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Maximilian75
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While America can run against my conservative sensibilities, they’re a fascinating historical paper. They put out a series documenting the meetings between Popes and Presidents awhile ago, copied and pasted here.
I hope to start a general thread on the intersection of American politics and Roman Catholicism here.
www.americamagazine.org
www.americamagazine.org
www.americamagazine.org
www.americamagazine.org
As of yet (3 years later) there are no articles about Carter or Reagan and JP2, or any of the following Papacies. However, there is this fascinating Time article about John Paul II and Reagan
I hope to start a general thread on the intersection of American politics and Roman Catholicism here.

When presidents and popes meet: Woodrow Wilson and Benedict XV
No two men could have been more different: one was a pope and successor of St. Peter, the other, a political science professor turned politician president.


When Pope John and Ike Laughed It Up in the Vatican
When Pope John would finally get to meet with President Eisenhower, there would be no doubt that he could regale the former general of the “exploits” of the former army chaplain.


The solemn handshake between JFK and Pope Paul VI
Would JFK adhere to traditional practice, whereby Catholics kneel, grasp the pope’s right hand, and kiss the papal ring, which is the physical symbol of the Petrine office?


Pope and President, Paul VI and Lyndon B. Johnson: Christmas on the Tiber, Texas Style
By the time pope and president met in the presidential suite at New York rsquo s Waldorf Astoria on October 4 1965 Paul VI and Lyndon Baines Johnson were relatively new in their respective positions Both men assumed their offices two years previously mdash in 1963 mdash on the death of their pred

As of yet (3 years later) there are no articles about Carter or Reagan and JP2, or any of the following Papacies. However, there is this fascinating Time article about John Paul II and Reagan
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