Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more heavily Democratic than Republican. Two-thirds of the state's potential voters are Roman Catholics, and more than half are foreign born or first-generation Americans. In the past, state Democratic leaders have worked hard, and sometimes successfully, to convince voters that the Democratic Party is the secular arm of the Catholic Church...
...commemorating the 70th anniversary of its founding and the 100th of Father McGivney's birth. Total membership is now 829,634. Besides satisfying the native American fondness for plumed hats and recondite lodge rituals, the Knights have a comprehensive system of insurance and sick benefits for members. Like secular secret societies, they also manage various charitable activities...
Vocation or Fellowship? The opposition of many Protestants to religious instruction in public schools is a case in point. "If we choose to ignore the public-school system as an avenue of religious instruction so as to 'keep the Catholics out,' then in effect we allow secular theologies to become the source of meaning and motivation for the public-school system." And, warn the editors of Social Action, "we have very few social principles which can be taught in their full meaning without reference to a religious tradition...
...impression is of a man who has suffered much, whose humility is born of a genuine surprise at his own tenacity and survival. These seem to him to be the result of a divine grace, unearned yet partly paid for by a willingness to be a witness to things secular and divine, irrespective of personal consequences . . . Above all, one is moved by the magnificent courage of this stubborn and sensitive man, who refused to die to please Stalin, who built a new life, threw it away to atone for his past, and found it again. May it inspire others...
...folklore of modern secular education, it is widely held that college religion courses, to be admissible, must have all the faith squeezed out of them. In consequence, many U.S. colleges load their religion curricula with "safe" and secular subjects, e.g., the Bible as literature and contemporary religious ideals. The School of Religion at the State University of Iowa has long disagreed. There, along with conventional, basic religion courses, a harmoniously working faculty of Protestant, Roman Catholic and Jewish clergymen give honest representations of their respective religious teachings in separate courses and for college credits...