Anti-Catholic prejudice encouraged during Pope’s visit

By Jim Gibney (for Irish News)

I lost count how many times over the past few weeks I had to call on my yoga-based skill to calm myself down or how many times I wanted to throw my radio and television out the window as my anger levels rose listening to the media commentary preceding Pope Benedict’s visit to Britain. You would have thought the Pope represented a doctrine based on evil rather than one based on Christianity.

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