JFK Remembrance ... First Catholic President & Harbinger of Papal Supremacy

Tomorrow marks the anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination.  Did you know when he became the first Catholic president, many feared he'd take orders from the Pope. This tongue-in-cheek scene from Holy Bones, Limbo, and Jesus in My Cheetos illustrates that fear:

A red phone in the Oval Office rings. President Kennedy takes  the call.

“Hey, Jack, do you think you could do me a few favors?” “Sure, Your Holiness. Name them.”

“For starters, how about a law requiring every American eat fish on Friday?”

“Done. What else?”

“Maybe go to Confession more often? And lay off the blonde.

You know, your birthday songbird?

“Hmm, that’s a tough one. Got anything less complicated on your mind?”

“How about dropping one of those fancy-schmancy A-bombs on Russia? This Communism stuff is getting out of hand.”

“Now you’re talking. Let me take care of some commotion down in Cuba first, but then I’ll get right on it.”

Of course, if a pope had this kind of pull, Al Smith would have been elected in a landslide back in 1928. Everyone would have known that within moments of Smith placing his hand on the Bible—the Catholic version—Pope Pius XI would’ve been in his ear, ordering him to quash prohibition.