Definition of "laicism" [laicism]

• Secularism (noun)

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• "While Lucien Bouchard's comments on sovereignty this week were remarkable, his criticism of what he called radical "laicism" - a distinctly French version of secularism - in the Parti Québécois touched much more directly on current controversies."
• "In meeting with Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday, Sarkozy said: "I am calling for a positive laicism, that is to say, a secularism that watches over freedom of thought, of belief and unbelief, does not consider religion as a danger, but as an asset.""
• "On the bases of liberalism and laicism they wished to build other social edifices which, powerful and imposing as they seemed at first, all too soon revealed the weakness of their foundations, and today are crumbling one after another before our eyes, as everything must crumble that is not grounded on the one corner stone which is Christ Jesus."