papistry
Loyalty to Rome
Papistry is a disparaging term for Roman Catholicism, emphasizing allegiance to the Pope.
The word carries strong Protestant bias, historically used to characterize Catholic beliefs and practices as foreign or subversive: The Puritans denounced papistry as idolatry.
Like papist, the term is archaic and appears mainly in historical contexts.
Catholic worship service
- transubstantiationChange of underlying substance
- sacramentsSacred Christian rites
- confessionAdmission of wrongdoing
- penanceSelf-mortification for wrongdoing
rosary · vestments · incense · holy water · relics · saints · veneration · genuflection
Dismissively Catholic
- anti-CatholicBiased against Roman Catholics
- ProtestantPost-schism Western Christian
- ReformationReligious movement splitting Christianity
- idolatryVeneration of false gods
superstition · priestcraft · bigotry · sectarianism · slur · epithet · polemic · pamphlet
Papal Christian denomination
- VaticanPapal city-state
- PopeCatholic Church's supreme leader
- RomeItaly's capital city
- Counter-ReformationChurch's internal reform movement
Inquisition · Tudor · Elizabethan · Jacobean · Gunpowder Plot · Spanish Armada · Mary Tudor · Bloody Mary
Mass
Catholic worship service
- transubstantiationChange of underlying substance
- sacramentsSacred Christian rites
- confessionAdmission of wrongdoing
penance · rosary · vestments · incense · holy water · relics · saints · veneration · genuflection · procession
popish
Dismissively Catholic
- anti-CatholicBiased against Roman Catholics
- ProtestantPost-schism Western Christian
- ReformationReligious movement splitting Christianity
idolatry · superstition · priestcraft · bigotry · sectarianism · slur · epithet · polemic · pamphlet · propaganda
Catholicism
Papal Christian denomination
Counter-Reformation · Inquisition · Tudor · Elizabethan · Jacobean · Gunpowder Plot · Spanish Armada · Mary Tudor · Bloody Mary · martyrs
papistryProtestantism
Reformation-era Christian movement
Calvinism · Lutheranism · Anglicanism · Presbyterianism · evangelicalism