Asked to comment on federal aid for parochial schools at his news conference last week, the first Roman Catholic President of the U.S. said: "There isn't any room for debate on that subject. It is prohibited by the Constitution, and the Supreme Court has made that very clear."-At that very moment, a strong, if predictable, dissent was brewing across town in a quiet meeting of the highest prelates of the U.S. Catholic Church. Sitting as the top board of the National Catholic Welfare Conference were all five U.S. cardinals plus eight bishops and archbishops....
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