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Back then, Americans didn't see it that way. There was a widespread suspicion that Catholicism was incompatible with democracy.

• dragonwriter 8y ago
  > There was a widespread suspicion that Catholicism was incompatible with democracy. And that was the secularized, polite face of the common religious belief that both the Papacy as an office and the particular occupants of that office were the literal referent of the biblical Antichrist, and that “Papists” were, therefore, followers of the Antichrist.