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Traditional Anti-Catholicism (which originated during the Reformation) is promoted by Protestant Fundamentalists like Jack Chick while the new Secular Anti-Catholicism is promoted by Secular organisations. According to a report by the Catholic League, the Internet has many anti-catholic websites. Traditional Anti-Catholic works include Charles Chiniquy's "50 Years In The Church of Rome" in which he accuses Catholicism of being pagan. Such sentiments are common among some Protestant fundamentalist Christians, as they deny the Roman Catholic Church to be a Christian church. Proponents often reference Scripture, such as the Book of Revelation, chapter 17 and 18, which they claim depict the Pope as the Antichrist and the Catholic Church as being the " Whore of BabylonThe Whore of Babylon or Babylon the Great is one of several Christian allegorical figures of supreme evil, who is mentioned in the Book of Revelation in the Bible. She is associated with the figures of the Antichrist and the Beast of Revelations. She make". Proponents of Anti-Catholicism also claim that the MassThis article discusses the Mass as part of Christian liturgy, in particular the form it has taken in the Roman Catholic Church ( Latin rite). For the Mass as a genre of classical music composition, see Mass (music). For mass as a concept in physics, see M is an abomination in the eyes of Jesus Christ12th century image of Jesus from Hagia Sophia, Istanbul Jesus as Christ and Messiah is the Christian account of Jesus's life (which is represented both in texts and in images). Jesus is the central focus of attention and worship in Christianity and is hel. Many Anti-catholics also claim that Roman Catholics worship MaryGabriel delivering the Annunciation to Mary. Painting by El Greco (1575) In Christianity and Islam, Mary ( Judaeo-Aramaic Marym "Bitter"; Septuagint Greek Mariam Maria Arabic: Maryem is the mother of Jesus Christ and the betrothed of Joseph. Historicity M.

An example of anti-Catholicism is found in some of the tractA tract is a short written work, usually of a political or religious nature. The word currently usually refers to a small pamphlet, almost always of a religious nature. These pamphlets are left in public places, usually, by Christian evangelists. Jack Chis by noted anti-Catholic and comic bookA comic book (sometimes called funnies or funny paper is a book or magazine and more recently a graphic novel in the artistic medium known as comics. American comic books have become closely associated with the superhero genre, but the subject matter of c evangelist Jack ChickJack Thomas Chick (born April 13, 1924) of Chick Publications is the creator of comic-style tracts and larger comic books for the purpose of Christian evangelism in a fundamentalist theology. Jack Chick is an Independent Baptist and a dispensationalist., including his " Alberto" series. These tracts accuse the papacy of using the Jesuits to incite revolutions all over the world, and claim that the papacy was the driving force behind Muhammad and helped both Communism and National Socialism come to power. One of these tracts is "Are Roman Catholics Christians?" which claims that the Roman Catholic Church's doctrines are against God. While these views are not widely held, several Roman Catholic organizations continue to battle anti-Catholic sentiment.

2 Political anti-Catholicism

A tradition of political anti-Catholicism also exists in various Protestant countries, and in particular the English speaking countries.

Protestantism was firmly established in England at the accession of Queen Elizabeth I. In 1570, Pope Pius V sought to depose her with the bull Regnans in Excelsis ("Ruling on high"), which purported to declare Elizabeth deposed and to acquit her Roman Catholic subjects of further allegiance to her. This added a political dimension to what was a purely religious conflict, and rendered Elizabeth's subjects who persisted in allegiance to the Roman church politically suspect. The failed invasion of England by the Spanish Armada was an attempt by Philip II of Spain to put into effect the Pope's decree, and to enforce a claim he held to the throne of England he held as a result of being the widower of Mary I of England. Later episodes that deepened anti-Catholicism in England include the Gunpowder Plot, in which Guy Fawkes and other Roman Catholic conspirators attempted to blow up the English Parliament while it was in session.

In the context of British traditional values, the beliefs that underlie this sort of anti-Catholicism were summarized by William Blackstone in his Commentaries on the Laws of England:

As to papists, what has been said of the protestant dissenters would hold equally strong for a general toleration of them; provided their separation was founded only upon difference of opinion in religion, and their principles did not also extend to a subversion of the civil government. If once they could be brought to renounce the supremacy of the pope, they might quietly enjoy their seven sacraments, their purgatory, and auricular confession; their worship of reliques and images; nay even their transubstantiation. But while they acknowledge a foreign power, superior to the sovereignty of the kingdom, they cannot complain if the laws of that kingdom will not treat them upon the footing of good subjests.

— Bl. Comm. IV, c.4 ss. iii.2, p. *54

The gravamen of this charge, then, is that Roman Catholics constitute an imperium in imperio, a sort of a fifth column of persons who owe a greater allegiance to the Pope than they do to the civil government. Accordingly, a large body of British laws, collectively known as the penal laws, imposed various civil disabilities and legal penalties on recusant Roman Catholics. These laws were gradually repealed over the course of the nineteenth century; however, the law of succession to the British Throne continues to bar Roman Catholics, and anyone married to a " papist", from the line of succession.

These accusations have to some extent been exported to the United States, where anti-Catholicism has historically been conspicuous among the beliefs of various nativist organisations from the Know-Nothing Party to the Ku Klux Klan. Within more recent years, suspicion of the political aims and agenda of the Roman church have been revived several times. In 1949, Paul Blanshard 's book American Freedom and Catholic Power portrayed the Roman Catholic Church as an anti-democratic force hostile to freedom of speech and religion, eager to impose itself on the United States by boycott and subterfuge. These accusations continue to have some currency because of the Roman Catholic hierarchy's alliance with the anti-abortion movement and their periodic threats to use excommunication to compel Roman Catholic elected officials to vote in accordance with the hierarchy's wishes.

Home > Anti-Catholicism

1 Religious anti-Catholicism

2 Political anti-Catholicism

3 See also

4 External links

4.1 Anti-Catholic websites

4.2 Catholic responses

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