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Mary Sanchez: Oh, to be a fly on the Vatican wall

John F. Kennedy and Joe Biden share a from-the-crib devotion to their faith and the stature of the Oval Office. Leading figures, including Billy Graham and Norman Vincent Peale, aligned against the Kennedy presidential campaign, supported by movements like Protestants and Other Americans United for Separation of Church and State. They’ ll be watching intently...

Nearly 60 years have passed since the first Roman Catholic president has been followed by the second.

John F. Kennedy and Joe Biden share a from-the-crib devotion to their faith and the stature of the Oval Office. But the way Biden's Catholicism is being judged flips the script.

Kennedy was demonized for his Catholic faith. Anti-Catholic bias was rampant when he entered the race for the presidency. The politicized fear of the 1960’s was that as a practicing

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