![]() The paths taken by Spellman and Sheen often crossed. ![]() Both Spellman and Sheen made anticommunism a primary thrust of their message. During this period, two members of the hierarchy, Francis Cardinal Spellman and Bishop Fulton J. In the Cold War, the meeting of Catholic and “American” anticommunism saw Catholics playing a more visible public role. In addition, few members of the Church hierarchy became true public figures well known to the society at large. Few public figures were Catholic and, of these, very few made a point of their Catholicism. Throughout most of the nation’s history, they were a relatively quiet minority, professing their loyalty to the United States in order to show that they were not, as many non-Catholic Americans feared, agents of the Roman hierarchy. American Catholics have always had a minority status. ![]()
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