Simplify the following text for a Grade 11 native English-speaking person.
Original: Bennett 's politics , which influenced the articles in the Herald , tended to be anti-Catholic , but he was not particularly anti-immigrant as like most people who did not like the Catholics in New York at the time .
Simplified: Bennett 's politics tended to be anti-Catholic and he had tended to favor the Know-Nothing faction though he was not particularly anti-immigrant as they were .