Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The Ecclesiastical Titles Act 1851 was an Act of the British Parliament (14 & 15 Vict. c. 60) passed in 1851 as an anti-Roman Catholic measure. It was ineffective and was repealed 20 years later by the Ecclesiastical Titles Act 1871. It was legislation demanded by prime minister John Russell in the wake of widespread popular \"no popery\" outbursts in 1850 when the Catholic Church set up a network of its own bishops in England. Anti-Catholic elements dennounced the Papal move as \"papal aggression.\" The new law was the last effort made to repress a Christian church, and was repealed in 1871. Catholic bishops officially followed the law but rank-and-file Catholics ignored it. The effect was to strengthen the Catholic Church in England, but also it felt persecuted and on the defensive."@en }
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- Ecclesiastical_Titles_Act_1851 abstract "The Ecclesiastical Titles Act 1851 was an Act of the British Parliament (14 & 15 Vict. c. 60) passed in 1851 as an anti-Roman Catholic measure. It was ineffective and was repealed 20 years later by the Ecclesiastical Titles Act 1871. It was legislation demanded by prime minister John Russell in the wake of widespread popular \"no popery\" outbursts in 1850 when the Catholic Church set up a network of its own bishops in England. Anti-Catholic elements dennounced the Papal move as \"papal aggression.\" The new law was the last effort made to repress a Christian church, and was repealed in 1871. Catholic bishops officially followed the law but rank-and-file Catholics ignored it. The effect was to strengthen the Catholic Church in England, but also it felt persecuted and on the defensive.".