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Entry: Firing Foxman Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/firing_foxman#3469 Post contents: I am glad that Frau von Fechtmann sees little hostility to Catholics in present-day Protestant Europe (keeping in mind that Belgium isn't Protestant). That was not my experience when living in Protestant Germany 1972-1980 when Catholics were condemned for the same reasons that Liberal Protestants in the USA hate Catholics: largely reasons dealing sex. The hostile reception that Pope John Paul II received in the Orange Netherlands and Scandinavia also suggests that, at that time, Catholics were not welcome. If matters have changed, then I'm glad to hear it. Adenauer's reform of the old Catholic Zentrum into a CDU that made an appeal to Protestants was a good start. In the Orange Netherlands, the Catholic and Protestant parties didn't merge until the 1990s -- or so I'm told. I'll let others comment on anti-Catholicism in England, Wales, and Scotland. The circumstances in Orange Ireland is, of course, a matter of common knowledge. Sent at: 2008 05 15