popery
noun
the Roman Catholic Church, especially its doctrines, ceremonies, and system of government.
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In the turbulence of the colony during and after the civil wars of England, there becomes more and more manifest a growing spirit of fanaticism, especially in the form of antipopery crusading.
From A History of American Christianity by Leonard Woolsey Bacon