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Draft ended June 28, 2025, never published until now. In this draft untouched, you see the elements now appearing in light with the international diplomacy of the (un) Holy See forcing the US typical rigth wing conservative Christianity in an aggressive posture against the papacy. Ronald Reagan, even if formally a not Catholic, was the most Catholic Potus of the US until today. You just think to the strict collaboration with the Whore's firstborn (the church of Rome) for the demise of the Wall of Berlin and hence of the USSR.
Ironically, whereas Reagan was raised in a household marked by a distinct lack of Catholicism, later, as president, he was surrounded by serious Catholics with whom he tried to change the world. Specifically, Reagan’s assault on atheistic Soviet communism was aided by a number of key Catholics, such as CIA Director William J. Casey, Speechwriter Tony Dolan, Secretary of State Al Haig, Ambassador Vernon Walters, and others. Two men, in particular, were pivotal: Reagan’s first two national security advisers, Richard V. Allen and William P. Clark.
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Reagan's most crucial adviser was the man who would replace Allen: William Clark. “Judge Clark,” as he is known, implemented the Reagan administration's core policy directives crucial to confronting the Soviet empire. Clark is so devout in his faith that he has built a beautiful chapel on his property in Paso Robles, Calif., which he has opened to the community. This dedicated Catholic was Reagan's closest spiritual partner. The two men frequently prayed together.
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On March 30, 1981, Ronald Reagan almost died at the hands of a bullet fired by John Hinckley Jr. The president was sure that God had spared him for a larger purpose. His feeling was affirmed on April 17, Good Friday, by New York's Cardinal Terence Cooke.
“The hand of God was upon you,” Cardinal Cooke told Reagan. Reagan grew very serious. “I know,” he replied, before confiding to the cardinal: “I have decided that whatever time I have left is for him.”
Reagan's sense was reaffirmed in June 1981. He and Nancy Reagan and a few selected guests had a private meal with Mother Teresa. The servant to Calcutta's poor made an immediate impact upon the host.
The whole article in References, below. Taken from :
https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/reagans-catholic-connections
Ronald Reagan was the best of the agents of deception. Formally a Disciples of Christ membership formation, he worked as a Trojan Horse for the Whore's firstborn, the Catholic church, in the US. Meanwhile he was praising the King James Bible, he worked in strict spiritual collaboration (see above excerpt) with the ones whose church persecuted the KJV since before it was published, as the Jesuits tried not only to kill King James the patron of the translation, but also members of the committee who worked on the KJV. Reagan was crucial in to stir up that confused, ecumenical Christian right wing which would then be emboldened by the victory on the Soviet Communism and used to start a long wars against the Islamic world from which ONLY the papacy would come out a winner, and the "Christian US" the loser.
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Original title of the draft :
Reagan and Trump: notice on how they worked for the Whore
.....they only needed to conceal their evil deeds under the cloack of the "praising the King James Bible".
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Do you remember this ? The proof that also a devil can praise the King James:
19Thou believest that there is one Bible; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble. ["God" in original text replaced with "Bible"]
Here, President Trump, in art "Krasnov", praising the AV 1611:
Above video - We Are Bringing The Bible BACK To America‼️🥳🇺🇸 // President Elect Donald J. Trump
URL: https://youtu.be/tnupISwtEB0?si=-UzefKdXSBt2DoGL
[if you have still doubts and persist to believe that if the POTUS praises a Textus Receptus based bible it means he's "anointed by God", go, go in the Bizantine empire and see how they praised their Majority text bibles and at the same time kissed and bowed to images and burned and killed 'heretik' Christians, the Iconoclasts, the Paulicians.... Is it clear why this bunch of demonic, filthy, hypocrite Baptist, Pentecostals etc. MAGAist churches are completely paralayzed when it deals with the exposition of the Russian religious crimes of war in the occupied areas of Ukraine ?.... Because they don't have bibles, they don't have the Bible, the words of God, they have magical fetishes and amulets they call 'em "bible"....]
Well, Pres. Krasnov had a very clear image in his mind. When he was young he surely observed or listened to this speech of Pres. Ronald Reagan:
President Ronald Reagan's comments on the King James Bible
Above video - URL: https://youtu.be/2LCK2shs8Yw?si=H8sCUdxbaYXUNn6G
You can find a transcript of that 1977 radio speech at the URL:
https://blog.spacehey.com/entry?id=1091002
Presidential Inaugurals and the Bible — Ronald Reagan
At a news conference shortly after his 1985 inauguration, Ronald Reagan said; “I’ve found that the Bible contains an answer to just about everything and every problem that confronts us, and I wonder sometimes why we won’t recognize that one book could solve a lot of problems for us.”
For both his 1981 and 1985 inaugurals oaths, Ronald Reagan used the King James Bible belonging to his mother, Nelle Wilson Reagan—on both occasions opened to 2nd Chronicles 7:14 to a passage beginning with: “If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves. . .”
President Reagan spoke fondly of her many margin notes and underlined passages in a 1983 Mother’s Day tribute saying: “My mother, Nelle, made all those marks in that book!”
https://www.museumofthebible.org/book-minute/presidential-inaugurals-and-the-bible--ronald-reagan
WASHINGTON -- The United States and the Vatican restored full diplomatic relations Tuesday, ending a 116-year break and sparking protests from Protestant groups that vowed to fight the move in Congress and in court.
These relations lapsed when on February 28, 1867, Congress passed legislation that prohibited any future funding of United States diplomatic missions to the Holy See. This decision was based on mounting anti-Catholic sentiment in the United States,[1] fueled by the conviction and hanging of Mary Surratt, and three other Catholics, for taking part in the conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln.[citation needed] Her son, John Surratt, also Catholic, was accused of plotting with John Wilkes Booth in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. He served briefly as a Pontifical Zouave but was recognized and arrested. He escaped to Egypt but was eventually arrested and extradited. There was also a false allegation that the Pope had forbidden the celebration of Protestant religious services, which had been held weekly in the home of the American Minister in Rome, within the walls of the city.[2]1867–1984Due to these rumors, the United States broke off diplomatic relations with the Holy See.[2][3] In his June 1908 apostolic constitution, Sapienti Consilio, Pope Pius X decreed that as of November 3 that year, the Catholic Church in the United States would no longer be supervised by the Vatican's missionary agency, the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith (Propaganda Fide), and would now be a mission-sending Church, not “mission territory.”[citation needed]
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The United States and the Holy See announced the establishment of diplomatic relations on January 10, 1984.[22][23] In sharp contrast to the long record of strong domestic opposition, this time there was very little opposition from Congress, the courts, and Protestant groups.[24] On March 7, 1984, the Senate confirmed William A. Wilson as the first U.S. ambassador to the Holy See. Ambassador Wilson had been President Reagan's personal envoy to the Pope since 1981.[23]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_See%E2%80%93United_States_relations
May I suggest you a better source in order to grasp the true story behind? Try for example:
The Jesuit Connection to the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
https://truthontheweb.org/abe.htm
Donald "in art Kransov" Trump could not be less smart than his colleague Ronnie. If Reagan welcomed the Whore in full diplomatic investiture in the US, Donald welcomed her in his private mansion at Mar-A-Lago, which is an even more sinister fact, because it transcends the cold political diplomatic relations in order to dive into the realm of dark, concealed, intimate private relationships.
Try now a thought experiment. After having read about those 1984's protests by Protestants and evangelicals threatening also moves in Congress & courts to block the entry of the Whore in the Pilgrim's land, imagine what would have happened in those old ancient days, if Pres Reagan, to celebrate the infamous event, would have hosted 20, 30 priests and their Queen of Heaven dolly (I imagine Ronnie's mansion far smaller than Donald's) in his villa.
Evangelicals , Protestants, Baptists, Presbyterians in demonstrations with signs in hands in front of the Whitehouse ? ? ?
100 hundred Catholic priests inside President Trump's Mar-a-Lago mansion asking holy mary to bless President Trump and his conversion to Catholicism
https://control-avles-blogs.blogspot.com/2025/03/100-hundred-catholic-priests-inside.html
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No, absolutely NOTHING happened today.
But THIS happened:
The greatest proof we are living in the last days of the church age imbued by extreme spiritual and material corruption, the "Laodicean days", is exactly those idiotic Ruckmanite Baptist priests of Trump continually bashing the "Laodicean Christianity" for their "heresies" meanwhile.....
"....wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things." (Romans 2:1
.....and this happens exactly with their silence on the Catholic soul of Trump and MAGA.
You'll surely appreciate how this ridicolous preachers warns the sheep of his church & online worshippers to stay away from "ecumenism", keenly distracting the brainwashed pious claque from the Catho-Protestant ECUMENISM governing as theocracy the US:
Is Dr Gene Kim a corrupted preacher ? [how to administer a political sermon of support for criminal gangsters in power and hiding himself behind "sounding doctrine" - a clinical case]
https://spirithismouth.blogspot.com/2025/06/is-dr-gene-kim-corrupted-preacher-how.html
This is why I labelled the US American Chrstianity, the MAGAist one, the one also that hides her cult of Trump behind the classical stereotypes of "....we cannot do nothing to change our government" (while they try to dishonestly change your mind) as The Synagogue of Trump.
To end: Iran Contras/Trump's Iran Deal similarity.
Do you remember this?
The Iran–Contra affair (Persian: ماجرای ایران-کنترا; Spanish: Caso Irán-Contra), also referred to as the Iran–Contra scandal, the Iran Initiative, or simply Iran–Contra, was a political scandal in the United States that centered on arms trafficking to Iran between 1981 and 1986, facilitated by senior officials of the Ronald Reagan administration.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair
Today President Krasnov is busy in to emulate his hero in a possible future Iran Contra II scandal:
Trump’s $30B pitch to get Iran back in negotiations after ‘demolition’ of nuclear sites: report
CNN reports a series of proposals to return Iran to the negotiating table
Eric Garcia
Washington, DC
Friday 27 June 2025 17:45 BST
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-iran-negotiations-nuclear-sites-b2778411.html
Every first grade pre-Trib rapture schoolboy or girl knows that the rapture, the Third Temple and a peace treaty of Israel with all the old enemies (Daniel 11) will sign the beginning of the apocalictic global Rock 'n Roll, so I'll not deal with this stuff where Trump could be a sort of "midwife" helping history to deliver the satanic baby - but with other collateral interesting details which are showing both Reagan and Trump as part of the same scheme which devours or exalts US presidents around the Iranian question.
We can leave the job of misusing sound, right doctrine as a veil to not expose the sins of the Whore and her daughters, adopted or not, to the priests of the Synagogue of Trump.
We, who know the Bible, don't believe that in the verse....
Ephesians 5:11
“And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.”
....is restricted to the gentiles or the church of God. It says THEM. Otherwise God would have censored Romans 2 in that book. But hyperzionists, feeling the shame on themselves, will deny that commandment because....
Ephesians 5:12
“For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.”
Now, another beautiful lesson on how to use "sound doctrine" for evil purposes.
If for government agencies and their men to purposely close the eyes in front of an incoming pogrom is a "work of darkness" therefore being a work "done of them in secret" it is "a shame to speak of those things".
Doctrinal application: if the IDF, Netanyahu & various "pious Christian" presidents all conjured "in secret" for a new 911 or Pearl Harbour in the Promised Land (thesis, antithesis, synthesis), you must: close your eyes, put fingers in your ears and scream at full lungs: "EPHESIANS-5-12, ......EPHESIANS-5-12, .......EPHESIANS-5-12, ......."
So let the idiot to lead the silly and give to Doc Gene "the Genius" Kim the honor to be the leading head of their rope.
And count me guilty for establishing a new offensive label. Sick and tired of that fig's leave, "demonrats" (for "democrats"), when I see a President of the most powerful country in the world act and speak like a professional buffon of a Medieval European court, I could not resist to coin a new term, the "republi-clowns":
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REFERENCES :
https://catholiceducation.org/en/faith-and-character/reagans-catholic-connections.html
Faith and Character
Reagans Catholic Connections
Reagan’s embrace of Catholics began at home, with his father, Jack Reagan. Jack was an apathetic Catholic who left the religious rearing of his two children to his wife, Nelle, a deeply Christian woman, and a Protestant.
Paul Kengor
As we mark Ronald Reagan’s passing this week, many questions are being asked about both the man and his faith. A devout Christian, Reagan was raised in the Disciples of Christ church. Yet, the Protestant president was open to other faiths, especially the Catholic faith.
Reagan’s embrace of Catholics began at home, with his father, Jack Reagan. Jack was an apathetic Catholic who left the religious rearing of his two children to his wife, Nelle, a deeply Christian woman, and a Protestant.
Ironically, whereas Reagan was raised in a household marked by a distinct lack of Catholicism, later, as president, he was surrounded by serious Catholics with whom he tried to change the world. Specifically, Reagan’s assault on atheistic Soviet communism was aided by a number of key Catholics, such as CIA Director William J. Casey, Speechwriter Tony Dolan, Secretary of State Al Haig, Ambassador Vernon Walters, and others. Two men, in particular, were pivotal: Reagan’s first two national security advisers, Richard V. Allen and William P. Clark.
Four years before Reagan’s presidency began, he met with Richard V. Allen in Los Angeles. Allen never forgot what Reagan told him that January 1977 afternoon: “Dick, my idea of American policy toward the Soviet Union is simple, and some would say simplistic. It is this: We win and they lose. What do you think of that?” That was the plan.
Reagan’s most crucial adviser was the man who would replace Allen: William P. Clark. “Judge Clark,” as he is known, implemented the Reagan administration’s core policy directives crucial to confronting the Soviet empire. Clark is so devout in his faith that he has built a beautiful chapel on his property in Paso Robles, California, which he has opened to the community. This dedicated Catholic was Reagan’s closest spiritual partner. The two men frequently prayed together.
However, Reagan’s Cold War crusade was influenced by more than advisers and strategies. Reagan felt a sense of divine calling in his attack on Soviet communism. And that sense was reinforced in three meetings he had with prominent Catholics.
On March 30, 1981, Ronald Reagan almost died at the hands of a bullet fired by John Hinckley. The president was sure that God had spared him for a larger purpose. His feeling was affirmed on April 17, Good Friday, by New York’s Terence Cardinal Cooke. “The hand of God was upon you,” Cooke told Reagan. Reagan grew very serious. “I know,” he replied, before confiding to the Cardinal: “I have decided that whatever time I have left is for Him.”
Reagan’s sense was reaffirmed in June 1981. He and Nancy Reagan and a few selected guests had a private meal with Mother Teresa. The servant to Calcutta’s poor made an immediate impact upon the host. “Mr. President Reagan, do you know that we stayed up for two straight nights praying for you after you were shot?” she stated, pointing to a younger sister who was joining them. “We prayed very hard for you to live.” Reagan thanked her. During the meal, she looked at Reagan said pointedly: “You have suffered the passion of the cross and have received grace. There is a purpose to this. This has happened to you at this time because your country and the world need you.” Nancy Reagan dissolved into tears. Her husband was almost speechless.
A year later, in June 1982, Reagan had an even more powerful encounter with Pope John Paul II at the Vatican. The Polish Pontiff rightly perceived in Reagan a Protestant who was friendly to Catholicism, and who counted many Catholics among his intimates. Of course, John Paul II was overjoyed when Reagan became the first president to extend diplomatic recognition to the Vatican a move long resisted by previous presidents. Both men shared a hatred of communism.
The two talked alone in the Vatican Library. They discussed the assassination attempts against them the previous year only six weeks apart. Reagan said to the Pope: “Look how the evil forces were put in our way and how Providence intervened.” Carl Bernstein and Marco Politi, in their biography of the Pope, dramatically conclude: “For the Pope, Reagan had been an instrument in the hands of God.” The feeling was mutual. According to a number of sources, the two men confided in one another that they believed God had spared their lives for a special mission, which they came to see as the defeat of godless communism in the Soviet bloc.
Following the meeting, the two men and their teams agreed to aid the Solidarity movement in Poland, aiming to keep it alive as the potential wedge that could split the Soviet Union's empire in Eastern Europe. Each man believed Solidarity could be the splinter to crack the Iron Curtain and hasten the downfall of the communist bloc. They were right. And the rest is history.
Again, how ironic that this man who was raised by an apathetic Catholic father would be surrounded by the most devout Catholics throughout his presidency both inside and outside the White House. And it was those Catholics who were crucial to Reagan’s life mission and enduring legacy: victory in the Cold War.
This is J. Fraser Field, Founder of CERC. I hope you appreciated this piece. We curate these articles especially for readers like you.
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UPI Archives Jan. 10, 1984
The United States and the Vatican restored full diplomatic...
By JIM ANDERSON
WASHINGTON -- The United States and the Vatican restored full diplomatic relations Tuesday, ending a 116-year break and sparking protests from Protestant groups that vowed to fight the move in Congress and in court.
President Reagan named William Wilson, a 69-year-old California businessman, who is now his personal representative to the Holy See, to become the U.S. ambassador to the Vatican.
Wilson, a Catholic convert and longtime friend of the president's, must be confirmed by the Senate. He has been Reagan's personal envoy to Pope John Paul II since February 1981. A Los Angeles real estate dealer, he is a trusted adviser and a member of his informal 'kitchen cabinet.'
Because of a slip-up in the arrangements, the planned simultaneous announcement of the upgrading in relations was made first at the Vatican at 7 a.m. EST, five hours before the State Department issued an identical 55-word statement:
'The Holy See and the United States of America, desiring to develop the mutual friendly relations already existing, have decided by common accord to establish diplomatic relations at the level of apostolic nunciature on the side of the Holy See and of embassy on the side of the United States beginning today, Jan. 10, 1984.'
Wilson, who operates out of a converted five-room apartment with a staff of three when at the Vatican, was reported to have told Reagan the United States has been at a disadvantage in diplomatic dealings with the pope.
The State Department, in making the announcement, said the purpose of restoring full relations is 'to improve communication and to put the United States on a par with 107 other nations which have such relations.'
But there was fiercely critical reaction to the announcement from conservative and liberal Protestants.
Television evangelist Jerry Falwell, head of the Moral Majority, said the move 'will establish a precedent which we will regret later. How long before Mecca (the holy center of Islam) makes such a request?
'While I personally feel it is a bad precedent and am on record as opposing such formal ties with the Vatican, it is obvious that the Congress and most Americans favor this move and it will be done,' Falwell said, however.
The Rev. Jimmy Draper, Euless, Texas, presidentof the 14 million-member Southern Baptist Convention said the move 'violates every rule of reason as it relates to church and state. The Vatican controls no country, so there is absolutely no reason for such a formal tie.'
Draper said the action could cost Reagan 'the support of millions of evangelical Christians.'
At the other end of the theological spectrum, the National Council of Churches, said an ambassador to any church is inappropriate.
Said Rev. Dean Kelley, head of the religious liberty department of the 32-member Protestant and Orthodox organization, 'That plot of land (Vatican City) would be of no diplomatic interest were it not the headquarters of the Roman Catholic church.'
But White House spokesman Larry Speakes said the administration recognized that 'the Holy See is an international personality distinct from the Roman Catholic Church.'
'The Holy See is an international focal point of diplomatic contact. We join these nations ... in establishing relations with the Holy See.
Henry Siegman, executive director of the American Jewish Congress, praised the Vatican's role in human rights but criticized the announcement.
'In the United States, we have a unique tradition of separation of church and state, and it is our position that formal diplomatic relations with the Vatican violate that constitutional principle,' he said.
Bishop James Malone, of Youngstown, Ohio and president of the U.S. Catholic Conference, welcomed the action, saying, 'It is not a religious issue, but a public policy question, which, happily, has now been addressed and settled in that context.'
Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., who authored the legislation which overturned the 1867 ban on the use of funds, said the action 'reaffirms the importance of American interest in the work of Pope John Paul II for world peace and human dignity.'
But opponents in Congress, led by Sen. Ernest Hollings, D-S.C., have managed to place a 'hold' on a State Department request for shifting fiscal 1984 funds to put an ambassador in place and there are some indications the House, at least, will hold hearings on the issue.
Joseph Conn, a spokesman for Americans United for Separation of Church and State, said opponents will 'approach the Senate and ask them not to confirm (Wilson). Ultimately, if it takes it, we will go court.'
Wilson is the fifth in a succession of special presidential representatives that began with Myron Taylor, appointed by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1939.
President Truman nominated Gen. Mark Clark to be U.S. ambassador to Vatican in 1951, saying 'direct diplomatic relations will assist in coordinating the effort to combat the communist menace.' But Congress adjourned without acting on the nomination and in a storm of protest Truman announced he would not resubmit it.
The last ranking American envoy was U.S. Minister Rufus King Jr., who left in 1867 after Italian patriot Giuseppe Garibaldi took temporary control of Rome and Congress withdrew funds.
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https://www.nytimes.com/1984/01/11/world/us-and-vatican-restore-full-ties-after-117-years.html
The United States and the Vatican established full diplomatic relations today for the first time in 117 years.
The step, announced here and at the Vatican this morning, was described by spokesmen for the Reagan Administration as intended to improve communications at a time when Pope John Paul II has become increasingly involved in international affairs.
But it touched off strong criticism among Protestant groups, as well as some Jewish and civil liberties groups, who criticized the move as a violation of the separation of church and state. Roman Catholic reaction was restrained and cautious. (Page A4.)
Californian Picked to Be Envoy
President Reagan announced that he would nominate William A. Wilson, a California industrialist and real estate developer, to serve as the United States Ambassador to the Holy See. Mr. Wilson, a longtime friend of the President, has been serving as the President's personal representative to the Vatican since 1981.
The Vatican's representative in Washington, Archbishop Pio Laghi, serves as an apostolic delegate, the envoy of the Pope in foreign countries with which the Vatican has no diplomatic relations. Under the action taken today, he or his successor would serve as a papal nuncio.
Establishment of full diplomatic ties with the Vatican was made possible by a move by Congress last year lifting a prohibition on diplomatic relations enacted in 1867. The original, a product of widespread anti-Roman Catholic sentiment and concern about the struggle for Italian unification, led to the withdrawal of the American minister to the Vatican, Rufus King.
No Debate and Little Attention
Since the time of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, some Presidents have sent personal representatives to the Holy See, but attempts to upgrade the diplomatic contact have been opposed. In November, however, when Congress repealed the 1867 ban, there was no debate in either the House or the Senate, and therefore there was little public attention.
A spokesman for Senator Howard H. Baker Jr., Republican of Tennessee, the Senate majority leader, said it was too early to tell whether there would be any strong opposition to the Administration's move today. Such opposition could take shape either in the appropriations process or in the confirmation proceedings for Mr. Wilson.
Senator Ernest F. Hollings, Democrat of South Carolina and and a candidate for his party's Presidential nomination, said he would oppose elevating the special representative to the rank of ambassador. ''It's in violation of the First Amendment and sets a bad precedent,'' he said.
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White House officials, however, said they foresaw little difficulty in sustaining today's action or winning Senate confirmation for Mr. Wilson. This was also the view of the office of Senator Richard G. Lugar, Republican of Indiana, who led the effort to permit the establishment of diplomatic relations.
In defending the action today, Administration officials noted that 106 other countries have full diplomatic relations with the Vatican. Two years ago, Britain established diplomatic ties on the eve of the first visit by a Pope to Britain since King Henry VIII broke with the church in the 16th century.
Both Larry Speakes, the White House spokesman, and John Hughes, the State Department spokesman, said there was no violation of the separation of church and state because the United States was recognizing the Holy See, rather than the Roman Catholic Church itself. Pope Held 'in High Esteem'
''The United States holds Pope John Paul II in high esteem,'' Mr. Speakes said. ''We respect the great moral and political influence which he and the Vatican exercise throughout the world. We admire the courageous stands he takes in defense of Western values.''
Mr. Reagan, who is a member of the Christian Church-Disciples of Christ, issued no public comment on today's action.
For all its historical importance, the announcement today was made in a somewhat low-key manner. It came after several weeks of discussion between the Vatican and American representatives and came at Mr. Hughes's regular daily briefing, at which he read a statement:
''The United States of America and the Holy See, in the desire to further promote the existing mutual friendly relations, have decided by common agreement to establish diplomatic relations between them at the level of embassy on the part of the United States of America, and nunciature on the part of the Holy See, as of today, Jan. 10, 1984.''
A nearly identical announcement was issued at the Vatican this morning:
''The Holy See and the United States of Amerca, desiring to develop the mutual friendly relations already existing, have decided by common accord to establish diplomatic relations at the level of apostolic nunciature on the side of the Holy See and of embassy on the side of the United States beginning today, Jan. 10, 1984.'' May Help Win Catholic Support
Several White House and Republican political strategists said today that they thought the move by Mr. Reagan would help win support among Roman Catholic voters, although they emphasized their view that this was not Mr. Reagan's motive.
Some questioned, however, whether this support would be undermined by defections among Protestant or Jewish groups opposed to the action today.
''There was no real hue and cry up here for this,'' a Republican aide in the Senate said. ''I think you're going to hear some grumbling and grousing, rekindling some of the religious bigotry that's still within this country.''
But a key White House official said public reaction to Mr. Reagan's move was likely to be favorable.
''I would say it's a positive,'' said the official, Faith Ryan Whittlesey, assistant to the President for public liaison. ''The rank-and-file Roman Catholics are pleased that this has taken place. Everybody knows that the Holy See is an international focal point of diplomatic contact. I think the level of opposition will be muted.''
A correction was made on Jan. 16, 1984: Monday, Late City Final Edition
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