I have thought about this long and hard AND prayerfully. This is my conclusion:
The correct answer to “Who is really anti-Catholic?” is
Yo’ mama.
I know if you think about it you will see that I am right.
LOL.
It depended on whether it was in the abstract or face to face.
She was quite gracious face to face.
In the abstract she was more than a little bad at generalizing and being at least wary if not hostile.
Thankfully, when I went to univ and even before . . . I had some close friends and favorite teachers who were Roman Catholics. And overseas, certainly so—living just a door down the hall from the precious Mary Knoll Sister. She would share Communion with us as a commemoration.
And, given my mother’s general craziness, there were a lot of her stuff I kind of flushed out of hand as it just didn’t make much sense generally . . . out of the starting blocks.
She was very sharp and perceptive about people as individuals. But she also jumped to conclusions as her major form of exercise.
One had to sort her stuff out carefully to get any useful meat vs the destructive stuff.