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Monasteries Dissolution Acts (English)

Monasteries Dissolution Acts (English) (27 Hen. 8, c. 28; 31 Hen. 8, c. 13; 32 Hen. 8, cc. 7, 24); and consult Br. & Had. Cm. i. 466, and ii. 68. As to existing law of banishment of members of Roman Catholic religious orders (not being nunneries), see ROMAN CATHOLICS...

Religion

Religion, in a wide sense, therefore, is those fundamental principles which sustain life and without which life will not survive, Aruna Roy v. Union of India, (2002) 7 SCC 368.Religion, in Australia, the Constitution gives right to a person to follow his own religious belief and can freely exercise his religion, A Commentary on the Constitution of India, Durga Das Basu, Vol. D, p. 198.Religion, in Sri Lanka, the Constitution guarantees a citizen freedom of religion subject to the restrictions prescribed by law in the interest of national unity, integrity and security, A Commentary on the Constitution of India, Durga Das Basu, Vol. D, p. 200.Religion, in U.K., the Protestant Church headed by the Crown is by law established and built into the fabric of the English Constitution. The State has accepted the Protestant Church as a religious body reflecting the Christian faith, A Commentary on the Constitution of India, Durga Das Basu, Vol. D, p. 200.Religion, is a matter of faith stemming fr...

non Catholic

Not Roman Catholic not adhering to the Catholic religion...

Catholicize

To make or to become catholic or Roman Catholic...

Penal Laws

Penal Laws, those laws which prohibit an act, and impose a penalty for its commission. For the penal laws par excellence, see ROMAN CATHOLICS, and Lilly and Wallis's Laws affecting Catholics....

Popery

The religion of the Roman Catholic Church comprehending doctrines and practices generally used in an opprobrious sense...

Popish

Of or pertaining to the pope taught or ordained by the pope hence of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic Church often used opprobriously...

Protestant

One who protests originally applied to those who adhered to Luther and protested against or made a solemn declaration of dissent from a decree of the Emperor Charles V and the Diet of Spires in 1529 against the Reformers and appealed to a general council now used in a popular sense to designate any Christian who does not belong to the Roman Catholic or the Greek Church...

Protestantism

The quality or state of being protestant especially against the Roman Catholic Church the principles or religion of the Protestants...

Romanism

The tenets of the Church of Rome the Roman Catholic religion...

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