Word: sectarian
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...result, arguments over church-state issues raised by sectarian pressures of individual churches are far fewer than they were a decade ago. Last February, for example, the Catholic Council on Civil Liberties submitted an amicus curiae brief to the Supreme Court, attacking the Connecticut law against birth control that so long offended Protestants. The National Council of Churches, traditionally opposed to direct federal aid for parochial schools, accepted with only minor qualms this year's education act that provides for certain assistance to children who attend such schools. The breakdown of hostility has taken place on both sides...
...Richard Cardinal Cushing Collection, selected by the Divinity School in consultation with Cushing, will serve as the main body of reference materials for Catholic studies at the non-sectarian theological school...
...that the way to reform the church is to teach truth instead of making the church an instrument through which it is "the guardian of condemnation." Pike called for a church that would emphasize the "certainty of the closeness of God, to all individuals, be they Christian or non-sectarian." As of now, Pike thinks, the church acts as an organization which simply suppresses everything...
...introduced for the first time in the United States into a university context; (4) that the injection of foreign elements into the dispute -- viz., the Teamsters' Union, CORE -- has aggravated the difficulty and represents a serious breach in the jealously protected autonomy of the University from outside or sectarian influences; (5) that the force and outside pressure in this case may well set a precedent for similar action to far more dubious ends; (6) that in short, the Berkeley revolt represents the most serious assault on academic freedom in America since the McCarthy...
...reputable small (2,900 students) liberal arts school. It offers degrees in law and medicine, gives M.A.'s in seven fields. Though all students must attend twice-weekly chapel programs and take two semesters of religion, the curriculum, the student body and the faculty are not narrowly sectarian. Fewer than half of the undergraduates and only three-fifths of the teachers are Baptists. "There is a shortage of dedicated Baptists who rank high in academic circles," Tribble explains...