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catholic

> Catholic and catholic
Catholic and catholic have different meanings. Catholic as an adjective refers to the Roman Catholic Church, as in "The Pope is head of the Catholic Church", or to the universal body of Christians. As a noun it means "a member of the Catholic Church", as in "She is a Catholic but he is a Protestant". Catholic with a lower-case initial letter means "general, wide-ranging", as in "a catholic selection of essays", and " broad-minded, liberal", as in "a catholic attitude to the tastes of others".

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