Sentence examples for Catholic from inspiring English sources

"But when I look at the challenges I face, is being a Catholic one of them?

These arguments hinge on the rather ropey and profoundly Catholic notion that marriage exists solely as a vehicle for procreation.

In the warped thinking of the profoundly Catholic yet murderous generals who ruled Argentina then, it would have been unchristian to kill an innocent, unborn child by executing the expectant mother.

In the 2010 abortion survey, faith appeared to play little part: most women who had abortions said they were also Catholic.

Is the country ready for a Catholic first minister?

It's certainly not true that it found "only a quarter [of LGBT people] would wed", as the Mail said in its headline – and Catholic Voices said in their press release.

The leader of the Irish Catholic church, who resisted calls to resign when details emerged of a secret deal between the church, child sex abuse victims and one of the country's most notorious paedophile priests, has announced his retirement.

The use of a potential proxy to drive a bomb to a security force base will bring back memories in Derry of the 1990 murder of Catholic contractor Patsy Gillespie.

By a bitter, depressing twist of irony the scene of the latest battleground in the Ulster loyalist marching controversies happens to be a holy place that once symbolised Protestant-Catholic co-operation.

But this is exactly what happened this week and it marks a significant, historic milestone on Ireland's journey away from being a mono-Catholic state into a 21st European republic.

The task facing Hart and the five main parties at Stormont has been underlined by the eruption of sectarian violence on a Protestant-Catholic interface in east Belfast over the past 72 hours.