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By Philip Jenkins
Anti-Catholicism has a protracted historical past in the United States. And as Philip Jenkins argues within the New Anti-Catholicism, this virulent pressure of hatred--once concept dead--is alive and good in our state, yet few humans appear to discover, or care. an announcement that's visible as racist, misogynistic, anti-Semitic, or homophobic can hang-out a speaker for years, writes Jenkins, however it continues to be attainable to make antagonistic and vituperative public statements approximately Roman Catholicism with no worry of significant repercussions. Jenkins shines a gentle on anti-Catholic sentiment in American society and illuminates its factors, taking a look heavily at homosexual and feminist anti-Catholicism, anti-Catholic rhetoric and imagery within the media, and the anti-Catholicism of the educational global. For newspapers and newsmagazines, for tv information and in videos, for significant e-book publishers, the Catholic Church has come to supply a grossly stereotyped public villain. Catholic critiques, doctrines, and person leaders are usually the butt of harsh satire. certainly, the inspiration that the church is a perilous enemy of girls, the belief of Catholic misogyny, is often authorised within the information media and in pop culture, says Jenkins. And the hot pedophile priest scandal, he exhibits, has revived many old anti-Catholic stereotypes. It used to be stated that with the election of John F. Kennedy, anti-Catholicism in the United States used to be useless. This provocative new e-book corrects that phantasm, drawing recognition to this crucial factor.
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As recently as 2001, the major pub lishing house of HarperCollins published F. Tupper Saussy’s book Rulers of Evil. This purports to offer “proof of a vast Roman Catholic sub stratum of American history—more specifically, that Jesuits played emi nent and under-appreciated roles in persuading New Englanders to rebel against their mother country in 1776. ” Ever since, it is claimed, Catholics have pulled the strings that manipulate American public life. ”9 American Gothic Americans inherited these anti-Catholic traditions in full, and may in fact have nurtured them even more successfully than their English cous ins, because the political culture of the new nation drew so heavily on anti-authoritarian and anti-clerical traditions.
At least as the Catholic Church has existed since the Counter-Reformation, its most basic values genuinely do appear to be in tension with what we familiarly think of as those of the United States. This is not to justify the nativist movements, to accept the notion of “no smoke without fire,” but some quite authentic differences do help to account for the mythical superstructure built by anti-Catholic activists over the centuries. These rival Catholic values include, notably, theories of hierarchy and obedience, and an ideal of universality.
Well into the twentieth century, America’s booming industries commonly assigned promotions and privileges according to the reli gious and ethnic hierarchy. When the traditional economic order was upset—for instance, by the importation of Italian and Slavic strikebreak ers during a labor conflict—the furious response of established groups often took a religious form. 16 Anti-Catholicism as Anti-Cult Rhetoric Nor can we easily disentangle hatred for the Church as an institution from the popular contempt for Catholics as a community, though the two types of prejudice were expressed somewhat differently.