Word: ong
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Catholic Hour (NBC, 1:30-2:30 p.m.). A question-and-answer session in which Catholic Writer John Cogley of the Fund for the Republic and Jesuit Professor (English) Walter J. Ong of St. Louis University examine the tensions between Catholics and non-Catholics...
Grateful Vietnamese farmers refer to fatherly, pipe-smoking John Barwick as Ong Cu Da (roughly, "Team Chief"), have showered the Americans with honors. From mountain villagers, for whom they demonstrated well-digging techniques, the teachers received-and all proudly wear-copper bracelets...
...People's Action Party last month managed to win 13 out of 32 seats in Singapore's first municipal elections, while Lim Yew Hock's Labor Front Party could salvage only four. This victory enabled the P.A.P. to install a Malacca-born, Australian-educated Chinese named Ong Eng Guan as mayor. P.A.P. Boss Lee Kuan Yew continues to insist loudly that his party is non-"Communist. But Mayor Ong is less committal. Asked if he thought Singapore was threatened by Communism, Ong replied: "I can't answer that because the committee would not like...
...think of a time when most of the human race had no contact whatsoever with the Church's teaching as a genuinely 'Catholic' age," said Jesuit Ong, "is not only parochial, but definitely scandalous. It suggests that Christ came to save not the human race but one's own family." Only Europe was Catholic in the so-called Age of Faith; today there are Catholics everywhere in the world...
...world lives in an evolving universe, says Ong, in which geological ages, over the course of some 5 billion years, follow "one after the other in a mysterious, but unmistakably patterned, sequence." In this evolution of the earth from "brute nature" toward more and more "homanization," technology is the latest phase. Thus any idea that technology is opposed to humanism is "unreal." On the contrary, technology "is a great and inspiring human creation." Instead of fighting technology, Christians should join it. "The cause of humanism is served by dealing with reality, not by denouncing...