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Hi, my name is Corey D and I am doing a research project on Anti-Catholicism in the U.S. This is a great subject my teacher said, I am looking for some online books explaining the origins and the beginning of the Catholics and perhaps some online resources. This is going to have to be a 5 page report so I am very excited about this, I am a traditional roman catholic so this subject means a lot to me. Anyone that can help it would be really appreciated. I have to finish this within the next 2 days so I must work quick, some teachers assign projects, and ask for them back way too soon.

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This is a history project, if anyone has a time line in chronological order, that would be awesome.
 
Good place to start: Look up the “Know-Nothing” movement. Also look at some of the colonial laws regarding holding office (had to swear an oath against Transubstantiation).

I too will be doing a paper and lecture on this. Maybe we could help each other out? Good luck!
 
Try contacting the Catholic League. They keep records of that sort of thing. Good Luck!!
 
Here is an interesting history of Saint Patrick’s Pro Cathedral in the Archdiocese of Newark, NJ.

pirate.shu.edu/~wisterro/hoc/History_page.htm

The history isn’t too long but there are some parts pertaining to the anti-Catholic movements in 19th century NJ. Might make for an interesting case study.
 
Some points you might want to hit are:
  1. The Puritans in Massachusetts celebrated a holiday called “Pope’s Day”, in which they burned the pope in effigy. There was a death sentence on the books for saying Mass in Boston for many years. They also made a distinction between heathen Indians (non-Christian Indians) and Satanic Indians (Catholic Indians who had been converted by French Jesuits).
  2. One of the so-called Intolerable Acts that helped prompt the American Revolution was the Quebec Act, which officialy tolerated the Catholic religion in French Canada. Fears that “papism” would be imposed on the Thirteen Colonies swiftly followed.
  3. The Irish Potato famine caused waves of Irish immigrants to move to America. You’ll want to do some research on the Know-Nothing movement, which contained anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic sentiments at its core in reaction to the movement. Also, any information you can find on Monsignor Bugnini’s visit to the United States in the 1850’s also would be helpful; it prompted a wave of anti-Catholicism across the country.
  4. The second great wave of immigrants, from Southern Europe around the turn of the century, was largely Catholic in nature. Anti-immigrant sentiment was also very anti-Catholic. Anything you can find about this, and the aforementioned “second” KKK would be very good (if you can find it, try a book called Notre Dame vs. the Klan: How the Fighting Irish Defeated the Ku Klux Klan for a small scale look at that battle).
  5. Information on the presidential campaigns of John F. Kennedy and Al Smith would be very helpful, as well. Anti-Catholicism played into these campaigns.
 
A book was published in the 1830’s titled The Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk. This book exposed:rotfl: the horrific happenings to a young Canadian girl who escaped:thumbsup: from the clutches of the papists:eek: by managing somehow to get out of a convent that was home to the infamous Black Nuns.:bigyikes: Allegedly this order existed primarily to serve as prostitutes for te local priests:eek: The convent, Hotel Dieu in Montreal, was full of secret passages, hidden rooms and even a dungeon where recalcitrant and disobedient sisters were starved to death.:eek: There were tunnels which led to secret crypts where all the children born of the unions of the Priests and Nuns were entombed shortly after birth.

Sometime earlier, another escaped nun, Rebecca Theresa Reed published a work entitled Six Months in a Convent, which exposed the unrelenting horrors of life in an Ursuline convent in Charlestown, South Carolina. In August 1834, that convent was burned down by an angry mob, convinced that women were held there against their will. I guess the book had the desired effect.

Lest you think these attitudes have disappeared in these enlightened times there are several hundred or more anti-Catholic sites that are active on the web right now and anti Catholicism is big business. I direct you to my personal favorite

jesus-is-lord.com/charlot1.htm

It clearly and concisely exposes the horrific carnage that is brought forth by adherance to Romanism:thumbsup:

ps, the part about her escape from the Convent is a masterpiece!!! You’ll love it.

Some people such as Jack Chick of Chick Tracts fame has made a good living exposing the Catholic Church and its horrors for the past forty years or so. Other people such as Dave Hunt constantly appear on talk shows and jas numerous debates with Catholics seeking to destroy the faith.

Anti Catholicism is as old as America itself and in many ways really hasn’t died down that much. being old enough to remember I can tell you that during the election of President John Kennedy, one of the things that was brought out unceasingly was that he, as a Catholic would let the United States be run by the Vatican.

I’m not making that up.
 
fuzzydavidson said:
Hi, my name is Corey D and I am doing a research project on Anti-Catholicism in the U.S. This is a great subject my teacher said, I am looking for some online books explaining the origins and the beginning of the Catholics and perhaps some online resources. This is going to have to be a 5 page report so I am very excited about this, I am a traditional roman catholic so this subject means a lot to me. Anyone that can help it would be really appreciated. I have to finish this within the next 2 days so I must work quick, some teachers assign projects, and ask for them back way too soon.

Please send me a private message to let me know you have posted 🙂
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You’ve had a lot of good advice – but you also might want to look into the history of Maryland’s Catholics. After they gave a helping hand to the Puritans (who were being persecuted by other Protestants) the Puritans got them kicked out of their own cities. Some ended up in the Emmitsburg area – this is where St. Ann (Mother) Seton’s shrine is located.

Catholic persecution in the colonial United States is a huge subject – you’re going to have trouble getting much more than an outline in five pages.

Here’s a link to “A Religious History of the American People.” (The Books hosted on Google Books.) I think the link should take you to the section about Anti-Catholicism. It should be a good starting point.

tinyurl.com/c7yysk

May God be with you
 
Also another good subject on the study of Anti-Catholicism is the past and ongoing role of American Freemasonry. There is a good book on this named Behind the Lodge Door: Church, State and Freemasonry In America by Paul Fisher

amazon.com/Behind-Lodge-Door-Freemasonry-America/dp/0895554550/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239704129&sr=1-1
Anti Catholicism is as old as America itself and in many ways really hasn’t died down that much. being old enough to remember I can tell you that during the election of President John Kennedy, one of the things that was brought out unceasingly was that he, as a Catholic would let the United States be run by the Vatican.
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If the USA was run by the Vatican, so many social problems would indeed be solved…
 
Palmas85, I followed your link to the Jesus-is-Lord page, and found this rather astonishing quote:

It is not generally known to Americans, that the crime of procuring abortion, a crime which our laws pronounce to be felony, is a common every day crime in Popish nunneries. It is not known to Americans, but let it henceforth be known to them, that strangling and putting to death infants ins common in nunneries throughout this country.
jesus-is-lord.com/hogan.htm

I probably shouldn’t laugh at this, but the only alternative is beating my head against a brick wall till I lose consciousness, so… :rotfl:
 
An often forgotten time in Anti-Catholicism is the early history of America, particularly before the Civil War.

English immigrants were hostile to Catholics because Catholics were the enemies back in England, where the Church of England was established.

In New York, I think in the 1680’s, the governor and those around him were Catholics. Like the Protestants in England chasing out the Catholic King and other Catholics, people such as Leisler overthrew the Catholic government in New York.

The English feared Catholics because of the Spanish and French exploring the Americas. New Spain and New France established Catholic missions, and they were actually feared by the Protestant New England.

Slavery was also a big issue. The Protestants wanted emancipation for slaves and most, if not all, of the abolitionists were Protestants. Catholics took a more neutral position towards slavery, viewing it as acceptable as long as the slaves are treated humanely and as persons with inherint worth. Catholic slave owners educated the slaves and their children in the Faith. Anti-Catholics viewed Catholic slave owners as dangerous, since by educating slaves in Catholicism, the spread of Catholicism was increased.

On November 5, 1605, Guy Fawkes and other English Catholics plotted to blow up Parliament. The bomb was defused, and Protestants celebrated November 5th as “Pope’s Day,” burning effigies of the Pontiff.

Religious freedom was established, but excluded Catholics. Free practice of religion was allowed, except for Catholicism.

Protestants tried making Catholics take an oath before they could enter public office, which included giving loyalty to the state before loyalty to the Church.
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New York really has some interesting history. Look up things such as the New York City Draft Riots, Leisler’s Rebellion, New York Slave Conspiracy.

I hope that gives you a start, I have to go and cannot write much more. Some key things to look up, in addition to those mentioned above:

Seven Years’ War, Tory Party vs. Whig Party, Quebec Act, John Carrol, Loyalism, Federalists, War of 1812, Second Great Awakening, Catholics and the Mexican War, Morse (the inventer of Morse code), Maria Monk, Conspiracy that Jesuits were running the country, San Patricios, Sectional Crisis, Ursuline convent fire, Philadelphia riot, Pope Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors, Blaine Amendment, and some others.

PM me if you need more help.
 
I suggest you look up Jack T Chick. www.chick.com/
His website has all sorts of anti-catholic garbage. Like he blames the Jesuits for starting Islam, ww1,ww2,communism, fascism the American civil war etc. its ludicrous lol
 
Please do not post anti-Catholic links as some readers maybe influenced by them.
 
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Please do not post anti-Catholic links as some readers maybe influenced by them.
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Sadly, that’s true, but if they want to find anti-Catholic …um… “fertilizer,” it’s all over the place. If they’ve come here looking for truth about Catholicism, they’re less likely to be taken in by people like Jack Chick and his ilk. It seems to me that being here shows that they are of a less gullible nature.

It’s not available online, as far as I know, but if you want a good book for reference that’s easy to read, Karl Keating’s “Catholicism and Fundamentalism” is a keeper. I’ve referred to my copy several times when dealing with those who hate the Church–especially those of religions and denominations who claim to BE the Church.
 
If a Jack Chick tract or other “whore of Babylon” type website converts a Catholic then I suggest that person was confused and misguided already. However, bigots certainly do influence others and anti-Catholicism is indeed still burning today. It is not an exclusively American phenomena but does have an established history and engrained culture especially in the South. Given that anti-Catholicism is irrational the easier access the uninformed have to the truth the less it should continue and even help evangelize.

*As some of my readers already know, before converting to Catholicism, I was a “born-again” Evangelical/Pentecostal teacher who was originally raised in a Baptist Church. My journey of faith led me through the rigors of Fundamental Protestantism, and the depths of outright anti-Catholicism. I cannot begin to tell you how many times I had heard a pastor preach to his congregation that the Catholic Church is an “unbiblical cult” and the prophetic “Whore of Babylon” written of in the Book of Revelation.

I eventually decided to research the origins of this wretched organization called the Roman Catholic Church. In doing so I quickly discovered that all the authoritative literature on the topic were keen on quoting each other, but very little cited information more than a couple hundred years old. In fact, most cited a single book written in the middle 1800s called “Two Babylons,” by Alexander Hyslop. This particular author constructs an entire volume of accusations against the Catholic Church, based on his own superficial connections between this or that ancient ritual, but does virtually nothing at all to back his claims with original source documentation. In fact, finding any original source documentation to support these claims, that dates prior the Reformation Era, is virtually impossible. It seems as if accusations against Catholicism developed as a product of the Reformation itself, and not vice versa.

As a result of this, I began reading the history of the early Church and quickly found a plethora of original source documentation dating back to the first few centuries of the Christian age. What I learned was shocking! and turned my whole world upside down. The early Christians were all Catholic! That’s right, the earliest Christians, meaning those who were persecuted by the Caesars and fed to the lions, believed in the transubstantiation of the eucharist, prayed to the Virgin Mary and the saints, recognized the primacy of the pope, and made offerings for their loved ones in purgatory. Oh sure, they didn’t use all the fancy terminology I just cited, but the core of their belief system was virtually identical. Knowledge of history spelled the end for my Protestantism.*

catholicknight.blogspot.com/search/label/Anti-Catholicism
 
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