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In 1904, the writer Marcel Proust (1871-1922) published a famous article in "Le Figaro", entitled La mort des Cathédrales, against the proposed laicist legislation that would have led to a suppression of state subsidies for the Church and threatened the religious use of the French cathedrals.

Fr Lang on Beauty and the Liturgy 2009

The modern state is laicist in nature because it does not recognize the existence of the Catholic public thing (res publica).

The State of Connecticut attacks the Catholic Church 2009

It produced the economists and the principal Jesuits who contributed so much to give to the reign of Charles III the laicist character that it developed.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

Louise Beaudoin, the PQ immigration critic, spoke in a more sober tone, saying that her party had always been open to immigrants, many of whom have fled fundamentalism (intégrisme in French) and are glad to be in a secular, laicist society.

The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed 2010

Louise Beaudoin, the PQ immigration critic, spoke in a more sober tone, saying that her party had always been open to immigrants, many of whom have fled fundamentalism (intégrisme in French) and are glad to be in a secular, laicist society.

The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed 2010

Today, we face the wave of secularism which has as its starting point the strict separation of Church and State: a laicist model advocating that the State should be strictly separate from religion which is conceived as belonging exclusively to the private domain.

The Daily Register NCRegister 2010

This profane character which has developed in some European States is driving people to be laicist or even anti-Christian.

The Daily Register NCRegister 2010

He says that at university 'a varied range of social movements flourished ... under the benign laicist policies of Archbishop Mannix.

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He says that at university 'a varied range of social movements flourished ... under the benign laicist policies of Archbishop Mannix.

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