Book of the Week

A book worth looking is Bishop Mark J. Hurley’s 1992 Unholy Ghost: Anti-Catholicism in the American Experience. Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., regarded anti-Catholicism as the most persistent prejudice in American history. Bishop Hurley traces the history of this prejudice from colonial times to the present in a short, fascinating, and well written account that may surprise you at times. Did you know, for example, that Vermont and New Hampshire had laws on the books well into the 1800’s saying that Catholics couldn’t hold office? Read that and more!