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Opposed to the influence and activities of the church or ordained persons in secular or public affairs.

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  • The policy known as anticlerical, inaugurated by Gambetta in his speech at Romans, 18 September, 1878, containing the famous catchword
  • Growth of national and anticlerical (antipapal) feeling.
  • Then the early 20th century saw radically anticlerical policies.
  • Did Ocampo have a personal agenda in becoming such an anticlerical enragé?
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