Largest Christian Church, made up of 24 autonomous Churches in communion with the Pope

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AIDS - plague from God : "I shall not allow a cure" ... message of Our Lady and Our Lord to Veronica Lueken / Our Lady of the Roses, Mary Help of Mothers Shrine.

Positive Catholics : we are a peer support network of Christians living with HIV.

A great cedar tree representing the Catholic church, contrasted with two smaller trees representing later denominations. Engraving after W. Cave, ca. 1675.

A priest (the Catholic church) has tied a young woman (Ireland) with a rope and is admonishing her. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, July 1891.

William Wyndham Grenville, Baron Grenville, dispensing Roman Catholic tracts from a balloon to the people of Oxford; representing his installation as Chancellor of Oxford University. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1810.

First Vatican Council, 1869-1870: Pope Pius IX leading his cardinals across a plank of wood placed on the ice, watched by Mr Punch. Wood engraving by Swain after J. Tenniel, 1869.

Margaret Sanger vs. the Catholic Church : the early debate on contraception / by Clement A. Mulloy.

History of the Society of Jesus in North America, colonial and federal / by Thomas Hughes.

The English-American his travail by sea and land: or, a new svrvey of the West-Indias. Containing a journall of three thousand and three hundred miles within the main land of America ... With a grammar, or some few rudiments of the Indian tongue, called, Poconchi. Of Pocoman / By the true and painfull endevours of Thomas Gage.

Relacion de la fúnebre ceremonia y exêquias del ilustrisimo y excelentisimo Señor Doctor Don Ildefonso Nuñez de Haro y Peralta.

Voces de Tritón sonoro, que da desde la Santa Iglesia de Valladolid de Mechoacan la incorrupta, y viva sangre del Illmo. Señor Doctor D. Juan Joseph de Escalona, y Calatayud ... / las cuales voces hacen eco en el agradecido pecho del Fr. Mathias de Escobar.

Ordonnances et statuts synodaux faicts par Pierre Paparin de Chaumont, évêque de Gap, en son assemblée tenue à Baulme lez Sisteron, en 1587

The graces folowyng be grau[n]ted to al the bretherne [and] systers benefactours and good doers vnto the hospytall of ye blessyd co[n]fessour Saynt Rocke fou[n]ded [and] establyssyd w[ith]in the cyte Excester : the daye that they do say a pater noster an Aue, [and] a crede it is grau[n]ted them that they shal neuer be infecte not greued w[ith] the stroke of ye pestylence as more playnly it dothe appere in hys legende how and whan al myghty god graunted thys petycyon to the sayd blessyd co[n]fessour Saynt Rocke, [and] sent yt by hys angell Raphaell.

Instructions and regulations for the indulgences that are allowed to the faithful in the Middle District

The primer; or, office of the B. Virgin Mary, with a new and approv'd version of the church-hymns. To which are added the remaining hymns of the Roman breviary

Manière d'administrer les saincts sacremens de l'Église, y faire prosne et bénédictions / , avec instructions convenables pour leur intelligence, dressées par... Nicolas de Thou,...

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Ordonnances et statuts synodaux faicts par Pierre Paparin de Chaumont, évêque de Gap, en son assemblée tenue à Baulme lez Sisteron, en 1587

Instructions and regulations for the indulgences that are allowed to the faithful in the Middle District

The primer; or, office of the B. Virgin Mary, with a new and approv'd version of the church-hymns. To which are added the remaining hymns of the Roman breviary

Manière d'administrer les saincts sacremens de l'Église, y faire prosne et bénédictions / , avec instructions convenables pour leur intelligence, dressées par... Nicolas de Thou,...

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Catholic Church

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Ordonnances et statuts synodaux faicts par Pierre Paparin de Chaumont, évêque de Gap, en son assemblée tenue à Baulme lez Sisteron, en 1587

Instructions and regulations for the indulgences that are allowed to the faithful in the Middle District

The primer; or, office of the B. Virgin Mary, with a new and approv'd version of the church-hymns. To which are added the remaining hymns of the Roman breviary

Manière d'administrer les saincts sacremens de l'Église, y faire prosne et bénédictions / , avec instructions convenables pour leur intelligence, dressées par... Nicolas de Thou,...

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