Members of the NOI have been publicly criticized by the leadership for making anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic anti-white and anti-Homosexuality statements," Nation of Islam ". 2001 .

Early last week, before the Michigan primary, many Catholic voters in the state received phone calls that informed them of Mr. Bush's visit to Bob Jones University and of anti-Catholic statements made by school leaders in the past.

The Seventh-day Adventist Church has made many anti-Catholic statements that the Bible identifies the Pope as the Anti-Christ.

According to a script of the phone call that the Bush campaign released today, a recorded message notes that Mr. Bush visited Bob Jones University, whose officers have in the past made anti-Catholic statements.

The caller said: "Bob Jones has made strong anti-Catholic statements, including calling the pope the Antichrist and the Catholic Church a satanic cult.

Mr. Bush has been roundly criticized for giving a speech at Bob Jones University in Greenville, S.C., in which he failed to criticize anti-Catholic statements by the university's founders or its restrictions on interracial dating.

On February 26, Bush issued a formal letter of apology to Cardinal John Joseph O'Connor of New York for failing to denounce Bob Jones University's history of anti-Catholic statements.

Bob Jones has made strong anti-Catholic statements, including calling the pope anti-Christ, the Catholic Church a satanic cult.

Indeed, the McCain campaign clumsily denied that it was sponsoring telephone calls pointing to these anti-Catholic statements, only to own up to them later.