Word: moralized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most important problem centers around the status of the Church as a teacher and shepherd of the faithful in a society which admits various, indeed conflicting, moral standards. It is expected that in this situation the Church would furnish guiding principles of moral decency for her members. These principals may vary from culture to culture, for each culture will inevitably present unique confrontations to a moral standard: America's problems being different from those of Continental Europe...
...editorial is misleading on the exact position of the Church as a moral guide. The Church is first criticized for being arbitrary in moral standards, then is chided for passively conforming to a behavior pattern not any different from what a "general moral concensus of the U.S." would imply. Undeniably the Church's position today is ambiguous. Both she and the society are changing. But they are not bipolar forces which are basically incompatible. A definition of Catholicism does not exclude nor restrict membership in a democratic society. (In fact, in the view of Jacques Maritain, Catholicism implies democracy.) Neither...
...London Sunday Times of his own five years in a Communist prison: "There is a chance for expiation, for facing oneself and one's past squarely. But solitary confinement, utter degradation and an ocean of pain leave curious traces on the subconscious mind. They lead to almost senseless moral perfectionism in some people, and in others a ferocious craving for revenge...
...same language . . . worship the same God . . . and fight for the same flag . . . Wouldn't it have been wonderful [of the 1954 school desegregation ruling] if the church had led the Supreme Court? But the church didn't lead, and it didn't follow. We lack the moral courage to act." For the next two days, on the desegregated Methodist campus of Scarritt College for Christian Workers and in the buildings of the Vanderbilt University Divinity School, also desegregated, the churchmen sought sources of courage and plans of action...
...clowns are there, blowing up bladders in the wings and trading anecdotes with the witches, it is because his theater resembles Macbeth's and Shakespeare's. Another Elizabethan, Thomas ("Bad money drives out good'') Gresham. seems to have suggested a text for Faulkner's moral law: Bad men drive out good...