Word: sectarianism
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...Sectarian Services...
Freund argued that the right of the majority to free exercise of religion does not extend to the holding of sectarian services in the school-room. He pointed out the impossibility of composing a suitable nonsectarian exercise, remarking that "one man's piety is another man's idolatry...
...school prayer at best could only be "so bland as to be meaningless" or "so sectarian as to be divisive," Freund stated. He emphasized that the most important effect of the Supreme Court's decision should be "a serious and basic inquiry into the moral component of public education...
Freund called for new attention to the curricular moral instruction that should replace sectarian religious exercises...
...thought of the effect the boycott might have on Boston's ecumenical movement. Sectarian division between Catholics and Protestants on school integration has been troubling Boston religious leaders interested in unity, but they have been reluctant to bring the split into the open. Richard Cardinal Cushing has supported the Boston School Committee's contention that the stay-out was harmful, practically siding with the smug bigotry of Committeewoman Louise Day Hicks. Episcopal Bishop Anson Phelps Stokes, on the other hand, has sided with the boycott leaders. One of the movement's co-chairmen is Canon James P. Breeden, a Negro...