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Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564-1642)
Leo I
Pope from 440 to 461 (390–461)
St. Bartholomew's Day massacre
massacre of the Huguenots (French Calvinist Protestants) by the French government, 1572
Spanish Inquisition
ecclesiastical court system under the control of the kings of Spain (1478-1834)
Index Librorum Prohibitorum
list of publications prohibited by the Catholic Church from 1559 to 14 June 1966
Hippolytus
Christian theologian and saint (c. 170 – c. 235)
Pope-elect Stephen
priest of Rome elected pope in March 752
Malleus maleficarum
treatise on the prosecution of witches
Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba
Spanish military tactician and diplomat (1507-1582)
Junípero Serra
Christian missionary
Chinese Rites controversy
17th–18th-century dispute among Roman Catholic missionaries
Modernism in the Catholic Church
heretical theological stance
PZ Myers
American biologist and blogger
school corporal punishment
physical punishing of pupil at school
Divine Mercy
attribute of God and Catholic devotion
Annibale Bugnini
Italian Vincentian and archbishop (1912-1982)
Fiducia supplicans
2023 Catholic Church document
Three Secrets of Fátima
Prophecies made during an apparition of the Virgin Mary in 1917
Miracle of the Sun
series of events reported to have occurred miraculously on 13 October 1917 in Portugal
Menocchio
Domenico Scandella (1532–1599), known as Menocchio (), was an Italian miller from Montereale Valcellina, Republic of Venice, who was tried for heresy by the Roman Inquisition for his unorthodox religious views and then was burnt at the stake in 1599. The 16th-century life and medieval religious beliefs of Menocchio are known from the records of the Inquisition, and are the subject of The Cheese and the Worms (1976) by Carlo Ginzburg, as well as of the stageplay Menocchio (2002) by Lillian Garrett-Groag and the film Menocchio (Menocchio the Heretic) (2018) by Alberto Fasulo.
Fernando Cardenal
Nicaraguan Jesuit (1934-2016)
George Tyrrell
Irish Jesuit priest (1861-1909)
Regensburg lecture
lecture by Pope Benedict XVI in 2006
disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi
Vatican teenager missing since 1983
Alfonso de Galarreta
Spanish bishop
suppression of the Society of Jesus
persecution of Jesuits from 1759 to 1814
homosexuality and the Catholic Church
Attitude of the Catholic Church to homosexuality and gay people
Vicedomino de Vicedominis
Catholic cardinal
Good Friday prayer for the Jews
annual prayer in the Christian, particularly Roman Catholic, liturgy
Garabandal apparitions
apparitions of Michael the Archangel and the Virgin Mary from 1961 to 1965 in northern Spain
The Lady of All Nations
Marian apparitions in Amsterdam (1945-1959)
Etsi Nos
papal encyclical by Pope Leo XIII
papal supremacy
doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church that the pope, by reason of his office as Vicar of Christ and as pastor of the entire Christian Church, has full, supreme, and universal power over the whole Church
Feather
2023 single by Sabrina Carpenter
Alexander Chira
Eastern Catholic bishop (1897–1983)
Vicarius Filii Dei
phrase used in a forged medieval document referring to Saint Peter
Lodovico delle Colombe
Italian philosopher (1565-1616)
Tradition, Family, Property
international movement of organizations of Traditionalist Catholic inspiration
Pope John Paul I conspiracy theories
theories relating to the circumstances of the death of Pope John Paul I
Finaly Affair
custody dispute regarding two French Jewish children (1945–1953)
Catholic League
Roman Catholic advocacy organization in the United States
Beda Chang
Chinese Jesuit martyr (1905–1951)
Trial of Joan of Arc
Trial and execution conducted by a pro-English church court overseen by English commanders at Rouen
Catholic Church and slavery
Catholic views and practices regarding slavery
Only the Good Die Young
original song written, composed, and performed by Billy Joel
Mladifest
annual youth prayer meeting in Međugorje
Benevacantism
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Jeannine Gramick
American Religious Sister and LGBT advocate
Mathias Loras
Catholic bishop (1792-1858)
Jewish orphans controversy
custody dispute after World War II
Church 2011
dDocument demanding reform of the Roman Catholic in response to sex abuse scandal
Our Lady of the Rockies
statue of Virgin Mary in Montana
Roger Haight
American theologian
St. Gallen Group
informal group of reformist clerics in the Catholic Church
Ecclesial Community
in the terminology Catholic, a Christian religious group that does not meet the Catholic definition of a "Church"
Eastern Orthodox – Roman Catholic theological differences
catholic–Orthodox theological differences
Maria Monk
Canadian author (1816-1849)
Vatican conspiracy theories
various anti-Catholic conspiracy theories involving the Roman Catholic Church
Jesuit Bend
human settlement in Louisiana, United States of America
Congregatio de Auxiliis
Commission established by Pope Clement VIII