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- When the Apostles Creed uses the word "catholic", it does not reference the church headed by the Pope, but rather a universal church.
- She is catholic in her tastes.
- Their taste in books was catholic, at any rate; Plato in Greek touched Omar in English; Nietzsche partnered Newton; Thomas More was there, and also Hannah More, Thomas Moore, George Moore, and even Old Moore.James Hilton -- Lost Horizon
- In fact, a hyena’s catholicity of taste is so indiscriminate it nearly forces admiration.Yann Martel -- Life of Pi
- The church is catholic, universal, so are all her actions; all that she does, belongs to all.John Donne -- Meditation 17
- Comfort’s catholicity of perception and image ... continues to evoke that trembling atmospheric accumulative hinting at a cruel, an inexorably serene timelessness…George Orwell -- Politics and the English Language
- It may be that the meaning attached to the word "fede" was "the faith," i.e. the Catholic creed, and not as rendered here "fidelity" and "faithful."Nicolo Machiavelli -- The Prince
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