In the California presidential primary of 1964, a newly-divorced and remarried Nelson Rockefeller-who had just broken up another family as well as his own to marry a mother of four young children, a woman who lost custody of her children but who married Rockefeller anyhow-was running for president. He was opposed by Barry Goldwater. In the campaign, Francis Cardinal McIntyre, the prelate of Los Angeles, announced Catholics loyal to the tenets of their faith should not vote for Rockefeller because of his willingness to break his marriage vows. By today’s standard this would be an astounding thing for a Catholic archbishop to say. But McIntyre said a Catholic’s duty is to do all he can to ensure that the moral stricture of the country is observed-not only by Catholics but by people Catholics elect to high office…