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...school] includes in its plan the religions of the Protestant Christians, the Roman Catholics and the Jews. That these three parties should live in harmony and cooperate in civil and secular relations, is reasonable and time-tested. But these religions and beliefs are in deadly antagonism. The Protestant Christians through all their history have believed and testified that Christ is very God and very man. The Jews crucified Christ and have persistently declared He was only a man, and even a man worthy of death. He has no special value either as a man or a Savior. The Protestant declares...
Resides Beethoven and Wagner, there was Bach?sacred solos and secular cantatas alike, including the drollery of "Aeolus Appeased" which, after writing it to entertain an honored old professor, Bach changed but slightly to celebrate a Polish king. Cincinnati also heard for the first time "La Primavera" of Ottorino Respighi, dulcet lyric on the text: "God is a Child, for His countenance is frank and truthful like that of a man filled with love...
...laws of Church and State, a Catholic Presi dent might be forced to deviate from his oath of office, or his allegiance to the Church. According to Roman Catholic law, education is a religious activity and be longs to the Church ; in U. S. theory it is a secular activity and belongs to the State.* According to the Roman Catholic Church (Pope Leo XIII): "It is not lawful for the State ... to disregard all religious duties or to hold in equal favor different kinds of religion"; the Supreme Court of the U. S. has stated that our "law is committed...
Pursuing its policy of wiping out the non-Mexican clergy (TIME, Feb. 22, et seq.), the Calles Government notified Archbishop Ruiz of Michoacan that all churches in that state will shortly be seized by the secular arm for use as schools, libraries...
Essentially, the sacrifice of time from secular for religious instruction is a confession of family incompetence, an admission that parents can no longer be trusted to provide opportunity for the religious teaching of their children. To this end, therefore, the state as symbolized by the White Plains school board furnishes a gentle reminder, a small jog at the elbow...