Word: bradfield
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...confusion engendered by this citation of Drinan in support of his candidacy recalls an 1899 Supreme Court case, Bradfield v. Roberts . Bradfield, in the cause of church-state separation, tried to prevent Roberts, the U.S. Treasurer, from granting funds to Providence Hospital in Washington,. D.C., because the hospital was run by Roman Catholic nuns under the auspices of their church. Bradfield lost. The Court held that the hospital's incorporation papers made no mention of the religion of the incorporators and that, legally speaking, five women who happened to be Roman Catholic nuns but who were acting solely and simply...
...there is no difference between being simply a member of a religious body and being under holy orders and/or in ecclesiastical officialdom. There shall be no religious test for privileges of civil (or pseudo-civil) incorporation, just as there shall be no religious test for public office. So the Bradfield decision and Drinan would have us reason...