Volume 37, Number 11 · June 28, 1990
Mario Cuomo's Trouble with Abortion
By Garry Wills
Catholics, 25 percent of the population, and Jews, only 3 percent, have had a powerful influence on America's Protestant majority. Both groups have a highly developed tradition, strongly inculcated, that was brought to America. Each resisted for a long time the dilution of its communities by intermarriage. American Protestantism, individualist and improvisational, diffuses its impact in sectarian rivalries. It lives by revivals, starting over from scratch. The strength of Catholicism and Judaism lies, by contrast, in their continuity.
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