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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Regarding the Baptist convention's decision to recommend to their people that "the Roman Catholic Church is both a religion and an ambitious political system aspiring to be a state...
...find it hard to believe that there still exists in the U.S. a group as prejudiced as the Baptists. I just wish to point out that the Catholic Church no longer has any aspirations of being a state, and religious prejudices should be forgotten when selecting a candidate for President...
...ridiculous to hold that if a Roman Catholic is elected President, the Catholic Church will aspire [to rule the U.S.] under the Pope. Does the Pope run the state of California? Does he run the city of New York? Of course not. Neither could he nor would he try to run the national Government if a Catholic were President...
...campaign biography, Man from Abilene. The theme was the theme that led the President to seek a second term: the quest for peace and for the goals that free nations share and should share. He skipped Thanksgiving services (Mamie went on alone to the National Presbyterian Church), found time late in the day for turkey with Mamie (who will not go on the big trip), Son Major John and Daughter-in-Law Barbara (who will), the four Eisenhower grandchildren and two unannounced visitors. Cinemactress Rosalind Russell and her husband. Producer Frederick Brisson. (The Eisenhowers, confided Roz Russell to newsmen afterwards...
...world "population explosion" as "a smoke screen behind which a moral evil may be foisted on the public." Denounced by the U.S. Catholic hierarchy was "a systematic, concerted effort" to build support for the use of U.S. public funds "in promoting artificial birth prevention for economically underdeveloped countries." The church leaders urged instead greater scientific efforts to feed and uplift backward peoples. U.S. Catholics, declared the bishops, "believe that the promotion of artificial birth prevention is a morally, humanly, psychologically and politically disastrous approach to the population problem." Catholics, they continued, "will not support any public assistance, either at home...