The phrase "catholic enclave" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to an area or region with a primarily Catholic population or culture, such as a small town or a particular part of a city. For example, you could say, "The southwest corner of the city is a well-known and vibrant Catholic enclave."
He was brought up in a Roman Catholic enclave in a predominantly Protestant area.
The new pope was born into a conservative Catholic enclave in a country with deep Protestant roots.
THE Fishtown district of Philadelphia was known as a tight-knit Irish Catholic enclave — and a place to score drugs.
The violence centered on the Short Strand district, a Roman Catholic enclave in mainly Protestant eastern Belfast.
Last month, seven police officers were injured in rioting prompted when a Protestant band played anti-Catholic tunes outside St. Patrick's Church in Carrick Hill, a Catholic enclave.
He knows, for example, that in New York, most of the eastern European surnames are Jewish -- except in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn, a Polish Catholic enclave.
The recent wave of paedophile scandals affecting the clergy is making this harder, to say the very least.Indeed, there are parts of the world, including Ireland and Catholic enclaves in the United States, where the effect of these scandals has not yet played out fully.
The house, known as Fortress Fitt after security grills and an entry phone system were installed, was in an area of north Belfast patchworked with Protestant and Catholic enclaves, and notorious for the highest number of sectarian attacks in the province.
The house, known as Fortress Fitt after security grills and an entry phone system had been installed, was in an area of north Belfast patchworked with protestant and Catholic enclaves, and notorious for the highest number of sectarian attacks in Northern Ireland.
"How's the family?" Mr. Emanuel said he walked 82 precincts in the primary, losing 12 pounds in the process, and spent hours working the elevated train stations and grocery stores, trying to make himself familiar to voters of the heavily Roman Catholic enclaves that constitute the heart of the district.
Barbara Grebin, 68, said she sent her first check to Mr. Barry in 1982, trusting him because they came from the same close-knit Irish-Catholic enclave.
