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Roman Catholic

noun

A member of the Roman Catholic Church.

The Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy. Synonyms: Church of Rome, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Church, Western Church.

adjective

Of or relating to or supporting Romanism. Synonyms: papist, papistic, papistical, popish, R.C., Roman, Romanist, romish.

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... book the factitious institutions and gorgeous establishments of the modern priesthood will fade and die, like Jonah's gourd. The English Episcopacy never has, nor ever will, take deep root in the United States. It can never flourish in the American soil. Even the Roman Catholic religion is here a humble and rational thing. Its ministers are highly respected, because their lives adorn their doctrines; and the parochial care of their flock, who are principally Irish, is seen and ...

— A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. • Benjamin Waterhouse

... edition of the Holy Scriptures: Biblia en lengua toscana, cio, i tutti i santi libri del vecchio y Novo Testamento, in lengua toscana, dalla hebraica verita, e fonte greco, con commento da Antonio Bruccioli. Although a Roman Catholic, he favoured Protestant views, and did not show much love for either the monks or priests. His bold comments attracted the attention of the Inquisition, who condemned his work and placed it on the Index. The author was condemned to death by hanging, but happily ...

— Books Fatal to Their Authors • P. H. Ditchfield

... that in Roman Catholic countries mass is never said at night except on Christmas eve, quotes as illustrative of early celebrations of the festival the names and descriptions of the allegorical characters in Jonson's 'Christmas his Masque. ...

— Marmion • Sir Walter Scott

... Hail Mary, first words of a Roman Catholic prayer to the Virgin Mary. The words are those of the Angel Gabriel, hence the prayer ...

— Elson Grammer School Literature, Book Four. • William H. Elson and Christine Keck

... Hyde and Lombard Streets, following out the curious fatality that made everything connected with her take on some romantic aspect, became for a time the abode of Carmelite Sisters, the Roman Catholic Order whose strict rules require its devotees to live almost completely cut off from the world. The long drawing-room, where Mrs. Stevenson had entertained so many of the great people of the earth, ...

— The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson • Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez

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