Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...originates more than 75% of its material (mainly by planting articles in other Roman Catholic magazines). Although it is run by priests, the magazine is not a church property; it is a tax-paying private corporation that grosses $5,000,000 a year. Its contents are preponderantly secular, right down to the ads: in C.D.'s pages, an advertisement offering a $6.95 rosary containing "earth from catacombs of Rome" competes with a suggestion from the Christian Brothers of California to serve their newest wine "well chilled at cocktail hour." One in seven of C.D.'s readers...
...Catholic Church is not particularly well treated by the government, other churches (Greek Orthodox and Moslem) are probably far less harassed since they are subject to the control of no external secular power and therefore offer far less competition to the power of the state. Tito himself attends Orthodox services. A museum in Lubjlana carried an exhibit of lithography with work representing most countries. A very large proportion of the prints where non-objective, something that would never be tolerated in Russia expect for purposes of deadnoting foreign artists. One of the major triumphs of the exhibit, however...
...George A. Buttrick, Preacher to the University, had enforced (with President Pusey's implicit support) a standing order barring Jewish marriages in Memorial Church. This led to widespread and often heated debate over the nature of Memorial Church and over the question of whether Harvard was a sectarian or secular university...
Finally, the Corporation, while affirming the basic Christian character of the Church, opened it for all "private" services. The Corporation said that the University "does not intend to assert the validity of the tenets of any denomination or creed." Pusey said, "If I were asked whether Harvard were a secular university, I would answer, 'Yes.' But it has within it a tradition of worship; one could wish that this were broad enough to include everyone in the community...
...achieved by what the encyclical calls "objective justice and its driving force, love." Says he: "To assert that justice is the norm and 'love the driving force' is certainly a theory of the relation of...love to the social order preferable to some Protestant and secular theories...