adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a Christian/Muslim/Catholic etc country
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England became a Christian country in the seventh century.
a religious/Muslim/Catholic etc upbringing
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Because of her Catholic upbringing she would not divorce her husband.
a (Roman) Catholic church
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I followed the crowds to the Roman Catholic church for Mass.
lapsed Catholic
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a lapsed Catholic
Roman Catholic
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a Roman Catholic priest
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
church
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As he marched south Clovis was careful not to alienate the catholic Church or its saints.
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The attack was within the context of a speech largely praising the Roman catholic church in Ireland.
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The Roman catholic church , in episcopal statements, unequivocally condemns violence North or South.
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At this level, the power of the Roman catholic church bore directly on the institutions of government.
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The Roman catholic church is financed out of voluntary contributions.
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Euric, therefore, was able to combine politics and religion, in persecuting the catholic Church .
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In addition he records Clovis's concern for the property of the catholic Church , again citing earlier hagiographical texts in support of his case.
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A century later Gregory of Tours treated this description as representing the normal state of the catholic Church under Euric.
school
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In a similar survey undertaken in 1974, Greeley found the effectiveness of catholic schools either the same or slightly increased.
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In the decline the church had experienced in the intervening years, fewer catholic school children had opted out.
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Clearly, the follow-up study was more favourable to the defenders of catholic schools than to opponents.
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The burden of the message was that good catholic parents sent their children to catholic schools .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Is the Pope (a) Catholic?
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Is it a flop? Is the Pope a Catholic?
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Sure? Is the Pope a Catholic?
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The answer to that question would seem to be another question, namely and to wit: Is the pope a Catholic?
a practising Catholic/Muslim/Jew etc
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At that time he had been a practising Catholic for two or three months.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He certainly felt that the culture of the state should reflect the fact that it was 93 percent Roman catholic .
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I became catholic in my lusts.