The wait for the next Catholic president sits at 60 years — and could be longer, if former Vice President Joseph L. Biden Jr. fails to unseat the Republican incumbent, Donald Trump.
Sixty years after JFK, wait continues for the second Catholic president
Father Hesburgh, JFK to be honored on postage stamps in 2017
Holy Cross Father Theodore Hesburgh, who was president of the University of Notre Dame for 35 years, and President John F. Kennedy, who was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas in 1963, are among several subjects that will be part of next year’s stamp program, the U.S. Postal Service announced Sept. 20.