Christine, you haven't heard how your doctor, lawyer, or dentist jokes with his/her staff about you when you're not there.  Utterly commonplace, and not generally ill-intentioned: even if you aren't one of the popular patients/clients, they still mean to take care of you.

Well, that's what Podesta's e-mail is like: inner-circle talk, not meant to be public, is much more candid and sharply-phrased than what the same people would say in public.  You're trying to make an issue out of something that happens all the time, everywhere, and with everybody.

You also apparently don't understand Podesta's point, which is simply that he thinks reactionary Catholics are particularly active in certain Republican/conservative settings.  His remarks are not about Catholics as such, but about Catholics with a particular orientation.  Since you're one, feel free to be offended by them.  But don't try to turn them into an attack on the Catholic church, which they're not.