BREAKING: The U.S. bishops' Committee on Doctrine just issued a formal statement defending Pope Leo XIV's teaching...

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31. Let's not..Up until relatively recently

this country had a solid Protestant majority that comprised it's power base, socially, economically and politically and in representating much of the "old money" in America, these WASPS, e.g. White Anglo Saxon Protestants, still do..
You may not remember the controversy that emerged when JFK sought (and won,) the Presidency as the first Catholic to do so, but it was a big deal.