papa ultramontano

I've added to the title "Musings of Ultramontane Liberals." According to the Catholic Encyclopedia of 1912, ultramontane refers to one who "is a dweller beyond the montains" which in reference to Rome is the Alps. During the Middle Ages, when a non-Italian was elected pope, he was referred to as "papa ultramontano", to which today, of course Josef Ratzinger is as Pope Benedict XVI. I'd like to elaborate much more on this idea of an ultramontane liberal later, but for now I'll simply say that I'm thinking of some sort of reconciliation between the Vatican I dogma of infallibility and the thought of the then controversial classical liberal Lord Acton. CK