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Article: Casey rites turn into debate
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 10, 1987
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ROSLYN HARBOR, N.Y. With President Reagan and former President
Richard M. Nixon in a front pew, a Roman Catholic bishop conducting
the funeral of William J. Casey said yesterday that "the ethical
questions raised" by his church about U.S. defense policies were
incomprehensible to the former CIA director because of his belief in
the moral strength of the administration's positions.
The Most Rev. John R. McGann, bishop of the Rockville Centre
(N.Y.) Diocese who had known Casey for years, said in his homily at a
funeral mass, "I cannot conceal or disguise my fundamental
disagreement on these matters with a man I knew and respected."
Casey died Wednesday at 74 from pneumonia brought on by ...