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Church influences. The Catholic Church has influenced the status of women in various ways: condemning abortion, divorce, incest, polygamy, and counting the marital infidelity of men as equally sinful to that of women. [ 2][ 3][ 4] The church holds abortion and contraception to be sinful, recommending only natural birth control methods. [ 5]
C. Canonesses of Saint-Augustin of the Notre-Dame Congregation. Canonesses of St. Augustine of the Mercy of Jesus. Canonesses Regular of the Holy Sepulchre. Capuchin Sisters of Mother Rubatto. Carmelite Sisters of Charity. Carthusians. Cistercian nuns. Claretian Sisters.
Catholic sisters and nuns in the United States have played a major role in American religion, education, nursing and social work since the early 19th century. In Catholic Europe, convents were heavily endowed over the centuries, and were sponsored by the aristocracy. Religious orders were founded by entrepreneurial women who saw a need and an ...
The teaching of the Catholic Church on ordination, as expressed in the 1983 Code of Canon Law, the Catechism of the Catholic Church, and the apostolic letter Ordinatio sacerdotalis, is that only a Catholic male validly receives ordination, [ 1] and "that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women and that this ...
Tamar #1 – daughter-in-law of Judah, as well as the mother of two of his children, the twins Zerah and Perez. Genesis[ 190] Tamar #2 – daughter of King David, and sister of Absalom. Her mother was Maacah, daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur. II Samuel[ 191] Tamar #3 – daughter of David's son Absalom.
List of Catholic Church musicians is a list of people who perform or compose Catholic music, a branch of Christian music.Names should be limited to those whose Catholicism affected their music and should preferably only include those musicians whose works have been performed liturgically in a Catholic service, or who perform specifically in a Catholic religious context.
This is a list of Catholic philosophers and theologians whose Catholicism is important to their works. Their names are ordered chronologically from earliest to latest in time based on their dates of birth.
Ivan Gundulić – poet; work embodies central characteristics of Catholic Counter-Reformation. Marko Marulić – poet; inspired by the Bible, Antique writers, and Christian hagiographies. Andrija Kačić Miošić – poet. Petar Preradović – was a Croatian poet, writer, and military general of Serb origin.