Catholic Epistles

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plural noun

the New Testament Epistles of James, I and II Peter, I John, and sometimes II and III John and Jude, addressed to the entire church.

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After years at the head of a parochial school classroom, he could no longer distinguish one blond Irish Catholic kid from another.
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A quarter of a century later, the new head of the Roman Catholic Church claimed that those days had been consigned to history.
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The Roman Catholic priesthood, to a man, would lend to it the influence of all its spiritual authority.
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Just a few priests ordained in the Roman Catholic Church have joined the schismatic cause.
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British Dictionary definitions for Catholic Epistles

Catholic Epistles

pl n

New Testament the epistles of James, I and II Peter, I John, and Jude, which were addressed to the universal Church rather than to an individual or a particular church

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