Origins, 10

Another funny thing happened...

Eventually,

the Catholic Church

became the enemy.

You can see it

most clearly,

in England,

in the formation

of the Church of England,

and the bloody disputes

for power

that resulted,

and that's another thing

that was transplanted

to the Americas,

a deep-seated

most often invisible

hatred for "papists,"

those conspirators

whispering behind closed doors

with their secret allegiance 

to Rome,

stymying in the 20th century,

the ambitions of Al Smith,

and reshaping the image

of Camelot

to smooth over

the babyface

of JFK,

so he wouldn't sweat

so much

as Nixon.

And it's been the same

ever since.