that was raling against catholics and said all sorts of things about them, they are essentially a fifth column, they are crypto fascists, that they said if we were compelled to live in this term with romanists, they ll have to be taught their place in society. there were anti-catholic lynch mobs that came up, huge movements. was that bigotry or were they correct back then to look at catholicism as fundamentally alien and threatening to the american way of life? it s difficult to judge people from 100 years ago but today s standards. but i go back into the earlier i had middle part of the 1900s. the know-nothings rejected catholics and didn t want catholics brought into america. were they right? no, they turned out to be wrong. me being a catholic sitting here you couldn t get me to say they were right. let me ask you this. why are you so confident that they got that wrong, that we now
i was looking today, a piece in the l.a. times about a paper called the menace back in 1915 that was raling against catholics and said all sorts of things about them, they are essentially a fifth column, they are crypto fascists, that they said if we were compelled to live in this term with romanists, they ll have to be taught their place in society. there were anti-catholic lynch mobs that came up, huge movements. was that bigotry or were they correct back then to look at catholicism as fundamentally alien and threatening to the american way of life? it s difficult to judge people from 100 years ago but today s standards. but i go back into the earlier i had middle part of the 1900s. the know-nothings rejected catholics and didn t want catholics brought into america. were they right? no, they turned out to be wrong. me being a catholic sitting here you couldn t get me to say they were right. let me ask you this.
that was raling against catholics and said all sorts of things about them, they are essentially a fifth column, they are crypto fascists, that they said if we were compelled to live in this term with romanists, they ll have to be taught their place in society. there were anti-catholic lynch mobs that came up, huge movements. was that bigotry or were they correct back then to look at catholicism as fundamentally alien and threatening to the american way of life? it s difficult to judge people from 100 years ago but today s standards. but i go back into the earlier i had middle part of the 1900s. the know-nothings rejected catholics and didn t want catholics brought into america. were they right? no, they turned out to be wrong. me being a catholic sitting here you couldn t get me to say they were right. let me ask you this. why are you so confident that they got that wrong, that we now