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The history of the Catholic Church is the formation, events, and historical development of the Catholic Church through time.. According to the tradition of the Catholic Church, it started from the day of Pentecost at the upper room of Jerusalem; [1] the Catholic tradition considers that the Church is a continuation of the early Christian community established by the Disciples of Jesus.
At the Catholic University of America, Sheen provided voice-over commentary for an Easter Sunday Mass in 1940, one of the first televised religious services. During the sermon, which was telecast on experimental station W2XBS, Sheen remarked, "This is the first religious television in the history of the world. Let therefore its first message be ...
The establishment of the Republic began 'the most dramatic phase in the contemporary history of both Spain and the Church.' [2] In the early 1930s, the dispute over the role of the Catholic Church and the rights of Catholics were one of the major issues which worked against the securing of a broad democratic majority and "left the body politic ...
Pages in category "Television shows about Catholicism" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Hennessy, James American Catholics: A history of the Roman Catholic community in the United States (1981) Hunt, Thomas C., Ellis A. Joseph, and Ronald James Nuzzi. Catholic schools in the United States: An encyclopedia (2 vol, 2004). vol 2 online; Lazerson, Marvin (1977). "Understanding American Catholic Educational History".
Giovanni Franzoni – Christian communist, dissident Catholic theologian, and former diocesan priest; laicized by Pope Paul VI because of political and theological transgressions, including his support of communism; Eligius Fromentin – American politician and former diocesan priest, left the Catholic Church in the 1800s or 1810s
Around a third of Germans were Catholic in the 1930s, most of them lived in Southern Germany; Protestants dominated the north. The Catholic Church in Germany opposed the NSDAP, and in the 1933 elections, the proportion of Catholics who voted for the Nazi Party was lower than the national average. [1]
Their influence stemmed from the popularity of their rating system, their skillful lobbying, and the circulation of a pledge at church services. [26] From the 1930s through the 1960s, Catholic parishes in dioceses across the country administered yearly pledges in which millions of Catholics throughout the U.S. vowed to refuse to watch films ...