[Hebrews 11:6]

It is, unfortunately, not uncommon to be Catholic and anti-Catholic at the same time these days.

Regardless, the mere existence of a fashionable trend does not mean that Johnson is a practitioner of it.

[Dionysiusdecordealcis]

But he was. We are talking about what he wrote 40 years ago.

I'm all for Catholics being honest about evil actions by Catholics in the past. Johnson simply was not accurate. Madden's work is excellent and Jonathan Riley-Smith and a host of other crusade historians have all made many of the same points. That's where the thread started, with Madden's work, which is excellent. Read it. Forget Johnson's book. It's simply not helpful; I can't imagine that even Johnson would defend it today, but perhaps I'm wrong.