During a recent appearing on CBS’s Face the Nation, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, advised the faithful not to let Mitt Romney’s Mormon faith stop them from voting for him.

The National Journal is reporting that Dolan told CBS host Bob Schieffer during an Easter Sunday interview that Romney’s faith should not be an issue in the presidential campaign.

“There may be reasons not to vote for Mitt Romney as president of the United States,” Dolan said. “That he’s a Mormon cannot be one of them.”

He later added: “I don’t think Catholics would have any problem voting for a Mormon at all.”

Dolan went on to tell Schieffer that he brought up Romney’s religion a couple of months ago in a speech to the Jewish Anti-Defamation League when he was asked how the Jewish and Catholic communities could cooperate better.

He said he told the audience that “we Catholics and we Jews have felt the sting of the other side. And now, one of the ways we can cooperate is to see that religious prejudice, religious bigotry doesn’t enter the campaign.”

The remarks drew a standing ovation.

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