"antidisestablishmentarianistically..."
longest word in the English language, a schoolteacher once told us, but she declined to define it.
"and i suspect we are talking an RC priest!"
I am
I always associated it with sa separation of the state and the church - this is the definition I have
noun
1. opposition to the withdrawal of state support or recognition from an established church, especially the Anglican Church in 19th-century England.
I specifies the English Church but I believe it to be applicable and very relevant to Ireland, given recent and ongoing shenanigans
The church is rapidly changing here - just read a wonderful novel by one of Britain's great writers, where a Vatican Conclave inadvertently appoints a gay Pope - can't wait for the reaction - here locally and maybe from our serial whatsit on Mudcat
Jim Carroll