Catholicism
The Catholic Church, sometimes referred to as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with approximately 1.3 billion baptised Catholics worldwide as of 2018. As the world's oldest and largest continuously functioning international institution, it has played a prominent role in the history and development of Western civilization. The church consists of almost 3,500 dioceses around the world. The pope, who is the Bishop of Rome (and whose titles also include Vicar of Jesus Christ and Successor of St. Peter), is the chief pastor of the church, entrusted with the universal Petrine ministry of unity and correction. The …
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University of Cambridge · 26 May 2021
offers new ways of thinking about the history of democratic thought, while pushing the study of Catholicism in Africa outside of the church and beyond the gaze of missionaries. Drawing on never before seen …
The Journal of Sierra Leone Studies · 10 November 2017 English
In the nineteenth century, Freetown, the principal city of the Colony of Sierra Leone, was a cosmopolitan centre which attracted African, European, and American merchants who sought to trade in …
by practicing endogamy, devoutly adhering to Catholicism, and by engaging in mercantilist pursuits.281 … s of these families in trade, a devotion to Catholicism, and through intermarriage with other Sierr … necessarily establish mercantilist dynasties, practice Catholicism or intermarry with other individuals of Jewish … for this adherence to Catholicism might have to do with the rigidity of Catholicism which the fathers of … perspective is perhaps reflected in the statement on Catholicism expressed by John Myer Harris to Father Kayser …
Natal Society Foundation · 1 January 2016 English
Hazara is a lyrical memoir of a family and a farm. It is about a homestead in a park-like garden among cane fields, within sight of the Indian Ocean. It …
evocative of another world: of panache and Catholicism, with sometimes an exotic tint of duskiness … arrival at Wykeham there was a to-do about her Catholicism, which was a legacy of her years in Malta with …
The Journal of Sierra Leone Studies · 31 October 2015 English
Yalunka, Soso, and Vai are more widely spoken in the coterminous countries of Liberia and Guinea and closely related to Mende.5 Kuranko and Kono are part of the Mandeng cluster, …
inhibiting true evangelisation by their hostility to Catholicism, and by offering an incomplete version of Christianity … as much progress in attracting adherents to Catholicism as many had hoped, Fr Clerkin, religious superior …
National Museums of World Culture · 1 October 2014
According to missionary Svante Flodén, who sold the necklace to the museum, it is “a memory of the Catholicism of the 17th century.” Christian and local symbols and rituals had coexisted since the 15th century …
The Journal of Sierra Leone Studies · 24 February 2014 English
The two theatres of War were distinct responses to the implementation of the taxation clause of the Protectorate Ordinance; however, in the southern region of the Protectorate, the uprising was …
even retained or adopted a belief in Islam.260 Catholicism and perhaps Judaism were also practiced by some …
Belgian Radio-television of the French Community · 2010 French
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