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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 30, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 50.

Catholics and the American Presidency

Daniel Dougherty, at the Catholic Laymen's Congress, claimed that a Catholic could not be elected President of the United States, on account of prejudice against them. The reason why a Catholic could not be elected President, is well stated by Dr. M'Glynn recently:—

"The American people will not elect a Catholic to be President until it shall become much clearer than it is to-day that a man can be a good Catholic, and at the same time a true American. It is not clear to-day. The American people believe in the preamble of the Declaration of Independence; the pope and the pope's men do not."