Romish

“A native of America must have very singular good fortune, who, after residing fourteen years in his own country, should go to Europe, enter into Romish orders, obtain the promotion of cardinal, afterwards that of pope, and at length be so much in the confidence of his own country as to be elected President.”

In the 1970s, Foy Valentine , a crusader for traditional Christian morality and the longtime head of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Christian Life Commission, griped that public campaigns against abortion were a strictly Roman Catholic preoccupation; other evangelicals were also wary of participating in anti-abortion politics for fear of associating too closely with a cause presumed to be thoroughly Catholic, and at times they developed their own parallel anti-abortion groups just to avoid cooperating with the Romish.

The Ku Klux Klan got a second wind, this time with Bolshevik Jews and Romish Papists as its demons.

Photograph: Asia Plus Romish Ibrohimov, a designer and photographer sporting a red-hued hipster beard, insists he “did not grow a beard for religious reasons or because I wanted to be vulgar, but because it is beautiful”.

“I think it’s great they’re getting out there and learning these skills,” said Sarah Romish, one of the lemonade stand customers, who works for Bend Park & Recreation.