Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...support from the Anglo-Catholic American Church Union, of which he is president, Sterling will open his first rehabilitation center in Manhattan's Greenwich Village this spring, hopes to set up five more by 1970. PARDON will accept clergymen of any faith, find them living quarters and temporary secular jobs while they undergo up to 90 days of pastoral counseling provided by ministers with lengthy parish experience. Those in need of psychiatric care will be referred to hospitals and clinics. Sterling expects that at least a third of his clients will use PARDON as a "halfway house" to ease...
Abbots and abbesses of contemplative communities believe that more changes are necessary-most notably, greater contact with the secular world. But renewal is proceeding slowly, partly because of the opposition of older monks and nuns who resent any departure from tradition...
...parochial attitude on the part of Israel's religious authorities, fortified by the reluctance of Reform and Conservative officials to assert their rights, that is largely responsible for the poor showing of Progressive Judaism in Israel and the consequent polarization of the Jewish population between the Orthodox and secular camps...
Formerly head of Pratt Institute, Oxnam had the trustees' approval to oversee all operations of the seminary as well as Drew's secular departments. Annoyed at their loss of control over budgets and policy, the seminary professors were furious when Oxnam vetoed a proposed faculty appointment on the ground that the salary offered the man was too high. Seminary Dean Charles W. Ranson then signed a confidential letter of complaint to the trustees-an action that Oxnam used as an excuse for firing him. Although Oxnam was backed by the trustees and by a special investigative committee appointed...
...recent papal encyclicals on social affairs, it urged Catholics to be concerned with the eradication of "indignity, injustice and inhumanity" on the ground that "when one of us is denied justice, all are threatened." At the same time, the letter upheld the primacy of the spiritual over the secular and censured a kind of religious amnesia that has blotted out respect for past traditions...