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  • The church is catholic, universal, so are all her actions; all that she does, belongs to all.   (source)
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  • Lisa was wild when I met her though, like all them other Catholic school girls.†   (source)
  • Is Jesse Owens Catholic?†   (source)
  • Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak out because I was not a Catholic.†   (source)
  • She may soon be the youngest nonmartyr saint ever beatified by the Catholic Church.†   (source)
  • "It's against the Catholic faith."†   (source)
  • There's a Catholic school up in Fort Myers, but that's a long ways off.†   (source)
  • Louie, whose parents had tried to raise him Catholic, hadn't gone near church since one Sunday in his boyhood, when a priest had punished him for tardiness by grabbing him by the ear and dragging him out.†   (source)
  • Some ladies carried their salvation gloves in their purse in case they ran into a Catholic unexpectedly.†   (source)
  • You're not a Catholic."†   (source)
  • He was as Catholic as I was Muslim.†   (source)
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  • Among those assembled were two French journalists, a Swiss diplomat, three Uzbek fur traders, a representative of the Roman Catholic Church, and a repatriated opera tenor with his family of five.†   (source)
  • He is definitely a country kid, 'cause he said, 'What's a Catholic?'†   (source)
  • No, sir, I am a Catholic.†   (source)
  • My adoptive parents had me baptized as a Catholic later.†   (source)
  • Maybe she'd shift me to a school closer to home, maybe a public or Catholic school, but not a military school.†   (source)
  • Apparently, 'charity, hope, and faith' are also the names of three martyred Catholic saints.†   (source)
  • We are a Catholic Church.†   (source)
  • I wasn't raised very religiously because my parents went to Catholic school, but I do believe in God very much.†   (source)
  • Two days later, we buried my sister in the Catholic graveyard down near the powwow ground.†   (source)
  • The Riches, the Patrick Smiths, the Walkers, not even those Catholic Thibodeaux with them seven kids.†   (source)
  • When my Catholic classmates recited their prayers, we Jews were required to stand and be silent.†   (source)
  • This was a Catholic organization that partnered with UNICEF and NGOs to create centers like ours.†   (source)
  • He wanted a Catholic!†   (source)
  • She was a fervent Catholic with a French accent.†   (source)
  • It just happens to be a Catholic school.†   (source)
  • But Betty, a Catholic herself, was not sensitive to these differences.†   (source)
  • Martinez is a devout Catholic.†   (source)
  • Or go inside a Catholic church.†   (source)
  • Yeah, except for third and fourth grade, when I couldn't go because I was in Catholic school.†   (source)
  • "There's no reason this girl needs to tell the world far and wide that she's a Catholic."†   (source)
  • "High Catholic," my father had said in the car.†   (source)
  • Ages ago, when just being a Catholic could get you hung from a tree, clergyfolk came here seeking refuge.†   (source)
  • The Catholic high school cost a lot, and Papa said nobody went to public school unless you wanted to turn out bad.†   (source)
  • Sundown, my little Catholic friend, sundown.†   (source)
  • I'm Catholic.†   (source)
  • As a matter of fact, she's Catholic," Hannah said.†   (source)
  • The Catholic Church, through its Inquisition, is famous for cultivating Lucifer as the arch-fiend, but the Church's enemies relied no less upon the Old Boy to keep the human mind enthralled.†   (source)
  • Sources on the effects segregation had on health-care delivery and outcomes include: The Strange Career of Jim Crow, by C. Vann Woodward; P. Preston Reynolds and Raymond Bernard, "Consequences of Racial Segregation," American Catholic Sociological Review 10, no.†   (source)
  • Catholic.†   (source)
  • She could tell it was Latin, but she wasn't sure why her hopefully future boyfriend was suddenly chanting like a Catholic priest.†   (source)
  • Or one of the Catholic priests from St. Ignatius that Mrs. Barbour had taken up with after Andy and Mr. Barbour died?†   (source)
  • Never a Catholic dog.†   (source)
  • Hall was born into a working-class Catholic family in Christchurch, New Zealand, the youngest of nine children.†   (source)
  • Dart noticed this; were the Maartens Catholic, then?†   (source)
  • At a Catholic orphanage, he hauls out leftover boxes of honeydew melon, oranges, and bread.†   (source)
  • I don't think the Catholic Church proclaimed any of it as out-and-out miracles, which was pretty smart of them.†   (source)
  • I never heard them knock anybody for being white or black or green or Christian or Jew or Catholic.†   (source)
  • "That," the Reverend declared, "is a Catholic bird.†   (source)
  • The Catholic Church?†   (source)
  • White Memphis had use for a great variety of Christian schools: Harding Christian Academy, which had been around forever; Christian Brothers, which was Catholic and all male; and the Evangelical Christian School, known as ECS.†   (source)
  • I still had my rifle and I was not alone, and neither was Danny, a devout Roman Catholic.†   (source)
  • The Knights of Pythias got their own day, as did the Catholic Knights of America.†   (source)
  • James Joyce, an Irish Catholic, uses biblical parallels with considerable frequency.†   (source)
  • I wanted you to be brought up Catholic, too.†   (source)
  • The foreman's name, I learned, was Moorman and he had been headmaster of a Roman Catholic boys' school.†   (source)
  • The chaplain was Catholic, and the Catholic guys had a mass or something.†   (source)
  • A radical, rosary-toting Catholic, she has no problem with that kind of thing.†   (source)
  • The Karchers were German-American, industrious, and devoutly Catholic.†   (source)
  • Mexicans were mostly traditional and Catholic.†   (source)
  • He's big and handsome, and he looks more like a movie star than he does an Episcopal minister, except he wears one of those stiff white collars you normally associate with a Catholic priest.†   (source)
  • She has forgotten that absolution is a Catholic concept, not a Jewish one.†   (source)
  • He wondered how a girl with a Muslim name had ended up in a Catholic convent.†   (source)
  • There's a Catholic church down on Diamond Street.†   (source)
  • Tomaszow, 26 June 1942 I hear organ music and singing from the Catholic church.†   (source)
  • I've always thought that it might be fun to be Catholic, to be able to go to the confessional and unburden yourself and have someone tell you that they forgive you, to take all the sin away, wipe the slate clean.†   (source)
  • After class it was rare for him not to have an appointment related to his civic initiatives, or his Catholic service, or his artistic and social innovations.†   (source)
  • It's a very old Orange Catholic Bible made for space travelers.†   (source)
  • Historically their zeal stems not from the strength of the Catholic Church but from its weakness in the face of the Reformation.†   (source)
  • A lot of our Catholic friends have asked whether Colton saw Mary, the mother of Jesus.†   (source)
  • After Conor's arrival, everyone we knew—with the exception of my very Catholic parents who were praying for dozens of little Grogans—assumed we were done having children.†   (source)
  • "Them Catholic people is the Hepplers," returned Carl.†   (source)
  • However, the Bishop of Rome became the supreme head of the Roman Catholic Church.†   (source)
  • At Christmas I almost wished I was a Catholic.†   (source)
  • She was a Catholic, Minou, a Catholic!†   (source)
  • "Paul's Catholic church."†   (source)
  • Roman Catholic priest.†   (source)
  • The word "Catholic" obviously had a negative connotation for Pastor Falk.†   (source)
  • No Japanese boys are in the Catholic church.†   (source)
  • He was a Catholic from Chicago, a baseball player with a gap-toothed smile.†   (source)
  • You think a guy named Simon Morgenstern was Irish Catholic?†   (source)
  • A Catholic.†   (source)
  • As a Christian can be a Baptist, a Catholic, or a Lutheran, one Moslem's individual set of principles can vary widely from another's.†   (source)
  • "I haven't had a chick that great," he said, briefly, thinking again of the dreadful Catholic girls with whom he had grown up, of his sister and his mother and father.†   (source)
  • If we were Catholic, we could borrow church holy water and-†   (source)
  • My family is Catholic.†   (source)
  • Patients aren't allowed to enter the-Oh, stay back, I'm a Catholic!" and straightaway jerks at the gold chain around her neck so a cross flies out from between her bosoms, slingshots the lost pill up in the air!†   (source)
  • She was a nurse at a hospital in Zaire, and she had taken care of a Roman Catholic nun who died of Ebola.†   (source)
  • Cole's family—his parents and his wife, who was raised Catholic, reacted to his decision with confusion, surprise, and "many, many questions," he said.†   (source)
  • Bridget's family is super-Catholic.†   (source)
  • I was a born-and-bred Catholic and thought immediately it was some sort of writing stigmata and that I should get to a church.†   (source)
  • To reach it, many people Shad to tramp through the site of the old German and Catholic cemeteries.†   (source)
  • You're not a Catholic or a Mormon, are you?†   (source)
  • The mother is Irish Catholic.†   (source)
  • ' " Sunitha worked closely with a Catholic missionary, Brother Joe Vetticatil.†   (source)
  • Babe Ruth, parentless at age seven when his parents handed him over to Catholic missionaries.†   (source)
  • So I agreed there and then to become a Catholic.†   (source)
  • " 'Are you Catholic?' he asked me.†   (source)
  • He was a believing, practicing Catholic.†   (source)
  • He wasn't flabby, middle-aged, Irish Catholic.†   (source)
  • I was a Catholic; I believed in saints.†   (source)
  • She calmed down only when they swore that they would take Rosa directly from the house to the Catholic cemetery: only then did she accept the laudanum the doctor handed her.†   (source)
  • I'm not a Catholic.†   (source)
  • Link pulled up the sleeve of his Ramones T-shirt to reveal a tattoo of what looked like an anime version of Ridley, complete with the Catholic schoolgirl mini and knee socks.†   (source)
  • Cedric, unaware of Catholic dogma, shrugs, though he's happy to feel the conversation land on the terra firma of religion.†   (source)
  • "There is if you're a Catholic!" Lloyd countered.†   (source)
  • He married her, became a tractor driver on a collective farm, a practicing Catholic, and a father.†   (source)
  • In the fall, she'd gotten busted with a joint at school and was asked to leave St. Micheline's, the Catholic school she'd been attending.†   (source)
  • Then sign the bleeding contract, for the love of Mary, and I'm not even Catholic."†   (source)
  • Certainly you have to be a Catholic.†   (source)
  • Is Shay Catholic, Father?†   (source)
  • Behind the college was a massive brownstone armory, and a block away, across the street, was a Catholic church with a huge cross on its lawn upon which was the crucified figure of Jesus.†   (source)
  • He was neither a Democrat nor a Republican, liberal nor conservative, Baptist nor Catholic; he pulled for neither State nor Ole Miss.†   (source)
  • These boys who led us here, they're the real Catholic church.†   (source)
  • Brandi Lewis, a nineteen-year-old grocery clerk who worked at the H-E-B on the corner of Highway 71 and Bee Cave Road, and Linda Owens, a fourteen-year-old high school freshman who attended Saint Michael's Catholic Academy.†   (source)
  • Writer DENNIS DOWNEY hails from a large Irish Catholic family in New England.†   (source)
  • A governor, a Catholic bishop, a respected leader of the International Organization of Women, two high-ranking cops, an ex-Vice President—†   (source)
  • I wrote stories and played softball and spent time with a twenty-one-year-old Catholic girl on long, sweet weekends in New Orleans.†   (source)
  • I'm the Catholic chaplain, my son.†   (source)
  • Am I superstitious enough for a good Catholic?†   (source)
  • Four days later, on a foggy Monday morning, I parked Mr. Turnbough's car in front of the same Catholic church Ron, Stan, and I had briefly attended with our aunt years ago as preschoolers.†   (source)
  • The following morning Robert took her in his jeep across on the ferry and delivered her safely to the Catholic convent where she was to live and teach for the coming year under the only occasionally disapproving eye of the mother superior, a kindly and conveniently myopic French-Canadian.†   (source)
  • She prays every Catholic prayer she knows in quick, calm succession.†   (source)
  • It is far simpler to be married to a Catholic than anyone from my Methodist past would believe.†   (source)
  • "You Felling Catholic prats," said Poke.†   (source)
  • Coach Bell told us that he was very interested in having me come to play for him at Trinity Catholic.†   (source)
  • Billy wasn't a Catholic, even though he grew up with a ghastly crucifix on the wall.†   (source)
  • Diem is a Catholic, just like the Kennedys.†   (source)
  • They were Lowland Scots who had settled in Northern Ireland, where their Presbyterian faith brought them into conflict with the Catholic Irish and the Anglican English.†   (source)
  • Calling holy water nonsense to our Joseph is really like insulting the Virgin Mary before a Roman Catholic.†   (source)
  • Not to mention Catholic.†   (source)
  • He's got Catholic eyes.†   (source)
  • Lalla, unable to cope, would run into neighbours' homes, pound on their beds, and promise to become a Catholic if Willie recovered.†   (source)
  • If her Catholic Majesty or one of her ministers ordered prisoners to be delivered, then, by God, they would be delivered.†   (source)
  • I don't know what this means, maybe something about the force of fathers, or the Catholic God.†   (source)
  • I mean, I don't want anyone to think I've become a nun or anything (I mean, I'm not even Catholic!).†   (source)
  • I'm a Catholic …. but I don't know.†   (source)
  • They burned a Catholic church up your way not long ago.†   (source)
  • I thought you grew up a Catholic there in Boston, which has always puzzled me, seeing as how you have only one child.†   (source)
  • Our mom is Catholic.†   (source)
  • I commend the Catholic leaders of this state for integrating Spring Hill College several years ago.†   (source)
  • But it's good for a Catholic, he said.†   (source)
  • Separated from the elegant city center by an industrial canal, Molenbeek had once been occupied by Roman Catholic Walloons and Protestant Flemings who worked in the district's many factories and warehouses.†   (source)
  • The Spaniards in the town looked at me, and the Catholic priest said, 'Let her die.'†   (source)
  • While he was not a Catholic, he considered it his duty to reinforce Christianity in any of its forms.†   (source)
  • The birth of the future we desire is surely in the contraction which that terrified Catholic felt on the roadside when another hand gripped his hand, not in the gunfire that followed, so absolute and so desolate, if also so much a part of the music of what happens.†   (source)
  • Only 138 had marked Protestant, 100 Catholic, and 46 Jewish.†   (source)
  • If the telling got excruciating and her anger too bad, I'd tell five items once a week like the Catholic girls, and I'd still be through in a year, maybe ten months.†   (source)
  • Church bells had been used in England during the second World War, and there were bells in the Catholic and Episcopal churches.†   (source)
  • Is there a Catholic church around here?†   (source)
  • …Motleys Rise of the Dutch Republic, an 80-year-old pamphlet on the roots of modern anarchism, a book of sermons by Blobb's brother Augustine also among Bortz's Wharfingeriana, along with Blobb's original clues, Oedipa was able to fit together this account of how the organization began: In 1577, the northern provinces of the Low Countries, led by the Protestant noble William of Orange, had been struggling nine years for independence from Catholic Spain and a Catholic Holy Roman Emperor.†   (source)
  • It was just that I possessed small wit or patience for scientific abstractions, and this was something I think I deplored in myself as much as I envied the capacious and catholic range of Nathan's mind.†   (source)
  • In "Acrobats in a Park," though I laid the story in my home town, I was writing about Europeans, acrobats, adultery, and the Roman Catholic Church (seen from across the street), in all of which I was equally ignorant.†   (source)
  • That shattered her faith in the Catholic Church.†   (source)
  • But a strange and catholic selection of citizens tiptoed to the chapel door and peered in and went away--lawyers and laborers and clerks and bank tellers, most of them past middle age.†   (source)
  • " (Kozlowski was a Catholic.) "Just the way these ones happened to be.†   (source)
  • Let them ever be, by Thy great mercy, true Christian Catholic children.†   (source)
  • Shakespeare was an Irish Catholic, for example.†   (source)
  • Telegrams poured in attacking Norris for his support of a Catholic and a wet.†   (source)
  • The Catholic church should no longer have a special status in our country.†   (source)
  • Although it was state-run, there was a heavy Catholic influence, and Liesel was Lutheran.†   (source)
  • And this is what, some kind of deal you have with the Catholic Church?†   (source)
  • He'd say the Irish and them are well known to be Catholic papists and worshipers of the false idols.†   (source)
  • You don't have to be Catholic to go there.†   (source)
  • On Fridays during Lent, I helped with the fish fries at the local Catholic church.†   (source)
  • "According to the papers, your parents were Catholic but you were unbaptized," Mrs. Dunningham said.†   (source)
  • Luther broke with the Catholic Church because he wouldn't buy indulgences, didn't he?†   (source)
  • Proposed by a Catholic monk, Georges Lemaitre in 1927.†   (source)
  • They're not considered controversial in, for example, the Roman Catholic Church."†   (source)
  • Egyptian sun disks became the halos of Catholic saints.†   (source)
  • That candle was a marriage bond that was worth more than a Catholic promise not to divorce.†   (source)
  • There was a Catholic church uptown for whites; a Catholic church back of town for colored.†   (source)
  • She said she was Scotch and Irish, not the Catholic Irish, of course, meaning her grandmothers were.†   (source)
  • On that seventh anniversary, they unveiled the Orange Catholic Bible.†   (source)
  • It was the summer when Owen said, "WHAT'S A CATHOLIC DOING AS PRESIDENT OF A COUNTRY OF BUDDHISTS?"†   (source)
  • Oddly, for a Jewish world, the clinic was Catholic.†   (source)
  • One day, Lale received a visit in prison from a Catholic priest.†   (source)
  • He also decided whether we could remain Catholic or not.†   (source)
  • "She's an Irish girl, Viola, so I suspect she's a Catholic," Mr. Nielsen says to his wife.†   (source)
  • Lately I had considered going into the Catholic Church myself.†   (source)
  • Swill from bloody Catholic fascist Spain.†   (source)
  • On Sunday mornings when I'm home, I drive over to the Catholic church, where people know me.†   (source)
  • She had her husband dug up, then reburied in a Catholic ceremony.†   (source)
  • We therefore speak of the Byzantine Middle Ages as opposed to the Roman Catholic Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • All Catholic churches in Rome are property of the Vatican.†   (source)
  • And once for shaming the good name of the Catholic Church.†   (source)
  • The only trouble was, Church, even the Catholic Church, didn't take up the whole of your life.†   (source)
  • I was not baptized a Catholic, but it suits me, its beliefs and doctrines sit easily with me.†   (source)
  • In the end, he would turn THE CATHOLIC DEAL down.†   (source)
  • "They were very nice to me, but they said no. It wasn't just not being a Catholic.†   (source)
  • I'll baptize you with sherry from bloody Catholic fascist Spain.†   (source)
  • According to the papers, your parents were Catholic but you were unbaptized.†   (source)
  • For one thing, I had never been to what Mom was calling a Catholic wake.†   (source)
  • Then Pastor Falk leaned towards him and whispered, "I think she's a Catholic.†   (source)
  • I've always been a Catholic and have gone to church and received the sacraments.†   (source)
  • Our supplies come from the French Catholic Relief, and sometimes just thin air.†   (source)
  • "The Catholic Church ordained me," he said.†   (source)
  • When I married a Catholic, I became a card-carrying member of the Christmas Club.†   (source)
  • "Right out of the Butlerian Jihad and the Orange Catholic Bible," she said.†   (source)
  • "Mom, we're not Catholic," I pointed out.†   (source)
  • The Rev. Mr. Merrill did not yet know why Dan wanted to know who the Catholic "head guy" was.†   (source)
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  • Maybe you ought to think about Catholic school.   (source)
    catholic = of the Roman Catholic faith
  • She's a Catholic, and they don't believe in divorce.   (source)
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