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  • At the same time, Tyndale was buttressing his practice with theory, in writings that promoted the anti-papal Lutheran cause and provoked the ire of Catholic apologists such as the heretic-burner Thomas More, who unjustly accused Tyndale of being a political as well as religious revolutionary.

    The King James Bible reconsidered | David Edgar 2011

  • Catholic opposition to birth control was one of the most oft-cited policy areas latched onto by the anti-papal Protestants.

    John R. Bohrer: Kennedy, the Pill and Conservatives for Contraception 2010

  • But, he added, in Britain, the issue of protests is "a broader one because in the United Kingdom there are atheist groups, some of them anti-papal in nature, but also this forms part of a plural society like the British one."

    Pope Benedict XVI set to begin controversial state visit to Britain 2010

  • But, he added, in Britain, the issue of protests is "a broader one because in the United Kingdom there are atheist groups, some of them anti-papal in nature, but also this forms part of a plural society like the British one."

    Controversy around Britain's first papal state visit deepens 2010

  • But, he added, in Britain, the issue of protests is "a broader one because in the United Kingdom there are atheist groups, some of them anti-papal in nature, but also this forms part of a plural society like the British one."

    Pope Benedict XVI set to begin controversial state visit to Britain 2010

  • The citizens then executed the anti-papal agitator.

    Photos from Mass for Pope Adrian IV 2009

  • It is rather ironic that much hot air was given in the programme to the notion that the Pope has "bad advisors" when some of the most vehement anti-papal rhetoric came from a former Principal Advisor to the Archbishop of Westminster.

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

  • It is also worth noting that the close in time and comparable French revolution was both anti-monarchists and anti-papal.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The Declaration of Independence and the Case for Non-Ethnic Secession: 2009

  • How easy is it to insert anti-papal wishful thinking into the mouth of a ficitious "official" and then report this official's criticism as fact?

    Archive 2009-02-22 2009

  • Perhaps the most determinedly anti-papal newspaper on this issue has been the Times which ran four pieces yesterday attacking the Holy Father, saying, for example "The Pope's statement about condoms is a threat to public health"; "when the ultra-conservative head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith was elected Pope all hopes of change vanished."

    Archive 2009-03-01 2009

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