Word: anti-catholicism
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...priest-sociologist, called anti-Catholic bias the "last remaining unexposed prejudice in American life." "This prejudice," wrote Greeley, "is not as harmful to individuals as either anti-Semitism or racism ... [But] it is more insidious because it is not acknowledged, not recognized, not explicitly and self-consciously rejected. Good American liberals who would not dream of using sexist language or racist slurs or anti-Semitic jokes have no problem at all about using anti-Catholic language, ethnic slurs or Polish jokes." There is still some truth in Writer Peter Viereck's remark in 1959: "Anti-Catholicism is the anti...
If the view of New England towards Rome was changing towards the close of the last century, partly because of contact with the enormous numbers of Catholics coming into the city of Boston, Rome's view of American Catholicism was in a state of transition too. Though American Catholics celebrated...
The first quake struck shortly before dawn, a strong, 6.3 nimbler that shook Mexico City a bit and unsettled the populace but inflicted no major damage. The really big quake hit nine hours later, when Pope John Paul II arrived at an airport named for a Mexican President famed for...
The IRA, no matter how unpopular it may be, is nevertheless a partisan of the Catholic cause. The army, with its strong anti-Catholic bias, is an antagonist, as are the Protestants. Most Catholics feel that the IRA is no more murderous than its enemies. The IRA is no more...
Protestants endorsed the tough new measures. "It shows that the government now really intends to do something about terrorism in the province," said William Craig, head of the Protestant Vanguard Party. Catholics, on the other hand, were wary; for years the I.R.A. has charged (and the British army has denied...