Is this collective self-pity part of Catholic culture, or part of the human condition? When Barrie, in The Little Minister, had his hero as a small boy stone an outlander "because they killed the holy Martyrs", he wasn't writing about Roman Catholicism. 

On such a matter, we not only need sources, we need consensus of the sources; I will be interested to see a case for consensus, but I am highly doubtful one exists.  PMAnderson