Word: paulists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Paulist fathers hope that their new catechism-which has been tried out experimentally in one-third of the U.S. dioceses-will become the standard text in American Catholic schools...
Generally, Catholic educators have relied on religious texts based on the 1884 Baltimore Catechism - a turgid compendium of factual questions and answers that the student was expected to learn by role. Last week the Paulist fathers introduced a new catechism that puts dogma in language that children, rather than theologians, can understand. More important, it tries to relate the student's intuition of the divine to his own youthful experience...
Similar group discussions among concerned Christians can be found all across the U.S. these days, as part of an interfaith experiment in grass-roots ecumenism called "livingroom dialogues." The idea of spiritual conversations by laymen, without the inhibiting presence of a priest or minister, was thought up by Paulist Father William B. Greenspun, who developed the program with the help of the Rev. William A. Norgren, the Episcopal director of the National Council of Churches' Faith and Order Department...
...operatic mainstay series, The Answer, have cooperated with NBC to produce a spectacular life of St. Paul and a recreation of Biblical history called The Inheritance that drew more than 10,000 letters. Next year NBC and the Baptists will offer a major life of Christ. The Roman Catholic Paulist Fathers' Insight presents adult melodrama in half-hour playlets about abortion, divorce and alcoholism, featuring such stars as Raymond Massey, Vera Miles and Efrem Zimbalist Jr. NBC's The Catholic Hour is offering a four-part series on the Second Vatican Council and the future of church renewal...
...told of a critically ill boy who asked to see his father. The plot focused on the search for the man, a stevedore who had walked out on his family the year before, and ended with a tearful reconciliation and some moralistic repentance by Pop. Insight's producer, Paulist Father Ellwood Kieser, charges that much religious programming is marred by "superficial ideology," "shallow psychology," and-he cannot resist the pun-excessive reliance on the deus ex machina...