text: When JFK ran for President, one of the big political concerns was that as President he would receive and follow instructions from the Pope.  There were even cartoons showing JFK bowing below Pope John with the Pope's hand on his head.  
  
  The Catholic Church for centuries, starting about 1900 years ago and most particularly through the Crusades and the Inquisition, tortured and killed thousands if not millions of Jews for being 'Killers of Christ'.  How much this religious attitude contributed to the  Holocaust is still a subject of debate. 
  
  The KKK in this country hated both Jews and Catholics.  In Oregon in the mid-1920's they nailed American flags across the doors to Catholic churches.   
  
  And now we have a Jewish Presidential candidate going to the Vatican to meet with the Pope.
  
  We truly live in Interesting times.