Word: sectarianism
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...asunder in post-Reformation strife. They share, too, the paradox of having come to power frankly religious men, in a Europe heavily influenced since the Age of Enlightenment by secularistic and often anti-religious political doctrine. In such a scene, the Christian Democrats have learned not to accent their sectarian differences, but to stress what they have in common...
Finally, last week, after a year's consultation with the Chicago office of the America Civil Liberties Union, Mrs. Larson took her case to court, charged in a lawsuit that her children were being forced by law to attend a "Roman Catholic institution ... in which sectarian instruction is given." If she wins, Illinois will have to do some quick revamping of its policy in Catholic communities. Said one school official of Mrs. Larson's test case: "A hot potato...
...sectarian chapel is sponsored by the Radcliffe Christian Fellowship. It will be open to all 'Cliffe students daily from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. for meditation and prayer. Services will be conducted by students at 10 p.m. on Monday and Thursday evenings...
...Conant's Boston speech has been continuously misconstrued by a minority group," he said. Dawson asserted that if the "divisive" controversy became the criterion of Conant's appointment. If would be "particularly unfortunate, since it would mean that sectarian interests would be allowed to control appointments to public office...
...church man? The Archbishop of Seville, though he is probably the world's champion ecclesiastical sourpuss, is a man of not inconsiderable influence in Spain. When he calls Claus "put of a Protestant maneuver to undermine the deepest Christian meaning, of our tradition" and says that he conceals" a sectarian aim hidden under the red grab of an Old Man who seems native but who has spent many hours of his life as a knave." (The New York Times, December 15) it is time for reexamination. We must recall the pastern of accusations in these times they are made first...