You know, sometimes it’s kinda fun to sit back and laugh and roll your eyes at some of the anti-Catholic stuff out there. But there are real and deadly consequences to this hate. World War 1 was such a thing. When Emperor Karl took the throne early in the war, he and his advisors came up with a plan to end the conflict. It would involve restructuring the Austrian Empire to look more like the British Commonwealth. It would have worked. But the only major neutral parties (Spain was neutral but not a serious power) that had contacts in all of the belligerent countries was the Catholic Church. The plan was conveyed to the Vatican (which at the time wasn’t a country, making it even more neutral) which conveyed it to the bishops of the US, who knew the right people to convey it to President Wilson.
Wilson rejected it out of hand. He was such a militant Mason and so anti-Catholic that he wanted nothing to do with ANY plan that had been TOUCHED by the Church. Plus, it would have left the Catholic Austria-Hungary Empire around with Catholic leaders, and the Masons had vowed to destroy ALL monarchies. (They didn’t destroy the British monarchy, they just neutered them.)
And so the war continued for another year and a half, with G_D knows how many millions more dead from war, hunger, and disease.
