anticlerical
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Although the leaders of many anticlerical organizations were deemed heretics and suppressed by church leaders, they nevertheless laid the groundwork for the sixteenth-century religious revolution known as the Protestant Reformation.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
And though many of the tougher anticlerical laws have been eased in modern times, church-state separation remains entrenched as a core political concept.
From Washington Post • Dec. 18, 2019
In the last room of the exhibit is Bocanegra’s staging of “Dialogue of the Carmelites,” a nineteen-fifties opera based on the story of a French convent where the nuns are executed by anticlerical French revolutionaries.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 19, 2018
When French presidential contender François Fillon marked the Feast of the Assumption last summer, he attended Mass at Solesmes Abbey, a Benedictine monastery known for defying the anticlerical purges of the French Revolution.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 3, 2017
The anticlerical press of Paris was insisting that the cardinal's stay in the French capital was of sinister import.
From The Purple Heights by Oemler, Marie Conway
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