The last acceptable prejudice is anti-Catholicism.

The last acceptable prejudice is anti-Catholicism. That’s not me (a Roman Catholic) talking, but scholar Philip Jenkins, a Protestant, in his book The New Anti-Catholicism. In our ”correct” society, a statement seen as racist, anti-Semitic, anti-woman or gay bashing will disqualify a writer for years — but not insults to Jesus Christ and those who follow his precepts. Far from it: Enlarge shop-worn Catholic-conspiracy tales into book length, and it can make you rich and famous, as it has one Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code. The novel mixes fact with fiction in docudrama form, spewing a passel of baseless conjectures against Catholicism, representing modern feminist revisionist theory.