Word: kulturkampf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Roman Catholic Church has withstood down the ages onslaughts from the civil power of almost every predominantly Catholic state. When Vittorio Emanuele II contracted the temporal sway of the Pope within the Holy See (1870) he but served to enhance the spiritual prestige of the Papacy. Despite the Kulturkampf the Catholic party is still one. of the most potent in Germany. Frenchmen have not so completely disestablished Catholicism as not to heed an occasional whisper from the Vatican. Who is Calles, what is Mexico that the immemorially potent Papacy should fear it may not triumph in the end? Centuries...