Everyone remembers the famous Mario Cuomo speech at Notre Dame, in which he urged Catholics to keep right and wrong to themselves when it comes to abortion. But how many people remember that shortly after his speech, conservatives at Notre Dame invited Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.) to speak on the topic of religion in public life?

The Associated Press covered his speech on September 24, 1984, as true today as it ever was:

“It is clearly insufficient for a Catholic public official to hold that his or her personal, conscientious objection to abortion as a matter of personal choice for himself or herself ends the matter,” he said.
The University of Notre Dame invited Hyde to rebut a Sept. 13 campus speech by New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, who personally opposes abortion but supports public funding for abortions. Cuomo said Catholic leaders who cannot win public acceptance of church teachings on abortion should not seek laws to impose those beliefs on others. Hyde did not make explicit reference to Cuomo…
…Hyde said the debate between the relationship of religion and politics has left Catholics wrongly accused of attempting to force their views on others…“Religion and politics have always mixed in America, if what we are talking about is religious values and public policy,” Hyde said. “What the Founders wisely understood was that religious institutions should not become unnecesarily entangled with the political process.”
The constitutional separation of church and state was never meant to ban religious values from public policy debate, he said, but a church that becomes too closely identified with political stands “has lost a measure of its crucial capacity to be a sign of unity in a broken world.” Hyde said Catholic public officials should make clear that abortion is not a Catholic question, but a moral and constitutional one.
Hyde attacked what he termed the hypocrisy of those who support the involvement of some church leaders in partisan politics, while attacking others.
“Why is it that Archbishop (John J.) O’Connor threatens the separation of church and state when he tries to clarify Catholic teaching about abortion, and the Rev. Jesse Jackson doesn’t when he organizes a partisan political campaign through the agency of dozens of churches?” Hyde asked.