England history is ripe with laws that limited catholics property and education rights, freedoms to openly practice their religeon or hold public office until around 1745. The rights of RCs were limited by acts that established royal supremacy in the Church of England and civil disabilities were imposed on those who remained in communion with Rome.

Elizabeth I made it impossible for Catholics to hold civil offices and imposed severe penalties upon Catholics who persisted in recognizing papal authority. Fines and prison sentences were prescribed for all who did not attend Anglican services, and the celebration of the Mass was forbidden under severe penalties. Laws even required holders of public office to take various oaths of loyalty and to receive the sacrament of the Church of England.

Jesuits and other priests were expelled (1585) from England under penalty of treason, and harboring or aiding priests was declared a capital offense. A number of Catholics were executed for treason.

Now the RC pope wants to limit the freedom of others, to supports the right of churches to discriminate against others in accordance with their religious ethos.

Sound familiar?