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  • His Catholicism came to seem rather seductive on another level: I come from a long line of reliably anti-papist WASPs, and that faint whiff of familial prejudice lent the beginnings of our relationship a Montagues and Capulets style allure, defiance being the great aphrodisiac of the young.

    Live and Let Love Andrea Buchanan 2011

  • His Catholicism came to seem rather seductive on another level: I come from a long line of reliably anti-papist WASPs, and that faint whiff of familial prejudice lent the beginnings of our relationship a Montagues and Capulets style allure, defiance being the great aphrodisiac of the young.

    Live and Let Love Andrea Buchanan 2011

  • Nativistic anti-Catholicism cropped up in a pulp literature featuring anti-papist stereotypes and undergirded the politics of the Know Nothing Party of the 1850s.

    Alan Kraut: Immigration: Is Obama the New Lincoln? Alan Kraut 2010

  • This made several people very angry, leading me to be denounced as some sort of anti-papist, which I am.

    Barrett Brown: Protein Wisdom and the Radness of Crowds 2009

  • Mark Shea spanks Dan Brown anti-Catholic bigotry. . .keep this handy for that blow-hard anti-papist uncle who shows up at summer family reunions

    It's time for. . .Coffee Bowl Browsing! 2009

  • Mark Shea spanks Dan Brown anti-Catholic bigotry. . .keep this handy for that blow-hard anti-papist uncle who shows up at summer family reunions

    Archive 2009-05-10 2009

  • Once influential critics and connoisseurs got over their puritanical, anti-papist disgust with this triumphalist, sensual and (in its images of human beings) extraordinarily lifelike style, Bernini began to be seen by some observers as one of the greatest sculptors in all Western art.

    Living, Breathing Portraits David Littlejohn 2008

  • The British colonies were predominantly anti-papist long before the birth of Thomases Jefferson and Paine and the Protestant and Enlightenment mistrust of Catholic ‚Äúritualistic idolatry‚Äù influences the dominant religious and intellectual currents in the U.S. to this day.

    OC Pilgrimage, Station 07: Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, Part One. | Mind on Fire 2006

  • And he’d even said that there was an eighteenth-century requirement that they weren’t enforcingthe anti-papist oathso that led me to think that maybe they were serious about the other ones.

    IsThatLegal? 2003

  • Then he said, “the law at the time would have required you to swear an anti-papist oath too, but”and here he broke into a broad smile“we’re not going to push it that far.

    IsThatLegal? 2003

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