Anticlerical

The policy known as anticlerical, inaugurated by Gambetta in his speech at Romans, 18 September, 1878, containing the famous catchword ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Donovan also knew that Pius so far had refused to authorize priests to serve as chaplains with the northern Italian partisans; the pope thought the bands were infested with anticlerical communists and discounted their strength. ❋ Douglas Waller (2011)

While the article in some ways specifically addresses the German situation - over here, the Holy Father's act of paternal mercy served as a pretext for an anticlerical outbreak which had not been seen since the earlier days of John Paul II's reign - it is still very much worth reading for a general Catholic public. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Web sites tied to the Revolutionary Guards have accused him of "voodoo and fortune-telling" for his messianic, anticlerical brand of Islam—no small charge in a theocracy. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Jeric ó , the more feverish of the pair, is also the wiser and tougher man, an anticlerical intellectual whose conversation is filled with philosophical word games. ❋ Alexander Theroux (2011)

In 1856, while serving as secretary of the treasury under President Ignacio Comonfort, Miguel had drafted the strongly anticlerical Ley Lerdo, a body of legislation that confiscated all urban and rural property from the Roman Catholic Church and restricted its holdings to church buildings, monasteries and seminaries. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Degollado performed similar duties at the Cathedral -- somewhat ironic for one who would later gain fame as a leading figure in the anticlerical movement whose goal was to clip the Church's wings. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Though personally anticlerical, he followed a policy of enforcing anti-Catholic laws laxly or not at all in areas where religious sentiment was strong. ❋ Unknown (2008)

As the era of sudden and violent armed movements, coups and counter-coups, religious fanaticism and anticlerical outrages faded into memory, Mexico entered the World War II period a nation seasoned and matured by some of the most wrenching growing pains ever witnessed in history. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It was this charter, (link 1917 Constitution) that so infuriated Catholics with its anticlerical provisions. ❋ Unknown (2008)

These include a self-portrait called El Coronelazo and "The Devil in the Church," a painting with an anticlerical motif. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Where Obregón had been a pragmatic anticlerical, Calles was an anti-Catholic fanatic whose persecution of the Church sparked the terrible 1926-29 religious war known as the Cristero ( "Christer") Rebellion. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Fervently Catholic, Los Altos was a focal point of the 1926-29 Cristero Rebellion against an anticlerical federal government. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Though liberal and anticlerical, Juárez had never sympathized with socialism. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But for most of the twentieth century, the government was heavily anticlerical. ❋ Luke Goodrich (2010)

Jacobinism -- the doctrine of the ultra-radical and anticlerical wing of the French revolutionary movement -- was as much of an ogre to eighteenth and nineteenth century conservatives as socialism and communism were their latter-day counterparts. ❋ Unknown (2008)