Word: religion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...subject, which were hung in the home, then affixed to the graveclothes after death. Names and occupations, inscribed on a few of the portraits, show that they were of wealthy government officials, schoolteachers, matrons or businessmen from a variety of racial backgrounds. All, evidently, subscribed to the Egyptian religion, which required the preservation of the body so that it could be united with Osiris after death...
Updating Doctrine. Outwardly secure and successful, the unique religion created by Joseph Smith and carried to Utah by Brigham Young is nonetheless at a testing time. Much as in the churches of mainstream Christianity, Mormonism is being prodded out of its old ways by a new generation of believers who temper loyalty to the faith with a conviction that its doctrines need updating. Worried about the relevance of Mormonism, some of them are all but openly critical of the policies fostered by the church's venerable, conservative hierarchy, headed by President David O. McKay, 93, and his Council...
...thirds of them now live outside New England, away from the faith's old neighborhood. The survey indicates that 63% of adult Unitarians earn more than $10,000 a year, and 84% have had some college education. Most of them are converts: 60% previously adhered to another religion, and 28% to none...
...Concerned About Viet Nam," 500 seminarians signed a petition urging the abolition of their exempt status. In a letter to the New York Times last month, three antiwar clergymen, Lutheran Minister Richard J. Neuhaus, Jesuit Father Daniel V. Kilfoyle and Rabbi Lloyd Tennenbaum, contended that "far from aiding institutionalized religion, the total exemption of clergy does American religion a great disservice." This month, Harvard Divinity School will sponsor a two-day seminar on the issue...
What Paul will say and even when he will say it are still the subject of speculation. In his encyclical last week (see RELIGION) the Pope said: "It is for the parents to decide, with full knowledge of the matter, on the number of their children ... In this they must follow the demands of their own conscience en lightened by God's law authentically interpreted." Dr. Rock interpreted it his way: "Oh, perfect! Parental responsibility and the supremacy of conscience-that's an excellent way to satisfy the Old Guard as well as the young." The Old Guard...