“The secular government enforced the rule of the Catholic Church. It is like claiming the Catholic Church never put anyone to death, but merely turned over heretics to be burned by the state”.
Not the first Christian came to America running from Catholic persecution. They came to get away from protestants that wanted them dead.
Yep, but convincing Protestants of that basic fact is sometimes extremely difficult. They know so little about their own history (let alone the Catholic Church’s history).