anti-Catholicism

English

Etymology

anti- +‎ Catholic

Noun

anti-Catholicism (uncountable)

  1. Fear or hatred of Catholics.
    • 2013 June 2, “Scotland has an issue with anti-Catholicism. That's a fact ... and we have to face it”, in The Herald‎:
      The matter of anti-Catholicism in Scotland is usually guaranteed to spark fierce debate.
    • 2015 September 12, Carroll, Rory, “America's dark and not-very-distant history of hating Catholics”, in The Guardian‎:
      Progressives and conservatives are in a rare unity welcoming Pope Francis to the US, but anti-Catholicism was rampant before John F Kennedy was president.
    • 2016 March 1, Mullarkey, Maureen, “Why Anti-Catholicism Will Rise”, in The Federalist‎:
      Historian Arthur Schlesinger Sr. called anti-Catholicism “the deepest-held bias in the history of the American people.”

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