Catholic tears of pride

Key Energy Party adviser Samuel Tenenbaum, who also does a lot to encourage serious thought about matters of faith, sent out to his e-mail list a link to this NPR piece on the JFK speech. That prompted Bud Ferillo to respond to the group as follows:

Sammy:

 

This speech, which I have retained in my memory bank since it was given, moves me to tears every time I hear it.

 

All of us at Bishop England High School in 1960 had never dreamed a Catholic could be elected to any office outside of the ethnic centers of Irish or Italian America. This one speech changed the course of that campaign because of its direct response to the spoken and unspoken anti-Catholic fervor of the time. And that election changed the course of the country until the violence of later years consumed all that had been won.

 

Thanks for sharing it.

 

Bud/