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Catholic particular churches and liturgical rites
In Catholic canon law, a particular church is a portion of the Church, usually territorial, under a bishop, while a rite is its liturgical and spiritual heritage.
Catholic Party (Indonesia)
Partai Katolik was a Roman Catholic political party in Indonesia, independent from 1949 to 1973 and led for most of its history by Ignatius Joseph Kasimo.
Catholic persecutions in Korea
Catholic persecutions in Korea were state suppressions in Joseon Korea from 1785 until 1899. They arose from conflicts between Catholic doctrine and the Confucian ethical order of society.
Catholic primary and elementary education
Catholic primary and elementary education, also called parochial schooling, is Church-run K-8 education in the US: 4,644 elementary and middle schools among 5,829 Catholic schools in 2025-26, founded on the 1884 Baltimore decree, peaking at 5.7 million elementary pupils in the 1960s.
Catholic primary education in Australia
Catholic primary education in Australia is a national network of mostly systemic parish and diocesan schools dating to 1820, enrolling about one in five Australian students.
Catholic primary education in Ireland
Catholic primary education in Ireland is the publicly funded network of national schools under Catholic patronage, 88.5% of the Republic's 3,095 primary schools in 2022, with the Church owning and managing them.
Catholic primary education in New Zealand
Catholic primary education in New Zealand is a network of Catholic primary schools, begun in 1840, run privately until state integration in 1975, now teaching about 8% of students.
Catholic primary education in the Philippines
Catholic primary education in the Philippines is the network of Church-run preschool and elementary schools, rooted in Spanish colonial parochial schooling and now mostly private.
Catholic primary schools in India
Catholic primary schools in India are elementary schools run by dioceses, parishes, and religious congregations under Article 30 protections, with over 10,000 primary schools and nearly 4 million primary students.
Catholic primary schools in the United Kingdom
Catholic primary schools in the United Kingdom are state-funded schools with a Catholic religious character in England, Wales, and Scotland, mostly owned by diocesan trustees.
Catholic school
A Catholic school is a school operated under the authority of the Catholic Church, in which religious education and formation in the Catholic faith are integral.
Catholic schools in the United States
Catholic schools in the United States: Church-governed private elementary and secondary schools. NCEA counts 5,829 schools and 1,674,907 students in 2025-26; nearly half of elementary schools closed since the 1960s peak.
Catholic social teaching
Catholic social teaching, also known as Catholic social doctrine, is the Catholic Church's official teaching on social questions, beginning with Pope Leo XIII's 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum.
Catholic theology
Catholic theology, also known as Roman Catholic theology, is the systematic study of Christian doctrine as understood within the Catholic Church, whose magisterium authentically interprets Scripture and Tradition as one deposit of faith.
Catholic University of America
The Catholic University of America, founded by the US bishops in 1887 with papal approval, is a private research university in Washington, D.C., and the nation's oldest Catholic research university.
Catholicism and socialism
Catholicism and socialism, also called Catholic socialism, describes the Church's condemnations of socialism since 1846, its alternative social teaching, and Catholics who embraced or fought socialist politics.
Catholicism and Zionism
Catholicism and Zionism: the Holy See's relationship with Jewish nationalism, from Pius X's 1904 refusal of Herzl, through Nostra Aetate (1965), to the 1993 Fundamental Agreement recognizing Israel without endorsing it theologically.
Catholicity
Catholicity, also called the universality of the Church, is the mark of the Church in the Nicene Creed meaning universal in extent and whole in faith.
Catholicos of the East and Malankara Metropolitan
Catholicos of the East and Malankara Metropolitan is the combined office of the supreme head of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, held by one person since 1934.
Catholicosate of Gandzasar
The Catholicosate of Gandzasar, also called the Katholicosate of Aghvank, was the easternmost subdivision of the Armenian Apostolic Church, seated at Gandzasar Monastery in Artsakh.
Cathy A. Bencivengo
Cathy A. Bencivengo, born Cathy Ann Bencivengo in 1958, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Southern District of California since 2012.
Cathy Bissoon
Cathy Bissoon (born 1968) is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania since 2011, appointed by President Barack Obama.
Cathy Cabral
Maria Catalina "Cathy" Cabral (1962-2025), Filipino civil engineer, first female rank-and-file DPWH undersecretary for Planning and PPP, first female PICE president; central figure in Philippine flood control corruption probe, died December 19, 2025 after an alleged fall in Benguet.
Cathy Giessel
Cathy Giessel is an American politician and registered nurse serving as a Republican member of the Alaska State Senate, where she is Senate Majority Leader.
Cathy Hughes
Cathy Hughes (born 1947, Omaha) is an American media entrepreneur, founder and chairperson of Urban One (formerly Radio One), creator of the Quiet Storm radio format, first African-American woman to head a publicly traded media company, and TV One founder.
Cathy Kipp
Cathy Kipp is an American Democratic politician who represents Colorado Senate District 14 and was elected President pro tempore of the Colorado Senate in February 2026, after serving in the Colorado House from 2019 to 2025.
Cathy McMorris Rodgers
Cathy McMorris Rodgers (born 1969) is an American Republican politician, U.S. Representative for Washington's 5th District 2005-2025, first woman to chair the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and founder of the Cathy McMorris Rodgers Leadership Institute.
Cathy Newman
Cathy Newman is a British broadcast journalist, first female main presenter of Channel 4 News (2006-2026), known for the Rennard, John Smyth, and Simon Harris investigations, the 2018 Jordan Peterson interview, and now The Cathy Newman Show on Sky News.
Cathy O'Brien (conspiracy theorist)
Cathy O'Brien (born 1957, Muskegon, Michigan), American conspiracy theorist and co-author of Trance Formation of America (1995) with Mark Phillips; claims CIA Project Monarch/MKUltra mind-control victimship, a claim the MKUltra record does not document.
Cathy Osten
Cathy Osten is an American Democratic politician representing Connecticut's 19th Senate district, covering Norwich and surrounding towns, and serving as Senate Chair of the budget-writing Appropriations Committee.