clericalist

They were not clericalist.

In the eyes of the self-conscious clericalist, the laity were either labouring louts or armed thugs.

"I disliked intensely a certain tradition in Polish culture - right-wing, clericalist, anti-Semitic - and belonged to the left milieu during the war," he explained.

The Conservative Party was a center-right party, originally created to be the clericalist, pro-Catholic Church group.

The common characteristic of these entrepreneurs was their desire to be left alone by the religious enthusiasts and organizers, and to escape from the clericalist and canon law network.

The former supported absolute monarchism and the traditionalism of the Antiguo Régimen ("Old Regime"); they were uniformly close to the Roman Catholic Church, and generally clericalist.

It remained largely obscure until a journalist, Tommy Lapid, came to the helm in 1999 and focused the party sharply on combating what Shinui's Web site (www.shinui.org.il) describes as the "clericalist, coercive and discriminatory policies" of the militantly Orthodox parties.

Clericalist movements sometimes labeled as clerical fascist by their critics, can be considered reactionaries in terms of the 19th century, since they share some elements of fascism, while at the same time promote a return to the pre-revolutionary model of social relations, with a strong role for the Church.

St Bernard, a papalist and a clericalist, but a man who kept the prime pastoral function of the Church constantly before his eyes, thought the papacy's concern with the legal nexus was obsessive: 'Why do you sit from morning until evening,' he wrote to Eugenius III in 1150, 'listening to litigants?