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Catherine Stefani

Catherine Stefani is an American Democratic politician in the California State Assembly representing the 19th district, previously a San Francisco County supervisor and county clerk.

Catherine Stubblefield Wilson

Catherine Stubblefield Wilson (born 1939), the 'kiddie porn queen,' ran America's largest mail-order child pornography ring from Hancock Park, Los Angeles, and received federal and state prison sentences in 1984.

Catherine the Great (Екатерина II)

Catherine the Great, also known as Catherine II, was the German-born Empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796, its longest-serving female ruler, who took the throne by coup and oversaw vast territorial expansion.

Catherine Trautmann

Catherine Trautmann is a French Socialist politician who was Mayor of Strasbourg from 1989 to 1997, served as Minister of Culture under Lionel Jospin, and returned as mayor in 2026.

Catherine Vautrin

Catherine Vautrin, born in 1960 in Reims, is a French politician who has served as Minister of the Armed Forces and Veterans since October 2025, after serving as Minister of Labor, Health and Solidarity in 2024.

Catherine von Fürstenberg-Dussmann

Catherine von Fürstenberg-Dussmann, born 1951 in St. Louis, Missouri, is an American businesswoman and widow of Peter Dussmann who chairs the governance of the Berlin-based Dussmann Group.

Catherine Wood

Catherine Wood, known as Cathie Wood, is an American investor who founded ARK Investment Management in 2014 to run actively managed ETFs focused on disruptive innovation.

Catherine, Princess of Wales

Catherine, Princess of Wales (Catherine Elizabeth Middleton, born 1982) is the wife of Prince William, heir to the British throne. Known for early childhood work through the Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood and Shaping Us; announced cancer in 2024 and completed chemotherapy that September.

Cathie Wood

Cathie Wood is an American investor who founded ARK Invest in 2014, known for the ARK Innovation ETF's 152% gain in 2020 and subsequent declines.

Catholic (term)

Catholic, from the Greek katholikos meaning "universal", entered Christian usage in the early second century with Ignatius of Antioch and became the proper name of the Catholic Church.

Catholic Bible

The Catholic Bible, also called the Roman Catholic Bible, is the Christian Bible containing all 73 books the Catholic Church holds as Scripture, including seven deuterocanonical books.

Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as Roman Catholicism, is the Christian church governed by the pope and organized around seven sacraments, with over 1.4 billion members in 2024.

Catholic Church and capital punishment

Catholic Church and capital punishment: the Church moved from historical acceptance of executions to the 2018 Catechism revision (CCC 2267) declaring the death penalty inadmissible and working for worldwide abolition.

Catholic Church and homosexuality

Catholic Church and homosexuality: official teaching that homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered and the inclination objectively disordered, with respect and non-discrimination owed to persons; covers Catechism 2357–2359, CDF documents, seminary rules, and Fiducia supplicans blessings.

Catholic Church and Nazi Germany

The Catholic Church and Nazi Germany, also studied as Nazi Germany and the Catholic Church, ran from the 1933 Reichskonkordat through treaty breaches to Pius XII's contested Holocaust record.

Catholic Church by country

Catholic Church by country, also known as Roman Catholicism by country, is the distribution of Catholics across nations, with Brazil, the Philippines, and the DR Congo largest.

Catholic Church in China

The Catholic Church in China (中国天主教) was the body of Catholic missions, dioceses, and national organizations in China, directed from 1922 by the first Apostolic Delegate, Celso Costantini.

Catholic Church in East Timor

The Catholic Church in East Timor is the national Roman Catholic branch, serving 97.5% of its people and organized into three dioceses: Dili, Baucau, and Maliana.

Catholic Church in England and Wales

The Catholic Church in England and Wales, also known as English Catholicism, is organized into 21 dioceses, with about 3.8 million Catholic adults, the second largest Christian denomination.

Catholic Church in Kongo

The Catholic Church in Kongo (Igreja do Congo) was the indigenized Catholic church of the kingdom of Kongo, begun when King Nzinga Nkuwu was baptized in 1491.

Catholic Church in Oceania

The Catholic Church in Oceania is the Roman Catholic community across Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, and the Pacific islands, with almost 5.1 million Catholics in Australia alone.

Catholic Church in the Philippines

The Catholic Church in the Philippines, organized under the Catholic Bishops' Conference into 16 provinces, has the world's third-largest Catholic population, about 78.8% of Filipinos in 2020.

Catholic Church in the United States

The Catholic Church in the United States, also called Catholicism in America, is the community of Latin and Eastern Catholic dioceses under the USCCB, one of the world's largest Catholic populations.

Catholic Church sexual abuse cases

Catholic Church sexual abuse cases, also called the Roman Catholic sex abuse scandal, are documented instances of child sexual abuse by Catholic clergy and the institutional responses that followed.

Catholic clergy involvement with the Ustaše

Catholic clergy involvement with the Ustaše covers Roman Catholic priests and bishops in the WWII Independent State of Croatia (NDH), 1941–1945, including Stepinac's hierarchy, militant "warrior priests," forced conversions of Serbs, and postwar rat lines.

Catholic communism

Catholic communism: Catholics combining Catholic faith with communism, from the Italian cattocomunisti (1937-45) and the Catholic Worker to Chilean Christians for Socialism, against Church condemnations of atheistic communism.

Catholic epistles

The Catholic epistles, also known as the General Epistles, are a group of seven New Testament letters, James, 1 and 2 Peter, 1 to 3 John, and Jude, called "catholic" meaning universal.

Catholic League (German)

Catholic League (Katholische Liga), defensive alliance of Catholic Holy Roman Empire states founded at Munich 10 July 1609 under Maximilian of Bavaria against the Protestant Union; led by Tilly, victorious at White Mountain and Lutter, defeated at Breitenfeld, dissolved by the Peace of Prague 1635.

Catholic missions in Ethiopia

The Catholic missions in Ethiopia were Jesuit efforts from 1557 to convert the Ethiopian Church to Rome, reaching their height under Emperor Susenyos before collapsing in 1632.

Catholic Monarchs of Spain

Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile, the Reyes Católicos, married in 1469, jointly ruled separate Castilian and Aragonese crowns, conquered Granada in 1492, sponsored Columbus, and received a papal title from Alexander VI.