popedom

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What a grand subject for a history the Popedom is!

From Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson

The Western Catholic Church entertained, as we have seen, a diversity of views as to the relative authority of the Popedom, as an institution of Christ, and that which appertained to Councils.

From Life of Luther by Koestlin, Julius

It was connected too with the longings for political deliverance from the temporal dominion of the Popedom which were now beginning to be felt.

From History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion by Farrar, Adam Storey

The phrase was considered as giving a highly favourable aspect to his political prospects; for, as is likewise the case with the Popedom, nobody ever becomes President without taking a name other than his own.

From Famous Stories Every Child Should Know by Mabie, Hamilton Wright

What this Popedom had to do by the law of veracity, was to give up its own foul galvanic life, an offence to gods and men; honestly to die, and get itself buried.

From Latter-Day Pamphlets by Carlyle, Thomas