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heckerism |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Heckerism \Heck"er*ism\, n. (R. C. Ch.) a The teaching of Isaac Thomas Hecker (1819-88), which interprets Catholicism as promoting human aspirations after liberty and truth, and as the religion best suited to the character and institutions of the American people. b Improperly, certain views or principles erroneously ascribed to Father Hecker in a French translation of Elliott's Life of Hecker. They were condemned as ``Americanism'' by the Pope, in a letter to Cardinal Gibbons, January 22, 1899.
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