Word: ultramontanisme
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Joseph de Maistre condemned the Revolution and proclaimed that the only way to save society and restore Christianity was to assert the principles of authority and obedience. These principles he exalted in the church as well as in the state, and his Ultramontanism, or leaning towards the Roman See, was...
Ultramontanism triumphed in the councils of the Vatican in, 1870, but as has been seen in later years by the pontificate of Leo XIII, the papacy now guards itself from compromising its authority by extending its influence over temporal affairs.
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