***I became a Catholic 8 years ago partially because of bull excrement like this.***
That’s an interesting reason to join a religion.
I became a Christian because it’s true, not because non-adherents didn’t agree with it.
It's not so much a matter of becoming a Christian, though this might apply there as well.
When I see among so many anti-Catholics intellectuals what can scarcely be explained without postulating a rejection of reason, truth, and charity, one begins to think there must be something very powerful which almost freezes their hearts and nearly paralyzes their minds. To assert with angry clarity what turns out to be completely untrue (as in The Church teaches us to worship Mary) is really quite remarkable behavior for otherwise just and thoughtful people.
So the apparently unreasoning aversion and distaste themselves become a reason to look into the thing to which they are directed. And then the persistent barrage of unfair attacks arouses sympathy for those attacked. Next thing you know, you're attending Mass ...
What part of the word partially did you not understand?
In the 8 years I have been a Catholic, I have never heard one Catholic in my parish say anything negative about protestants -- not a Priest, a Deacon or a lay person.
As a child both my mother and father were ordained pentacostal ministers. The Catholic bashing was nonstop.
As an adult, I joined the UMC. While the UMC was not as anti-Catholic as the fundamentalists, it was there.
Finally, I decided to see for myself what Roman Catholicism was all about. After considerable study, I concluded that if one is to be a Christian, one has to be Catholic.
Anti-Catholicism is rooted in a kind of juvenile inferiority complex. Those who are always picking at the Catholics are only trying to justify their own misbegotten beliefs.
In Catholicism, I found a logically consistent theology. As protestant, I found the theology fundamentally flawed in so many ways. I didn't realize just how flawed protestant theology was until I studied Catholicism.