Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conclusion that "He was a virtuous man," have used this conclusion to vindicate the cherished suspicions that each has imputed to Orwell's now-protean figure. Hollis' attempt to Christianize Orwell is no more mistaken than the projections of R. J. Voorhees, for instance, who writes about Orwell's "Secular crusade," or of John Atkins who calls him a "social saint," forgetting perhaps that Orwell had written in his essay on Gandhi, "Sainthood is a thing human beings must avoid...
...modern secular spirit of the West makes it certain [the Buddhist missionaries] will meet with considerable success . . . There is a very deep interest in Buddhism growing among students in [Western] schools and universities...
...founder was a young Marist priest, José María Escrivá de Balaguer, whose aim was to tie the struggle for spiritual perfection to the struggle for professional perfection in the modern world. Instead of retiring into monasteries, he felt, men with a secular calling as well as a sacred one should be able to follow both at once. The solution: in addition to vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, a man pledges to God all his professional talents...
...surprise was not the points award in the Monarchist-Falangist struggle but the appointment of respected Economist Pedro Gual Villalbí to take charge of Spain's downsliding economy. Spaniards noted that four of the 18 Cabinet members belong to Opus Dei, an ascetic Roman Catholic secular order which leans more on the Vatican than on the controversy-torn Spanish clerical hierarchy and has long campaigned against graft in government. Said Franco: "They bring a New Era to Spain...
...same discrimination. Anti-Gomulka Communists are obviously exaggerating the situation for propaganda purposes, to suggest that Gomulka is a tool of the church. But there is no doubt that many Catholics are in fact getting a measure of revenge for years of persecution. Latest development: the formation of the Secular School Society "to protect the children of non-believers against all manifestations of discrimination...