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PaSDC Research Brief September 5, 1996 CATHOLICISM REMAINS THE LARGEST RELIGIOUS DENOMINATION IN PENNSYLVANIA MIDDLETOWN, Pa. ­­ Catholicism remains the largest religious denomination in Pennsylvania, according to statistics compiled by the Pennsylvania State Data Center at Penn State Harrisburg. Catholicism Remains the Largest Religious Denomination in Pennsylvania In 45 of Pennsylvania's 67 counties, Catholicism was the largest denomination. pasdc.hbg.psu.edu /pasdc/briefs/brief497.html   (551 words)

Religion The Constitution dictates that Catholicism be taught in public schools, although parents have the right to exempt their children from religious instruction. The Constitution recognizes Roman Catholicism as "the religion of the majority of Panamanians" but does not designate the Roman Catholic Church as the official state religion. The Constitution provides that religious associations have "juridical capacity" and are free to manage and administer their property within the limits prescribed by the law, the same as other "juridical persons." The Ministry of Government and Justice grants "juridical personality" through a relatively simple, transparent process that does not appear to prejudice religious institutions. www.vivapanama.org /Religion.htm   (1524 words)

praxistheory00016.html Nonetheless, eventually the degeneration of early Stoicism produced cosmopolitanism that later favoured  Roman „imperialism“, and progressively, in its late religious form,  it decayed as  a religious Philosophy of State, it became a mental holocaust, an abominable Inquisition, Roman Catholicism, the cruel, inhuman  superstructure of obscure absolutism, the eerie spectre of obscurantist European feudalism.  Certainly, Christianity and Roman Catholicism had other historical roots, for example, in the Messianic Principle, in Jewish religious doctrines, but their philosopico-theological contents can directly be traced and seen in the superstructure of the progressive unfolding of primitive capitalism in slavocracy and feudalism, in Platonism, Stoicism and Plotinism.  It was this Luciferean concept of Matter which would continue to smoulder in Jewish-Arab, African materialist philosophy, but also in the Praxis-Theory of the heretic and rebelling „saints“ and of Roman Catholicism, in the „communist“ cloisters and the revolutionary peasant movements of the Middle Ages. www.franz-lee.org /files/praxistheory00016.html   (7733 words)

China denounces Vatican's Canonization In 1995 China successfully concluded the search for and identification of the reincarnation of the 10th Panchen Lama and the title-conferring and enthronement of the 11th Panchen Lama after lot-drawing from a golden urn according to the established religious rituals and historical conventions of Tibetan Buddhism, and with the approval of the State Council. China respects the freedom of religious belief of aliens within Chinese territory and protects their friendly contacts and cultural and academic exchanges with Chinese religious circles with respect to religion. China is always open to foreign religious organizations and individuals who are friendly to China, respect China's sovereignty and Chinese religions' principle of independence and self-administration. www.itu.int /MISSIONS/China/antianonization/religion003.htm   (7733 words)

American Catholicism (RELI 380): Syllabus This course will examine the history of Roman Catholicism in the United States, and will explore the way in which this religious tradition has confronted the challenge of both external and internal pressures while becoming the largest single religious community in the country. 3) should be sensitive to the dynamics of religious identity—both external and internal—that have a profound impact on all religious communities in the United States. These papers should explore—in 10-25 pages—a specific topic of Roman Catholicism in the United States. www.facstaff.bucknell.edu /mazur/courses/reli380c/syllabus.html   (429 words)

Reason The last time a political figure's Catholicism became a nationally publicized issue was during the 1960 election; at that time, candidate Kennedy defused the issue not by reconciling voters to his faith but by effectively promising to suppress his religious beliefs should they ever interfere with his duties. Jenkins plays with the common argument that the hierarchy is so central to Catholicism that an attack on it is an attack on all Catholics, but this is a dodge. The rough standard established here—that while religious beliefs may fairly be treated as politically objectionable, simple religious affiliation may not—was enough to satisfy all but the most hardened bigots of the day. www.reason.com /hod/tc090803.shtml   (3471 words)

China (includes Tibet, Hong Kong, and Macau) The Constitution provides for freedom of religious belief and the freedom not to believe; however, the Government sought to restrict religious practice to government-sanctioned organizations and registered places of worship and to control the growth and scope of the activity of religious groups. There are five official religions: Buddhism, Taoism, Islam, Protestantism, and Catholicism. China's Internet control system employed more than 30,000 persons and was allegedly the largest in the world. www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2003/27768.htm   (3471 words)

China Liu Bainian, vice-chairman of the China Catholic Patriotic Association, in response to the Pope's message, reiterated the official position, that church communion is a political rather than a religious issue, that the underground church refuses to support the socialist system, and that bishops must be patriotic and act according to the country's condition. One of the articles asked, in reference to the Dalai Lama, "Religious leader or obstacle to building religious order?" In it, the Tibetan leader was accused again of trying to "wreck Tibet and the Buddhist religion" and of using religion to "split the motherland." 99 The campaign has not ceased. All Protestants in China are united under one "post-denominational" church, on the theory that ideological, doctrinal, and ritual differences are secondary to the unity of Protestants insofar as patriotism and adherence to the three-self policy are concerned. hrw.org /reports/1997/china1   (3471 words)

Religious-Discover China Tour In China, citizens enjoy freedom of religious belief, and all normal religious activities are protected by the Constitution. China is a country with many religious beliefs. The introduction of Catholicism and Protestantism to China followed Buddhism and Islam, with less influence. www.discoverchinatours.com /culture/reliqious.htm   (3471 words)

Catholicism in Australia: facing the challenges of Western secularism Catholicism is now an accepted part of mainstream Australia and everyone feels entitled to have an opinion on Catholic beliefs and practices. The Catholic Church in Australia faces particular pastoral challenges, for example, in some rural dioceses without seminarians to replace their ageing priests; and as we struggle to find and form a new religious élite to compensate for the disappearance of some of our religious orders. Catholic women under the age of 35 years in urban Australia are now as irreligious as their male peers. www.ad2000.com.au /articles/2002/may2002p6_991.html   (2102 words)

Serbia and Montenegro in 2003 (1: Serbia ) In the 16th century, Slovenia and Croatia came under the influence of Austria and Roman Catholicism was introduced. He was able to suppress religious and cultural rivalries among the Roman Catholics, Serbian Orthodox and Muslims during his lifetime but no concerted attempt was made by the political or religious leaders to settle centuries-old religious hatreds. Croatia made a bid for independence in 1991 which led to a civil war between Croats and Serbs ended by a U.N. assisted cease-fire in 1992. berclo.net /page03/03en-serb-negro-1.html   (2102 words)

Roman Catholicism Founded in 1953 as a Roman Catholic organization of lay and religious teachers of undergraduate theology, the CTS today has a membership of over 900 college and university professors throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. "The Leadership Conference of Women Religious is the association of the leaders of congregations of Catholic women religious in the United States. It is dedicated to exploring the connection between liturgy and life, unpacking the treasures of the Roman liturgy, and helping ministers use the visual, musical, lively, poetic, and environmental arts to shape liturgies to their local culture." This print publication offers some articles online. www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu /Internet/catholic.htm   (3884 words)

Khaleej Times Online The Feast of Saint Nino, usually celebrated on the third Sunday of January, is one of the most colourful religious festivals in a country where Roman Catholicism blends with pre-colonial pagan ceremonies. Several people are missing and about 30 were rushed to hospitals in San Ricardo town after the accident during the Feast of Saint Nino, one of the most revered religious festivals in the mainly Roman Catholic country. MANILA - At least 16 people, most of them children, drowned when a packed wooden motorboat capsized during a religious parade on the central Philippine island of Leyte on Sunday, a senior coast guard official said. www.khaleejtimes.com /DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2006/January/theworld_January338.xml§ion=theworld   (183 words)

Learn more about Catholicism in the online encyclopedia. Catholicism, from the Greek katholikos (καθολικος), meaning "general" or "universal", is a religious name applied to two strands of Christianity. Structurally Roman Catholicism is one of the world's most centralised religious faiths. Within Roman Catholicism itself, debate on the subject now focuses on whether this statement is meant to invoke papal infallibility and raise the rule that women cannot be Roman Catholic priests to the level of an irreformable dogma of the Roman Catholic Church. www.onlineencyclopedia.org /c/ca/catholicism.html   (4268 words)

Anti-Catholicism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Anti-Catholicism is religious or political opposition to the Roman Catholic Church, particularly of a kind employing alleged mischaracterizations, stereotypes and negative prejudices. This added a political dimension to what was a purely religious conflict, and rendered Elizabeth's subjects who persisted in allegiance to the Catholic Church politically suspect. Some Roman Catholics also find the use of the term "Roman Catholic Church" or "Roman Catholicism" to be offensive, as they believe there to be "one holy, catholic and apostolic Church". en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anti-Catholicism   (4268 words)

Political Ideology: catholicismtermpapers.com- catholicism term papers, catholicism research papers, catholicism essays This political issue (legalization of abortion) is determined differently by an individual who has strong Christian conviction, since his opinions regarding the issue was influenced by his religious upbringing and conviction. The catholicismtermpapers.com writers are available 24/7 to assist you with your catholicism term paper assignment, or any other topic that you may not find on catholicismtermpapers.com. Thank you for choosing to use catholicismtermpapers.com for help with your catholicism term paper on "Political Ideology." catholicismtermpapers.com is a site that will help you select from over 112 catholicism term papers. www.catholicismtermpapers.com /paper/50/political-ideology.html   (4268 words)

History of the Gunpowder Plot Introduction Political Catholics often engaged in actions which would put the religious Catholic community at large in harm's way.. One must bear in mind that the interests of the political Catholic sub-culture were more than those of religious tolerance. The political side of the Roman faith made a mockery of the loyal and patriotic aspirations of a great number of English Catholics upon whom the political Catholics and in particular the Spanish Party brought down the wrath of the national government through their wild, ill conceived and dangerous acts of disloyalty. www.bcpl.net /~cbladey/guy/html/intro.html   (4268 words)

The Dooyeweerd Centre at Redeemer University College Even after the Christian church established the doctrine of the Trinity the influence of the Greek religious ground-motive continued in the thought of the church fathers. It originated in an unreconciled conflict within Greek religious consciousness between the older nature religion and the newer culture religion of the Olympian gods. In a dangerous fashion their philosophical theory relegated the Christian religion to the level of a "higher moral ethic." Christ's atoning sacrifice on the cross was pushed to the background in favour of the idea of a "divine teacher" who advocated a higher moral walk of life. www.redeemer.on.ca /Dooyeweerd-Centre/excerptsb3.htm   (4268 words)

EDITORIAL: Anti-Islam slurs remind Catholics of the past Catholicism’s disdain for Protestants and its “Christ-killer” charges and intolerance toward Jews won it no friends in either religious camp. slam and Roman Catholicism, each billions strong, are the equivalent of religious superpowers. Catholicism had to reveal itself to be a “good” religion. www.natcath.com /NCR_Online/archives/030802/030802n.htm   (677 words)

Commonweal: Politics & communion: a bishop's response to segregationists Unlike many Protestant denominations in the South, Catholicism provided no religious justification for segregation, seeing it instead as another unfortunate product of man's fallen nature. Catholicism placed individuals in an interlocking web of relationships, values, and identities, all intimately tied to the church. In some rural parts of the state, segregated churches were unknown until the 1950s, and many of those that did appear were established primarily to allow blacks to worship in an environment where they were not forced to defer to whites. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1252/is_17_131/ai_n13557158   (1363 words)

Affirming All Things Denying women priests was merely the negative side of affirming something greater—the apostolic ministry; and affirming Catholicism had to include the denial of those things contrary to Catholicism. He wrote, "A man is most often right in what he affirms and wrong in what he denies." After the negative attitude of American fundamentalism and the cynical religious doubt which prevailed at Oxford, Maurice’s statement was like a breath of fresh air. If I wasn’t able to affirm the new doctrine or religious practice I wouldn’t deny it—I would simply let it be. www.chnetwork.org /journals/eucharist/eucharist_3.htm   (1363 words)

Encyclopedia: Modernism (Roman Catholicism) Heresy, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is a theological or religious opinion or doctrine maintained in opposition, or held to be contrary, to the ‘catholic’ or orthodox doctrine of the Christian Church, or, by extension, to that of any church, creed, or religious system, considered as orthodox. Modernism involved the evolution of dogma — a notion distinct from Cardinal Newman's teaching on the "development of doctrine", which he characterized in acceptably orthodox fashion as an unfolding in time of what was already implicit in Christ's initial teaching. Modernism continues to be condemned by the Church hierarchy, with Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (elected Pope Benedict XVI in 2005) and others having done much in recent decades to prevent its spread. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Modernism-(Roman-Catholicism)   (3034 words)

Bulgarians biography .ms From 1949 until 1989, religion in Bulgaria was mainly controlled by the Law on Religious Organizations, which enumerated the limitations on the constitution's basic separation of church and state. In 1204 the Bulgarian Tsar Kaloian (1197-1207) formed a short-lived union between the Roman Catholic Church and the Bulgarian Orthodox Church as a political tactic to balance the religious power of the Byzantine Empire. Roman Catholic missionaries first tried to convert the Bulgarians during the reign of Boris I. They were unsuccessful, and Boris I led the Bulgarians in their conversion to Orthodoxy. bulgarians.biography.ms   (3034 words)

Comparative Criminology Europe - Portugal Traditional Roman Catholicism flourished while Portugal was overwhelmingly poor, rural, and illiterate, but as the country became more urban, literate, and secular, the practice of religion declined. Even in the early 1990s, 60 to 70 percent of the population in the traditionally Roman Catholic north regularly attended religious services, compared with 10 to 15 percent in the historically anticlerical south. Portugal was Roman Catholic not only in a religious sense, but also socially and culturally. www-rohan.sdsu.edu /faculty/rwinslow/europe/portugal.html   (3034 words)

The Evangelical Attraction To Mysticism How Roman Catholicism came to be involved in mysticism is a complex story, with a number of seemingly disparate influences. Through mysticism and mystical experiences, the attempted reunion and reconciliation of Roman Catholicism and Protestantism is being effected ó often at a very subtle level. Because Pentecostals and Charismatics now make up the bulk of those who profess to be evangelicals today, we see that Catholicism and neo- evangelicalism are unashamedly moving in the same compromised direction. www.cephasministry.com /ecumenism_evangelical_attraction.html   (9997 words)

Recusant Historian's Handbook THE Elizabethan religious settlement and the penal laws enacted to enforce it, criminalised Catholicism, creating the crime of recusancy, refusal to attend the services of the Established Church of England, and making it a crime to practise or to teach the Catholic Faith. THIRD ORDER: A branch of a religious order; its members are usually lay people living in the world, but there are third orders regular whose members live in community. Norman, Roman Catholicism in England from the Elizabethan Settlement to the Second Vatican Council (Oxford, 1985). www.catholic-history.org.uk /nwchs/recushandbook.htm   (9997 words)

Parker, Matthew --  Encyclopædia Britannica Anglican archbishop of Canterbury (1559–75) who presided over the Elizabethan religious settlement in which the Church of England maintained a distinct identity apart from Roman Catholicism and Protestantism. Anglican archbishop of Canterbury (1559–75) who presided over the Elizabethan religious settlement in which the Church of England maintained a distinct identity apart from Roman Catholicism and... Irish playwright whose innovative plays captured the human dimension of the religious conflict in Northern Ireland. www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9058508   (9997 words)

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