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 said that while he was “aghast” after seeing the memo, it doesn’t signal any deep anti-Catholic bias within the bureau’s ranks.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 5, 2023

The sisters’ mission statement is “the expiation of stigmatic guilt and the promulgation of universal joy,” but since their inception, they’ve been called diabolical and anti-Catholic and accused by their detractors of mocking Catholic nuns.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2023

So far, however, they have failed to stir up an anti-Catholic movement in Peru.

From The Friars in the Philippines by Coleman, Ambrose