Word: interfaith
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Modern Jacobins? There is agreement on this point from Roman Catholic Layman William Clancy, education director of the Church Peace Union (an interfaith organization aimed at abolishing war), and Arthur Cohen, a Jew and publisher of Meridian Books Inc. Both agree that (as Cohen puts it) religion in the U.S. is apt to be "ineffective," victimized by "internal confusion and disorder," generally "deteriorating," and that (in Clancy's words) religion is apt to be a matter of good fellowship and good works, with the American "consensus" on moral and philosophic principles growing ever narrovver...
...Catholicism, the same bomb-hurling gangs switched from Jews to Catholics, beat up friars (one was killed) and tried to catch anti-Peronista Father Cucchetti. To his hiding place came a friendly visitor-Rabbi Schlesinger. By last week their friendship had resulted in Latin America's first interfaith union: Movimiento de Confraternidad Judeo-Christian...
National Council President Edwin T. Dahlberg of St. Louis reported wide support for a "trial balloon" proposal he had launched in the council's magazine for an interfaith "International Geo-Theological Year." Just as the International Geophysical Year is studying the physical nature of the universe, said Dr. Dahlberg, an International Geo-Theological Year might study "the relation of the human soul to the cosmic order." Scientists, philosophers and theologians of all faiths should be invited to exchange views on such questions as: C| "Do we live and move and have our being in God, or simply...
This phenomenon was no planned experiment but part of the sociological revolution in U.S. interfaith relations that was described last fortnight by Jesuit Theologian Gustave A. Weigel (TIME, June 2). From the time it was founded 66 years ago until the end of World War II, St. Bernard's Benedictines and their Catholic students maintained an aloof hostility to the Baptists and Lutherans of nearby Cullman, Ala. (pop. 12,000). Occasionally, there was even violence; at one gown-town brawl a priest was bopped by a bottle. But after the war, two things happened: the G.I. Bill enabled more...
...wicked Spaniard's. There was a bursting carnal femaleness about her . . ." At this point, the reader will suspect that he is in for a slalom round every four-poster bed that can be worked into the narrative. Not so: no hussy she. Elizabeth represents a thoroughly modern, interfaith point of view among the heretic-hunting Puritans; and among the schismatics of prerevolutionary New England, she is the spirit of togetherness, a one-woman P.T.A. opposed to discrimination against Indians, be they Siwanoy, NarraganSett, or any other friendly neighborhood group...