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Definition of Catholicism

1. Noun. The beliefs and practices of a Catholic Church.

Definition of Catholicism

1. n. The state or quality of being catholic or universal; catholicity.

Definition of Catholicism

1. Noun. The faiths, practices and doctrines of a Catholic Church, but especially of the Roman Catholic Church ¹

2. Noun. The state or quality of being catholic or universal; catholicity. —Jer. Taylor. ¹

3. Noun. Liberality of sentiment; breadth of view. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Catholicism

1. The christian faith, practice, or system of the catholic church, specifically the roman catholic, the christian church that is characterised by a hierarchic structure of bishops and priests in which doctrinal and disciplinary authority are dependent upon apostolic succession, with the pope as head of the episcopal college. (12 Dec 1998)

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Literary usage of Catholicism

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve (1899)
"CHAPTER VI Of the Progress of Roman Catholicism in the United States AMERICA is the most democratic country in the world, and it is at the same time ..."

2. The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte by Auguste Comte, Frederic Harrison (1896)
"In order to estimate what this operation was, I will briefly consider first how the doctrines of Catholicism wrought in a moral view, apart from their ..."

3. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"Protestantism in Germany was torn asunder by petty feuds ; and by sheer force of superior ability and unremitting labour Catholicism was restored, ..."

4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"... but it gradually wrought a distinct change in the religious life of the whole nation and developed in Spain a unique type of Roman Catholicism. ..."

5. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1904)
"THE temper of eighteenth century Catholicism differed in many respects from that of the Catholicism of to-day. It was learned, moderate, unaggressive. ..."

6. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll by Robert Green Ingersoll (1900)
"Which do you regard as the better, Catholicism or Protestantism ? \ Answer. Protestantism is better than Catholicism because there is less of it. ..."

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