Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...festival for the Madonna del Soccorso, guardian of fishermen, was held last weekend. There were street fairs with band concerts to attract the secular, and special masses for the pious. Sunday's parade of the streets, starting in the early afternoon, was the biggest show. A statue of the Madonna, carried under a portable canopy, was led by brass bands through every street in the North End. A man with pins walked beside it, and gave them out to all to pin money onto the ribbons flowing from the canopy. The parade ended with a ceremony featuring prayers...
...build Mea She'arim in the 19th century, Blau learned as an article of faith that the Jews had been dispersed from ancient Israel for their sins. Since only the Messiah could re-establish Israel, Blau naturally looked upon the efforts of Chaim Weizmann to set up a secular Jewish state as nothing less than blasphemy...
...format of Freberg's spiritual ads is "a disarming natural conversational approach leading into a song that's like a pop tune. It's what I call the 'espionage approach.' " In one commercial, a secular type says he can't make it to church because "this Sunday I'm playing golf," and as far as next Sunday goes, "I promised to take the kids to the beach." A voice asks: "Well, how about two weeks from Sunday?" "Oh, I never plan that far ahead. Two weeks! The whole world could blow...
...Justice Clark pointed approvingly to a 1952 Supreme Court declaration that "we are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being." The court's decision, he said, did not ban from public schools "study of the Bible or of religion, when presented objectively as part of a secular program of education...
...Webster's teaching sisters to begin doctoral work at Michigan, Syracuse, Yale, Fordham and Notre Dame universities, and this additional training will fortify Webster's pursuit of excellence. Sister Jacqueline is perhaps proudest of the liaison of scholarship she has established with prominent non-Catholic professors, secular universities, and public school systems. A compliment that she cherishes is: "You have crossed over the barriers." It came from St. Louis' Joseph Cardinal Ritter...