Word: secularism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Songs of Devotion, Decca, 10 sides). Operatic Tenor Richard Crooks solos the Negro hymns Were You There? and The Trumpeter (Victor, 2 sides). Alfred Wallenstein directs his new command, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Los Angeles, in the Schubert and Bach-Gounod Ave Marias (Decca, 2 sides). For the more secular-minded...
Last week the Vatican was busy with less secular matters-notably the beatification of Pope Pius X. For two days the Chapel of Relics in St. Peter's Basilica housed the body of Pope Pius X, who died in 1914, reputedly of a broken heart because he was unable to prevent World War I. The body lay in state, garbed in scarlet, white and gold vestments given by Pius XII. Two papal Guards, with drawn swords, stood outside the floodlit chapel as many a British and U.S. serviceman stared through the grilled doors at the Pontiff's face...
...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...