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...school's competition in simulated court cases. Teddy also distinguished himself by winning a beautiful wife. Blonde Joan Bennett, daughter of a New York City advertising executive, was attending Manhattanville College, where two of the Kennedy sisters had gone. Teddy and Joan were married by Francis Cardinal Spellman in 1958. They now have two children, Kara, 2^, and Edward...
...bishops. On the presidential council of ten cardinals, who will take turns as chairmen of the sessions, the Pope named only one outright resister to change-Ernesto Cardinal Ruffini of Palermo. He filled the council with such middle-of-the-road prelates as New York's Francis Spellman and Achille Lienart of Lille, such prominent liberals as Bernard Alfrink of Utrecht and Joseph Frings of Cologne...
...state that Cardinal Spellman was "shocked and frightened" by the Supreme Court's decision barring prayers in public schools, that Mr. Eisenhower has "always thought that this nation was essentially a religious one," and that Mr. Hoover called this decision "a disintegration of one of the most sacred of American heritages." It seems to me that we all had a right to expect that these three outstanding Americans should have been mindful that George Washington wrote, "The government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion" (Article XI, Treaty of Peace...
...large majority of Protestant and Roman Catholic clergymen were sharply hostile toward the decision. Francis Cardinal Spellman, Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York, pronounced himself "shocked and frightened.'' The decision, he said, "strikes at the very heart of the Godly tradition in which America's children have for so long been raised." Evangelist Billy Graham condemned the ruling as "another step toward secularism." A conference of 120 Protestant Episcopal clergymen from Long Island churches adopted a resolution saying: "The ultimate effect of this decision may be to nullify and threaten with destruction the American people...
Others instinctively felt that the Supreme Court was setting forth a new doctrine that distorted the intent of the authors of the First Amendment. Thus Cardinal Spellman called the ruling a "tragic misreading of the prayerfully weighed words of our Founding Fathers." But Founding Father James Madison, among others, interpreted the prohibition against "establishment of religion" far more strictly and sweepingly than the Supreme Court did last week. In Madison's opinion, tax exemption for churches was unconstitutional. So were chaplains for Congress or for the armed forces...