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Elected as an MP around the turn of the 18th Century, in protest at King James's anti-Catholicism, he took his seat for two short spells in the Commons.

From BBC • Apr. 10, 2025

Beginning in the early nineteenth century with the immigration of large numbers of Irish Catholics to the United States, anti-Catholicism became a common feature of American life and remained so until the mid-twentieth century.

From Textbooks • Jul. 28, 2021

Many of the evils of history—racism, sexism, anti-Catholicism, homophobia—have been rolled back by brave people who opened the eyes of their fellow citizens to prejudice.

From Slate • Feb. 25, 2021

First the Know-Nothings, or American party, whose xenophobia and anti-Catholicism got them elected in droves in New England in the early 1850s.

From The Guardian • Aug. 20, 2017

The American Revolution had unfolded a wonderful story, a story of anti-Catholicism, of persecution and prejudice which had resolved itself step by step into a state of complete freedom of action and religious liberty.

From The Loyalist A Story of the American Revolution by Barrett, James Francis