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Vatican Criticizes U.S. Supreme Court’s Ban on Prayer in Schools

July 29, 1963
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The United States Supreme Court’s decision banning The Lord’s Prayer in public schools was criticized this weekend by the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano.

The principle of separation between church and state in the United States, the newspaper said, “is tending to become, also legally, agnosticism.”

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