Why did Catholics hate left handed people?

How did left-handedness transform from a symptom of mental and moral deficiency to a sign of creativity and mental fortitude? .... read more

The right hand has always been considered the hand of decorum and honor (dexter) and the left hand (sinister). That is why today we greet one another with the right hand, pledge allegiance with the right hand, and the military salutes with the right hand, etc. etc. read more

Discouraging the use of the left hand, to the point of tying a hand behind the back or even disabling permanently the left hand in schools and in church worship was a certainly a Catholic Church practice; one only has to Google to find numerous personal accounts of it. read more