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Traditionalist Catholicism is a movement that emphasizes beliefs, practices, customs, traditions, liturgical forms, devotions and presentations of teaching associated with the Catholic Church before the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965). [1] [2] Traditionalist Catholics particularly emphasize the Tridentine Mass, the Roman Rite liturgy ...
The Argentine Catholic Church, or Catholic Church in Argentina, is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the pope, the Curia in Rome, and the Argentine Episcopal Conference. [citation needed] According to the CIA World Factbook (July 2014), 92% of the country are nominally Catholic, but less than 20% practice ...
The Catholic Church is the largest denomination in the country, where 123 million people, [6] or 64.6% of the Brazilian population, were self-declared Catholics in 2010. [7] These figures made Brazil the single country with the largest Catholic community in the world. [8] [9] [10] In 2022, Catholics made up 68% of the population.
t. e. Modernism in the Catholic Church describes attempts to reconcile Catholicism with modern culture, [1] specifically an understanding of the Bible and Catholic tradition in light of the historical-critical method and new philosophical and political developments of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The term modernism —generally used ...
e. The Catholic Church in Japan is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the pope in Rome. As of 2021, there were approximately 431,100 Catholics in Japan (0.34% of the total population), 6,200 of whom are clerics, religious and seminarians. [1] Japan has 15 dioceses, including three metropolitan archdioceses ...
The Catholic Church in France is organised into 98 dioceses, which in 2012 were served by 7,000 sub-75 priests. 80 to 90 priests are ordained every year, although the church would need eight times as many to compensate the number of priest deaths. Approximately 45,000 Catholic church buildings and chapels are spread out among 36,500 cities ...
Examiner (Roman Catholicism) Examiners were officers of the Roman Catholic church who conducted examinations relating to church positions. Synodal examiners were licensed by Catholic dioceses, while Apostolic examiners were licensed by the Pope directly. Both types of examiners conducted examinations for junior clergy, confessors, and ...
