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John Kennedy, running for president, was Catholic. The issue was whether as President, he would be subject to the will of the Pope and the Catholic Church and put their interests ahead of that of the United States.

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In the 1960 US Presidential election, the point was made that the Democrat nominee, John F. Kennedy, was Catholic. Never before did the US have a Catholic president.

Many people believed that JFK's religion would be a handicap for him in the election. JFK did win a very close election and JFK remains as the only Catholic president the US has ever had.

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John F. Kennedy became the first Roman Catholic president. Some people worried that he would take direction or orders from the Pope.

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John F. Kennedy's Catholicism.

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