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Quite Frankly- as a Catholic myself- I find charges of "anti Catholicism" among Protestant Americans to be a myth.

Is this freepermail a myth?

Save to say I don’t agree. It is not a myth, it is real. That the greater problem may be the liberal elite, that is a reasonable conclusion. That anti-Catholic Protestants are not a problem would seem to be false to me. Most Protestants get along fine with Catholics. Some refuse.

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Re #2: My mom took instruction in Catholicism in 1964 and took me with her. The text was
Father Smith Instructs Jackson.

I've always revered those Catholic aspects of the Faith.

But I need to ask of this Human, and hence sinner, Pope....

The problem I have with "anti Catholicism" is a lack of defintion. I believe that Protestants are all heretics and wrong- as does the Catholic church when you get to the nitty gritty of it all and past nice flowery Vatican II language. Does that make me "anti Protestant?" Now if a Protestant believes the Catholic Church to be the "whore of Babylon" does that make him "anti Catholic?" Or is it an expression of faith? Do we take our faiths seriously? If so then both Protestants and Catholics should say so and say so freely that the other is wrong. That is not "hate". In this messed up age we are quick to call any strongly held opinion or faith to be "hate". Not so. I may think Protestants and Jews and Hindus and Muslems all believe in false faiths but that does not mean I can't tolerate them or work with them or do business with them.

Are there whackos out there in Protestant America who wouldn't hire a Catholic or break bread with one? Sure- maybe a few here and there but they are few and far between. What you call "anti Catholicism" is merely strongly held protestant faith (flawed and false and often based on lies to be sure) but a faith nevertheless. What you want is for Protestants to all be unitarians and shut up about what they believe.