Word: religion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Salazar began immediately to construct his Estado Novo. He announced that the New State would be based on two great calls for social reform-the Rerum Novarum of Pope Leo XIII and the Quadragesima Anno of Pius XI (see RELIGION). But however lofty may have been his inspiration, Salazar's execution was on a quite different pattern, one already known and hated as Fascism: free thought was abolished, the individual became subordinated to the state, the human bill of rights was suppressed and the secret police became the main arm of government. Soon little boys, well-shod and sporting...
...writing. Latest of his 20-odd books, Man & Society in the New Testament (Scribner; $2.75), just published, is the July selection of the Religious Book Club. In it he vigorously hammers home the text that Christ's teaching is no blueprint for the Good Society, but a religion for individuals...
...Jesus," says Dr. Scott, ". . . religion was no mere shell, enclosing an ethic, which was the kernel. He thought of morality as growing out of religion, and existing for the sake of it. The idea that you may discard the religion of Jesus and still retain his pure morality is utterly mistaken, for without the religion you have nothing...
...women in their late twenties leave their jobs for three or five months, to study the humanities and live a community life. Says Sir Richard: "[Only in this way can everyone] repair the omissions and fill the gaps of early education, think afresh about the problems of politics, morals, religion [and] keep abreast of the current. . . . Human beings, like motorcars, need reconditioning...
From the papal throne in the blazing baroque magnificence of St. Peter's Basilica, Pope Pius pronounced the ancient formula: "In the most holy name of the Trinity ... for the exaltation of the Catholic faith and the increase of the Christian religion. . . ." Then, with the solemn notes of the Te Deum, and the pomp of a papal High Mass, and the clamor of Roman church bells, Francesca Saverio Cabrini became the first U.S. saint...