In the following excerpt, Welter summarizes some of the enduring themes of the nativist crusade of nineteenth-century America, and illustrates some of its institutional arguments by focusing on the po...
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In this essay, originally published in 1960, Davis analyzes various themes of anti-Catholic, anti-Masonic, and anti-Mormon literature in nineteenth-century America, suggesting that it tended to subver...
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In the essay below, Reynolds looks at Roman Catholic fiction and its character and themes, both before 1850, when it used theological and historical polemics to persuade, and after 1850, when it began...
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Below, Griffin discusses the figure of the escapee in the anti-Catholic literature of the early nineteenth century. She relates questions of veracity concerning the escapees' claims to the larg...
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In this excerpt, Franchot examines Herman Melville's "Benito Cereno" and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" to demonstrate how elements of popular a...
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A question such as this puts all Christians into an uncomfortable and threatening situation. Making us choose between two of the most important foundations of our belief system: worship of God and he...
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What It Means To Be Human
Sometimes we ask ourselves, what does it mean to be human? We can easily just look at ourselves and say "I am a human being just like everyone else" by physical perception,...
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Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani said Tuesday that whether he was a practicing Catholic was a personal matter as he declined to answer questions about his religion.Addressing a town-...
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Former Prime Minister Tony Blair has left the Church of England and converted to Catholicism, the faith of his wife and children.Blair converted during a Mass Friday night at the private London cha...
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London (dpa) - Former British prime minister Tony Blair has made
the long-awaited step of converting to Catholicism, news reports said
Saturday.
Blair, a form...
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LONDON, Dec 23 (Reuters) - Catholics have overtaken
Anglicans in church attendance in Britain, according to research
published on Sunday. England officially split from Rome during the reign of Hen...
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London (dpa) - British Prime Minister Tony Blair was Friday
reported to be preparing his conversion to Catholicism by travelling
to the Vatican for an audience with Pope Ben...
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LONDON, Dec 22 (Reuters) - Former British prime minister
Tony Blair has converted from Britain's established church,
Anglicanism, to Roman Catholicism, the head of Britain's
Catholics said on Satu...
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LONDON, Dec 22 (Reuters) - Former British prime minister
Tony Blair has converted from Britain's established church,
Anglicanism, to Roman Catholicism, the head of Britain's
Catholics said on Satu...
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Sao Paulo (dpa) - Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Sao Paulo on
Wednesday for a five-day visit to the world's largest Catholic
nation, saying he hoped to impart new "vigour" to...
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Q: At a dinner party, I heard a Saddleback Church member say Catholics were not Christians. What is the reasoning behind such a remark? — Ann Sloan Jones, Aliso ViejoA: Evangelicals and Roman...
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Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, a Jew who converted to Catholicism and rose through church hierarchy to become one of the most influential Roman Catholic figures in France, died Sunday, the Paris arc...
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Barbara Welter
What is More Important in Catholicism: Worship or Helping Others?
Giuliani questioned about Catholicism
