text: What are you talking about? Cultural conservatives thought Catholics were 100% antagonistic to American culture. Remember....
  
  "Those Catholics don't want to assimilate. Heck, they want to even start their own schools!  And their own colleges and universities. They want to impose rosaries, apparitions, celibacy, Latin, and Bingo on the established American culture. They don't even want their people to marry WASPS, the 'real' cultural conservatives.  Catholics have 'blacklists' of all-American books and films. Their pope has even condemned Americanism. They don't believe in freedom of the press or in the separation of church and state. They won't allow their people to worship with us on Sunday morning, calling it a grave sin to do so."
  
  You are so wrong---they did NOT want to adopt American mores and culture. Immigrant Roman Catholics were the Muslims of their time to social conservatives.