How to Use anti-Catholic in a Sentence

anti-Catholic

adjective
  • Don't forget, this was the team that hosted anti-Catholic drag nuns three years ago during this very month.
    Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 6 June 2026
  • At one point, the Irish tried to join the Big Ten, but were kept out, in part, due to anti-Catholic prejudice.
    Jordan Sigler, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Opinions vary on Yost’s motives, from anti-Catholic sentiments to a feud with Knute Rockne.
    The Athletic College Football Staff, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Other notes reference the Gordon Riots — an uprising in 1780 spurred by anti-Catholic sentiment — and the Mohocks, a violent gang of upper-class young men who got drunk and attacked people.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The French started to plunder Spanish ships on their voyages to Spain, and the English quickly joined in—their attacks shaped, in part, by the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century, which spawned anti-Catholic and anti-Spanish sentiment.
    Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025

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