Changing perspectives on the Crusades by Jacques Theron, Erna Oliver

“…These ‘holy wars’, fought by members of the Roman Catholic Church, mostly against infidels (‘unbelievers’), including the Muslims of the time, lasted for several centuries and had varied levels of success. …”
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Ostrava, spirituelle und religiöse Zentrum der Tschechoslowakischen Republik? by Martin Jemelka

“…This paper focuses on a brief description of the institutional development of the traditional players in interwar religious life in Greater Ostrava – the Roman Catholic Church, the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession, the Jewish religious community – and above all the new players in spiritual and religious life between the world wars: the Czechoslovak Church, the Association of Social Democratic Atheists and the spiritistic Brotherhood association, which used Ostrava as a centre of First Republic spiritual and religious life.…”
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The Young Generation of Catholics in the Face of Ecological Problems Exemplified by the Initiatives of the Catholic Youth Association by Andrzej Lubowicki

“…KSM) operates within 41 dioceses of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland and, according to data from 2019, has approx. 20,000 members in almost 1,000 parish units and community circles. …”
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Beleef die Christelike teologie soos met die vorige eeuwending weer ’n paradigmaverandering? by I.J.J. Spangenberg

“…During the early stages, it affected primarily Protestant denominations and their doctrine of Scripture. The Roman Catholic Church, however, could not escape its influence. …”
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Ehescheidung und Wiederheirat in der neutestamentlichen Überlieferung by Martin Stowasser

“…The Catechism of the Roman Catholic Church, Michael Theobald, and William Loader reflect three different approaches to the topic of divorce and remarriage in the New Testament. …”
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The Liturgical Usage of Translated Gregorian Chant in the Korean Catholic Church by Eun Young Cho, Hayoung Wong, Zong Woo Geem

“…For centuries, Gregorian chant has served as a monophonic song written for the religious services of the Roman Catholic Church, but Korean Catholics first encountered this chant in the early nineteenth century. …”
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Die utraquistische Konfession von 1513 by Ota Halama

“…It was created within negotiations between the Utraquist party and Roman Catholic Church members in 1512–1513, which headed towards the renewal of Prague archbishopric. …”
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Selected Aspects of the Management of Real Estates Owned by Legal Persons of Churches and other Religious Associations by Cienciała Agnieszka

“…Most of the individuals (nearly 96%) are the followers of the Roman Catholic Church. The Catholic Church and its organizational units have legal personality, thereby enabling them to acquire, possess and dispose of the title to real estate and other property rights, and administer the properties. …”
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Religious Conversion as Religious Contact—the “statement conversion” by Sebastian Rimestad

“…My contribution will compare the conversions from Anglicanism to the Roman Catholic Church during the Oxford Movement in the 1840s with those of African Americans to (the Nation of) Islam in the 1960s. …”
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“Awash in a Sea of Archives”: Key Research Sources in the United States for the Study of Mission and World Christianity by Angelyn Dries

“…The sources hold a myriad of further research possibilities, that include the visual and performing arts in relation to inculturation; literature, the history of print, other media, and technology; the history of museums; maps, geography and perceptions of the world; economics/business; oral history, church history, Christianity in particular countries, the reception of the Second Vatican Council of the Roman Catholic Church in “Third World” churches; and, transoceanic networks with implications for local churches.…”
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Eucharist, Real Presence, and Time Travel by José Tomás Alvarado Marambio

“…The dogma of transubstantiation defined by the Roman Catholic Church generates several philosophical questions. …”
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The memoirs of Vilnius bishop Adam Stanisław Krasiński: from manuscript to publication by Aldona Prašmantaitė

“…Bishop of Vilnius Diocese Adam Stanisław Krasiński (1810–1891) left a deep imprint not only as an active hierarch of the Roman Catholic Church, but also as an energetic participant of 19th c. cultural life, a man of letters. …”
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Who Criticizes the Clergy in Contemporary Lithuania? A Sociohistorical Analysis of Anticlericalism by Milda Alisauskiene, Apolonijus Zilys

“…Living in a proximity to a Roman Catholic church in rural areas determined the prevalent anticlerical attitudes among the Lithuanian population.…”
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Roman Catholic Canon Law by Patrick Valdrini

“…The Canon Law of the Roman Catholic Church is contained in two Codes that legislate on the way the Church is organized and carries out its activities in the world. …”
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Cross – altar – orientation of the offered prayer by Jarosław A. Superson

“…In the first millennium at the Roman Catholic Church only consecration gifts were being placed on the altar, and only at the beginning of the second millennium first the candelabra, than the crucifix were put on. …”
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ОБЩЕСТВЕННО-ПОЛИТИЧЕСКАЯ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТЬ ИОАННА ПАВЛА II И РАЗВАЛ СИСТЕМЫ СОЦИАЛИЗМА В ЕВРОПЕ by Александр Витальевич Красов

“…The article provides answers to the following questions: How did John Paul II, based on his personal political beliefs, use the influence of the religious factor of the head of the Roman Catholic Church on socio-political processes in Poland? …”
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Preparations for Marriage in the Jewish and Catholic Traditions by Walter Homolka, Andrzej Pryba

“…We intend to do a comparative analysis of the prerequisites of religious marriage based on the assumption that both Judaism and the Roman Catholic Church have a distinct legal framework to assess marriage preparation.…”
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Über die Verwirrungen hinsichtlich der Genderfrage oder braucht die römisch-katholische Kirche eine Reformation? by Susanne Moser

“…On the Confusuions about the Gender Question or does the Roman Catholic Church need a Reformation?     The main purpose of this article is to show that fivehundred years after Luther, the concept of gender bears the same power for reformation as Luther's theses did bevor. …”
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SOLA SCRIPTURA: by W.H Oliver, E. Oliver

“…Luther’s action led to the founding of the Protestant movement, with his followers separating themselves from the Roman Catholic Church on the grounds of Scripture. Over the past 500 years, a myriad of different churches has been established within the Protestant movement, separating themselves from other Protestants, each with the conviction of Sola Scriptura. …”
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Die Wahrnehmung von und Beziehung zu Geistlichen in evangelischen und römisch- katholischen Gemeinden by Sarah F. Tichy

“…The empirical study is based on the attachment theory of John Bowlby (1969; 1973). 63 subjects from Germany and Austria, who either are involved in the Lutheran, in the Reformed or in the Roman-Catholic church and who indicated that they had closer contact to clerics, were retrospectively questioned through a computer-based survey about their youth. …”
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