JOHN KERRY will be only the third Catholic in U.S. history to be nominated for the Presidency by a major party. The other two were Al Smith in 1928, who lost to Herbert Hoover, and John F. Kennedy in 1960, who defeated Richard Nixon. I asked Kerry if sewing up the nomination has any special meaning for him as a Catholic, and he said: “Historically, yes; substantively, no. I subscribe completely to the speech Kennedy made in Houston in 1960 and believe completely in the separation of church and state.” Kennedy’s speech made to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association on...