Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Opus, in turn, offers the church a corps of well-educated, disciplined, profoundly committed Catholics who, as laity in ordinary jobs, can penetrate society in ways that priests cannot. In the Opus concept, each lay Catholic is to sanctify the secular world and his own career...
...nothing in Catholicism quite like Opus Dei. Its membership includes both men and women, though in separated branches. It includes priests, but more significant, it makes demands of its laity more often associated with priests and nuns. Yet it is not a religious order, since its lay members hold secular jobs. It is both highly centralized and decentralized: men's and women's General Councils in Rome, appointed by Del Portillo, set policy and assign national directors, but chapters in each nation plan and finance their own operations...
Perhaps professors sometimes deny that ideology, personality, and academic politics influence their teaching, tenure decisions, and scholarship. Some prefer, instead, to pretend that theirs is a pure vocation, a neutral pursuit of knowledge, independent of base emotions and ambitions which exist in the outside secular world...
...METHOD AND DEVELOPMENT of the play resemble a remark made by the psychologist Erik Erikson. Discussing Eros, the psychological principle of love, Erikson asserts that love is, theoretically and potentially, universal. In quaintly secular fashion, Erikson approaches an idealization of the power of love not unlike the old Christian attitude, implicitly forwarding the social health of love as the chief criterion for judging a culture. Hansberry seems to have constructed A Raisin in the Sun from the critical vantage point of the possibility of universal love. While the result is staggering, one immediately wonders if it is always possible...
When someone voluntarily becomes a member of an organization, religious or secular, the rules and regulations governing that body must be followed. If they are not, the offender should be expelled, unless proper amends are made. It is that simple. A bad judicial decision in the Guinn case has possibly paved the way for many similar lawsuits...