Catholics for a Free Choice

The Catholics never quite finished it.

Thailand is now has about 292,000 Catholics.

Today, few Catholics even know of the doctrine.

Catholics confess to their priests, not to God himself.

Lebanon s Falangist Party gave voice to its Maronite Catholics.

We're too good Catholics to do anything so sacrilegious.

Even for non Catholics like myself, this is an occasion to ponder what the world will lose when the Pope s body finally succumbs to his ailments.

Catholics have tended to be more tolerant of hypocrisy than Protestants.

Presently there are about 509,000 Catholics in 16 dioceses in Japan.

At least 147 million Catholics across Africa are mourning his death.

We offer our deepest condolences to Catholics and to others who were touched by his blessings, by his compassion and by his dedication to non violence and peace.

Roman Catholics in the Maldives are covered by the Archdiocese of Colombo.

One would have thought that Roman Catholics would see these outcomes as desirable.

Catholics are being expelled in spite of the fact that there was no fighting on this territory and that Catholics behaved peaceably during the whole period of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Nor does religion play a discernible role while Roman Catholics used to fear independence as being liable to result in Protestant hegemony, today Catholics and Protestants are roughly equal in their support of Scotland s institutions.

This is a common belief among religious believers, be they conservative Catholics, Protestants, Jews, or Muslims.

But the Catholics used a shotgun for this brutal punishment, and the Protestants an electric drill.

The Spanish People s Party tried hard to mobilize Catholics during the election campaign in March 2008.

Yes, Ukraine has Ukrainian speakers and it has Russian speakers yes, it has Orthodox and Catholics.

It was as if Catholics were to protest outside the Vatican against picking a new Pope.

The primary constituency of the ACSJC is the 27 of the Australian population who are Catholics.

This ordinance enables the Belarusians (Orthodox), Ukrainians (Greek Catholics) and Jews to observe their traditions and customs.

This was true of Zionism, of the Italian Risorgimento, and most recently of the Catholics in Northern Ireland.

Christians account for 29.2 of the population (of which are Protestants 18.3 and Catholics 10.9 ) and Buddhists 22.8 .

Once again Pope John Paul II has returned to hospital, gravely ill. Even for non Catholics like myself, this is an occasion to ponder what the world will lose when the Pope s body finally succumbs to his ailments.

Or is it because Islam humiliated women for the Pope and the Catholics among others to raise their stature?

The 92,924,489 Catholics of Mexico constitute in absolute terms the second largest Catholic community in the world, after Brazil's.

Likewise, the Obama administration s requirement to provide health insurance that covers contraception does not prevent Catholics from practicing their religion.

Many Catholics however, generally aspire to a United Ireland or are less certain about how to solve the constitutional question.

Before the start of the war in 1991, Vrhbosna, the Archdiocese of Sarajevo, had 528,000 Catholics among its 144 parishes.

Will this strategy be enough to bring lapsed Catholics back into the fold, or to bridge the gap between the largely conservative generation of John Paul II priests and younger, more liberal Catholics? Will the recalcitrant elements in the ecclesiastical establishment be amenable to Francis s changes?

Civil society s support for bridging the psychological gap between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland helped pave the way to peace.

He criticized France s attempts to appear as a modern crusader, incurring the wrath of Catholics in the United States in particular.

According to the 1901 census, out of 711,988 inhabitants 56.2 were Catholics, 35.7 Jews, 5 Greek orthodox Christians and 2.8 Protestants.

According to that definition, members of religious denominations, such as Catholics, or members of linguistic minorities, were not considered national minorities.

The Catholics of the Union of Christian and Center Democrats and the post fascist right of Francesco Storace have left the coalition.

There are more Muslims in China than in Europe, more practicing Protestants than in England, and more practicing Catholics than in Italy.

To put it bluntly instead of worrying that Roman Catholics will steal Orthodox souls, the Orthodox should try to steal Catholic souls.

The ongoing fight in the Muslim world between Sunnis and Shi a recalls the struggle between Protestants and Catholics in seventeenth century Europe.

The Vatican, having prohibited Italian Catholics from participating in the political life of newly united Italy for almost sixty years, lifted its ban.

But the Pope condemned the movement in 1926 for essentially being a group of faithless Catholics more interested in authoritarian nationalism than Christianity.

Such measures are difficult to get worked up about both for Catholics who do not take them seriously and for the simple faithful.

Consider Ireland, where for many years Catholics objected that if a vote were held within Northern Ireland, the two thirds Protestant majority would rule.

On behalf of Africa and on my own behalf, I wish to convey a deep message of condolence to all Catholics across the world.