catholicizing

This was what he called "catholicizing liberalism".

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

The Roman bishop may perhaps have had some influence in the catholicizing of Edessa and the bishops of Osrhoene.

The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908

It had gained this position as the church of the metropolis, as the church of Peter and Paul, as the community which had done most for the catholicizing and unification of the churches, and above all as the church which was not only vigilant and alert but ready

The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908

He is said, to have particularly had in view, the catholicizing, as it was termed, the northern part, of Germany.

The Life of Hugo Grotius With Brief Minutes of the Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of the Netherlands Charles Butler 1791

Shellard, Lawrence Wills, Tyson, Pervo and others tend to think there are some neat political and doctrincal (catholicizing) reasons for placing our canonical Luke-Acts as the last composed of our NT gospels.

Vridar neilgodfrey 2010

If Luke was the last and was consciously an attempt at unifying and catholicizing the gospels out there in the field, it would, I think, provide additional explanatory power to why he might have changed Matthew's birth scene and the Sermon on the Mount.

Vridar neilgodfrey 2010

The szlachta aimed at catholicizing the Ukrainian and Belarusian populations and breaking off their ties with the Russian people.

Neeka's Backlog 2009