Faith of President John F. Kennedy I have watched several documentaries on the life and death of John F. Kennedy, but I never knew anything about his religious background. JFK was raised in the Catholic faith during a time there was still much prejudice towards the Catholic Church. Kennedy was the first and to this day, the only Catholic president of the United States. Unlike, other presidents before and after Kennedy, he did not want his catholic background to alter is presidential campaign. Because I am a Catholic, and no Catholic has ever been elected president, the real issues in this campaign have been obscured perhaps deliberately, in some quarters less responsible than this. So it is apparently necessary for me to state once again not what kind of church I believe in for that should be important only to me but what kind of America I believe in (Hammond). Kennedy’s views on faith and politics were that religion provided the base …show more content…
Because there was so much energy on his faith, and not what he would do for the country as a president he addressed the issue by giving a speech saying “I believe In an America where the separation of church and state is absolute, where no Catholic prelate would tell the president how to act…and where no man is denied public office because his religion differs from the president who might appoint him or the people who might elect him” (McKenzie). He hoped people would realize that he would do what was best for the people of the United States regardless of his religious background. Many people questioned if that was even possible. He wanted for there to be a time in America where all men and churches were created equal. Kennedy believed that the Government of America should not be based on one religion or another, but to be equal towards all religious