Comments for The Ku Klux Klan and American Anti-Catholicism at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 8 out of 8 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Mon, 20 May 2013 01:25:50 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/the-ku-klux-klan-and-american-anti-catholicism.html#comment-9072 And yet as recently as this year on the NPR program, ON THE MEDIA, Daniel Levitas of the Southern Poverty Law Center (proud of its anti-Klan efforts) declared that there was a highly-organized, well-funded terrorist network targeting abortion clinics in America. The show's always reliably doctrinaire host assented in silence. Who might those "terrorists" be? I can tell you who are terrorized these days -- the working class and working poor of Detroit who can't escape a city where crime is a daily anxiety and even a young black municipal lawyer staggered into a DPD station after a brutal mugging and the desk sergeant laughed and said "you got played." Who are functionally anti-Catholic and racist in December 2012 in the United States? Let the dead bury the dead. My compassion is for the living who are slandered, libelled, and attacked everyday by the moral complacency of the enlightened classes. - Graham Combs Fri, 02 Dec 2011 09:55:14 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/the-ku-klux-klan-and-american-anti-catholicism.html#comment-9055 Far more damaging to Catholics than a little crude language directed towards us was the worldliness that came afterward in the form of a self-conscious cultural cringe. When I was growing up in the 1980's I was shown the progress that Catholics had made in the country - why that Senator Ted Kennedy was one of us! - Ben Horvath Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:37:21 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/the-ku-klux-klan-and-american-anti-catholicism.html#comment-9050 For 'most 3 generations (commencing in the mid-1940's)it is no small wonder that The Annual Alfred E. Smith Foundation Dinner, celebrated every October in NYC's Waldorf Astoria, remains an event of great magnitude @ multiple levels: That of...Remembrance (of 'the man' himself); Catholic Charities fundraising for worthy causes; and, lest we forget, a potent political occasion for making succinct points and jabs coupled with sufficient amplitudes of good humor. Note: Only those with alligator skin need apply. - James McHale Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:46:51 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/the-ku-klux-klan-and-american-anti-catholicism.html#comment-9047 Mr. Marlin, Two questions: 1. Are the two books worth reading? 2. If I might not have time to read both of the books you mention (which is likely the case), which do you recommend that I begin with? Thank you. - Nicholas Jagneaux Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:40:09 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/the-ku-klux-klan-and-american-anti-catholicism.html#comment-9046 The enemy is no longer anti-Papist Protestantism but dogmatic secularism, which is even more insidious because of its subtelty. Subtrlby, you ask in amazement? The ahtiesit powers that exist cynically appoint to high postions heretical and schismatic Catholics who have self-exommunicated themselves by supporting the evils that Manfred cites above. (Exommunication does not remove the indelible mark of Baptism.) Those heretics are now hailed as the Good Catholics, while those of us who cling to the Teachings of Holy Mother Church are soon to be painted as papists loyal to a force that is alien to the nauralist, materilsit forces that rule the day. So, unlike Manfred I think that Dr. Marlin's piece was a valuable reminder of what rabid anti-Catholicism can turn into. In the past we were set upon by illiterate yahoo nativists, whereas now it is the very intellectual cream of our country which is being taught to hate teh Chruch founded by Our Savior on the Rock of Peter. God bless Abp Broglio of the Archidiocese for MIlitary Services for stating that there will be no same nuptuals conducted at the Catholic chapel at West Point. But I fear that in a few years the White House will try to withdraw from him the right to decide that. This country and the Catholic Chruch in America were better when although no Cathnolic could not be elected Presdient Abp Sheen ruled his time slot on the airwaves. - Thomas C. Coleman, Jr. Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:31:07 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/the-ku-klux-klan-and-american-anti-catholicism.html#comment-9045 Mr. Marlin, Would you please write something that connects this essay with the essay by Dr. Royal a few weeks ago on multiculturalism and the nanny state? Are the two issues even related? How does one protect oneself and one's country against the evils of relativism and multiculturalism (all cultures are equal) and the evils of bigotry and exclusion at the same time? - Louise Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:01:57 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/the-ku-klux-klan-and-american-anti-catholicism.html#comment-9042 What is the point of bringing this up at this time, Mr. Marlin, if not to confuse the present day Catholic? If the Protestant ascendency had prevailed, do you think we would have abortion on the scale we have it today? Do you think we would have aberrosexual "marriage" and aberrosexual adoption? We might never have recognized Israel and we would probably never have invaded Iraq. We have six Catholic and three Jewish justices on the Supreme Court today and, aside from Citizens United, what feats of jurisprudence have they accomplished? Abortion is still the law of the land. What about the fact that we have millions of illegal immigrants in the Country and there is intention of removing them. What is the purpose of borders if they are deliberatly porous? I have worked with solid Protestants and they see what is happening to the nation they founded and built and they (and I) are disgusted. (Why not do a piece on the Republican and Democratic candidates for the Presidency? That would really make my point.) - Manfred Wed, 30 Nov 2011 03:41:31 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/the-ku-klux-klan-and-american-anti-catholicism.html#comment-9041 and let me suggest Todd Tucker's "Notre Dame vs. The Klan: How the Fighting Irish Defeated the Klan" (2004). - Jim Thunder Wed, 30 Nov 2011 02:50:19 +0100