How To Use Clericalism In A Sentence
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I submit, therefore, that a great deal of thought and probably some experimentation are needed to arrive at the correct via media between clericalism and laicism.
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The noxious weed of clericalism has choked the development of a people's church.
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Hitchens' pro-war argument is fueled by a powerful strain of anti-clericalism.
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This may be a curious and obscure kind of clericalism that popularly expresses itself as an effort to run with the hare and follow with the hounds, but is really an heroic attempt to see both sides of the question, and is not a cheap pandering after popularity.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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The Church's autonomy from political power was asserted gradually and painstakingly, but irreversibly, despite the recurring waves of caesaropapism, fundamentalism, and anticlericalism, becoming one of the main pillars of modern Western civilization.
Tea at Trianon
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The combined assault of the Liberals and the Socialists upon "clericalism" fell flat, and against the Government's contention that the extraordinary and incontestable prosperity of the country merited a continuance of
The Governments of Europe
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Republic was now and then urged by a certain section of the press to punish the "clericalism" of Ollé-Laprune, but the repute of his philosophical teaching protected him.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
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I'm always sad that these catalogues of popular anticlericalism fail to mention James Clavell's bestselling Shogun, which luridly shows its Jesuit villain feasting on capon in one important scene.
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There is nothing to fear for Ireland, either now or in the future, from what I may term clericalism in politics, whilst on the other hand it is earnestly to be hoped that nothing will ever happen to intrude unnecessarily the question or authority of religion in the domain of more mundane affairs.
Ireland Since Parnell
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The lightest suspicion of what is known as clericalism, even when only a suspicion, based on anonymous and calumnious denunciation, is sufficient to condemn a functionary.
The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1
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The tax collector from the village of Haveluy, whom we met earlier during his confrontation with the local curé, provides a practical example of this combination of religious conviction with anticlericalism.
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Rome would continue to anathematize the French Revolution as the origin of modern impiety and anti-clericalism, a change happily accepted by all those who gloried in these attitudes.
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In Spain, a strong, aggressive laicity, an anti-clericalism, a secularization has been born as we experienced in the 1930's," Benedict said.
Chron.com Chronicle
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I will not talk nor allow any one else to talk about "clericalism" and "militarism.
A Miscellany of Men
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Clericalism magnifies the importance of the hierarchy, but denies the importance of the laity.
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Haigh's denial of the existence of anti-clericalism on the eve of the Reformation is a case in point.
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She speculated that an implicit "clericalism" still lingers behind much of the push for women occupying positions in parishes, while the more fundamental work of evangelizing the secular world is neglected.
The irony du jour
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This was great since a lot of Episcopal women priests' clothes just scream "clericalism" and "frump" I'll get hanged for saying this once my pseudonym loses it pseudonymity, but it's true.
Matchy Matchy Eyeshadow, No No
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Training must make available to seminarians the true ideals of serving the people of God in the person of Christ the Head in order to inspire them beyond the sterile identity which is clericalism.
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It's easy to get all fired up and angry about such ostensible intransigent clericalism, but I think we need to know more about this situation.
