Denver Archbishop Chaput speaks on role of religion in American life
- BecketFund.org
- May 8, 2009
Today Denver Archbishop Charles J. Chaput spoke on the role of religion in American life. “If we stick religion in the closet like a dangerously eccentric in-law,” he stated, “American public life can’t work as its Founders and Framers intended.”
His remarks were made at the annual dinner of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, during which he accepted the Canterbury Medal, an award given yearly to honor those who have "most resolutely refused to render to Caesar that which is God's."
Past Canterbury Medalists include Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel, Gov. and Mrs. Mitt Romney, Prison Fellowship founder Chuck Colson, financiers Foster Friess and Ted Forstmann, and former U.S. Ambassadors to the Vatican James R. Nicholson and Mary Ann Glendon.
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