Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What It Could Be. One cure for secularism in schools is suggested by Christopher Dawson's The Crisis of Western Education (Sheed & Ward; $3.95), a brief for the restoration of Christian culture in learning, by Harvard's first professor of Roman Catholic Studies. Philip H. Phenix's Education and the Common Good (Harper; $4) is a Presbyterian's plan for teaching religious values in secular schools without violating laws or liberties. John W. Gardner's Excellence (Harper; $3.95) is an eloquent case, by the articulate president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, for high...
...years ago, all of Belmont's cooking and shoemaking was done by monks; now they have found it cheaper to farm the work out to local tradesmen. Even the work-minded monks of the New Camaldoli Hermitage at Big Sur, Calif., agreed to forswear tradition and let secular hands tackle the job of cell building. "We were given bricks to build our houses," says Dom Pedro Rebello sorrowfully, "but everything ended in a chaos of mortar and rubble...
...American monasticism's active involvement with the secular world spiritually wise? Because of the obvious benefits to the church as a whole, most abbots agree that it is; but they are aware of the need to keep St. Benedict's ora et labora (pray and work) in balance. "The great question in contemporary monasticism," says St. Anselm's Abbot Boultwood. "is precisely the seeking of this point of balance that unifies the contemplative and the active in monastic life. In reinforcing the element of contemplation . . . American monasticism may have a long way to travel...
Desire v. Worth. By training up children in "a democracy of desire." he says in a provocative new book titled Education and the Common Good (Harper; $4), the schools heighten "a gnawing sense of meaninglessness" in U.S. life. Does Phenix then mean that secular schools should actually teach "religious" values...
...both discipline and dogma. The Vatican Council of 1869-70, even though it was the first churchwide convocation in more than 300 years, did little more than define papal infallibility before it broke up at the onset of the Franco-Prussian War. Thus, in its present battle against the secular world, the flesh and the devil, Roman Catholicism lumbers along on a centuries-old collection of codes, rites and practices, many of which hinder rather than help its missionary objectives in the modern world. Among the significant issues that the council must face...