[NYer]

Catholic ping!

[jessduntno]

When do we get our reparations?

[muawiyah]

Hardly know where to begin on that one. So, Anti-Catholicism began with Christopher Columbus and his crew.

Did somebody grant that woman a degree from a university?

How bizarre!

[Lauren BaRecall]

“Today, fear of immigrants and the attempts to legislate restriction of languages other than English have their origins in this history,” she said.

I was waiting for the other shoe to drop.

[ansel12]

After Menéndez had signed a contract with the Crown for his colonization effort, the Spanish discovered that Huguenots — Protestant settlers from France — had already set up a settlement on the Florida coast. In 1565 Menéndez, arriving with colonists and soldiers from Spain, oversaw an attack on the French settlement and coolly ordered the slaying of most of the male colonists, in part out of anti-Protestant zealotry.

Philip II, the Spanish monarch who also ruled the powerful Hapsburg empire, later voiced approval of the executions less because the Huguenots were colonial rivals than because they were, in Philip’s eyes, religious heretics.

http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-twoworlds/1680

[antonia]

Hahahaha!! let’s start talking about the catholic church persecutions

[antonia]

Hahahaha!! let’s start talking about the catholic church and it’s involvements with forced conversions!!

[Alex Murphy]

Did someone force them to get on the boat and come to America? Perhaps a Benevolent Catholic Dictatorship would have been more to their liking.

[LearnsFromMistakes]

She told CNA that from 1830 to 1860 in particular, movements such as the “Protestant Crusade” attempted to stop the spread of Catholicism in the United States.

I have always heard the protestants were crusading against slavery in that time frame. Maybe hindsight isn't always that good...revisionism anyone?

[Clemenza]

The Paddys would then go on to found the most corrupt, patronage filled machines in the US, and found the first Asian exclusion societies in America, andl lead lynchings of blacks in New York, Omaha, St. Paul, and Philadelphia, amongst other locales. Yeah, the Donks were a really oppressed group...

Rhode Island has been majority Catholic for over a century. Hasn't stopped them from electing cretins election cycle after election cycle.

[Salvation]

**Rhode Island lawmakers voted last week to pardon an Irish Catholic man they say was wrongfully executed in 1845. The decision closes an ugly chapter in the long history of discrimination against Catholics in the U.S.**

Makes one wonder how many other Catholics were wrongfully executed during this era?????

[Salvation]

**Rhode Island lawmakers voted last week to pardon an Irish Catholic man they say was wrongfully executed in 1845. The decision closes an ugly chapter in the long history of discrimination against Catholics in the U.S.**

Makes one wonder how many other Catholics were wrongfully executed during this era?????

[Cronos]

Schultz also noted that Gordon’s hanging in 1845 came just nine years before a gift of a block of marble from Pope Pius IX for the construction of the Washington Monument “was thrown into the Potomac River” by members of the anti-Catholic “Know-Nothing” party.

Sad, the institutionalized anti-Catholic hatred still lasts today among some..

[Cronos]

Schultz said that the Ku Klux Klan and the American Protective Association were 20th century remnants of the Know Nothing Party. .

That's pretty well known, I thought.