PAGE 11 — The Georgia Bulletin, April 23, 1987
Pregnancy Prevention Funds
For Teens Ruled Unconstitutional
Official Denies
Hunthausen
News Story
SEATTLE (NC) — A National Catholic Register
story that the Vatican hopes to solve the ongoing con
troversy surrounding Archbishop Raymond G. Hunt
hausen of Seattle by eventually retiring the arch
bishop is “speculative” and “incorrect,” said the
chancellor of the Seattle Archdiocese.
The chancellor, Father Michael G. Ryan, told
priests of the archdiocese in an April 15 letter to
“disregard” the story. He said the information in the
article “was apparently leaked ... by an uninformed
and irresponsible party.”
Francis X. Maier, editor of the Register, which
published the article in its April 19 issue, said the
story was “correct” and said the newspaper would
not have published it unless it was “absolutely cer
tain” of the facts.
The story in the Los Angeles-based Register said
that “according to highly placed sources” the
Vatican hopes to “diffuse tensions” in the Seattle
Archdiocese by promoting Auxiliary Bishop Donald
Wuerl to his own diocese “and eventually retiring
Hunthausen.”
The Vatican last year instructed Archbishop Hunt
hausen to hand over authority in several key areas of
archdiocesan life to Bishop Wuerl. The move provok
ed widespread controversy and led to the appoint
ment by the Vatican in February of a commission of
three leading U.S. archbishops “to assess the current
situation” in the Seattle Archdiocese.
The Register article said the “unusual, phased-in
resolution to the continuing crisis” in the archdiocese
“may bring a measure of peace” before Pope John
Paul II visits the United States in September.
In his letter to priests Father Ryan said the “gist”
of the article was that the Vatican has “formulated
some sort of ‘deal’ in an attempt to force Archbishop
Hunthausen into accepting early retirement.”
He said it is “common knowledge” that Archbishop
Hunthausen has had “very recent discussions” with
the commission. “I can assure you that the arch
bishop has not been asked to retire or resign, nor
are any ‘deals’ being made in that direction,” Father
Ryan said.
Mercy Sister Joy Clough, spokeswoman for Car
dinal Joseph Bernardin of Chicago, a member of the
Vatican commission, said Cardinal Bernardin had no
comment on the article.
BY LIZ SCHEVTCHUK
WASHINGTON (NC) — A federal judge, ruling on a
government program aimed at preventing teen-age
pregnancies, said April 15 that funding church agencies
under the program is unconstitutional.
U.S. District Judge Charles R. Richey ruled that the pro
vision of the Adolescent Family Life Act allowing religious
groups to*get money for pregnancy prevention efforts
violated the First Amendment’s mandate of separation of
church and state.
Richey’s ruling was promptly criticized by Mark E.
Chopko, general counsel for the U.S. Catholic Conference,
who said the program did not violate the Constitution.
Richey issued an injunction preventing religious
organizations from receiving funds but left open the ques
tion of whether the entire law, passed by Congress in 1981,
should be thrown out.
The law “seemed to offer a choice — a choice that Con
gress was entitled to make,” Chopko said April 16. “What
I’m disappointed with is it appears we (church groups) will
be excluded just because we’re religious. I don’t think
that’s what the Constitution requires.”
Often dubbed the “chastity law,” the program authorized
by the legislation provides grants for projects that en
courage “self-discipline and other prudent choices” to the
problems of adolescent sexual activity and pregnancy.
The program specifically denies funds for “abortions or
abortion counseling or referral” and calls for support for ef
forts by “religious and charitable organizations” and other
private sector entities.
The law was attacked in a 1983 lawsuit against the
government by a coalition of citizens, by the American
Jewish Congress, and by three United Methodist clergy.
The lawsuit said grants in the program included $75,000 to
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Arlington, Va., for a sex
education program in Catholic schools and parishes;
$446,806 to St. Margaret’s Hospital, Dorchester, Mass., for a
program of parochial school sex education; and $177,437 to
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The judge ruled that although the provision of the law at
issue “has a valid secular purpose, it is unconstitutional on
its face because it has the primary effect of advancing
religion and fosters an excessive entanglement between
government and religion.”
“Because these religious organizations use federal funds
to educate or counsel on matters inseparable from religious
dogma, the constitutional implications of the grants are
clear and clearly troubling,” the judge wrote. “The in
escapable conclusion is that federal funds have been used
by pervasively sectarian institutions to teach matters in
herently tied to religion.”
Citing examples involving Catholic and Lutheran agen
cies, he noted that at the Dorchester hospital a counselor
was told to follow the “Ethical and Religious Directives of
Catholic Facilities."
In another example he said that in the Archdiocese of
Washington employees of St. Ann’s Infant and Maternity
Home “may not counsel or refer patients for abortions, nor
do they encourage any method of birth control not permit
ted by Catholic doctrine.”
Opponents of the law contended that besides allowing
government to fund religious organizations, it also
discriminated against some religions because church agen
cies holding “conflicting religious doctrines are, in effect,
disqualified from receiving funds under the act.”
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