Read full poem →He that in his Catholic wholeness used to call the
very flowers
Dictionary Entry
Of the Western Christian church, as differentiated from e.g. the Orthodox church.
In a Sentence
“Christmas is celebrated at different dates in the Catholic and Orthodox calendars.”
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Common Phrases
church catholic. catholicfaith catholicuniversity catholicreligion catholicpriest catholiccatholic romancatholic american
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Poetry examples for “catholic”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →And on Sundays they rang the bells,
From Baptist and Evangelical and Catholic churches.
They had the Salvation Army.
Read full poem →'Where?' we asked, and he laughed and answered, 'At the Pantheon.'
This was a temple, you know, and now is a Catholic church; and
Though it is said that Mazzini has sold it for Protestant service,
Read full poem →Scott Delany; Confession by Donald Jeffrey Hayes;
On Seeing Two Brown Boys In a Catholic Church
and To a Persistent Phantom by Frank Horne; Poem
Read full poem →JoHn GitmAary SHEA (1824-1890), journalist and
historian; author of History of the Catholic Church in
the United States,
Read full poem →Palinode, be represented two forms of Pastors or Ministers, or the
Protestant and the Catholic; whose chief talk standeth in reasoning,
whether the life of the one must be like the other; with whom having
Read full poem →Corceca Blind Devotion, Catholic Penance Irish Nuns
Superstition
Read full poem →The first Catholic church in New England was built at
Oldtown, Maine, in 1688 by the Reverend Louis P. Thury.
Read full poem →on the text and the other aids to study; to Professor Frank
O’Hara of the Catholic University of America, and Linda
Maley O’Hara, who have read the entire manuscript and
Read full poem →The Catholic Historical Review, published by the Catholic University,
Washington, D. C., contains excellent studies in its special field, pub-