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Once upon a time, as Elon tells his disillusioned story, the early Zionists (circa 1882) were "secular rabbis of a new faith of redemption." The founders of modern Israel called themselves olim: pilgrims, "those who ascend." Generally, they were mystics with a "terrible sincerity," an "almost inhuman sense of rectitude," and "not a glimmer of doubt...
...drop out for the wrong reasons, out of impatience or self-indulgence. But so massive a disaffection?so large a gap between classroom and job, schooling and life?cannot be met merely with the old incantations about hard work and discipline. Education in the U.S. has been called its secular religion; from all signs it is ripe for a reformation...
...churchly calendar of saints' days may have become obscure to many; yet Americans have cloaked nearly every day, week and month of the year with a quaint secular significance. All of Illinois, for example, can look forward to June as Fight the Filthy Fly Month; Georgia observes Barbershop Harmony Week, Conway Twitty Day, and Georgia Hat Week...
...fullest says differently. Opus Dei rightly does not dictate how its members should best think or act in such matters, nor does it attempt to organize them. This is for laymen to do, not organizations of the Church. It is the laymen who have to be responsible for secular society, not the Church or its clerics, and therefore they have to be free to act in the way they know best and with their fellow citizens of whatever faith or none. Of course, there are still some clerical-minded people inside and outside the Church who don't understand...
Schmitt, however, said he thought that Catholic priests should stay out of polities. "Secular problems, as far as participation, should fall to laymen," he said. "Priests should stick to preaching doctrine...