NEW YORK, April 8 (UPI) -- The head of a leading Roman Catholic lay group says U.S. leftists are about to unleash an avalanche of invective against the church and its leadership.
"The storm is about to hit," William Donohue of the Catholic League said in a news release.
"For the most part, anti-Catholic bigots and the disaffected dissidents within the Church have been quiet. What they have been waiting for is about to happen: the week between the end of the mourning and the beginning of the conclave is upon us. And that means the left is ready to explode."
He cited early signs of coming anti-Catholic attacks.
-- Calvary Evangelical Lutheran Church in Minneapolis posting a sign on its property saying, "ALL WELCOME, CHRIST IS ALIVE, THE POPE IS DEAD;"
-- the president of the J. Paul Getty Trust commenting on 'the spectacle of grotesquerie and human ruin that has lately filled the balcony above St. Peter's Square;" and
-- the HillaryNow Web site saying when the pope went to Israel, he ordered an ambulance to follow him in the event he needed a transfusion, he would not get "Jewish blood."
