Catholic example sentences

We should remember that at this time European states usually discriminated in favour of one religion or another (Britain favoured the Church of England, Austria and Spain favoured the Catholic Church).The English helped the Protestants of Ireland to establish their dominance over a largely Catholic country.The majority religion was Russian Orthodox Christianity – which had grown out of the Greek Orthodox Church – but the empire also included Catholics, Protestants, Muslims and Buddhists.Catholic revolts against British dominance were suppressed.Luther felt that several practices in the Roman Catholic Church went against the teachings of the Bible.It was a country deeply divided between Catholics and Protestants.The Catholic clans that inhabited the Scottish Highlands suffered terrible repression whenever they attempted to assert their independence.