So I went out looking to get some answers to anti-catholicism and this is what I found. (mostly at http://christianforums.com)

"Catholicism is the largest Christian church in America (I think 25%), and that makes it a prime target."


"The Cursades was a series of wars by Western European Christians to recapture the Holy Land from the Muslims. The first one began around 1095. I find it interesting that this is often labeled a "Catholic" war, because as we all know, at this time NO Protestant churches even existed. The same people that would eventually become Protestant (or their ancestors at least) just as much a part of the Crusades as the people who remained with the original Christian Church (aka Catholic Church). In all honesty, had it not been for the Crusades you and I would likely be Muslim right now, because it was their agenda to take over the world.

Ultimately though, I think people don't like Catholics because people like to be in control. Americans especially want their faith to conform to them and the Catholic Church doesn't allow this. We will not be so high and mighty to think that just because times change that the Word of God has also changed. It is not PC to say homosexuality is wrong, but the Bible states it clearly. Some churches cave and give in to the wants of the masses but the Catholic Church doesn't. Thus the Catholic church serves a an 'in-your-face' reminder of how Christ wants us to live and this makes some feel bad about themselves. Thus, the anti-Catholicism."


"Catholics are an easy target we have strage beliefs which to many people seem "alien", "out dated" and "incompatible with post industrialsm thinking"

we are also an obvious target as there are many of us.

we are also a timid target, we won't go and bomb the people who made the statement like some extreme muslims

we also don't go aggresively flooding the secular mass-media with our views in order to establish legislation to prevent anyone saying a word against us - like the gay rights lot.

We sit there, take it and pray that it doesn't happen anymore.

Would a massive campaign to stop anti Catholicism be an admitance that prayer as a force is weak? and that their rules and tactics are better than ours? Would it in some way say that the argument of man is stronger than the will of God? Or even that there isn't a God as surely he would stick up for his religion..."