Concept
Catholic Church in France
Overview
part of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church
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Nevertheless, it was not an absolute authority; it represented the union of all in a common fellowship, a common destiny, and a common cause against the powers of evil. The massive cathedrals which remain as the monuments of the ages of faith, are fitting symbols of these aspects of mediaeval life. They dominate their cities architecturally, as the church dominated the life of the ages which built them. They…
John Dewey, Ethics
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It was this most inclusive community that first elected the saints, whereupon smaller groups and finally individuals, guided by motives that were frequently quite external, selected specific patron saints from among the number of ecclesiastical saints. When the Church set apart a certain day of the year for the particular worship of one of its saints, this day was called by the name of the saint; to those…
Wilhelm Max Wundt, Elements of Folk Psychology Outline of a Psychological History of the Development of Mankind
Close in meaning to Catholic Church in France; the term itself is not named.
That kingdom, though at first converted by Romish missionaries, though it had afterwards advanced some farther steps towards subjection to Rome, maintained still a considerable independence in its ecclesiastical administration; and forming a world within itself, entirely separated from the rest of Europe, it had hitherto proved inaccessible to those exorbitant claims which supported the grandeur of the papacy…
David Hume, The History of England, Volume I
Close in meaning to Catholic Church in France; the term itself is not named.
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Part of Conservatism.
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