“The idea that anti-Catholicism is a significant force in American life today is a complete canard, perpetrated by theologically and politically right-wing Roman Catholics”
Christopher of Life as a Catholic gives his take on an anti-Catholic author, named Susan Jacoby, who wrote an anti-Catholic Washington post article on Anti-Catholicism: A Phony Issue, where many of her statements lack any type of argument or reason but are based emotion, disdain and malice. I wonder if her last name has anything to do with it?
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Oh yeah! I guess we’re supposed to ignore “the man behind the curtain”! Methinks the woman protests too much!
Comment by Bill Hoog — April 7, 2007 @ 3:38 PM
For Anti-Catholics, their antipathy for the Church and her teachings is so deep, that the contempt is confused for common sense. It is an orthodoxy all its own, a personal magisterium, against which all else is measured and found wanting. To such as these, it is not “Anti-Catholicism”, it is “rational” thought.
Comment by St. Jimbob of the Apokalypse — April 8, 2007 @ 7:31 AM
Good points. It must drive them nuts how something seen as so outdated and nonsensical as the Catholic church maintains such a position of authority.
Comment by shelray — April 8, 2007 @ 6:49 PM
“I wonder if her last name [Jacoby] has anything to do with it?”
Her article was garbage. So also is your question. Why the anti-Semitic ad hominem?
Comment by Gordon — April 16, 2007 @ 1:48 PM
Gordon,
Obviously you have misunderstood my reference (this was my edit to Shelray’s original post–sorry Shelray). It was intended as a loose reference to the anti-Catholic Jacobin party who, under Robspierre, was responsible for the reign of terror against all things Catholic during the French Revolution.
I have to plead ignorance; I was not aware that her surname was of Jewish origin so I was not sensitive to anti-Semitism as a possible inference of my reference. Actually, having read her article I would have guessed that the name would have come from German Catholic stock.
Comment by David — April 16, 2007 @ 3:39 PM
Anti-Catholicism in re-emerging with this country. Life torn apart and that of children by the extremes of the Protestant American Christian Evangelical Movement (PACEM)over telling a man, a football coach hell bent on my daughter (13) and told leave her alone. City spebt fed and State funds under progtam for those of needl but to proseletyze the King James Bible. Violation of law, Blaine Amendments can anyone help?
Comment by John J McCarthy — January 13, 2008 @ 10:40 PM