Word: anti-catholicism
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As recently as last summer, however, Farrakhan seemed to be taking a softer line. According to Representative Major Owens of Brooklyn, a Congressional Black Caucus member, "Farrakhan proposed that the caucus serve as an intermediary between himself and the Jewish community. He did not indicate what he wanted to tell...
All religions are equal, but some are more equal than others: Judeo-Christian values and traditions are often included in litanies of oppressive Western paradigms. Catholicism (except liberation theology) is considered especially reactionary unless you openly denounce the Pope's position on abortion, and prochoice groups feel free to use...
That same resolution opened an even more ancient debate between Protestants and Catholics over the colonization of the Americas. For Catholics like historian James Muldoon, the (Protestant) attack on Columbus and on the subsequent missionary work of the (Catholic) church in the Americas is little more than a resurrection, a...
Equally reprehensible, however, has been the behavior of gay activists who pick the wrong forums to air their grievances. Something more than just a natural uneasiness about homosexuality (or a few St. Patty's Day beers) must have aroused that kind of crudity from a crowd composed largely of mothers...
Lai's slanderous attack on me and the Steering Committee has distressing implications for broader perceptions of Catholicism at Harvard. I hope that Lai has not succeeded in awakening anti-Catholic sentiment by invoking dated and shopworn stereotypes of Catholic students as "hav[ing] swallowed whole the dogmatic and hierarchical...