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Let’s talk about French and English Protestant piracy on the coasts of Spain and Portugal, and how they would sack the churches and burn the priests alive in them, sometimes with as many members of the faithful as they could capture, and how they made 60 Jesuit missionaries walk the plank (except for the ones they killed by other means) when they captured a missionary ship bound for Brazil off the coast of the Azores. This essentially destroyed the missionary efforts of the Church in Brazil and left Brazil entirely open to the slavers and exploiters.

And then let’s talk about Catholic St Augustine, Florida in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries under the Spanish, where British Protestant pirates swept in and sacked and burned the city more than once. In one night-time raid on this then tiny town, they left more 60 dead in the streets, including women and children who were simply trying to flee.

You could post a whole thread about it, if you'd like. It is "Talk Like A Pirate Day", after all.