Word: religion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before Pope Paul VI named him bishop of the modest diocese in late 1966, Fulton Sheen was best known for his conversions of famous people and for popularizing the Roman Catholic religion with his magnetic television personality. Eventually, he drew an audience of 30 million for his weekly program, called Life Is Worth Living, rivaling Comedian Milton Berle in Nielsen ratings...
...MAIN part of any defense of terrorism, however, lies in the advantages. The most important one, certainly, is the re-establishment of transcendence. Bourgeois values are inherently material. That is why, for example, we have come to laugh at religion. Religion seems to fulfill no role in the market-place or its mirror in the mind, the arena of rational discourse. Religious ritual can be important only to those who need to have abstract, transcendent belief acted out on a concrete level. For those without the need religion is without purpose. I am Jewish, but I can not watch...
...report also said that students attracted to the protest movement are rarely churchgoers. "Jews. Unitarians and those belonging to no organized religion are most student-power oriented. while Protestants and Catholics tend to be more conservative...
...young minister ever afterward admitted the divinity of Christ, whom he referred to as "the Master." But Fosdick also subscribed to what he called "the sacredness and possibilities" of humans and he impressively preached a religion that linked the two without obscurantism. One who heard him was Ivy Lee, the father of the public relations industry and adviser to the Rockefeller family. Lee published Fosdick's 1922 sermon under the title of "The New Knowledge and the Christian Faith," and arranged to have it and subsequent homilies widely distributed. When John D. Rockefeller Jr. offered Fosdick the pulpit...
Died. The Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick, 91, apostle of liberal Protestantism in the U.S. (see RELIGION...