id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt news-007366 U.S. church-state model faces new challenges, speakers say | News | Notre Dame News | University of Notre Dame .html text/html 882 33 49 The U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, Mary Ann Glendon, introduced the program by pointing out that there are competing models of religious freedom in the United States, and that the future direction of church-state relations is a subject of intense debate. Mr. Hamburger said a second challenge was the trend toward regarding religious freedom more as a legal concession and less as an inalienable right. cache/news-007366.html txt/news-007366.txt