The Ku Klux Klan vs. The Catholic Churches!?

Question

Am doing a term paper for one of my classes.
Am required to profile the KKK's activities, and during my research, I figured that the KKK disliked the catholic but I did not know why?
Was there any sought of altercation(s) between the KKK and the Catholics...any?
pls someone help me out here....dis paper is due soon, and plz if u can include the source you got ur information(s) from...I wil truly appreciate it!!!!!! thanx!

Answer 1

The KKK is a white supremacist organization.

Racism is against the teachings of Jesus Christ and the Catholic Church:

Created in the image of the one God and equally endowed with rational souls, all men have the same nature and the same origin. Redeemed by the sacrifice of Christ, all are called to participate in the same divine beatitude: all therefore enjoy an equal dignity.

The equality of men rests essentially on their dignity as persons and the rights that flow from it:

Every form of social or cultural discrimination in fundamental personal rights on the grounds of sex, race, color, social conditions, language, or religion must be curbed and eradicated as incompatible with God's design.

In fact, over half of the over one billion Catholics in the world are not "white".

For more information, see Catechism of the Catholic Church, sections 1934 and following: http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt3sect1chpt2art3.htm#1934

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

The KKK in the 1920's was more popular as an antiCatholic and anti-immigrant organization than as an antiBlack one.
The burning of the Cross was meant to be an anti Catholic act.
"In the 1920's the KKK was primarily antiCatholic' (Encyclopedia Britannica)
Chech out the history of the Klan in Oregon,South Dakota,Ohio,Illinois, New Hampshire to get more detalis on its antiCatholic bigotry.

Anti Catholicism was a bias that came to Anglo-America right at the beginning because of conflict with Spain and France ,both Catholic powers, and the 'antipopery" commitment of the Puritans who distained much of english Protestantism as being to filled with Catholic left-overs.
Many of the immigrant waves of the 19th and 20th centuries were Catholic(Irish, Italian,South German,Polish,and many other East and Central Europeans,French Canadians and Hispanic) and the catholic faith was widely represented as being incompatible with republican democracy and American culture. Many believed that catholics and their school system wanted to take over the US.

Try Wikipedia AntiCatholicism in the United States
Google AntiCatholicism and the KuKlux Klan

Answer 3

this might seem to ba contorversila answer yet i might say this is the Nazis by way of fact they suspect that they are the masters and all different are inferior and characteristic recommended dying camps for others deemed "no longer of the grasp race", all of them started a worldwide conflict and sent over 12 million human beings to the dying camps and are in contact interior the deaths of over sixty 5 million harmless human beings. The Ku Klux Klan is in basic terms a no reliable bunch of bigots and racsists who hates every person. lots of them are hardship-unfastened hardship-free electorate who've been deceive out of lack of know-how and apart from some vicous crimes they have on no account held the emotional sway that the Nazis did and recommended for the removing of alternative communities. lots of the Klan are/have been misfits and persons searching for a feeling of pourpose and a fraternity to belong to. back interior the civil rights circulate a number of thier participants commited some henious crimes, like homicide or terrorism, yet lots of the Klan participants objected to that variety of behaviour. in spite of the undeniable fact that, the two are no longer any reliable yet I realy experience that the Nazis are worse.

Answer 4

The members of the KKK were typically Southern and Protestant, and had been in the country for a while.

Most of the Catholics came from Europe in the middle to late 1800s, and were seen as foreigners.

Answer 5

I think one primary reason is that the Catholic Church accepts all people regardless of their race, which obviously the KKK hates.

Answer 6

kkk were protestant, so i guess that might be a reason.

i would also surmise that since America for the majority of history was predominately english and therefore protestant, catholicism would be intertwined with non-english immigrants.

from there it would seem natural that catholics were included in the "hit list" of sorts when the Klan was reborn. The rebirth made the KKK against blacks, immigrants, jews, and catholics

Answer 7

KKK were primarily Southern Baptists and Southern Methodists....

They Identified Catholics as foreigners under the influence of the foreign government of the Catholic Church...

edit:
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAkkk.htm

Answer 8

Yeah....they hated Catholics and Jewish people. But did you know they were big contributors to the Protestant churches? There are tons of photographs of the KKK inside churches handing over money to pastors on the alters. Funny world, huh?

Answer 9

During the 1840's and 1850's there was a large amount of Irish Catholic Immigrants coming to America (I'm guessing the Great Irish Famine which occured around roughly the same time period had something to do with this). The protestants blamed them for raising taxes, spreading violence and disease, among other non-sense......

Answer 10

I think it's because Catholics (and basically any other religion...but the Catholic religion was very popular when the KKK began) go against all of the KKK's beliefs.