Donald J. Trump is often charged with being areligious, given his regular declarations about "hating his enemies" and denouncing the Episcopal bishop of Washington, D.C. for preaching to him about compassion and forgiveness. But charging Trump with lacking a religious sensibility is to underestimate his knowledge of the catechism—that taught by Norman Vincent Peale, pastor of the Marble Collegiate Church in New York. Trump was a regular congregant at that church on 5th Avenue, and it was there that he met his first wife. Peale was the author of the best-selling Power of Positive Thinking, one of the best-selling books of the 1950s and 60s. That book presented what scholars of U.S. religion call "the gospel of self-help and mind cure." If God wants you to be a successful businessman (or whatever), what you need is a fearless confidence and ability to grab the chance of success if it presents itself. If you don't, you're simply a "loser." This theology is in more than a little tension with Catholic theology, not to mention Catholic global political perspectives, including those shaped by papal leadership.