The Stained-Glass Windows in the Entrance Hall of the Rijksmuseum: A Coloured National Art History by Julia van Leeuwen

“…The fact that these relatively unknown artists feature in the pictorial programme for the windows clearly indicates that the emphasis lies on the Roman Catholic Middle Ages and shows that it is a coloured version of Dutch art history. …”
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Teokrasie: beskouings oor Calvyn en die Nederlandse Geloofsbelydenis, art. 36 – ’n bydrae tot ’n noodsaaklike gesprek by P. Coertzen

“…As an answer to this ques-tion the argument is put that, in reaction to the theocracy of the Roman Catholic Church (as can been found in the Corpus Iuris Canonici), it was a returned the historical view on church and state that had been current since the time of Constantine. …”
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English as a medium of worship: The experiences of the congregants of a Pentecostal charismatic church in Soweto by Thabisile N. Adams, Anne-Marie Beukes

“…This is in stark contrast to many mainline churches (such as the Anglican, Lutheran and Roman Catholic churches) that use indigenous African languages (IALs) in most, if not entire, presentation of church services for black congregants. …”
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Greek Catholic Church and its Clergy in the Western and Northern Territories of Poland Between 1947 and 1957 – аn Outline of a Collective Portrait by Igor Hałagida

“…On the basis of archival materials from state and – above all – ecclesiastical (Greek-Catholic and Roman-Catholic) archives, as well as the literature on the subject, the aforementioned group was analysed in terms of age, date of ordination, entry into the monastery or congregation, or the exercise of ministry – in the absence of an alternative – in the Latin rite. …”
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Walking on Hot Coals: A Phenomenological Study on Dealing with Temptations in the Seminary by Genesis Naparan, Mike R. Canoy, Foelan Degie Mahinay, Jan Elbe Villaflor

“…Thus, the research participants completed their seminary formation and were ordained as Roman Catholic priests.…”
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Communication Theology by Jorge Mario Bergoglio (Pope Francis) by E. V. Marakhovska

“…The author considers the theological views of Pope Francis in the context of the further implementation of the ideas of the Second Vatican Council in the life and theological activity of the Roman Catholic Church. The main features of Francis theology are the theological justification for the need for dialogue between the Church and modern society, and the broad extension of such dialogue. …”
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How Religious Beliefs and Practices Influence the Psychological Health of Catholic Priests by Anthony Isacco PhD, Ethan Sahker MA, Elizabeth Krinock MSCP, Wonjin Sim PhD, Deanna Hamilton PhD

“…Roman Catholic diocesan priests are a subgroup of men with unique religious and spiritual roles, beliefs, and practices. …”
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Newman, Catholicity, and the Church Today: On the Development of Christian Principles through Dialogue with the World by Christopher Cimorelli

“…This article explores the following question: Given the Roman Catholic Church’s present-day teaching on catholicity, how can St. …”
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Of death and dukes: "King Henry VI Part 2" and the "danse macabre" by Clayton MacKenzie

“…The Protestant Reformation had liberated a swathe of Roman Catholic iconographies, the danse macabre amongst them, breaking them free from their traditional semantic moorings and allowing them to find novel significances on the Elizabethan stage. …”
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Contesting Sacred Space in the Estado da India: Asserting Cultural Dominance over Religious Sites in Goa by Timothy D. Walker

“…At Goa, the Portuguese conquered a Muslim-ruled city of mainly Hindu inhabitants and rebuilt it, creating an imperial European Christian capital for their Asian colonies. There, Roman Catholic missionary orders established churches and shrines on sites previously occupied by Muslim mosques and Hindu temples (which had themselves often been constructed over pre-existing sacred spaces). …”
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God Was Never there God and the Shoah in the Netflix Series Jaguar by Bosman Frank G.

“…Step by step, the viewer of Jaguar learns his background story: ordained a Roman Catholic priest, he renounced his faith after having witnessed and experienced the horrors of the Nazi regime in Dachau concentration camp. …”
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Philosophical Theology and Biblical Hermeneutics: a Discourse on the Post-structuralist Challenge by Viktor Shokhin

“…The paper deals with the exegesis of the contemporary Christian (both Roman Catholic and Orthodox) concern conditioned by the intervention into Biblical studies of a very fashionable trend, i.e. reader-response criticism whose extreme (readers are virtually regarded as the authors of the text) corresponds to Roland Barth’s postmodernist conception of the death of the author. …”
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Österreichs Identitäten in der Bildenden Kunst des 19. Jahrhunderts by Werner Telesko

“…In this way, two previously different artistic types - church and monument- were amalgamated into a new kind of »church monument«, whose function was to demonstrate the unity of dynasty and Roman Catholic Church as a distinctive feature of Austrian identity.…”
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Holistic individualism in the age of aquarius: Measuring individualism/collectivism in new age, Catholic, and atheist/agnostic groups by Farias, M, Lalljee, M

“…In order to bring some new light to this debate we compared New Age with Roman Catholic and atheist/agnostic participants on a battery of social-psychological measures, including values, self-concepts, and individualism/collectivism. …”

The state component and civil borders in defining the boundaries and structure of church-administrative jurisdiction on the example of the Galician metropolitanate of the XIV centu... by archpriest Volodymyr Vakin

“…The position of ROC leaders could be justified in the Roman Catholic environment, where the doctrine of the earthly structure of the Church really dominates the position of a single administrative spiritual center headed by the Pope over other church-administrative units of the entire Roman Catholic Church. …”
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An unfinished story of conversion: clerical sexual abuse in Poland: A communications case study on betrayal, healing and trust recovery by Paulina Guzik

“…Poland is one of the most Catholic countries in the world. 33 million out of its 38 million people (92.9% of its population) declare themselves to be Roman Catholic. Church initiatives for the needy, whether poor or immigrants, are everywhere. …”
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The Architecture of Eco-Theology: Towards a New Typology for Christian Sacred Space by Roberto Chiotti

“…As articulated in its architecture, the traditional elements of Roman Catholic sacred space have been re-imagined and given unique expression to emphasize that when we gather for Christian worship, we do so within the greater context of creation. …”
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Pallium – contemporary shape and theories about origin by Jarosław A. Superson

“…For many centuries the Roman Catholic Church talks about the pallium and its origin. …”
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Caught in between: Profanation and Re-Sacralization in Marco Bellocchio’s Nel nome del padre (1971) by Silvia Angeli

“…By providing a content and stylistic analysis of episodes of profanation and re-sacralization, this article highlights how Bellocchio profanes traditional Roman Catholic elements through the employment of parody and satire as well as how he re-sacralizes unorthodox characters and situations using narrative, symbolism, and iconography. …”
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Theology and Threshold: Victorian Approaches to Reviving Choir and Rood Screens by Ayla Lepine

“…Pugin published an influential treatise on rood screens, intending in his irrepressible polemical style to create further Gothic Revival momentum for inserting these iconographically complex and liturgically vital elements into Roman Catholic and Anglican churches throughout Britain and its empire. …”
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