The New York Times provides some historical context:

City officials in 18th-century New York urged project organizers to change the church’s initial location, on Broad Street, in what was then the heart of the city, to a site outside the city limits, at Barclay and Church. Unlike the organizers of Park51, who have resisted suggestions they move the project to avoid having a mosque so close to the killing field of ground zero, the Catholics complied.

You see, in those days, Catholicism was the suspect religion with foreign ties to a nefarious body attempting to destroy the United States that the pope would one day rule over.

Oh Catholics! When they’re not aiding and abetting kid-fucking they’re drinking cheap wine and eating bland wafers while crying about the persecution of Catholics. I know this because I was raised in a Catholic family and was forced to attend church every Sunday, go to catechism, volunteer to be an altar boy, suck off the parish Monsignor, etc. So I guess I really shouldn’t be surprised that some Catholic groups have ridiculously taken offense to a plotline in this week’s episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm in which the forceful pee stream of Larry David, a Godless Jew, caused a painting of Jesus to be splattered with a drop of urine. |E Online|