Trump's Anti-Catholic Roots Exposed

0:00On April 18th, Trump's recent jabs at Pope Leo over his Iran comments and that Jesus image Trump posted hit different when you learned about his teenage years at Manhattan's Marble Collegiate Church. The pastor back then was Norman Vincent Peale, famous for his positive thinking book, but also a vocal anti-Catholic who led protests against John F. 100, Kennedy's presidential run because he was Catholic. Peale, a big Republican draw with a following like Billy Graham's, chaired a 1960 meeting of 150 Protestant leaders in Washington. They warned a Catholic president would wreck church state separation and America's culture, dropping a 2000 word manifesto that blew up the elections religion debate. Kennedy fired back with a speech to Baptist ministers in Houston the next week, stressing absolute separation where no religious leader bosses the. President and no one's bar from office over faith. Peale's crew echoed old fears from 1928 when Al Smith ran as the first Catholic nominee and conspiracy nuts claimed the Pope would.

1:04Pull strings. That same year, Trump's dad Fred got arrested in Queens during a clan riot at a memorial day parade. The clan, mad at Irish Catholic cops, handed out flyers raging about Protestant Americans attacked by Roman Catholic police, showing how deep those. Anti-Catholic roots ran in New York. This family in church history sheds light on why Trump's Pope beef feels so personal. It's like echoes from a time when Protestant leaders saw Catholics as a threat to the nation's core.