Alternatively, he may have devised the anti-clerical legislation of the period 1529 to 1533 as a weapon to bludgeon the pope into granting the annulment, only to resort to the supremacy as an emergency measure when Anne Boleyn became pregnant in 1533.

Priests were allowed to vote for the first time since the 1920s, due to the repeal of anti-clerical legislation in January [see p. 38758].

There Pius condemned current liberalizing anti-clerical legislation in South America as "a ferocious war on the Church."

Monks from the monastery of St. Edmund's, in Douai, France, came to Woolhampton in 1903 when the community left France as a result of anti-clerical legislation.

Calles also added his own anti-clerical legislation including a requirement that prohibited priests from ministering unless licensed by the state.

The last straw came in 1820, when the triumph of the liberals in Spain, followed by anti-clerical legislation, brought all the prelates, with two exceptions, out on the side of independence.

Calles applied anti-clerical laws throughout the country and added his own anti-clerical legislation.

By 1857, additional anti-clerical legislation, such as the Iglesias Law (named after José María Iglesias) regulated the collection of clerical fees from the poor and prohibited clerics from charging for baptisms, marriages, or funeral services.

Touvier's father was vehemently opposed to the anti-clerical legislation promulgated by the Third Republic and was a supporter of Charles Maurras and L'Action Française, both of which advocated a monarchist restoration in France.

Among liberals, however, there was fear that the new regime would not last; and conservatives and the Church worried that the new liberal government would expand its reforms and anti-clerical legislation.