popery

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With so many important battles to be fought, does white magic still have a place in the world and is it even comparable to the witchery popery of 400 years ago?

From The Guardian • Feb. 16, 2019

A fear of popery might have appealed to some Tories.

From The Guardian • Jun. 21, 2016

And while Pope Francis may be the first actual pope to appear in a film, he'll be following a long and varied tradition of on-screen popery.

From The Verge • Feb. 2, 2016

Instead of withstanding some mighty influence, it might be that of Metternich, Byron, or Eugene Sue, popery, socialism, or Polish patriotism, being foreign, they yielded to its prestige, their own judgment being vacillating and uncertain.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. by Freytag, Gustav

At the same time that Luther issued his powerful theses against popery a man lived in Switzerland whose eyes had also been opened to the corruption of the church.

From Life of Luther with several introductory and concluding chapters from general church history by Just, Gustav