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...world has suffered a breakdown in values. It is hungering for a new religion. But traditional Christianity will no longer fill the bill, for modern man is not willing to wait for pie in the sky. The new heaven must be an earthly one; the new priests must be secular. For his new religion, Laski turns to Soviet Russia, where men make a fetish of community and a faith of cooperation. Laski substitutes the state for ritual, the shared consumption of goods and services for God. The whole world must come to his way of thinking, says he, or else...
...survival between two political power groups, United Nations and Axis, but also as a symptom of a social disease so virulent, long-standing and neglected that only war's desperate surgery could begin to treat it. The Archbishop's three weeks' in the U.S. would give secular eyes a chance to observe at close range the No. 2 representative of England's ecclesiastical change of heart...
...discern in the past a succession of levels of social awareness, like an ascending staircase. The age of religious wars ended when secular politics began to dominate . . . feudal politics ended when economic factors assumed overriding importance; the struggles of economic man will end by the emergence of the new ethical values of the new age . . . the new movement will re-establish the disturbed balance between rational and spiritual values...
...Case Against Liberalism," at Tuesday evening's "Liberalism" meeting, the fourth in a series of seven. Not only did the speaker flail the liberal conception of basic human nature, but he also hit at our religion of today, declaring "we need a church, a new church, an humanistic secular church...
Congratulations. . . . You did a creditable job on a difficult subject. Although there were a few sarcastic statements in the article, TIME gave a truer, less prejudiced account of Vatican politics and policies than one would expect from many secular publications. Undoubtedly, TIME knew the article would bring many letters of condemnation from bigoted, intolerant anti-Catholics who shut their eyes to the obvious sense of the Papacy's position on social issues which TIME summarized brilliantly. (Everyone but the most anti anti-Catholics will admit that the papal assertions on social issues must underlie any permanent peace.) However, this...