As a student of history I have posted on this before and this article mirrors my research: America despised Catholics and anti-Catholicism in the good ole US of A is alive and well

America's dark and not-very-distant history of hating Catholics

• Rory Carroll, The Guardian

 

Thomson ReutersThe U.S. flag flies as painters work on a mural of Pope Francis on the side of a building in midtown Manhattan in New York.

 

 

Congress and the United Nations rolling out their red carpets, nuns working overtime to bake communion hosts, prison inmates carving a walnut throne, tickets for events snapped up in seconds: America is gearing up for pope-mania.
Pope Francis is expected to be greeted with huge crowds and across-the-board reverence when he tours Washington, New York and Philadelphia during his first visit as pontiff to the United States.
The rapture, however, will not change the awkward – and largely forgotten fact – that for centuries the US discriminated against Catholics.
The land of immigrants enshrined freedom of religion in the constitution yet spent much of its history despising, harassing and marginalising Catholics.

The whole article:  http://www.businessinsider.com/americas-dark-and-not-very-distant-history-of-hating-catholics-2015-9