MDMD Anti-Catholicism?

[Doug Millison]

Pynchon may create characters or narrators who might be perceived to be
"anti-Catholic"  (whatever that might mean, it's a term that demands
definition and nuance), but I'm not sure how you get from the text to the
author in this case.  A good argument can be made that Pynchon's novels
affirm the core values of Christianity, but I wouldn't go so far as to
assert what Pynchon himself believes re religion based on reading his
novels.  From his novels I learn that the objectional aspects of religion
are the institutionalization -- and betrayal -- of humankind's yearning for
meaning beyond the physical facts of life by making people into subjects
within an authoritarian system, and organized religion's support of Empire
and Capital.