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There is reason to wonder whether U. S. thought leaders have the remotest familiarity with the society and people for whom they purport to speak. Having been assured some months ago that they had “grown up” since 1928, and shed their religious biases, Americans woke up last week to find not only that the old coat was still in the wardrobe, but that it was being worn out in public with a brazenness that would have been considered indecent three decades ago. That was not all. Having made all the wrong guesses about how the country would react to a Catholic’s candidacy for the Presidency, the guardians of the nation’s mores and morals then proceeded, in the aftermath of last week’s explosion, to give all the wrong advice on how to keep the issue within rational bounds.

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The Catholic Issue

There is reason to wonder whether U. S. thought leaders have the remotest familiarity with the society and people for whom they purport to speak. Having been assured some months ago that they had “grown up” since 1928, and shed their religious biases, Americans woke up last week to find not only that the old coat was still in the wardrobe, but that it was being worn out in public with a brazenness that would have been considered indecent three decades ago. That was not all. Having made all the wrong guesses about how the country would react to a Catholic’s candidacy for the Presidency, the guardians of the nation’s mores and morals then proceeded, in the aftermath of last week’s explosion, to give all the wrong advice on how to keep the issue within rational bounds.