Word: religion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...topics, specified in some detail, were to consider in course (1) Natural Religion, (2) Revealed Religion, (3) The Validity of Non-Episcopal Ordination, and (4), of particular interest to our consideration, a discourse on the errors of popery. The lecturer on this last subject was required to discuss...
...first time that a Roman Prelate spoke upon that foundation. That distinction belongs to Bishop John J. Keane, Rector of the then-newly established Catholic University, who came at the invitation of Harvard President Charles William Eliot on October 23, 1890 to deliver the Dudleian Lecture on Revealed Religion in Appleton Chapel. His Catholic colleagues likened his precedent-shattering appearance in Harvard Yard to St. Paul's appearance at Mars Hill. So taken was the University with his measured address that he received an LL. D. degree at 1893 Commencement. Of the lectures themselves, the Boston Pilot, a weekly Catholic...
Although the government is officially opposed to religion and has dismantled the Catholic school system, it leaves the decision to the individual, and many churches remain open. Paintings of the madonna and crosses decorates many homes, but these are generally the heirlooms of pre-revolutionary generations. Most young people are atheists, a requirement for communist party membership. In addition, anyone who aspires to join a communist popular organization must show the "proper ideological development...
...divisions of a new curriculum would be like concentric circles, Rupp said. Biblical Studies would be the innermost circle, with Christianity and Culture the second circle and Comparative Religion the outermost...
...ironic that the United States, which guarantees freedom of religion, should question these things when Communist Poland did not raise any objections," Foley said, referring to the Pope's eight-day visit to Poland in June...