The US has never really been friendly to Catholics as a whole. Jfk was the first Catholic president, and a fear at the time was that the pope would have undue influence. The KKK also went after non-protestants.
This is something that always struck me as strange, coming from a conservative Catholic family, is how people in my family don’t recognize that they’ve been in the crosshairs before and very well could be again. But I suppose that’s all fairly distant to them, and they don’t connect that to other targets of conservative hate. Especially since the right took on anti-abortion views and made it mainstream instead of a fringe issue that only Catholics cared about because of some bullshit Agustine wrote.
The US has never really been friendly to Catholics as a whole. Jfk was the first Catholic president, and a fear at the time was that the pope would have undue influence. The KKK also went after non-protestants.
This is something that always struck me as strange, coming from a conservative Catholic family, is how people in my family don’t recognize that they’ve been in the crosshairs before and very well could be again. But I suppose that’s all fairly distant to them, and they don’t connect that to other targets of conservative hate. Especially since the right took on anti-abortion views and made it mainstream instead of a fringe issue that only Catholics cared about because of some bullshit Agustine wrote.