Minneapolis, Minn., Oct 11, 2009 / 03:45 am
The editor of the archdiocesan newspaper of Minneapolis-St. Paul says Catholics shouldn’t believe that anti-Catholicism is uncommon among the general public. The best way to fight anti-Catholicism is to be a good, faithful Catholic, he advised.
Reader comments on newspaper articles, he says, shows the prejudice is “just below the surface.”
Joe Towalski, editor of The Catholic Spirit, noted in an October 8 column separate anti-Catholic incidents, such as a professor’s publicity-generating desecration of the Eucharist and the recent staging of a play titled “The Pope and the Witch” which he said displayed “mean-spirited prejudice.”
“You might believe that these were isolated incidents, that such mean-spiritedness is limited to a few people who harbor perverse notions about intellectual freedom, that anti-Catholicism isn’t common among the general public,” Towalski added.
“Sadly, however, if you believe that, you would be wrong.”