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During the religious persecution of the Catholic Church in Ireland that began under Henry VIII and ended only with Catholic Emancipation in 1829, the Irish people, according to Marcus Tanner, clung to the Mass, "crossed themselves when they passed Protestant ministers on the road, had to be dragged into Protestant churches and put cotton wool ...
This is a list, in chronological order, of present and past offences to which the Catholic Church has attached the penalty of excommunication; the list is not exhaustive. In most cases these were " automatic excommunications", wherein the violator who knowingly breaks the rule is considered automatically excommunicated from the church ...
These 13 biggest companies that hire felons give us a whole new perspective about life after being behind bars. With a complex society, the convicted will tend to detach themselves. How much worse ...
The anti-Catholic sentiment which resulted from this trend frequently led to religious discrimination against Catholic communities and individuals and it occasionally led to the religious persecution of them (frequently, they were derogatorily referred to as "papists" or "Romanists" in Anglophone and Protestant countries). Historian John Wolffe ...
Catholic Church in Sichuan; Catholic Church in Tibet; Catholic Persecution of 1801; Chetnik war crimes in World War II; Chronicle of the Expulsion of the Greyfriars; Civil Constitution of the Clergy; Conversion of Chełm Eparchy; Sir Charles Coote, 1st Baronet; Cristero War
The Catholic Committee was a county association in late 18th-century Ireland that campaigned to relieve Catholics of their civil and political disabilities under the kingdom's Protestant Ascendancy. After their organisation of a national Catholic Convention helped secure repeal of most of the remaining Penal Laws in 1793, the Committee dissolved.
More American companies, such as McDonald's and Delta Air Lines, are hiring ex-cons as part of their inclusion strategy. Executives say 82 percent of their ex-offender hires have been at least as ...
Colin Murphy (2013), The Priest Hunters: The True Story of Ireland's Bounty Hunters, The O'Brien Press. Nugent, Tony (2013). Were You at the Rock? The History of Mass Rocks in Ireland. Liffey Press. ISBN 9781908308474. New Catholic Dictionary: Irish Martyrs; O'Reilly, Myles (1880). Lives of the Irish Martyrs and Confessors. New York: James Sheehy.