anti-Catholic

adjective

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

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

Framing his rebellion as a holy crusade against godless socialists, Franco strengthened the church’s role in Spanish life by funding church reconstruction, reinstating religious education in schools, and giving the clergy authority to censor anything they deemed anti-Catholic.

Read more on Slate

In a post on X, Patel said that the attacker "left multiple anti-Catholic, anti-religious references" written on guns and in notes uncovered by investigators.

Read more on BBC

Two children were killed and 17 others injured in an incident that the FBI is treating as an anti-Catholic hate crime.

Read more on BBC

Campaigners have accused Lady Astor of being anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic and a Nazi sympathiser but supporters say she was a victim of misogyny and was "opposed to Nazism".

Read more on BBC

The court’s conservatives, all of whom were raised as Catholics, trace the history of opposition to “sectarian” schools to 19th century anti-Catholic “bigotry.”

Read more on Los Angeles Times