Tag Archives: Cardinal Newman

The Rise and Fall of Ultramontanism

Posted on July 1, 2011 by The Catholic Populist

  In Against the Murderous, Thieving Horde of Peasants, Martin Luther made the revolutionary set of statements that Romans 13: 1 – 7 has inherent within it the idea that Political Might Makes Right: “For a prince and lord must remember … Continue reading →

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The Dedication

Posted on March 25, 2011 by The Catholic Populist

Greetings, readers.  I am dedicating this blog to the two original Catholic populists — the newly beatified Cardinal St. John Henry Newman (1801 – 1890) and the statesman and historian Lord John Emerich Edward Dahlberg Acton (1837 – 1869). Obviously populism, … Continue reading →

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