A Common Enemy, A Common Cause

Thu, 01 Oct 1992 00:00:00 -0400

On June 24, 1992 the Supreme Court handed down Lee v. Weisman , a decision that declares officially sponsored prayer at the graduation exercises of government schools to be unconstitutional. The following article is the previously unpublished text of an address given by Father John Courtney Murray (1904–1967) on May 3, 1948, to an audience of Catholics and non-Catholics in Wilmington, Delaware. On page 32 is a public statement issued shortly thereafter (June 17) by some of the most influential Protestant leaders in America. The latter statement emerged from a meeting in New York City that was addressed by both Murray and Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971) of Union Theological Seminary.

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A Common Enemy, A Common Cause