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...accomplish this, and the predictable result was that a Faculty meeting that Spring heard the program described as representing "many different . . . educational philosophies and departments." Bundy, tacitly acknowledged to be the spiritual overseer of the seminars once they got under way, approved thoroughly, like the educational pluralist he was. Nobody, in fact, controlled them at all--if one discounts the passive Advanced Standing Office that actually decided only technical points, and the General Education Committee that had to determine how to exempt Freshmen from requirements long before it could discover whether their seminars really satisfied them. "To let a significant...
Should these chaplains be chosen with an eye to denomination in religiously pluralist America? The question is raised by Editor James O. Duncan of the Capital Baptist, who feels that Congress has been guilty of favoritism, with Methodists the prime beneficiaries...
...critics in his own faith have occasionally held him to be more American than Catholic. Without representing an ' official position-and without running counter to it-he is now telling his fellow Catholics that they must become more intellectually aware of their ' coexistence'' in a pluralist, heavily Protestant society. But not even remotely is he trying to trim Catholicism to any other faith, or to the absence of faith. In his view, Catholics can make a major contribution-perhaps the decisive contribution-to an American society in spiritual crisis. His terms may startle some non-Catholics...
...Commonwealth. American pluralist society was a new kind of commonwealth-a nation under God but forcing no one to worship in a particular manner, not because religion was considered unimportant or merely a private affair, but because it was thought that God is best honored by free men. As Roger Williams wrote: "There goes many a ship to sea, with many hundred souls in one ship . . . Papists and Protestants, Jews and Turks ... I affirm that all the liberty of conscience, that ever I pleaded for, turns upon these two hinges-that none of the Papists, Protestants, Jews, or Turks...
...pages of the monthly American Ecclesiastical Review with its editor, Redemptorist Father Francis J. Connell, and Msgr. Joseph Clifford Fenton, professor of dogma at the Catholic University of America. The subject at issue: Murray's contention that the Vatican should give its formal blessing to the U.S. pluralist system as a new, permanent and viable kind of relationship between religion and government. The learned, footnote-stippled discussion ended when Murray was advised by his order that henceforth he would have to clear all his writings on this particular subject with Jesuit headquarters in Rome...