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The Roman Catholic Religion was a pwerful force through much of Venice's history, so during carnival's the well-to-do Venitians would don masks so that if the behavior became "uncatholic" the bishops would not now who they were.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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But, reverting to the new phases in the ever-shifting emotionalism of a godless world, with which marriage has become a question of barter -- a mere lot-drawing of lambs for the shambles -- he compared the happy queenly life of our Irish mother with that of the victim of fashion, or that of uncatholic lands, where a poor girl passes from one state of slavery to another.
My New Curate P.A. Sheehan
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An uncatholic national feeling had been aroused some years before in New York, assuming under Bishop Connolly all obsequiousness to that prelate and zeal for his honor; under Bishop Du
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Even the odor of my Calcutta washerman, redolent with the fragrance of castor oil, was too much for my unchastised squeamishness; and as to assafoetida, the favorite condiment of our Aryan cousins, I was so uncatholic as to bring away from India the same aversion to it that I had carried out there.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 Various
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They must go to work and make their own music, -- real music; for in these days unharmonious sounds are almost as much out of place in the worship of God as an uncatholic spirit and an heretical doctrine.
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He had reason to condemn the Bishop for unchristian behaviour; but he preferred to condemn him for uncatholic behaviour.
The Altar Steps Compton MacKenzie 1927
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Yes, the man was incomprehensible, heretical, dangerous; he was uncatholic and unchristian.
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Our contention is not uncatholic, as we conceive the practice of the Church in its early days.
Memorial of the Convocation of the Colored People in the Diocese of North Carolina Presented to the Diocesan Convention of 1916 Episcopal Church. Diocese of North Carolina. Convocation of the Colored People. 1916
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Admitting the fact that in the West at any rate this is an unusual thing and that the ordinary normal method of extending the Episcopate is in the diocesan system, we must not forget that other methods have been used and have not been condemned by the Church as uncatholic.
Memorial of the Convocation of the Colored People in the Diocese of North Carolina Presented to the Diocesan Convention of 1916 Episcopal Church. Diocese of North Carolina. Convocation of the Colored People. 1916
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This was followed by other uncatholic writings, e.g. one against the doctrine of the Church on confession (Augsburg, 1521) and a sermon on the Holy Eucharist
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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