
Then, more than 500 years ago, the Catholic monarchs Isabella and Ferdinand drove Muslims out of the country unless they agreed to change their religion.
Jovial but brash, Cardinal Bertone has clashed behind the scenes with both the head of the Catholic church in Italy and the boss of the Vatican bank, the Institute for Works of Religion.
With the rise of Catholic immigration to the country in the nineteenth century, Irish and Italian Americans were attacked for their religion.
While the Aymara adopted some of the Catholic ideologies and traditions forced upon them by European settlers, they also continued to practice their own religion, an older native American belief system.
To the extent religion continues to play a central part in American political life, patriarchal authority is abundantly clear, particularly in the Catholic Church in which men are authorities and women are subservient.
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Also speaking on Newsnight Scotland, Harry Reid, former editor of the Herald newspaper, who is currently writing a book about Scotland's relationship with religion, said he thought the cardinal's "sudden departure" would "leave a gap" in the Catholic Church in Scotland.
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Fortunately, Pilgrim Faith is attracting some new members, and my family, which started going there four years ago, was like just about all of them: coming from the local, dominant Catholic faith, and deciding that we and our families would rather have some church affiliation than leave organized religion entirely.
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