Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...toothbrush or a change of socks, and few had any idea of where they would stay. Some seemed to think it was all something of a lark. Said one clergyman to a colleague as he stepped off the plane in Montgomery: "Fix bayonets! Charge!" Also on hand were secular crusaders, including Mrs. Paul Douglas, wife of Illinois' Democratic Senator, Mrs. Harold Ickes, widow of Franklin Roosevelt's Interior Secretary, and Mrs. Charles Tobey, widow of the former Republican Senator from New Hampshire...
Pope John addressed atheists as well as believers; yet Pacem in Terris is an unmistakably theistic work. This is hardly surprising in a papal pronouncement, but it clearly sets the encyclical apart from such purely secular documents as the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Time and again, Pope John argues that the rights of men and governments stem not solely from human consent but from the design of the Creator...
Whether or not Mrs. Eitani is Jewish has blossomed into a nationwide debate. What makes the problem so touchy is that it cuts to the root of Israel's schizophrenia as a modern, secular state whose laws are strongly influenced by a minority of observant Orthodox Jews as their price for remaining in the coalition with the governing Mapai. In 1960 the Interior Ministry, dominated by Orthodox Jews, ru'ed that the Halacha would determine whether an immigrant could enter Israel under the 1950 Law of Return, which makes any Jew automatically eligible for citizenship...
Midst laurels stood: TV Host Ed Sullivan, 62, installed as a Knight of Magistral Grace of the Order of the Knights of Malta, the 800-year-old Roman Catholic secular order; J. Paul Austin, 49, president of Coca-Cola Co., recipient of the 1965 medal of Philadelphia's Poor Richard Club for his "exemplary leadership"; Yachtsman Olin Stephens, 56, designer of Constellation, which defended the America's Cup for the U.S. last summer, winner of the Nathaniel G. Herreshoff Trophy of the North American Yacht Racing Union; General Lyman Lemnitzer, 65, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, awarded...
...next book, Lonergan intends to outline a method for theological investigation that is analogous to the methods of modern science-thereby opening anew the possibility of mutual comprehension between Christian and secular thinking on ultimate questions of man. Lonergan admits that theology has not kept pace with man's intellectual evolution; the artists, he says, have become the true moralists...