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  2. Catholic Church and race - Wikipedia

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    The Catholic Church has long had a troubled relationship with the Jewish faith, with Christians having a negative attitude towards Jews [4] and being extremely opposed to them, so much so that it can be noted that there was an extreme "level of hostility against Jews inculcated by the Church", [1]: 817 dating as far back as the sixteenth century, where “blood purity laws” [1]: 816 ...

  3. Black Catholicism - Wikipedia

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    The Josephites, for example, saw race consciousness as a threat—even a disqualifying character trait for blacks applying for their order. [72] Many female religious orders did not allow their members, black or white, to march or protest for civil rights. [71]

  4. Catholic Church and slavery - Wikipedia

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    Catholic clergy, religious orders, and popes owned slaves, and the naval galleys of the Papal States used captured Muslim galley slaves in particular. [5] Some Catholic saints appeared to have owned slaves, including Philemon of Colossae, Gregory of Tours [6] and Marie-Marguerite d'Youville. Catholic teaching began, however, to turn against ...

  5. Black Catholic Movement - Wikipedia

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    The Black Catholic Movement (or Black Catholic Revolution) was a movement of African-American Catholics in the United States that developed and shaped modern Black Catholicism. From roughly 1968 to the mid-1990s, Black Catholicism would transform from pre- Vatican II roots into a full member of the Black Church .

  6. Racial segregation of churches in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Catholic Church continues to face criticism due to biases against black converts. [65] In his article "Black Catholic Conversion and the Burden of Black Religion", Matthew Cressler says that scholars have often questioned why African-Americans convert to Catholicism. [65] Two explanations were popular in the 1970s.

  7. Theology of religions - Wikipedia

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    Hendrik Kraemer's exclusivism is based on a skepticism towards claims of similarity between religions: "Every religion is an individisble, and not to be divided". Religion "is not a series of tenets, institutions, practices that can be taken one by one as independent items of religious life". [13]

  8. Religious discrimination in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Court investigated the history of religious freedom in the United States and quoted a letter from Thomas Jefferson in which he wrote that there was a distinction between religious belief and action that flowed from religious belief. The former "lies solely between man and his God," therefore "the legislative powers of the government reach ...

  9. Sex and gender roles in the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    The Catholic view is that since the twelve apostles chosen by Jesus were all male, only men may be ordained in the Catholic Church. [99] While some consider this to be evidence of a discriminatory attitude toward women, [100] the Church believes that Jesus called women to different yet equally important vocations in Church ministry. [101]