Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...involvement in Viet Nam almost weekly, replied in a speech telephoned to the A.F.L.-C.I.O. convention in San Francisco: "We are there because, for all our shortcomings, for all our failings as a nation and a people, we remain fixed on the pursuit of freedom as a deep and moral obligation that will not let us go. Our devotion to freedom is unyielding. So, too, is our hope for peace. Those who insist on testing either will find us earnest in both...
...truthful claims, and argues that the church has always professed liberty of conscience-which ignores several centuries of the Inquisition. The bitterly debated declaration On Non-Christian Religions is not nearly as direct or forceful as the original draft proposed, and omits what might have given it maximum moral impact-a phrase acknowledging the church's role in fostering anti-Semitism in previous centuries...
Vatican II has made it clear that the church is ready to abandon "triumphalism," to erase the nonessential traditions that have often kept it from being credible as a moral force in the world at large. Without denying its own belief that it has a special divine mission, Catholicism now acknowledges that it is but one of many spiritual voices with something to tell perplexed modern man. When medieval Popes spoke to Kings and Princes, they listened and obeyed -or ran the risk of excommunication and exile from society. The words of Paul VI and his bishops to Presidents...
...general, the council indicates a new attitude toward a complex, pluralistic world. At its birth, the church was a beacon of moral light that stood apart from the Roman society in which it flourished. For more than 1,000 years after Constantine, it was a power within society, acquiring some of the pride, intolerance and triumphal spirit that is part of power's corruption. At the Reformation and after, the church reacted badly to the loss of its claim to be God's only spokesman and clung to its shrunken patrimony of power in ways that justified...
...satirist in Wycherley never subdued the pornographer, and this bed-drawing-room comedy contains some of the most salaciously funny scenes and speeches known to dramatic literature. But if Wycherley uses, and perhaps abuses, sex to make his point, sex is not his point. His moral intent is to show that ethics are lowest where the prizes are greatest-and sex was the dearest trophy of Restoration society...