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...Again voting 6 to 3, the Justices held that the traditional practice of having a chaplain open state legislative sessions with a prayer does not violate the First Amendment separation of church and state. Together with the court's decision two weeks ago approving tuition tax deductions for parents of parochial school children, the ruling was considered further evidence of the court's somewhat greater tolerance for Government support of religious activity...
...Supreme Court did not agree. Contending that the presence of a chaplain to open legislative sessions is "deeply imbedded in the history and tradition of this country," Chief Justice Warren Burger held that the custom, including the use of state funds to pay the chaplain's salary, posed no threat to constitutional ideals. Wrote Burger: "To invoke Divine guidance on a public body entrusted with making the laws is not, in these circumstances, an 'establishment' of religion or a step toward establishment...
...most persistent conservative was Archbishop Philip Hannan of New Orleans, a chaplain with the 82nd Airborne Division during World War II. As the antinuclear wave rolled on, Hannan lectured his fellow bishops: "I don't think you know what you're talking about at all, not having been in war. You're just inviting the enemy in if you withdraw those nuclear weapons we have...
...cast is impressive nonetheless. Holly Swartz, as Mother Courage, carries off one of the most demanding female roles in the theater with aplomb and grace. Peter Becker, as the chaplain who argues that a war is all right as long as it's a religious war, is very professional and completely winning. Praise must go as well to Michael Allio, Christopher Moore and Deborah Wasser. But without a doubt, the big surprise in this cast is Kattrin, played by the lovely Brigit Fasolino. Her face is just right--a picture of peace, shell-shocked, ravaged, yet innocently eerie...
Staff members at the weekly newspaper said they heard rumors last month that a college chaplain or a counselor had disclosed information given in confidence, and that another faculty member involved in the incident had resigned...