Kerry's Catholicism: Checked at the door

Mais um artigo sobre o peculiar Catolicismo de John Kerry, desta vez de James P. Gannon:

Kennedy's victory in 1960 over Vice President Nixon seemed to smash the political barrier to the Oval Office for Catholics, and we rejoiced. The fact that Kennedy virtually had to promise to keep his religious beliefs in a lockbox for four years, to overcome fears that the pope would be calling the shots, was a concession we could understand and forgive.

Now, 44 years later, another Catholic is about to become the Democratic nominee for president. I wish I could be as proud and enthusiastic about that as I was in 1960. Instead, I am embarrassed. Given his beliefs and his voting record, I wish John Kerry professed another religious faith or none at all. I would rather have an agnostic or an atheist in the White House than a person who proclaims himself a Catholic but tosses overboard those parts of Catholic doctrine that are politically inconvenient.