Example sentences for: catholic

How can you use “catholic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Influenced in later life by the Catholic piety of Madame de Maintenon, his mistress and subsequently secret wife, Louis put an end to religious freedom for Protestants by revoking the Edict of Nantes.

  • Our presidents and prime ministers have never had such problems, partly because they are almost always Christian Democrats, or at any rate very Catholic, at least in words, and partly because they are almost always ugly and old and shadowed by energetic wives who do not permit them any distractions, or they are widowers pledged to chastity."

  • She could not alter the coven of frontier cannibals to, say, lapsed Catholic priests, although I bet that the idea crossed her mind.

  • Unfortunately, though, all thoughts of tolerance were forgotten, and the zeal with which the Inquisition sought out Protestants was turned on Catholic worshippers.

  • The Catholic Church has long discussed abortion, euthanasia, and the death penalty under the rubric of "life issues," and a former president of the National Right-to-Life (i.e.


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