A Fitting Shrine for John McCain’s Funeral
The Arizona senator joins three presidents and a host of other celebrated Americans who have had funeral services at the soaring Washington National Cathedral.
When George Washington commissioned Pierre L’Enfant to design a new capital city on the Potomac River, the French architect’s called for a nonsectarian church “intended for national purposes … equally open to all.” American revolutionaries had rejected a state religion when they won freedom from the British monarch, who also led the Church of England. John Dickinson that mixing religion and government would beget feuding and persecution. Thomas Jefferson “a wall of separation between Church & State.”
