[Kerberos]

"Anti-Catholicism is deeply imbedded in Anglo-American culture"

I understand that as I remember when Kennedy was elected and there was quite an uproar over a Catholic being in the White house. However, I was only six at the time and couldn't understand why Kennedy being a Catholic made any difference one-way or the other.

[RobbyS]

It had been an unwritten rule that no Catholic should be President. Kennedy tried to get around this by saying at Houston, in effect, that he was not really a Catholic. He got the great majority of the Catholic vote anyway and that outweighed the anti-Catholic vote.