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The Ancient Order of Hibernians was established in 1836 to protect and defend Our Holy Mother, the Roman Catholic Church, from the violence and bigotry of anti-Catholic nativist mobs. While violent physical attacks on our churches have become largely a thing of the past, bigotry and disdain for the Catholic Church has not vanished; it hides in the shadows where it nurses on the darkness until its next opportunity to spread the poison of prejudice.<\/p>\n

On Friday evening, October 21, President Trump through twitter promoted the work of Dr. Robert Jeffress, a megachurch pastor of First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas. In his tweet, the President lauded Dr. Jeffress book, A Place Called Heaven: 10 Surprising Truths About Your Eternal Home, calling the book \u201cgreat\u201d and effusively praising Dr. Jeffress himself as \u201ca wonderful man.\u201d Many Catholic Americans would not concur in the President\u2019s veneration; there is nothing \u201cwonderful\u201d in Dr. Jeffress\u2019 well documented hatred of anyone who is not an evangelical Christian.<\/p>\n

In 2010, Jeffress declared that the Catholic Church was a \u201ccounterfeit\u201d religion that had its origins in a Babylonian \u201cpagan religion,\u201d making Catholicism the \u201cWhore of Babylon\u201d foretold in the Book of Revelation. On his radio show, Path to Victory, Jeffress opined: \u201cIsn\u2019t that the genius of Satan? If you want to counterfeit a dollar bill, you don\u2019t do it with purple paper and red ink, you\u2019re not going to fool anybody with that. But if you want to counterfeit money, what you do is make it look closely related to the real thing as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is in truth Jeffress who has proven the most counterfeit in his abandonment of Christian tolerance; wallowing in the muck of bigotry and resurrecting the old hatreds that threatened the very fabric of this nation. His pronouncements are in the tradition of the screeds penned by American \u201cKnow Nothings\u201d against \u201cPapist influence\u201d each time a fresh surge of Catholic Irish immigrants arrived in this country or throughout the 1928 presidential campaign of Al Smith as the first Catholic nominee of any major party and resurrected again during the campaign of John F. Kennedy.<\/p>\n

It is profoundly troubling that Jeffress\u2019 comments and public stances do not appear to have caused the President any qualms. Jeffress\u2019 effusive praise and encouragement to evangelicals to be open-minded about Candidate Trump in 2016, while simultaneously promoting his narrow-minded intolerance of Catholicism, have apparently earned him a prominent place near the head of the table. The Ancient Order of Hibernians does take notice of the despicable comments made by Dr. Robert Jeffress toward our Holy Mother Church and the fact that he has never apologized or attempted to distance himself from them. People holding such bigoted and unsanctified views towards others of different faiths are in contradiction not only with the basic tenets of Christianity, but also the founding principles which make our nation great.<\/p>\n

John Fitzmorris III, Catholic Action<\/p>\n

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