However, nowadays usually its northeastern liberals claming to be Catholics, yet working every day to undermine the church values.
It is funny watching the liberals praise the man, but brush off his deepest beliefs as quaint. He is being reduced by many commentators to a politician and celebrity instead of the steadfast authority of faith and scripture.
A Catholic today would still have some problems getting elected president; this country has a long history of very, very strong anti-Catholic feeling due to the fact that for so long, the Catholic Church was in opposition to our democracy.