Sorry again, it's just not something that makes sense to an aussie, it sounds like the entire US was on the edge of it's seat, yelling THE CATHOLICS ARE COMING!
What YEAR was this?
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That would have been the 12th of never. Most of the "anti Catholic/anti-"Papist" hysteria in the US stemmed from groups of recently arrived immigrants (mainly N. European) who had such a chip on their shoulder when they arrived on the eastern shores. "Gangs of New York" by Martin Scorcese, though horrifically violent and foulmouthed (and fictionalized in some passages) provides a fair insight of this, vis-a-vis the split between "Prods" and Catholics from Ireland.
Strongly anti-Catholic sentiment in the US did exist, but it really never originated from, nor took firm root in, the mainstream of our society.
A.A.C.