It is now optional whether a sister takes a religious name or retains her own.

She subsequently emigrated to France, and entered a nunnery under the religious name of Soeur Marie Jeanne.

Andrew Kerins was his birth name, but he is best remembered by his religious name of Brother Walfrid.

As the religious name she took suggests, she was believed to carry the "stigmata" or wounds of Jesus.

Child Support Magistrate Lu Ann Ballew said the religious name was earned by one person and "that one person is Jesus Christ".

A judge in Tennessee has changed a seven-month-old boy's name from Messiah to Martin.Child Support Magistrate Lu Ann Ballew said the religious name wa(...)

But apart from religious names and iconography, what real and meaningful influence does the Catholic Church have on society today?

The Spanish were even worse because they gave everything religious names, so that every place in the south-west is called San this or Santa that.

"What is your religious name, Monsieur?"