Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...birth control are regarded as evil in all Western religions, those who did not find them objectionable on religious grounds far outweighed those who did object to them. (A warning: the poll defined opposition on religious grounds as "objectionable...because of beliefs about God's commandments." This excludes secular morality, on which grounds one would suspect many more would have objected.) The most surprising result of this question was the relatively small percentage of 38 which disapproved of extra-marital intercourse on religious grounds. A stunning total of 62 per cent did not disapprove on the basis of the seventh...
Died. Don Luigi Sturzo, 87, priest, brilliant political theorist and grand old man of Italian politics, who led Italy's Roman Catholics back into politics after the bitter break with secular leaders, following Italy's unification, founded (1919) the broad-based Popular Party, largely Catholic but independent of the Vatican, which steered an enlightened middle course between burgeoning extremists of left and right, rose after the Fascist interlude to be Italy's dominant Christian Democratic Party; of a heart attack; in Rome. At the zenith (1923) of his powers Sturzo fell before the violent tactics of Mussolini...
...loyal supporters-is clearly an admirer of Savonarola. He feuds pompously with previous biographers, argues expertly and with almost contemporary urgency in defense of the contentious martyr. The reader may reflect that the excesses of body and spirit against which Savonarola thundered were the underside of the same secular Renaissance that produced Michelangelo and Leonardo. It was an age of triumphant humanism, within and without the church, and Savonarola, as Ridolfi relates approvingly, set himself against his era's dominant faith. His well-to-do family had hoped that he would become a physician, but the ills...
...since they consider Hebrew sacred and reserved for prayers. Their opposition to Israel rests on two beliefs: 1) only the Messiah can establish a Jewish state, and any human attempt is sacrilegious: 2) the Israeli government is offensive to God for such practices as putting women in military service, secular education...
...Complaisant Lover, in a sparkling production directed by Sir John Gielgud, flaunted none of the theologizing that pervades The Living Room and The Potting Shed; not once were sin and grace wheeled explicitly into battle during a soul's dark night. Instead, Greene's latest is a secular "black comedy" moving from glossy front-room comedy to boudoir farce to the tender pathology of love...