Status Updates From Three Famines

specifically on page 67: "First of all, the peasantry clung to Catholicism, with its debilitating irrationalities, its superstitions, its hostility to progress in thought, and the brake on inventiveness and adaptability it was seen to impose on people."

one thing that bothered me was a very anti-catholic description of someone. I'm not sure if it was the author's views, or the views of the person he was writing about. It kind of threw me for a loop, especially as it is ambiguous regarding whose opinion it is.