Word: papismã
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...Yellow Peril” and the incline of “papism,” blocked appropriations in state legislatures for new public schools in the Catholic-dominated areas. The few public schools still operating often refused to allow Catholics through the doors, nervous the “papism?? of students—and their sheer numbers—would reduce educational quality for the other pupils. Desperate, Catholic city councils (like Boston’s) gave whatever support they could to Jesuit private schools to allow at least some of the children to attend institutions that functioned...
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