Puritan

1. Anti-Catholic
1.  "Puritans condemned ten Catholics to death and plundered the property of the Catholic clergy" (11/29/11)
2. "Puritanism was fundamentally anti-Catholic: Puritans felt that the Church of England was still too close to Catholicism and needed to be reformed further." (11/29/11)
3. "Puritanism was, by definition, anti-Catholic: it sought to remove what it called "Popish superstition" from Anglicanism.  Anything that looked like a Catholic holdover was rejected for that reason alone.  They were even against the wearing of church vestments, since that's what Catholics do. " (11/29/11)
4. "[I]n 1647, Massachusetts Bay banned Jesuit priests from the colony on penalty of death." (11/29/11)