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Roman Catholic Church

noun

  1. the Christian church of which the pope, or bishop of Rome, is the supreme head.


Roman Catholic Church

noun

  1. the Christian Church over which the pope presides, with administrative headquarters in the Vatican Also calledCatholic ChurchChurch of Rome


Roman Catholic Church

  1. The branch of Christianity headed by the pope . The Roman Catholic Church is governed by a hierarchy with the pope at the top and, at the lower levels, bishops and priests . The sacraments of Communion and confession are especially important in the Roman Catholic Church; Catholics also differ from most Protestants in emphasizing veneration of the saints , especially Mary, the mother of Jesus , and seeking the intercession of the saints (praying to them so that they will in turn pray to God). The Roman Catholic Church leadership strongly opposes abortion (see also abortion ) and artificial means of birth control .


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Notes

Roman Catholicism is the dominant faith in Europe around the Mediterranean Sea , in much of eastern Europe, in Ireland , and in Latin America .

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Example Sentences

A quarter of a century later, the new head of the Roman Catholic Church claimed that those days had been consigned to history.

Laylah and her older sister, Destiny, attended the school affiliated with Our Lady of Good Hope Roman Catholic Church.

The funeral will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday at St. John of Rochester Roman Catholic Church in Fairport, New York.

But whatever the sins of Rio, after such a glowing welcome it was hard to claim that the Roman Catholic Church was in crisis.

I would like to thank you for your embrace, also to the Roman Catholic Church and the bishops, thank you very much.

Just a few priests ordained in the Roman Catholic Church have joined the schismatic cause.

There were grades of rank among the priesthood; but not more so than in the Roman Catholic Church.

Religious intolerance was one of the features of the age and of the Roman Catholic Church.

In the Roman Catholic Church feasts are "movable" and "immovable," but the celebrants are uniformly immovable until they are full.

They waited for the other tram by the Roman Catholic Church, whose florid bulk was already receding into twilight.

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