Anti-Catholic slurs

New Testament symbol

thumb|Supplement given with the Weekly Freeman of October 1883

thumb|1807 cartoon by James Gillray depicting [[George III saying "bring in the papists!"]] The words Popery (adjective Popish) and Papism (adjective Papist, also used to refer to an individual) are mainly historical pejorative words in the English language for Roman Catholicism, once frequently used by Protestants and Eastern Orthodox Christians to label their Catholic opponents, who differed from them in accepting the authority of the Pope over the Christian Church. The words were popularised during the English Reformation (1532–1559), when the Church of England broke away from the Catholic

theory in some Christian churches

book by Alexander Hislop

A Nicodemite () is a person suspected of publicly misrepresenting their religious faith to conceal their true beliefs. The term is sometimes defined as referring to a Protestant who lived in a Catholic country and escaped persecution by concealing their Protestantism.

16th century Dutch revolutionary slogan

thumb|Drawing depicting John Dowling (pastor)|Pastor John Dowling authoring his book The History of Romanism. Romanism is a derogatory term for Roman Catholicism used when anti-Catholicism was more common in the United States. The word was first attested in 1603.