Word: anti-catholicism
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Most people don’t get St. Patrick’s Day. Sure, they might have a vague idea about parades or corned beef and cabbage, and they all know about green beer. But even in Boston and New York, where Irish blood flows like a river and massive...
... “Anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic, a bunch of rich snobs, a bunch of Communists, a bunch of atheists,” Fitzsimmons recalls being told of the Kremlin on the Charles.
“I only know it happened,” says Douglas Marshall, who is writing a biography of Shattuck’s son. Marshall says Shattuck had also donated money to construct Harvard’s observatory and to rebuild an Ursuline convent after it was destroyed in...
Ballyhoo aside, a distinction needs to be drawn between imperialism and modernization, too often conflated in the West and elsewhere. Ireland herself provides an instructive example. In the 1600s Oliver Cromwell subjugated the Emerald Isle, massacring thousands of Irish civilians and confiscating most of their landholdings. In the ensuing centuries...
Although the banner of secularism is different from the anti-Catholic cry of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the church-state separationists of today share a battle cry with the Know Nothings against “pervasively sectarian” (in the language of at least a few...