Word: clericalisme
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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...
In vote after vote, the bishops made it clear that they wanted to address the world in decrees that would be free of what Belgian Bishop Emile Josef De Smedt called "triumphalism, clericalism, juridicism." Pope John stayed behind the scenes, but each time he was called upon to mediate a...
The name has a ringing militancy, a brave air of rectitude, and a precisionist disdain for brevity: Protestants and Other Americans United for Separation of Church and State, more familiarly known as POAU. Last week in Denver, at its 15th annual POAU-wow on church and state, the 2000,000...
Against such formidable opposition, Mario Scelba needed every vote and every boost he could muster. The most dramatic boost came from a distinguished quarter: Don Luigi Sturzo, the aged (82) priest who founded the Christian Democratic Party but now lives deep in the background like a brooding, often disapproving party...
But as the excitement over Trieste faded (largely because the U.S. and Britain would make no move for fear of offending Yugoslavia's Dictator Tito), the basic weakness of Pella's position began to overtake him. A caretaker can dust the desk, but he cannot move the furniture...