Religion: Questions for 1960

The debate on whether a Roman Catholic should be President is rolling right along—as is Senator John F. Kennedy's campaign for the Democratic nomination. In the Methodist Church of Edgartown, Mass, last week, Bishop John Wesley Lord explained why the prospect of a Catholic President worries him. "While we hold to the principle of respect for every individual, whatever his race or religion, because of the unique claims that the Roman Catholic Church makes for itself, we have the right and duty to ask some questions of a presidential aspirant." He proceeded to ask five:

¶ Do you believe that the American...

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