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
“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
On Thursday, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence said the group wasn’t anti-Catholic, and its members were offended and outraged by the Dodgers’ decision.
From Washington Times ● May 18, 2023
It isn’t anti-Catholic, anti-parents or anti-anything except spies, terrorists and organized crime.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 13, 2023
Ranke should have added that the English Catholics at this crisis proved themselves as loyal to their Queen and true to their country as were the most vehement anti-Catholic zealots in the island.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10 by Rudd, John
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