anti-Catholic
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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
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
“Being anti-Catholic would be anti-people, and that’s not what we do.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2023
It isn’t anti-Catholic, anti-parents or anti-anything except spies, terrorists and organized crime.
From Washington Post • Feb. 13, 2023
Pius IX. issued a condemnation of his anti-Catholic writings.
From Pius IX. And His Time by Dawson, Æneas MacDonell
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