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Roman Catholic

noun

A member of the Roman Catholic Church.

The Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy. Synonyms: Church of Rome, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Church, Western Church.

adjective

Of or relating to or supporting Romanism. Synonyms: papist, papistic, papistical, popish, R.C., Roman, Romanist, romish.

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... detail at the feet of Father Brown. This little Roman cleric has listened to so many confessions (he calls himself "a man who does next to nothing but hear men's real sins," but this seems to be excessive, even for a Roman Catholic) that he is really well acquainted with the human soul. He is also extremely observant. And his greatest friend is Flambeau, whom he once brings to judgment, twice hinders in crime, and ...

— G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study • Julius West

... 5. The community is Roman Catholic, and they have a small church, decently well built and kept, on the best site on the Reservation. It is built of sawn timber and would contain nearly one hundred people, which is too small for the festival of St. Anne, the patroness ...

— Report by the Governor on a Visit to the Micmac Indians at Bay d'Espoir - Colonial Reports, Miscellaneous. No. 54. Newfoundland • William MacGregor

... Christian churches in pledge! Roman Catholic priests have harnessed and beaten orthodox Christians! What! such torture has been permitted on Russian soil by the cursed unbelievers! And they have done such things to the leaders and the hetman? Nay, this shall not be, it ...

— Taras Bulba and Other Tales • Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

... 1558, according to Couto,[318] Rama Raya made an expedition to "Meliapor," or Mailapur, near Madras, where was an important establishment of Roman Catholic monks and the Church of St. Thomas. I quote the passage from the summary given by Senhor Lopes in his introduction to the CHRONICA DOS REIS DE BISNAGA (p. lxvi.). "The poor fathers of the glorious Order of St. Francis having seized all the coast ...

— A Forgotten Empire: Vijayanagar; A Contribution to the History of India • Robert Sewell

... situated at the base of the mountain called the Brenner, and containing, as I should judge, not more than two or three thousand inhabitants, we counted seven churches and chapels within the compass of a square mile. The observances of the Roman Catholic church are nowhere more rigidly complied with than in the Tyrol. When we stopped at Bruneck on Friday evening, I happened to drop a word about a little meat for dinner in a conversation with the spruce-looking landlady, who appeared so shocked that I ...

— Letters of a Traveller - Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America • William Cullen Bryant

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