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...marriage by some priests. For one thing, the sisters are kept under tight discipline, report frequently to their superior; for another, working mostly with women, they do not face so tough a political opposition. Abbe Roussel, who reports directly to Cardinal Feltin of Paris, looks forward to seeing his secular movement turn eventually into a full-fledged religious order...
...With Dewey, Whitehead, Russell, and Santayana stands a man whom future generations probably will pronounce no whit their inferior..."; "like Augustine, Aquinas, Calvin, and Schleicrmacher, he gathers up the strands of all that is best in secular thought, and unites them with the truths of God's self-disclosure"; "he has my vote for possessing one of the most enormous brains in the world"; these statements--the first two by editors Charles Kegley and Robert Bretall and the third by the Rev. George A. Buttrick, Preacher to the University--all refer to Paul Johannes Tillich, Protestant theologian...
Actually it is just these far-flung secular interests, drawn together in an attempt "to relate all cultural realms to the religious center," that make Tillich's theology as appealing as it is to modern America. His emphasis on existentialism, expressed in such sermons as "Man Against Mass Society" and in his undergraduate course on "Religion and Culture," has particularly attracted college students who, as the Professor says, "have been disillusioned by science." And in his four months at Harvard, according to the Rev. Frederic Kellogg of Christ Episcopal Church, "Tillich has crystallized the great religious interest that was already...
...archivist of the Museum of French History (The Retrial of Joan of Arc; Harcourt, Brace; $4.75). The record, on the whole, backs popular opinion, which regards the judges who sent Joan to the stake as villains. It speaks of English bribery and pressure, Joan's imprisonment in a secular rather than an ecclesiastical prison, her lack of counsel, her inability to get an appeal through to Pope Eugene IV. The Rouen trial was full of inconsistencies and irregularities, e.g., after Joan made her famous "abjuration" renouncing her "errors," she was sentenced to life imprisonment, and what actually brought...
...Justice Wilkins wrote in the decision, "We think that (the Sunday censorship law) is void on its face as a prior restraint on the freedom of speech and of the press guaranteed by the First and Fourteenth Amendments...It is unthinkable that there is a power, absent as to secular days, to require the submission to advance scrutiny by governmental authority of newspapers to be published on Sunday, or sermons to be preached on Sunday, or public addresses to be made on Sunday...