Catharism
Americannoun
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Thanks to recent research, an increasing amount is known about Catharism.
From Time Magazine Archive
And in modern France, where popular apostasy from Catholicism is today wider and deeper than anything Pope Innocent could have imagined, the ancient heresy of Catharism is enjoying a remarkable revival of interest.
From Time Magazine Archive
The documents of the Inquisition constantly refer to “heresy and Waldensianism,” designating Catharism by the former term as the heresy par excellence.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea
About the same time Flanders was the scene of another discovery of Catharism.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea
But the great unpardonable crime of Catharism was its attempt to destroy the future of humanity by its endura, and its abolition of marriage.
From The Inquisition A Critical and Historical Study of the Coercive Power of the Church by Bertrand L. (Bertrand Louis) Conway
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