September Issue 1996

In a particularly bitter piece in the Hackensack Record, ex-priest William O’Fallon wrote an Op-ed article urging Catholics to revolt against the Church. He praised the Pope for his teachings on war and poverty but blasted him for his "close-minded" stance on issues of sexuality. O’Fallon admitted in the New Jersey newspaper that when he was a [...]

Columbia Union College, a Seventh-Day Adventist school in Maryland, was denied funding by the state because it was deemed a "pervasively sectarian" institution. The state turned down Columbia’s application for aid in 1992 under the Rev. Joseph A. Sellinger Program, which provides funding to private colleges, including religious ones. In June, the school sued the state [...]