ultramontane

• The American Catholic Church, while characterized in all its ranks, in respect of loyal devotion to the pope, by a high type of ultramontane orthodoxy, is to be administered on patriotic American principles. —  A History of American Christianity
• The party of tradition and authority is "ultramontane." —  The Promise of American Life
• From its ultramontane, tyrannical, liberticidal fury, it will be thought the organ of Rome. —  The Wandering Jew — Volume 06
• The religious community was only a pretext; but, thanks to an extensive connection, kept up by means of the most decided members of the ultramontane (i. e. high-church) party, a great number of rich orphans were placed in the convent, there to receive a solid, austere, religious education, very preferable, it was said, to the frivolous instruction which might be had in the fashionable boarding schools, infected by the corruption of the age. —  The Wandering Jew — Volume 04
• Opposed to both these parties is the ultramontane, the head of which is the Romish hierarchy, and the body of which is the inert mass of ignorant peasantry, over whom the influence of the clergy seems little shaken by any of the modern moral earthquakes. —  The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner

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