Above: a folk mass. I was born the day John F. Kennedy was elected – November 8, 1960. In many ways, this was the apogee of Americanist Catholicism of the kind sponsored by Archbishop John Carrol, Fr. Isaac Hecker, Archbishop John Ireland, and James Cardinal Gibbons. Eschewing evangelisation of the United States in return for assimilation, it was epitomised in May of 1898 from Msgr.
