Preposition: of

• taste: A major European city, it can satisfy the most catholic of tastes.

Modifies a noun

• epistle: The catholic epistles all have for their subject, in some sense, the path through the world.

• emancipation: After the union Grattan devoted his energies chiefly to the question of Roman catholic emancipation.

• priest: The house has several priest holes, in which catholic priests were at times hidden.

• creed: Nothing in holy scripture, the catholic creeds, or our historic formularies makes it necessary to go against this primal witness.

• church: The catholic church does not usually charge for the priest's time.

• cathedral: Leeds Cathedral Girls Choir The Girls ' Choir is the longest established choir of its type in an English catholic cathedral.

Modifying Another Word

• very: Very catholic tastes, I've always had very catholic tastes.

• truly: A man of a truly catholic spirit has not now his religion to seek.

• so: So catholic a study of modern thought could have but one result upon a normal intelligence.

• fairly: In some ways it is evangelical, in others fairly catholic.

• largely: The cave was used as a chapel by the locals who are largely catholic.

• also: But the document is also catholic in another most important sense, ecumenical.

Used with adjective complement

• practice: Romano Prodi is a practicing catholic who has made clear his commitment to the church.