anti-Catholic

British  

adjective

1. opposed to the beliefs, practices, and adherents of the Roman Catholic Church

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noun

1. someone opposed to the Roman Catholic Church and its adherents

   he called him an anti-Catholic

Other Word Forms

• anti-Catholicism
  noun

Example Sentences

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anti-Catholic

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

Sixty years earlier, the specter of anti-Catholic prejudice led Kennedy to address the question of how his Catholicism would affect his conduct in the White House.

From Salon ● Dec. 1, 2024

He also said he could not recall whether he had read the unredacted version of the anti-Catholic memo produced by the Richmond field office before he previously testified in front of the House Judiciary Committee.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 5, 2023

“Being anti-Catholic would be anti-people, and that’s not what we do.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2023

Germany, fresh in unity, and still quivering with the long-forgotten delight of conquest, was also, as an Empire, anti-Catholic, and the Kultur Kampf, which was really a religious struggle, was at its height.

From Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford