Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attacked Protestants and Other Americans United for Separation of Church and State as "a refined form of the Ku Klux Klan." He fought with Harvard's former President James Bryant Conant when Conant suggested that parochial and other independent schools are divisive, and he deplored secular universities. "There are too many instances where Catholic students have lost their faith and Americanism at these institutions," he roared...
...secular age, long removed from the centuries that built the great cathedrals, a church still remains a profound creative challenge for an architect; clergy and congregations are among the most open-minded of clients. Yet they do not often concede the degree of freedom given to Italian Architect Giovanni Michelucci, 73, in his new Church of St. John the Baptist. His client was the governmental superhighway authority (modeled on the New York Port Authority) that built the Autostrada del Sole from Milan to Naples. It wanted a memorial to dead highway-builders, and put no limitations of time, size, form...
Islamic life is not divided into the secular and temporal, Hatepota said, and man is thus completely responsible to God. And in order to bring about a unity with his God, the Islamic man must practice strict discipline...
...poet-theologian who conducted an underground divinity school for the Hitler-hating "Confessing Church," and was killed at a Bavarian prison shortly before its liberation by American troops. But Bonhoeffer's vivid, prophetic writing-outlining his dream of a "religionless Christianity" that would speak afresh to the modern secular world-is probably more important to young seminarians as a consequence of martyrdom...
...with bachelor's degrees, while 118 had no educational facilities of their own. So heavy was pressure from bishops to get nuns, even if badly trained, into expanding parochial-school systems that thousands of sisters were sent out to teach after two years of a spiritual novitiate. By secular standards, few were qualified to do much more than keep order in class and provide a "one Hail Mary and two Hail Marys make three Hail Marys" level of instruction...