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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Irish (In Countries Other Than Ireland)
		As a result of the activities of these associations, Irish Catholics in many parts of the country, almost alone among all classes of the population, were subjected to insult and oppression and were made the victims of mob violence, their dwellings demolished, their families made homeless, their churches and convents fired, and their clergy ill-treated.
		Of the relations of the Roman Catholic Irish to the Church in America it is almost needless to speak.
		In places were Catholics were in a majority, a parish priest might be appointed, but the tithes of the Protestants should be held in reserve for the support of the Protestant clergy.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/08132b.htm (16021 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Factfile: Roman Catholics around the world
		History: Roman Catholic missionaries first arrived in the coastal region in the late 15th Century in the wake of Portuguese explorers.
		The 16th Century saw the arrival of Roman Catholic missionaries in the wake of Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama.
		Roman Catholicism has grown to become the biggest Christian church in India, found mostly in the south and east.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/4243727.stm (1077 words)

	Open Letter to Roman Catholics
		Catholics generally believe in the virgin birth, and I thank God that they do, but that is emphasized primarily in order to emphasize Mary, and not necessarily to emphasize the deity of Christ.
		And in most of the Catholic countries in the world, as in South American countries, priests systematically collect and burn Bibles and people are taught that it is heresy to read the Bible.
		In countries like Columbia and Peru in South America, Protestant missionaries have recently been murdered, and nationals who have been converted to Christ and come to know Him as Saviour and do not depend on the priest for forgiveness have their homes burned, and many a believer has been beaten and others tortured and killed.
	www.biblebelievers.net /Romanism/kjcopenl.htm (8911 words)

	Malta
		The country is an archipelago, consisting of three occupied islands in the Mediterranean Sea, and has an area of 122 square miles.
		Of the estimated 3,000 Muslims in the country, approximately 2,250 are foreigners, 600 are naturalized citizens, and 150 are native-born citizens.
		The Constitution establishes Roman Catholicism as the state religion and declares that the authorities of the Catholic Church have "the authority to teach which principles are right and which are wrong." Divorce is not available in the country.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/irf/2005/51568.htm (957 words)

	Catholics and the Death Penalty
		You open your new booklet, "Catholics and the Death Penalty" by arguing that the Church's current position on the death penalty is a return to the original gospel values of the early Church.
		I find it difficult to understand how it can be that Catholics the world over can walk into their churches, see a crucifix on the wall, and not feel some measure of moral outrage or spiritual sadness at what is, after all, the depiction of a hideous, tortured execution.
		However, I would say that a Catholic who favors the use of capital punishment over other means of ensuring the protection of society and carrying out justice should be encouraged to reconsider his or her position, on the basis of what the Pope and the US Bishops have said.
	www.phadp.org /catholics.html (1978 words)

	Warning Against the "Roman Catholic Party": Catholicism and the 1928 Election
		I saw Roman Catholic delegates in the corridors of the hotels noisily demanding that the Ku-Klux-Klan be denounced by the Democratic convention.
		He and his friends defeated [it] in the committee on platform and resolutions, and then they came out on the convention floor with it, and Roman Catholics who are prominent in their party demanded that the convention put their denunciation in the Democratic platform.
		Five thousand lawless hoodlums, Roman Catholics from Tammany [the New York City Democratic political organization] stood in the rear of the hall, and when one Roman Catholic official, a Senator, was speaking in favor of denouncing the Klan they cheered him to the echo.
	historymatters.gmu.edu /d/5073 (1019 words)

	Ireland
		According to official government statistics collected during the 2002 census, the religious affiliation of the population is 88.4 percent Roman Catholic, 2.9 percent Church of Ireland (Anglican), 0.52 percent Presbyterian, 0.25 percent Methodist, 0.49 percent Muslim, and less than 0.1 percent Jewish.
		According to a survey conducted by the Catholic Bishops Conference, 63 percent of the 3.46 million Roman Catholics in the country attended mass once a week; however, another national poll found that only 44 percent attended once a week.
		Due to the country's history and tradition as a predominantly Catholic country and society, the majority of those in political office are Catholic, and the major Catholic holy days are also national holidays.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/irf/2004/35461.htm (1000 words)

	Adherents.com: Catholics
		The Catholic Church is possibly the largest faith in the world, although Sunni Islam (which is a highly coherent, unified "communion," but not organized into a single religious body) probably has as many or nearly as many adherents, with a higher proportion of practicing members.
		The Catholic Church is the largest religious body in the United States, with over 60 million adherents (4 times as large as the second largest church).
		Catholic countries have lower suicide rates than Protestant ones and "even within Protestant countries those areas with Catholic populations [have] lower rates." It is worth noting that "the reduced suicide rate of Catholics relative to Protestants is independent of their minority status."
	www.adherents.com /largecom/com_romcath.html (732 words)

	Roman Catholics and Immigration in Nineteenth-Century America - The Nineteenth Century - Divining America: Religion and ...
		In the space of fifty years, the Catholic population in the United States suddenly transformed from a tight-knit group of landowning, educated aristocrats into an incredibly diverse mass of urban and rural immigrants who came from many different countries, spoke different languages, held different social statuses, and emphasized different parts of their Catholic heritage.
		The Catholic citizens of Italy, Poland, parts of Germany, and the Eastern European kingdoms of what are now Slovakia and the Czech Repuclic began to cast their eyes towards America.
		Catholic citizens helped them find jobs and homes; sisters (nuns) taught their children English in Catholic schools; priests tried to protect their political interests and shield them from a sometimes hostile Protestant environment; the local church held religious festivals and social events.
	www.nhc.rtp.nc.us /tserve/nineteen/nkeyinfo/nromcath.htm (2315 words)

	Cardinal Kung Foundation
		Disbanded a Roman Catholic seminary with 150 seminarians and a novitiate with 35 novices.
		It appeared to be a part of the carefully planned strategy to escalate the persecution to the Roman Catholics across the country in both large cities and small villages.
		The Roman Catholic Church in China, also known as the underground Church, is loyal to the Pope, but is illegal in China.
	www.cardinalkungfoundation.org /press/960617.htm (988 words)

	Roman Catholic Church — Infoplease.com
		Roman Catholicism - Roman Catholicism Roman Catholicism comprises the beliefs and practices of the Roman Catholic...
		Index, in the Roman Catholic Church - Index, in the Roman Catholic Church, list of publications forbidden to be read, called Index...
		The Bishops' Biased Blessing.(politics in the Roman Catholic Church)
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/society/A0842300.html (344 words)

	Roman Catholic Church
		The Roman Catholic Church is part of the Christian Church ruled by the Bishop of Rome (the Pope).
		Attempts were made to destroy those aspects of religion that were associated with the Catholic church, for example, the removal of stained-glass windows in churches and the destruction of religious wall-paintings.
		At the end of the 18th century, the Roman Catholic Church in England was very small.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /REcatholic.htm (2648 words)

	Russia Country International Religious Freedom Report 2005
		On June 22, Roman Catholic Cardinal Walter Kaspar, President of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity, traveled to the country to discuss interchurch relations with Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, who also serves as the president of the Moscow Patriarchate's Department of Foreign Ecclesiastical Relations.
		Other Catholic sources indicate that most of the priests expelled in previous years, including Bishop Jerzy Mazur and Fathers Wisniewski, Mackiewicz, Stefano Caprio, and Krajnak, have been assigned to parishes outside the country and are no longer seeking visas to return.
		In February 2004, Roman Catholic Cardinal Walter Kaspar, President of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity, met with Aleksey II, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, and Kirill, Metropolitan of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, who is the president of the Moscow Patriarchate's Department of Foreign Ecclesiastical Relations, to engage in dialogue.
	moscow.usembassy.gov /embassy/religious_2005.php (18007 words)

	Page 84
		But the zeal of Roman Catholics for the establishment and maintenance of parochial schools is not determined solely or even primarily by the desire to secure for their children proper religious instruction.
		Of still greater importance in their esteem is what may be termed the religious atmosphere of the Roman Catholic school, with its multifarious subtile influences, all tending to foster reverence and love for the Church and all things pertaining thereto.
		Doubtless Roman Catholics are not alone in advocating the importance and need of the religious element in the education of our American youth.
	www.ccel.org /s/schaff/encyc/encyc10/htm-old/0102=84.htm (480 words)

	Seychelles Religion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Some 90 percent of the population was Roman Catholic as of 1992.
		The initial white settlers in Seychelles were Roman Catholics, and the country has remained so, despite ineffective British efforts to establish Protestantism in the islands during the nineteenth century.
		It is common to consult a local seer--known as a bonhomme de bois or a bonne femme de bois--for fortune-telling or to obtain protective amulets or charms, called gris-gris, to bring harm to enemies.
	www.country-studies.com /seychelles/religion.html (242 words)

	Roman Catholicism by country - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Catholic countries are countries noted as traditionally having a heavy predominance of adherents of the Catholic Church in their populations.
		Catholic countries in other parts of the world include some Asian nations such as the Philippines, or many of the countries of Latin America.
		The first percentage, 4th column, is the percentage of population that is Catholic in a region (Catholics in the region * 100/total population of the region).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roman_Catholics_by_country (371 words)

	FT October 2002: Russians and Catholics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Many Roman Catholics in Western Europe and America want to reach out to the Orthodox Church in the hope of finding reinforcements for the traditionalist wing within their own confession.
		For the last decade, Patriarch Aleksi and his inner circle have denounced every Roman Catholic advance in Russia as an act of “proselytism”—one of the most overused words in current religious writing—even if the filioquists are merely recovering what the Soviet regime stole from them.
		If it is true, for example, that some Roman Catholic orders have been preaching to captive audiences in the state school system, or running orphanages in Russia that deliberately try to convert children previously raised as practicing Orthodox Christians, then they are guilty of violating the Vatican’s own statements about interconfessional relations.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft0210/opinion/uzzell.html (1705 words)

	Washington Times -- Catholics Mobilize Against Partial Birth Abortion Veto
		NEW YORK-- Roman Catholics across the country are being asked to pray and fast -- even write their congressmen -- as cardinals and bishops accelerate their campaign to express "moral repugnance" at President Clinton's veto of a ban on partial-birth abortion.
		Clinton has vigorously courted the Catholic vote, an estimated 30 percent of the electorate, mindful that for the first time in history a majority of Catholics voted Republican in the 1994 midterm election.
		The Clinton veto, as he and many others in the pro-life movement hold, may be a blessing in disguise, a unifying force for those Catholics who have thought of abortion only as an expression of a woman's right to assert her independence.
	www.priestsforlife.org /clippings/liztrotta.html (802 words)

	News from Agape Press
		David Miller is with Citizens for Community Values, which has launched a national ad campaign in Catholic newspapers hoping to educate Roman Catholics on the depth of the homosexual problem within the clergy.
		Miller says Catholics should let church officials know that they will not tolerate homosexuals in the ministry because it is in conflict with church doctrine.
		As the Catholic Church deals with the priest sex-abuse scandal, a former homosexual who grew up in the Catholic Church says he is not surprised at the large number of people who claim they were sexually abused as children by Catholic priests.
	headlines.agapepress.org /archive/6/262002d.asp (383 words)

	Despite scandal, Catholics give more - Newsday.com
		Despite a year of scandalous revelations involving the sexual abuse of children by priests, many Roman Catholics across the country are increasing their financial support of the church.
		Although Catholics express anger in national polls at the actions of bishops and other church leaders that led to the scandal, they also say they like their pastors and local parishes.
		The reports of increased giving are surprising because a Gallup poll reported in December that 40 percent of Catholics said they were less likely to donate to the church because of the sexual abuse scandal.
	www.newsday.com /other/education/bal-te.giving07feb07,0,7802415.story (1078 words)

	-- Beliefnet.com
		The U.S. bishops' group that sets religious policy for Roman Catholics in this country and serves as the church's national voice on social and political issues is poised to elect its first fl president, Bishop Wilton D. Gregory of the Belleville diocese in southern Illinois.
		Gregory also serves as the vice president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, and is expected to ascend to the group's top post when the bishops hold their fall meeting next month in Washington.
		At a Sept. 10 meeting of Catholic Charities USA in Newark, N.J., for instance, Bishop William Skylstad of Spokane, Wash., introduced Gregory by saying, "I expect you are looking at our next president." The crowd cheered.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/89/story_8947_1.html (539 words)

	Anglicans Online Essays \| Pierre Whalon \| Differences between Anglicanism and Roman Catholicism
		The Roman Catholic Church has over the centuries steadily increased the power and prestige of the Pope, the Bishop of Rome.
		Since Roman Catholics tie membership in their church to the person and authority of the pope, they do not ordinarily allow intercommunion.
		The difference is being in communion with the pope for Roman Catholics, and for Anglicans, it is adhering to the catholic faith as it has been inherited from the earliest Christians.
	anglicansonline.org /resources/essays/whalon/AngRC-diffEng.html (996 words)

	Hope4cee.org - Country Profile: Romania
		However, in 1943, the USSR occupied the country, and Romania was forced to switch sides.
		The country became a “people’s republic” under the Soviet Union, but came under the rule of Nicolae Ceausescu.
		Other churches are present in the country including Roman Catholics, Reformed, Baptists, Pentecostals, and Lutherans, but the Orthodox Church holds fiercely to its control over the people’s lives, fighting against evangelical inroads into the country.
	www.hope4cee.org /Romania (491 words)

	General information on Ireland: Religion
		Although the number of Roman Catholics in the country remains high, the Roman Catholic Church can no longer claim to be the force it once was.
		In addition, anecdotal evidence suggests that the conviction of a number of individual clergymen for the sexual abuse of children and revelations that two of the most prominent church figures in the country had fathered children in the 1970s (but continued to preach as celibates) have dramatically undermined confidence in the Church.
		This comes at a time when sexual morality is increasingly seen as a private matter in which Church dogma should have little or no say.
	www.authenticireland.com /holiday/general_info/religion.htm (429 words)

	TIME.com: Fighting Words -- Oct. 26, 1953 -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		In the rich voice with which he dominated the radiocast of the coronation, the archbishop was ranging through the state of Christianity around the world when ears suddenly pricked to what sounded like fighting words—not against enemies of religion but against the Roman Catholic Church.
		"Roman Catholics in this country and wherever churches of the Anglican Communion exist have, as the booklet says, for some time past intensified their propaganda.
		If Roman Catholics and Anglicans thought this was strong stuff to be coming from the top prelate of the Church of England, they opened their eyes wide when they turned to the pamphlet.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,818997,00.html (721 words)

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