Hollywood may have altered perceptions of the Ku Klux Klan to convince people that they were primarily a group concerned with segregation between Black and White Americans, but historically it was Irish Catholics who felt the wrath of the Anglo Protestant hate group.
As waves of Irish immigrants arrived on US shores, the Klan became increasingly violent towards Catholics. Their tactics included bombing churches and attacking individual priests. In 1921, they shot Irish priest Father James Coyle in the head, killing him immediately.
There were many other hideous incidents, one of the most infamous coming only a few short years later, in 1924.
The KKK held an anti Catholic rally in South Bend, Indiana, the home of Notre Dame University. The head of the university at the time was an Irish priest and member of the Knights of Columbus.
As the KKK stormed arrived through the streets, spreading anti Catholic hate, the students of Notre Dame decided to run them from their area. They fought the KKK at trains and bus depots and beat them up on the streets.
Up to 500 Catholic students joined in with the attempts to stop the hate rally, fighting the KKK hand to hand and forcing them to retreat to their office where a trademark burning cross (this time of red bulbs rather than fire) lay on a third story window. The students grabbed potatoes from a nearby store and smashed the windows of the upstairs office, destroying the inflammatory and intimidating symbol.
The incident was only one such event, but highlights the decades of hatred, racism and sectarianism suffered by Irish Catholics at the hands of other sects, particularly Baptists and those of Anglo descent.
Now, as Roe vs. Wade nears its own termination, a website claiming to be inspired by a deceased Jewish Supreme Court Judge is leading calls for KKK style rallies against Catholics while they worship.
The unoriginal protestors, incapable of creativity, have also pilfered their ideas from recent pro abortion astro turf events in Poland that have been engineered by NGOs. They will wear cringe outfits from the television adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale, as paid protestors in Poland did. They will also target churches during Masses, as the fake protests in Poland did. Lastly, they will daub churches in generic graffiti such as ‘666’ and Petrine Crosses that they believe to be some frightening Satanic symbol.
In Poland of course, many groups successfully held off the mercenary terrorists last year, including groups of football fans who grouped together to defend their churches as they faced attack.
Nonetheless, the level of violence against Catholics was incredibly serious, with priests stabbed and parishioners beaten up, all with tacit approval from European politicians who were happy to continue inciting attacks even as the levels of violence increased.
If Joe Biden refuses to tell these demonic paid activists to cease their attacks, especially as they inevitable turn to arson and violence as they did during the Canada hoax hysteria, then a formal excommunication is the only course of action.
As we approach the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima, one thing is for certain, the errors of Russia are now firmly implanted in the American psyche and soul.
Catholics must be brave as the Poles were and more locally, as the Irish Catholics of Indiana were.