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
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
“Being anti-Catholic would be anti-people, and that’s not what we do.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2023
When I came into political life shortly after 1848, I found this anti-Catholic feeling most intense.
From Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 by Hoar, George Frisbie
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