Warning!  It's quite the long post we have here! Quo itis, Catholici Americani? Imagine, if you will, Gentle Reader, your father, with all his strengths and weaknesses.  If your father was like mine, he did his best, he sacrificed, he protected, taught, and disciplined, but he was not perfect. Now, imagine again, someone, maybe a family member, maybe a friend, maybe a complete stranger.  This person begins to carp and criticize your father, not in a measured, charitable way, but in an ignorant and nasty manner, even using rough language in his description of his qualities or apparent lack thereof. Would you, Gentle Reader, be offended?  Would you respond with heart-felt vigour to the slurs and slander?  Yes, you most likely would.  No one would tolerate such calumnies heaped upon their father.  Personally, I’d give the boor a hard punch in the nose! And yet…we do tolerate it. It has been said that the only acceptable prejudice practiced in Americ...