Religion: COAU

"With Mr. Kennedy in the White House, things are bound to be different for American Catholics." So says the Jesuit weekly America, in an editorial saluting John F. Kennedy, by whose election "the full first-class citizenship of U.S. Catholics was at long last ratified." Continues the editorial:

"How do these now fully enfranchised Catholics regard their coreligionist in the White House? There is no gloating in the Catholic attitude. Catholics look for no special preferments or special favors, and they will get none.

"We shall all have fresh confidence, new courage, fewer resentments, and an easier feeling about shouldering...

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