John Halpin speaks on Wikileaks email about Catholicism

On Wednesday, a flurry of conservative outlets and pundits seized on a new batch of emails published by WikiLeaks, declaring that an exchange allegedly penned by a Hillary Clinton campaign staffer is “anti-Catholic.”

The emails were sent to John Podesta, Clinton’s campaign chair, but the exchange occurred between Jennifer Palmieri, Clinton’s current communications director, and John Halpin, a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress,* a liberal think tank. During the back and forth — which have not been officially confirmed and which took place in 2011 — Halpin said, “Many of the most powerful elements of the conservative movement are all Catholic (many converts) from the [Supreme Court] and think tanks to the media and social groups.”...
https://thinkprogress.org/wikileaks-halpin-catholics-f09c798ba99d#.s8sylyfzn