[Pyro7480]

Ya know, with comments like these no wonder there were a lot of anti-Catholicism in the early days of America.

So you think it was justified?

[muawiyah]

Anti-Spanish sentiment is frequently mistaken for anti-Catholicism. You have to notice the national sympathies of statements made at the time.

For the most part Americans were unchurched and wouldn't have been concerned if you were a Catholic, or a Jew, or a Hindu, or whatever ~ and this is exceedingly frustrating to geneologists. Sometimes if you know what church they belong to you can figure out which Bob Smith they might be.