Exactly. The whole purpose to JFK’s speech was to reassure voters that he, a man of the Catholic faith, could and would serve properly as president.
Dead on the money Lurk. The prevailing feeling from quite a few voters in the run up to the primaries and general was that if JFK won the White House.....the Pope would be then calling the shots on everything for at least 4 years. Dumb and wrong I agree, but that is how it was.