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  • Now if you believe that the recent Popes have all been heretics and that the see of Peter is thus vacant, you don't want to be praying in union with the arch-heretic Pope Benedict so you omit the "una cum" clause.

    Archive 2009-02-01 2009

  • Even though Calvinism was the dynamic heretical force which most successfully broke down the Catholic cultural and legal norms which had kept capitalism in check, it was still the basic concept of the arch-heretic Luther which can be said to be the greatest single Protestant contribution to the rise of capitalism and the capitalistic spirit in the minds of men.

    Catholicism, Protestantism, and Capitalism: Part II 2007

  • When the pope visited Greece in April, thousands of Orthodox monks, priests and faithful -- including members of Eleftheroi -- turned out to protest the arrival of the "arch-heretic."

    The Rock Star Monks 2007

  • These are the Martyrs of Al-Bakia, who received the crown of glory at the hands of Al-Muslim,23 the general of the arch-heretic Yazid24

    Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

  • The Arians intruded the impious Euzoius into that see, who, formerly being deacon at Alexandria, had been deposed and expelled the church, with the priest and arch-heretic Arius, by St. Alexander, bishop of Alexandria.

    The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler

  • The good nuns objected a little to Voltaire at first, but seem to have been finally reconciled to the visits of the arch-heretic.

    The Women of the French Salons Amelia Ruth Gere Mason

  • Augustine's opponent Pelagius, called the 'arch-heretic'.

    Man or Matter Ernst Lehrs

  • Lutherans; for, with them, all reformers alike were branded with the name of the arch-heretic.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 Various

  • Again, Elisha ben Abuya, the arch-heretic, is held up to reproach because he read [Hebrew: sfri minim], [322] under which title Greek Gnostic books are probably implied.

    Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria Norman Bentwich 1927

  • Why is he regarded as an arch-heretic, almost comparable to Galileo, Nietzsche or Simon Magnus?

    Prejudices : first series, 1919

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