Word: catechismic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The scholarly study of religion, shorn of both catechism and clericalism, is fast becoming a major subject in secular U.S. colleges and universities. Two decades ago, only a dozen state-supported campuses had full-fledged religion programs; elsewhere, religion was usually nothing more than the Bible as literature, taught by...
Inferior Lizard. As the Klan's high mugwumps fidgeted through four days of congressional catechism in the old House Caucus Room last week, they resorted to the same Pavlovian routine of pious nonresponse as their avowed archfoes the Communists. The Klan's chief panjandrum, Imperial Wizard Robert Shelton...
Subversive Catechism. Their crime was the "ideological destruction" of Hungary's youth by teaching about Christ, possession of letters written in French about church music, and of such subversive literature as the Catholic catechism. Their sentences: from 2½ to eight years' imprisonment.
*The Nicene Creed, the Apostles' Creed, the Scots Confession of 1560, the Heidelberg Catechism of 1563, excerpts from 1566's Second Helvetic Confession, the Westminster Confession and Shorter Catechism, and the 1934 Barmen Declaration, a rejection of secular claims to power over the church, composed by Germany'...
Of Haiti's 4,500,000 people, 90% are illiterate. Life expectancy is 32.6 years; per-capita income has slipped to $70 a year, lowest in the hemisphere. "Haitians," says Duvalier in his soft whisper, "have a destiny to suffer." And if his people complain, they can pray?from...