Word: religion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have been touring out-of-the-way parts of the U.S. some of which have never seen a Catholic before. Last summer the Paulists operated six trailer chapels through Texas, Tennessee, South Carolina, Missouri and Utah showing movies, preaching sermons, answering questions. Motion pictures are powerful aids in dramatizing religion, and the Catholics use them widely, but there is a shortage of good up-to-date material. One priest is quoted as exclaiming wistfully: "Oh, what Walt Disney could do with that Baltimore Catechism...
More women (62.5%) attend church every week or "pretty regularly" than men (50.4%). Only 17.4% of college graduates feel that religion has "little to offer...
According to Professor Roland H. Bainton of Yale University Divinity School, Christianity has taken three principal views of marriage-the sacramental, the romantic and the companionable. In the current issue of the quarterly Religion in Life, Dr. Bainton, a Congregationalist, sets all three attitudes in their historical perspective, which indicates that the modern,' "romantic" view is the least Christian...
...does) seat and unseat college presidents, purge faculties. He dominates radio; his stake in Hollywood virtually ensures movie mediocrity because he will not risk his enormous investment by risking "offense to any large source of profit." He supports the church, but often, says Laski, because his conception of religion is like that of the late Bishop Lawrence of Massachusetts, who said: "In the long run, it is only to the man of morality that wealth comes . . . Godliness is in league with riches." In social issues, the businessman automatically identifies "acquisition with justice," radicalism with ignorance or impudence...
...rabbis, Liebman was a lecturer on Greek philosophy at 19, became rabbi of Boston's Temple Israel in 1939, the same year went on the air to become one of radio's top religious broadcasters. In Peace of Mind-a "selfhelp" book-he tried to make religion's peace with psychoanalysis, argued their compatibility, urged his readers toward a "shockproof balance . . . inside the soul...