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

After three years spent in this cloister Luther was called upon the stage where his battle with popery was to be fought.

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

In the reigns of Charles II. and James II., when the dread of popery was general, the people universally observed the Fifth of November as a day of thanksgiving to God.

From Guy Fawkes or A Complete History Of The Gunpowder Treason, A.D. 1605 by Lathbury, Thomas