Definition of Catholic

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Catholic

Universal or general; as, the catholic faith.

Not narrow-minded, partial, or bigoted; liberal; as, catholic tastes.

Of or pertaining to, or affecting the Roman Catholics; as, the Catholic emancipation act.

A person who accepts the creeds which are received in common by all parts of the orthodox Christian church.

An adherent of the Roman Catholic church; a Roman Catholic.

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Catholic Quotations

I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.
John F. Kennedy

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.
George Orwell

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.
George Orwell

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.
Charles Spurgeon

The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.
Lenny Bruce

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
H. L. Mencken

Beyond the Catholic exclusionary paradigm is a larger one which is the Christian one. Christians claim that if you don't believe in Christ, you can't get to heaven. Well that eliminates two thirds of the world's population!
Neale Donald Walsch

The Roman Catholics teach that unless you're a Roman Catholic you do not go to heaven.
Neale Donald Walsch

When I went to high school, an all-boys' school, a Catholic school, I tried out for football, and I didn't make it. It was the first time, athletically, that I was knocked down.
Mike Krzyzewski

Catholic Translations

Catholic in Afrikaans is katoliek
catholic in Dutch is katholiek
Catholic in Dutch is katholiek
Catholic in Finnish is katolinen
catholic in French is catholique
Catholic in Swedish is katolik

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