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...While recognizing in its fullest extent the advantages of a liberal education in the purely secular order, the College at the same time understands that education must contain a power that can form or sustain character...
...Opposed establishment of diplomatic relations between the U.S. and the Vatican (which President Fry termed a "minuscule secular state, hardly larger than a respectable golf course...
...Hungarian Communist government had announced the signing of a church-state agreement, a government decree directed all but four Roman Catholic religious orders to suspend their activities. Ten thousand nuns and monks in 59 orders were given three months to get out of their monasteries and return to secular life. The four exceptions: Benedictines, Franciscans, Piarists, and an unnamed order of nuns whose members will teach in eight schools nationalized by the government in 1948, but now returned to the church...
Until the late Renaissance, European artists devoted most of their talents to religious art; then the secular tide set in. Today few artists even think of painting for churches. Pope Pius XII made an attempt to reverse the drift three years ago with an encyclical proclaiming that "modern art should be given free scope in the due and reverent service of the church and the sacred rites, provided that [the artists] preserve a correct balance between styles, tending neither to extreme realism nor to excessive symbolism . . ." Last week he welcomed 300 artists and art authorities from 23 countries...
Fear of Communism? "Communism has every reason to fear the Christian church. The church . . . should always be on the attack against secular society-under capitalism as well as under Communism or Naziism. If Communism comes, we Christians shall just continue to be on the offensive. They may put us in jail, or kill us, but the church-as long as it is faithful-is in God's hands. The only thing that can do away with the church is the church itself, by its unfaithfulness...