ABSTRACT
The presence of a growing Catholic population prompted a resurgence of anti-Catholicism amid charges that loyalty to Rome was in contradiction to attachment to American principles and ways. This hostility was expressed both in organizations favouring restriction of immigration, like the American Protective Association, and in efforts to maintain Protestant dominance, particularly in the swelling cities. Josiah Strong (1847 -1916), as a well-known publicist and, from 1886, General Secretary of the Evangelical Alliance, was prominent in portraying Catholicism as an element in the social crisis which could only be met by a socially and politically progressive inter-denominational Protestantism.
