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Anti-Catholic Rhetoric in Eighteenth-Century Boston Anti-Catholic Rhetoric in Eighteenth-Century Boston
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Violence in the Colony of Maryland Violence in the Colony of Maryland
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New York Act against Jesuits and Popish Priests New York Act against Jesuits and Popish Priests
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A Letter from the Devil A Letter from the Devil
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The Burning of the Charlestown Convent The Burning of the Charlestown Convent
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A Jewish Woman Fears the Religious Riots in Philadelphia A Jewish Woman Fears the Religious Riots in Philadelphia
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The Orange Riots in New York City The Orange Riots in New York City
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Wide Awake Yankee Doodle Wide Awake Yankee Doodle
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Lyman Beecher's Plea Lyman Beecher's Plea
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The American Protective Associations “Secret Oath” The American Protective Associations “Secret Oath”
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Thomas E. Watson on the Confessional Thomas E. Watson on the Confessional
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The Ku Klux Klan The Ku Klux Klan
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The Kennedy Presidency The Kennedy Presidency
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Abstract
This chapter discusses anti-Catholicism in America, the roots of which stretch back to late antique Europe. Religious movements born in Europe and the Mediterranean that challenged the authority of the Roman Catholic Church or its teachings were common in the first few centuries after the Emperor Constantine. Gathering momentum in terms both of their numbers and their ability to attract followers, such movements increasingly emerged as permutations of Roman Catholicism, and especially as representations of altered Catholic doctrine. Because of that, they were considered heretical. Heretics and their followers, as apostates or traitors to the faith, posed a particular danger to Roman leadership as “wolves in sheep's clothing,” or a kind of malignancy thought to be growing in the body of the true church. Rome was ever watchful against heresy, rooting it out wherever it could be found, brutally punishing or exterminating heretical communities.
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