A review for Catholic News Service, an agency of the U.S. Bishops' Conference describes the six-part series as "a work of fiction that adopts a narrow, revisionist and anti-Catholic point of view toward the religious turmoil of the Tudor period in which it's set".
It said that the show encourages the audience to "root for the self-made commoner Thomas Cromwell" when in fact he was a 'monster' who engineered a reign of terror and murdered anyone who stood in his way.
In contrast, the drama's depiction of Sir Thomas More, a Catholic martyr, is "not a pretty sight", said author Joseph McAleer.
"The future saint is barely recognisable: sleazy, mean-spirited and just plain rude," he writes. "This evidence-flouting caricature is light-years away from the man of principle."
The criticism from the U.S. Catholic Church follows that of Mark Davies and Mark O'Toole, the Catholic Bishops of Shrewsbury and Plymouth, who said Wolf Hall was guilty of "anti-Catholic" depictions of More, played by Anton Lesser, and for its whitewashing of Cromwell, the hero of the drama, played by Mark Rylance.
