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Anti-Catholicism came over on the Mayflower. It was part of the doctrinal baggage that the founding Protestants - whether separatist Puritan, Scottish Presbyterian or Cavalier Anglican - brought with them. Almost every colony harassed "papists," and some excluded Catholics entirely; priests were liable to arrest in Massachusetts. The Dudleian Lectures were established at Harvard in the early 18th century partly to expose, as their founder said, "the Church of Rome as that mystical Babylon, that woman of sin, that apostate church spoken of in the New Testament." In New York in 1741, two Catholics were executed, one for being a "professed...
...correspondents covering the movement were an ecumenical group. James Wilde, on the West Coast, marveled at the faith of the Evangelicals, but says that he remains "an un repentant papist. I prefer the pomp of Rome, the scarlet Cardinals and Gregorian Chant...
...Protestants united to terrorize and exclude them. The initiation oath for the Orange order still requires that members swear allegiance to the heirs to the Crown, "so long as they support the Protestant ascendancy." and each member must swear, "I am not, nor ever was a Roman Catholic or papist...
...fired into the Pope's belly, and the Pope into the Devil's belly, and the Devil into Hell, and the door locked and the key in an Orangeman's pocket; and may we never lack a brisk Protestant boy to kick the arse of a Papist...
Almost everything in Ulster eventually comes down to the Protestant-Catholic question. That has been the case since 1690, when William of Orange defeated the papist forces of James II at the Battle of the Boyne. The Protestant domination of the Catholics subsequently reached into every corner of life in Northern Ireland. In some respects, the antagonism is as much social and economic as it is religious. But almost always, things get back to the Protestant-v.-Catholic issue. A characteristic complaint comes from Walter Williams, Grand Secretary of the 95,000-member Loyal Orange Institution of Ireland: "Those people...