[Frumious Bandersnatch]

Does it feel good to have hatred in your heart like this? I have never heard in my Catholic church such hatred of Protestants, Jews or Muslims. This is all in your mind and said with a perspective of an outsider.

I am not Catholic, but my sympathies are with them on this one.  However, as one who has lived in South America, I can attest that there is plenty of official bashing of protestants by catholics.  You don't hear about it so much in the developed countries, but it is every bit as vicious as the anti-catholic tirade you hear amongst some in the U.S.

Be that as it may, I think that the media is far worse.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

The polemical bandying back and forth between Catholics and Protestants varies depending upon the cultural, social, and class contexts, as well as with the history of antagonisms in the region. Some Catholics do have a strong dislike of or distaste for certain kinds of Protestantism. But this also seems to have a lot to do with personality types and education. Where Catholics have been systematically marginalized (since the 1600s), the tensions tend to get higher. You will notice that for both Protestants and Catholics, some of them become more interested in defining their theological differences as they progress in studies. Anti-Catholicism tended to become more pronounced in the U.S.during the 19th century as the numbers of European immigrants who were Catholic increased and, hence, they were seen as a sort of political threat. Over 150 years later, with no papal monarchy having materialized here, one would think that things ought to have settled down. But, alas, along came abortion and the sexual revolution, so the secular humanist libs began the agitation once again when the Church was seen as a menacing adversary to their social engineering agenda.