Priestcraft

I found him denying or explaining away the existence of that Priestcraft, which is a notorious fact to every honest student of history, and justifying (as far as I can understand him) that double dealing by which prelates, in the middle age, too often played off alternately the sovereign against the people, and the people against the sovereign, careless which was in the right, so long as their own power gained by the move.

Apologia Pro Vita Sua John Henry Newman 1845

John Macgowan, 'the Shaver', whose satirical pamphlet Priestcraft

Letter 423 2009

In Priestcraft in Perfection, 1709, and An Historical and Critical Essay on the Thirty Nine Articles of the Church of England, 1724, Collins attacks the first clause of Article 20 of the 39 articles: “The Church hath power to decree rites or ceremonies, and authority in controversies of faith.”

Anthony Collins Uzgalis, William 2009

Edward Pellew, supported their request; he denounced "Pope, Popery, Priests, & Priestcraft" in the courthouse106 and informed the governor that the Protestant community had "reasonable grounds" for their fears. 107 One might wonder, then, why these same concerned Protestant inhabitants sheltered the main instigator, Patrick Power, housing him and feeding him for the next four years until he wore out his welcome with mounting debts.

Gutenber-e Help Page 2005

Priestcraft (superstition): Divine revelation is mediated through an institutional hierarchy (paradigmatic example: Catholic Church).

On a Question about Superstition and Enthusiasm in Hume 2005

Priestcraft (superstition): Divine revelation is mediated through an institutional hierarchy (paradigmatic example: Catholic Church).

Archive 2005-09-01 2005

“Priestcraft,” which until the 1640's had been primarily a sin of Catholics, now appeared as a univer - sal clerical trait.

DEISM ROGER L. EMERSON 1968

Therefore, we must acknowledge that either the Lord our God made a declaration that was nonsensical and unreasonable, or else the Roman Priestcraft is living a life which is diagonally contrary to the commands and demands of God

Thirty Years In Hell Or, From Darkness to Light Bernard Fresenborg

With this erroneous doctrine funneled into the minds of the female members of the Catholic Church, is it any wonder that the Priestcraft exerts a wonderful power over these members?

Thirty Years In Hell Or, From Darkness to Light Bernard Fresenborg

Oh, if I could but call about me in one vast throng the girls of this land, and all other lands, who have had the first thought of carnality planted in their bosom by the scheming Priestcraft, I would have a throng of tear-faced mortals that would rend the heart of stone and stigmatize the cunning of Catholicism with a stigma blacker than the lowering clouds of despair.

Thirty Years In Hell Or, From Darkness to Light Bernard Fresenborg