Word: religion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Clare Mead, before coming to TIME, taught high school in Texas as a Dominican nun. Researcher Margaret Mary Bach, a former chairman of the philosophy department at Marymount College, Tarrytown, N.Y., was a member in the order of the Sacred Heart of Mary. Writer Mayo Mohs often reported on religion from our Los Angeles bureau before coming to New York in 1966, and contributed to the chapter "Heaven and Hell" in TIME-LIFE'S book Can Christianity Survive...
...midst?perhaps in their hunger for warmth and light in the nadir of seasons?believers of the Western world have immemorially celebrated hope. In recent years, God has seemed to many as dim as the winter-solstice sun on the horizon. It has been a December of religion. Now, as the days grow longer into the new decade, believers and those who would like to believe are hoping that the long, bleak month is over...
...Churches receive many kinds of government aid for their hospitals, poverty work and other public services. The rationale, as lawmakers see it, is that churches play a key role in the welfare state. Besides, the denial of such aid might violate the First Amendment's "free exercise" of religion clause. What limits, if any, remain...
Long-Run Loss? The law has just been upheld by a 2-to-1 vote of a panel of three federal judges. Its chief purpose, said the majority, is to "promote the welfare of the people." While it may indirectly benefit sectarian teaching, the state remains neutral toward religion-just as it does in providing parochial schoolchildren with free lunches, a practice already considered legal. Because the Pennsylvania law does not "advance or inhibit religion," said the majority, it satisfies the First Amendment...
...thing, there might be less money to go around for public schools, especially those in the ghetto. In addition, critics note, to win tax support the church schools must prove that they provide a public service and also submit to more legislative regulation. The result could be less religion in parochial schools and ultimate secularization...