We were Catholic growing up, and I thought everyone was. When I heard that Kennedy was the first and only Catholic President, I just couldn't belive that then-President Reagan was not a Catholic. It freaked me out.
A childhood belief about politics

others believed things like this
- My mother, the good Catholic, thought that Jesus, being a string bean (supreme being) was really skinny.— Mark D
- That you start out Catholic and after you reach a certain age you then become Protestant.Anon
- I used to think God and Jesus were the same person. And I grew up Catholic.— Jackie Mullinix/st louis
- I am Catholic. I used to believe that the Father presenting the Mass was in fact God himself.— Lindsey
- I used to believe the local Catholic church was Disney Land.— Sherri
- I was a little Catholic girl, and I used to believe that deviled ham was chopped up devils.— Camille, Palo Alto, CA