{I}t seemed to me now that a Catholic church was the right companion for all these horrors. Didn't Catholicism deal with blood and resurrected flesh on a daily basis? Wasn't it expert in superstition? I somehow doubted that the hospitable plain Protestant chapels that dotted the university could be much help; they didn't look qualified to wrestle with the undead. I felt sure those big square Puritan churches on the town green would be helpless in the face of a European vampire. A little witch burning was more in their line--something limited to the neighbors.
The narrator reflects on the inadequacies of Protestant churches in facing the horrors represented by supernatural entities like vampires. They perceive Catholicism as more suited to engage with such dark themes, given its rituals involving blood and resurrection. The narrator questions the ability of simple Protestant chapels to confront these supernatural challenges, feeling that they lack the necessary recognition of the supernatural elements that may be involved.
Furthermore, the writer describes the traditional Protestant churches as seeming unprepared for the complexities of dealing with dark figures from lore, suggesting that their historical focus on mundane fears, like witch hunts, renders them ill-equipped. In contrast, Catholicism’s associations with the macabre and belief in the mystical offer a more fitting response to the horrors that loom in the narrator's experience.
