I will, however,just comment that a sort of "clericalist" mindset, which is always a danger within the Church and about which Chaucer, for example, is scathing, and also Thomas More some centuries later was particularly strong in the first half of the 20th century for various reasons. ❋ Joanna Bogle (2009)
It is, however, anti-clericalist, or ‘secular’ in the strict sense (of excluding religious institutions from political power). ❋ Unknown (2009)
He was also, at the time, America's leading -- I guess you'd call it anti-clericalist. ❋ Unknown (1998)
Previous ages were often, alas, aristocratic in politics or clericalist in religion; but they were always democratic in philosophy; they appealed to man, not to particular men. ❋ Unknown (1905)
An unexpected channel for airing these grievances has come from a church newspaper which was traditionally a docile propaganda medium of the bishops, but which is now to the fore in campaigning for extensive reform of an over-clericalist church. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The statement says that members held back from a direct confrontation last week, believing that an open challenge at the time would have merely caused the Vatican's Curia to "close ranks" around one of their own "because of the clericalist culture of that body" and despite the "lack of support" for Fisichella himself. ❋ [email protected] (2010)
What historians call 'the Cullenisation of Ireland' produced a disciplined clericalist Irish Church that marched in total loyalty to ❋ Unknown (2009)
The slogan of 'A peasant Church for a peasant people 'was created by the moulder of the highly centralised and secretive clericalist Catholic Church in ❋ Unknown (2009)
THE clericalist system in the Catholic Church onto which three Irish bishops are desperately clinging this Christmas was once famously described by the great theologian Bernard Haring as "ecclesiagenic pathology". ❋ Unknown (2009)
This is a clericalist vision, which sees the role of influencing the state as belonging to the church per se. ❋ Unknown (2009)
There needs to be a clear distinction in our minds about the differences between being anti-religion and anti-clericalist. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The last time I looked, Jesus is The Boss of Catholicism, not some clericalist in french cuffs and an overstuffed ego. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Do you think the support that there's been for clericalist parties in Iraq since ❋ Unknown (2009)
Since the military launched an offensive against the clericalist thugs, indiscriminate Army attacks against the civilian population have wrecked havoc. ❋ Unknown (2009)
We should not go back to clericalist practice, such as silent celebration. ❋ Unknown (2008)
