Our Sunday Visitor posts in 2011, still true today.

When Catholicism was respected in U.S. culture

Believe it or not, there was a time when the media identified the faith with core American principles

By Robert P. Lockwood - OSV Newsweekly, 1/16/2011

Growing up in Yonkers, N.Y., in the 1950s, I assumed that most everyone in the world was Catholic. There were Jewish kids peppered here and there, but we just didn’t meet that many Protestants.

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