2025, JULY 27
Rome as the Enemy: How Klan Ideology Shaped Revivalist Anti-Catholicism
Anti-Catholic ideology in the United States developed from nineteenth- and early twentieth-century nativism into organized movements such as the Ku Klux Klan, where Catholicism was framed as a foreign and authoritarian threat to American identity. Those narratives were later spiritualized within healing revivals and certain charismatic networks, allowing older patterns of religious hostility to persist under the language of prophecy, discernment, and spiritual warfare.