Dr E. there is a danger in relying on the word of a loudmouthed amateur for truthful information. He who hollers the loudest is often the most ignorant.
Do you really believe that a few minutes poking around on the internet will give you sufficient information and understanding to engage in any serious discussion of Catholicism? Anathema has a long, and misunderstood history dating far before the birth of Christ. The 1917 Code of Canon Law, which abolished all ecclesiastical penalties not mentioned in the Code itself (canon 6), made "anathema" synonymous with "excommunication" (canon 2257). The ritual described in the Catholic Encyclopedia (which is NOT a publication of the Catholic Church) is not included in the post-Vatican II revision of the Pontifical.
(Do you realize you are beginning to look as thoroughly discredited as Dr. E.?)
ANATHEMA (Catholic Encyclopedia): "...Wherefore in the name of God the All-powerful, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, of the Blessed Peter, Prince of the Apostles, and of all the Saints, in virtue of the power which has been given us of binding and loosing in Heaven and on earth, we deprive N—himself and all his accomplices and all his abettors of the Communion of the Body and Blood of Our Lord, we separate him from the society of all Christians, we exclude him from the bosom of our Holy Mother the Church in Heaven and on earth, we declare him excommunicated and anathematized and we judge him condemned to eternal fire with Satan and his angels and all the reprobate, so long as he will not burst the fetters of the demon, do penance and satisfy the Church; we deliver him to Satan to mortify his body, that his soul may be saved on the day of judgment."
"...condemned to eternal fire with Satan."
Either RCs are ignorant of what their church teaches, or they will say anything to make a point; a point which changes daily.