Pope in the White House
The Pope in the White House conspiracy theory was an American anti-Catholic fringe belief amid the Romanism panic of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It originated in the real historical circumstance that the "Prisoner in the Vatican", having lost temporal power in Rome after 1870, was briefly considering relocation to find sanctuary in another European city, but instead the conspiracy theory posited a plan for a Washington Papacy that would assert a nefarious influence over the whole United States.