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CatholicVote.org Political Action Committee (CatholicVote PAC) is the group's connected political action committee; its goal is to financially support political candidates who "will be faithful stewards of Catholic social teaching and the common good." [ 5] In 2010, it made campaign contributions to six Republicans and one Democrat.
In response to both Puritan attacks on verse and the secular subjects that inspired most English poetry at the time, Robert Southwell, a Roman Catholic priest and clandestine Jesuit missionary in Elizabethan England, wrote a collection of poems on religious subjects. In his poems, Southwell drew heavily upon the Spiritual Exercises of St ...
All Souls' Day, also called The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed, [ 2] is a day of prayer and remembrance for the faithful departed, [ 3] observed by Christians on 2 November. [ 4][ 5] Through prayer, intercessions, alms and visits to cemeteries, people commemorate the poor souls in purgatory and gain them indulgences .
Marker commemorating Thomas Merton in Louisville, Kentucky. Merton's influence has grown since his death, and he is widely recognized as an important 20th-century Catholic mystic and thinker. Interest in his work contributed to a rise in spiritual exploration beginning in the 1960s and 1970s in the United States.
The name "Fifth Sunday of Easter" is used among Roman Catholic, [8] Anglican, [9] [10] Lutheran, [11] Presbyterian, [12] Methodist, [13] and other Western Christian liturgical churches. It is the name given to this day in the Roman Missal [ 14 ] (used in the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church ) and in the Revised Common Lectionary [ 15 ] (widely ...
Christina Rossetti was born in 38 Charlotte Street (now 110 Hallam Street ), London, to Gabriele Rossetti, a poet and a political exile from Vasto, Abruzzo, Italy, since 1824, and Frances Polidori, the sister of Lord Byron 's friend and physician John William Polidori. [ 1] She had two brothers and a sister: Dante Gabriel became an influential ...
Brotherhood with silk capirotes. A capirote[ 1] is a Catholic pointed hat of conical form that is used in Spain and Hispanic countries by members of a confraternity of penitents. It is part of the uniform of such brotherhoods including the Nazarenos and Fariseos during Easter observances and reenactments in some areas during Holy Week in Spain ...
Catholic art is art produced by or for members of the Catholic Church. This includes visual art ( iconography ), sculpture, decorative arts, applied arts, and architecture. In a broader sense, Catholic music and other art may be included as well. Expressions of art may or may not attempt to illustrate, supplement and portray in tangible form ...