It’s not just Catholics, it’s all Christians. The progressives are anti-Christian, period. It’s just that Catholics are the biggest target, the big enchilada. Folks, we’d better stop this business of calling each other names, cults, apostates, etc. especially in a time when Christians of all stripes are being persecuted, again, both here and abroad. It is one thing to have differences in doctrine,but unless we stand together we are going to face further strife. We can have our debates but not do as liberals do and demonize those who we disagree with.
Liberal Protestant churches and liberal Catholics are never attacked. At the same time, the style of attacks on conservative Christians differs. Observe that the Stiehm' article is written strictly in anti-Catholic terms, with hints of dual loyalty of Catholics. Replace "Catholic" in his article with "Christian", "Muslim, "Jewish", "Indian" (in either sense of the word), "Eskimo" -- and you get a completely inadmissible, politically incorrect article. The point here is not that other faiths are not attacked, but that the accepted rules of journalistic behavior are thrown away when the Catholics are the target.