Word: faithfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Promising to "plug the people into the decision-making process," Trudeau has urged all Canadians to join in the coming constitutional debate, challenging them "to embark wholeheartedly on a journey whose destination is uncertain. Our country deserves more than a blind rush to some imagined Utopia, or a blind faith in the prejudices of the past...
More and more U.S. Roman Catholic priests are giving up their parishes for secular life. The reasons are many: some have chafed too long under arbitrary authoritarian discipline; others have succumbed to love of a woman. Still others have, in the old-fashioned phrase, simply lost their faith. While the break with the ministry is still an emotionally harrowing experience for most, this growing battalion of unfrocked clerics are finding it easier to marry, raise a family and get a decent job. The ex-priests are no longer the pariahs of Christianity...
...campus. A month earlier he had been charged with criminal trespass when New York City police cleared Columbia's buildings of student rebels. Today he is studying to be a rabbi at Manhattan's Hebrew Union College, and he sees no disparity between his radicalism and his faith. As Keith puts it: "Activism is a Jewish thing...
...formal rejection of inherited belief, many Jewish parents are now worried about the religious consequences of radicalism. In Washington last week, speakers at the 125th anniversary convention of B'nai B'rith agreed that, while most Jewish youth still share the traditional ethical concerns of their faith, too many have turned their backs on temple and synagogue. A B'nai B'rith survey showed that anti-Semitism is no longer the prime worry of American Jews; instead, Jewish parents are more concerned about retaining the spiritual loyalty of their children...
Chosen Nation. What does it take to build an empire? Will to power? Greed? Not in De Riencourt's book. Historically, the true empire builder, he thinks, is motivated by "an idealistic longing," a faith in universal law, a passion for a "common culture." He is more in the spirit of a missionary than of Genghis Khan. De Riencourt quotes Senator Albert J. Beveridge of Indiana speaking half a century ago: "God has made us the master organizers of the world to establish system where chaos reigns. He has marked the American people as his chosen nation to finally...