Catholicism
Americannoun
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the faith, system, and practice of the Catholic Church, especially the Roman Catholic Church.
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(lowercase) catholicity.
noun
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short for Roman Catholicism
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the beliefs, practices, etc, of any Catholic Church
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Throughout the week, Vance was also promoting his new book about his faith and conversion to Catholicism.
From BBC • Jun. 19, 2026
Catholicism, with its social teachings, offered him a bridge between the flawed individualism of his youth and the cold systems-analysis of liberal academia.
From Slate • Jun. 18, 2026
JD Vance recounts his conversion to Catholicism and explains what he calls a “Christian approach to economics.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 15, 2026
"What we are seeing more clearly is an increase in the visibility of Catholicism and in the normalisation of Catholicism among young people," he said.
From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026
In contrast to the Catholicism of school, the Mexican Catholicism of home was less concerned with man the sinner than with man the supplicant.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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