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• devout Catholics believe in the Perpetual Virginity of Mary?
• economist Barbara Ward, an early advocate of sustainable development, was the first woman ever to address a synod of Roman Catholic bishops?
• despite nine hundred Roman Catholic churches being built in England in the fifty years after 1791, St John the Baptist's Church in Brighton was only the fourth to be consecrated since the Reformation?
• although the Church of St. Michael and St. Anthony (pictured) in Montreal is a Roman Catholic church, it features Byzantine architecture and a minaret-style tower?
• The Play of the Weather by the Catholic playwright John Heywood is a plea for religious tolerance after the Reformation in the form of an allegory?
• efforts taken by Roman Catholic missionary Henrique Henriques to publish religious books in local languages led him to be called The Father of Tamil press?
• in 1982, Maurice Couve de Murville was plucked from obscurity as the Roman Catholic chaplain at Cambridge University to become the seventh Archbishop of Birmingham?
• with the Secret Treaty of Dover signed between England and France, King Charles II attempted to convert England to Catholicism?
• the Madhu church shelling affected the Shrine of Our Lady of Madhu, the holiest Roman Catholic shrine in Sri Lanka?
• the Mosque of Kefeli in Istanbul was used jointly as a church by Roman Catholic and Armenian believers before becoming a mosque?
• the Roman Catholic prelature of Trondheim was founded in 1843 and based on the archbishop diocese abandoned in 1537 with the Reformation on the shrine of St. Olav, one of the most important pilgrim destinations in the Middle Ages?
• Most Rev. S. Arulappa, Archbishop of Hyderabad, was the youngest to be consecrated as a Roman Catholic Archbishop in India?
• Old Catholic Cemetery was created for Roman Catholics after a yellow fever epidemic struck Mobile, Alabama in the 1830s?
• CHIJMES, a historic building complex in Singapore, began life as a Catholic convent in the 1850s and has been gazetted as a national monument?
• André Raponda Walker (pictured) was the first Catholic priest from Gabon?
• Roman Catholic priest Paul Couturier helped establish the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity?
• Roman Catholic priest Giuseppe Diana was killed by the Camorra for resisting their mafia-like rule?
• Czesława Kwoka, a Polish Catholic child victim of the Holocaust, was the subject of a 2007 award-winning mixed-media presentation?
• Henri Pinault, the last Roman Catholic bishop of Chengdu, was imprisoned and expelled from China by the Communist Party of China in 1952, but retained his title until 1983?
• Lucien Galtier, the first Roman Catholic priest in Minnesota, was responsible for renaming the city of Saint Paul, Minnesota, from its previous name of Pig's Eye?
• John Aloysius Ward, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cardiff from 1983, took early retirement in 2001, after the later years of his ministry were overshadowed by cases of sexual misconduct by priests in his archdiocese?
• James A. Kowalski, dean of the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York, had a Roman Catholic father and a Jewish mother, but they joined the Episcopal Church when they started a family?
• holy cards are an important devotional practice for many Roman Catholics?
• Eastern Orthodox icon expert Father Egon Sendler is highly respected by many Eastern Orthodox scholars, despite being a Roman Catholic?