Word: hereticism
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Before 1908 mixed marriages were not questioned in Quebec, because in 1741 Pope Benedict XIV declared that in The Netherlands and Belgium a Catholic could marry a "heretic" (i.e., a non-Catholic) without observance of Catholic ritual. Pope Clement XIII extended this ruling to Canada in 1764. The "Benedictine dispensation...
There Francis won the dislike and doctrinal distrust of "tall, dark, thin, intense yet sardonic" Father Tarrant. When Francis ventured: "Surely, sir, creed is such an accident of birth God can't set an exclusive value on it," Father Tarrant answered icily: "What an admirable heretic you would have...
The cosmopolitan British force at Cheren was led, and its every move was planned, by a thin-faced, Mephistophelean-appearing figure, Lieut. General William Platt, 55. An old hand on Britain's practice field of war, the Indian North-West Frontier, General Platt has for three years been Raid...
Branded as Heretic
Dunster was branded as a heretic and a dangerous character because he expressed his belief that infants should not be baptized, but that baptism should be postponed until persons were old enough to know whether they desired to be baptized or not. This stand caused a great furore among the...