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

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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 also said he could not recall whether he had read the unredacted version of the anti-Catholic memo produced by the Richmond field office before he previously testified in front of the House Judiciary Committee.

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

But few will deny that Motley wrote his very attractive histories at a white heat of Republican and anti-Catholic fervour.

From Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 by Evelyn Baring

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