“U” Entries

Ultramontanism.—Ultramontanism, a term used to denote integral and active Catholicism, because it recognizes as its spiritual head the Pope, who, for the greater part of Europe, is a dweller beyond the mountains (ultra montes), that is, beyond the Alps.... According to the definition given in Leichtenberger, “Encycl. des Sciences Religieuses” (ed. 1882): “The character of ultramontanism is manifested chiefly in the ardor with which it combats every movement of independence in the national churches, the condemnation which it visits upon works written to defend that independence, its denial of the rights of the state in matters of government, of ecclesiastical administration and ecclesiastical control, the tenacity with which it has prosecuted the declaration of the dogma of the Pope’s infallibility and with which it incessantly advocates the restoration of his temporal power as a necessary guaranty of his spiritual sovereignty.”-The Catholic Encyclopedia, Vol. XV, art. “Ultramontanism,” p. 125.SBBS 578.2

Ultramontanism, Triumph of.—The old names of “ultramontane,” and “Gallican,” not invented by Protestants, but watchwords of contending parties in the Roman Church, have almost dropped out of use, because the Gallican party has been crushed into insignificance and silence, while ultramontanism, swarming over the Alpine barriers which long shut it into Italy, has conquered the whole Latin obedience for a time.—“Plain Reasons Against Joining the Church of Rome,” Richard Frederick Littledale, LL. D., D. C. L., p. 198. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1905.SBBS 578.3

Ultramontanism.—See Jesuits, 266, 271; Gallicanism, 181.SBBS 578.4

Unam Sanctam.—See Church, 110; Infallibility, 247, 250; Jesuits, 271; Papacy, 354.SBBS 578.5