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Yankees general manager Brian Cashman used to play second base for the Cardinals. The Catholic University of America (CUA) Cardinals, that is not the redbirds in St. Louis. He was pretty good, too.
During Cashman’s college years in the mid-to-late eighties, CUA’s athletic programs competed in Division III, but the Cardinals’ baseball team faced its share of Division I opponents each season. Cashman and his CUA teammates regularly faced the baseball teams at Georgetown and George Washington University, two Division I schools located nearby in DC.
Cashman held his own against them.
Catholics rise to prominence in Congress
WASHINGTON Six decades after John F. Kennedy became the first Roman Catholic president, his political ascent still reverberates in the American electorate. Generations of Catholics who had long been marginalized in the political process were emboldened to seek office, prompting a wave of Catholic lawmakers in the decades that followed.
Academic observers attribute the rising influence of Catholics to a new prominence in public life that emerged after Kennedy’s election. The number of Catholics in Congress has risen by roughly 50 percent since the Kennedy administration and in recent years Catholics have consistently been the single largest religious denomination in Congress.
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