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Ultramontanism   Listen
Ultramontanism

noun
1.
(Roman Catholic Church) the policy that the absolute authority of the church should be vested in the pope.





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"Ultramontanism" Quotes from Famous Books



... incarnate became aware what spirit they were of; and they attacked Supernaturalism in its Biblical stronghold, defended by Protestants and Romanists with equal zeal. In the eyes of the "Patriarch," Ultramontanism, Jansenism, and Calvinism were merely three persons of the one "Infame" which it was the object of his life to crush. If he hated one more than another, it was probably the last; while D'Holbach, and the extreme left of the free-thinking ...
— Lectures and Essays • Thomas Henry Huxley


Words linked to "Ultramontanism" :   Western Church, Church of Rome, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Church, Roman Catholic, policy


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