Word: catechismic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That is possible, the honorary beat will reply, but have you dug William Burroughs? (The honorary beat is gainfully employed, usually in some branch of the communications industry, but makes up for this solecism by thinking that Norman Mailer improves with age and by having, once, smoked a small quantity...
∙ MARRIED DEACONATE. In the early church, much administrative, clerical and charitable work was handled by deacons rather than priests. Missionary bishops, who are short of clergy, are eager to see the deaconate restored to use. Members of this order of clergy would be allowed to marry and hold down...
*"Sermons are usually built around the catechism," complained Physicist Charles Herzfeld, writing about "Our Wasted Intellectuals" in the July 6 issue of Commonweal. "This is simply not good enough. Parish activities, where the featured speaker is a football coach, are not good enough, nor are bazaars, nor novenas." Parish life...
In Favor of Jesting. Even in Poland, Marxist writers tolerate other opinions and even incorporate them into their own works. A young philosophy professor, Leszek Kolakowski, who was once a dedicated Stalinist, now talks more like a democrat. The leader of the 1956 intellectuals' revolt, he was singled out...
"Total Truth." What is that work? The text of Catholic education is that of the old Baltimore catechism: "God created man to know Him, to love Him and to serve Him in this life, and to be happy with Him forever in the next." In the Catholic view, education is...