From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRoman CatholicˌRoman ˈCatholic adjective RRC (abbreviation RC) belonging or relating to the part of the Christian religion whose leader is the Pope SYN Catholic, → Protestant a Roman Catholic priest —Roman Catholic noun [countable] —Roman Catholicism noun [uncountable]
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Roman Catholic• Away from the shops, the Roman Catholic church faced a wide tree-lined eighteenth-century street.• The Roman Catholic church forbade the wedding of cousins.• In the west it is the Roman Catholic Church that holds the most rigid and illiberal religious beliefs.• Aristide, a left-wing Roman Catholic priest, had won by a landslide in the presidential elections on Dec. 16. 