Clericalism

This axis is less significant in the United States (where views of the role of religion tend to be subsumed into the general left–right axis) than in Europe (where clericalism versus anti-clericalism is much less correlated with the left–right spectrum).

Described as ‘profound and real,’ the speech characterized calls for women’s ordination as a form of clericalism and as a distraction from what Catholic women want and need.

The Church would not suffer the wound of clericalism if, collectively, as sinners called to holiness, we were truly open to see “the Church as Woman”.

A culture of deferential clericalism “helps to perpetuate many of the evils that we are condemning today.

CHANTAL GOTZ: The whole governance structure is crippled and paralyzed by clericalism.

He demanded an end to “clericalism” — the culture that places priests on a pedestal.

During the French Revolution, Talleyrand strongly supported the anti-clericalism of the revolutionaries.

Franco also appeased the Carlists by exploiting the Republicans' anti-clericalism in his propaganda, in particular concerning the " Martyrs of the war ".

There had long been a strong strain of anti-clericalism.

This was not unusual among his peers, who came up in a generation of Frenchmen for whom patriotic and Catholic fervor was rising once again after the long decades of nihilism and anti-clericalism that characterized the post-Revolution country.

Winstanley, deeming that property is corrupting, opposed clericalism, political power and privilege.