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...Cambodia; three days previous to that, Religious Heritage of America had named President Nixon Churchman of the Year for "carrying his deep religious commitment into the Presidency;" and Pentecost Action had called this meeting to conduct an excommunication of President Nixon from Christianity. A young Catholic priest and Harvard doctoral candidated, G. Ronald Murphy, presided with assistance from clergy of several other faiths. After a welcome and prayer, scriptural passages were read, the most material being 1 Corinthians 5:9-13, wherein sanction is given for judging those within but not those without the church: " 'Drive our the wicked person...
Thomas A. Donovan, Roman Catholic priest in the Diocese of Brooklyn, N.Y., in his thesis, "The Status of the Church in American Civil Law and Canon Law," argues that free religious expression in America (public worship, ecclesiastical property holding, etc.) does not flow from the largesse of the civil order but from divine sanction and radical incompetence of the civil order in this matter...
...Massachusetts became the last state to disestablish a religion. In the 1840s, a New Orleans priest named Permoldi, convicted for conducting a burial according to his religious convictions but in contravention of Louisiana's burial laws, argued protection of religious liberty under the federal Constitution, and was told by the Supreme Court that the federal Constitution offered no such protection since it announced no "inhibition" of state religious policy...
Boston Jesuit priest Robert Drinan, in also declaring the issue a non-issue, gives a curious reason. In his race for the Third Congressional District seat, he cited the federal Constitution: "No religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any office of public Trust under the United States." But were ecclesiastical officials in the minds of the drafters of that language...
...turned out, the priest issue apparently did not hurt Father Drinan. He won the working class city of Waltham, for example, by a 3-2 margin. He campaigned very hard among blue collar workers and combined their support with a 3-1 margin in suburban Newton...