Word: non-christian
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...wonders how non-Christians feel--persons of other religions or of no religion--when they hear or read of the things that Christians are planning to do to them. Gathering and scattering, mission, reconciling, fighting, loving--one wonders if the non-Christian isn't wondering what some scattering Christian might try to do to him when he meets one out there in the world...
...fraternity points to the fact that the ecumenical dialogue between Christians and Jews is now inviting participation from Moslems. The trend received much of its impetus from the Second Vatican Council's declaration "On Non-Christian Religions," which approvingly cited the common bonds of Islam and Christianity-Moslems, for example, venerate Jesus as a prophet. The Vatican's Secretariat for Non-Christian Religions created a special section to encourage dialogue with Islam, and Vienna's ecumenical-minded Franziskus Cardinal Konig has lectured at Al Azhar University in Cairo. At Baghdad's Al Hikma University, Jesuits...
...important issue. There is no question that such matters as abortion must be regulated; but is it proper for this regulation to be imposed by the moral precepts of a particular church? For that matter, is it proper for Christian precepts to be imposed on a society, including its non-Christian citizens...
...been harshly criticized by other intellectuals, both Catholic and secular. Douglas Woodruff, editor of England's leading Catholic weekly, The Tablet, has dubbed the New Left thinkers "the church's Red Guards" and dismissed their Christian Marxism as "nefarious nonsense." Cambridge's Raymond Williams, a radical, non-Christian socialist, notes a certain irony in the fact that the Catholic Left is espousing Marxism as an ideology precisely at a time when Communist governments in Eastern Europe are becoming more pragmatic. The Red Guards admit that they are open to criticism, but still insist that it is wiser...
...non-Christian services open to the community were never held there until last week, when services for Rosh Hashonah (the Jewish New Year) were conducted in Appleton Chapel by Rabbi Maurice L. Zigmond...