ULTRAMONTANISM

school, party, tendency, and policy in R.C. Church, its existence as distinct from Catholicism being denied by Catholics as a whole. It is the inheritor of the medieeval opposition to secularism and is largely equivalent to the modern opposition to liberalism or ‘modernism’ of any kind. It really sums up the dominant tendencies in the R.C. Church and the policy of the Curia, is certainly opposed to secularism, rationalism, and naticnalism, but tends to be a vague term flung at certain R.C tendencies by those who do not agree with them. The formulation of the doctrine of Papal Infallibility at the Vatican Council of 1870 was certainly a triumph of U.. and likewise later pronouncements against modernism.