Word: seculare
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...Leftists who pointed to their monkish habits, cried: "We kill you for this!" The Claretians replied: "We are happy to die for this! Vivo Cristo El Rey!" At Calaselles 18 Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God were slaughtered and in Valencia, while the Cathedral burned brightly, 30 secular priests were shot. In Malaga, 50 priests were executed by a machine gun squad. More determinedly irreligious than elsewhere in Spain, Barcelona mobs burned all but two churches in that city, ripped out religious paintings and statuary, tore open tabernacles and ground Sacred Hosts on the floor. Not content with such...
...traction fortune, vice president of Philadelphia's Market Street National Bank and professor of business law at the University of Pennsylvania. Malvern has a mailing list of 6,000 men who have made at least one retreat there. Total attendance last year was 4,132. The secular spadework of organizing the gatherings is divided up among retreat captains, chairman of whom is wiry young William ("Bill") Lennox, business manager of athletics at Penn. Worked up to a great state of pious enthusiasm by Chairman Lennox, Retreat Captain Tom O'Connor, master boilermaker at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, mustered...
Example of Secular Treatment...
...figure is a fine example of late 13th century work, and sheds interesting light on the comparison of Spanish and French treatment of secular subjects. Although displaying most of the medieval tendencies toward identification, a trace of realism is shown in the closed eyes of the effigy, indicating death. The majority of French tomb figures are modelled with open eyes...
Exercising a police regulation over marriage, which it regards as a useful stabilizing influence, the secular arm of the law does little philosophizing as it goes about its business. Not so the ecclesiastical arm, whose stake is much greater. On marriage rests the prestige, the continuity of all world religions. Christianity, notably, is one religion whose priests and whose God set examples by standing in the role of parents to children. Great, therefore, is the chagrin of churchmen when they see the institution of marriage beset as it is in the U. S. Typically last week...