“Faced with the election of a Catholic, our culture is at stake.”

—  Norman Vincent Peale

Opposing the candidacy of ‪John F. Kennedy‬‎ for US President, as quoted in "The Religious Issue: Hot and Getting Hotter" in Newsweek (19 September 1960)

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