Word: prayers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Negro Spirituals. "What has this to do with the Mass?" replied one U.S. bishop. "The Mass isn't a law course; it's a prayer." Those favoring liturgical reform emphasized the necessity of relating the Mass to the people, beginning with the use of a language that the people understand. They argue that unless worshipers can participate in the service, the Mass becomes "mere devotionalism." Liturgy, warns Jesuit Schmidt, "will not exercise any influence on the mass of the people if it is divorced from modern civilization and from the existing social situation...
...formula often has instructive results. In "Prayers and Pluralism," Lewis Burleigh gives a good discussion of the Supreme Court decisions of on prayer in public schools, and John Brandl performs a similar service in "World Views in the Social Sciences...
Among cases to be heard during the current term are two involving the constitutionality of reading Bible verses and the Lord's Prayer in public schools. These cases, from Maryland and Pennsylvania, pose the question of whether there is a difference between Bible or Lord's Prayer recitation and the reading of a prayer actually written by state officials, which was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in a New York case last June...
...general approach and language of the New York prayer decision suggest that Bible-reading requirements will have a rather rocky time in the Court," McCloskey said. He doubted, however, that Justice Black's June majority opinion will be extensively clarified, "because the problem is so touchy that even if Bible-reading is invalidated, the Court will couch its decision in narrow terms...
Paul A. Freund, Carl M. Loeb University Professor in the Harvard Law School, commented yesterday that the Maryland and Pennsylvania cases now coming up present the issue in "more meaningful form" than did the New York case, since the Bible and Lord's Prayer are more clearly sectarian than was the "relatively innocuous" prayer composed by the New York Regents...