Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Churches' Influence on Secular Society" [April 21] you espouse the curious dichotomy of separation of church and state while at the same time you accept taxpayers' aids to religion...
Directed at Youth. Given official Vatican recognition in 1950 as the Church's first "Secular Institute," Opus Dei is no longer a purely Spanish organization. Its headquarters are in Rome, and it is now active in 68 countries, including the U.S.-where it has established residence halls and study centers (which teach such mundane subjects as oceanography) for students in 20 cities...
...idea. They were thrown into a swirl of enterprise that could be brutal but that was deeply committed to the future and-after the Civil War-to unity. Canada never became a melting pot: its people mixed but failed to merge. In a thinly settled country, dominated by the secular empire of Britain (or, in French Canada, by the clerical empire of the Catholic Church) people identified themselves more by their separate origins than by their common destination...
Cutting Up the Cow. Many of the nation's colleges that remain segregated by sex are run by Roman Catholic religious orders-and these are abandoning separatism as eagerly as secular schools. Notre Dame, which last year absorbed the drama department of its feminine neighbor, St. Mary's College, is exploring more formal ties-much to the concern of the St. Mary's faculty. One informal survey showed that 40% of St. Mary's teachers do not now meet Notre Dame standards, presumably would suffer in any merger. But Notre Dame seems so intent on affiliation...
...death by Gregory XIV, who declared abortion illegal only after the fetus quickens. Not until 1869, said Lamm, did Pius IX revert the church to the position of Sixtus V. Lamm urged Catholics to follow the lead of Boston's Richard Cardinal Gushing, and not ask for secular law to enforce church doctrine. At the last minute, Lamm and his colleagues accepted an amendment that exempts any hospital employee from aiding in an abortion if he states in writing that he objects on moral or religious grounds. The vote: 40-21 in the house, 20-13 in the senate...