anti-Catholic
Britishadjective
noun
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By the 1840s, anti-Catholic nativists insisted that the foreign-born should likewise be excluded, or at least compelled to wait longer than the customary five years of residency before earning voting rights.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026
In 1960, when anti-Catholic sentiment was more prevalent, then-candidate John F. Kennedy gave a landmark speech to a group of Protestant ministers, pledging he would not take orders from the Catholic Church if elected.
From Washington Times • Jun. 9, 2023
“The Catholic organizations that are demonizing the Sisters and saying that they are somehow hateful or anti-Catholic have it completely backwards,” Wiener said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2023
It isn’t anti-Catholic, anti-parents or anti-anything except spies, terrorists and organized crime.
From Washington Post • Feb. 13, 2023
Just as little as we find anti-Catholic, so also do we fail to discover anti-absolutist strains in Don Quixote.
From The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine by Heine, Heinrich
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