Example sentences for: catholics

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

  • He formed the peaceful but powerful Catholic Association, and in 1829 the Duke of Wellington, in a bid to avoid a civil war, passed the Catholic Emancipation Bill, which allowed Irish Catholics to sit in the parliament at Westminster for the first time.

  • In taking this position, Buckley ought to have noted the inconvenient fact that historically, running a Christian college (which to Yale really meant a Protestant college) meant excluding, to some extent, Catholics and Jews--and that, a mere two or three years before publishing this book, he himself had encountered some evidence that systematic exclusion might still going on.

  • Its bell tolled the signal in 1572 for Catholics to start the St Bartholomew Day massacre of Protestants (see page 16).

  • Madeleine and her sister and brother were raised as Roman Catholics; no mention was ever made of the Korbels' Jewish origins.

  • Bates, who took part in dozens of murders of Catholics, has spent less time in prison than Joe Doherty, who was convicted of one killing.


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