Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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John Paul actually had launched his counterattack earlier in the day, while visiting Nicaragua's second largest city León (pop. 92,000). In a speech to an audience consisting mainly of campesinos, the Pope challenged a new law on education that favored secular schooling. Instead, John Paul championed the right of all to receive a Christian education. He also called on Christians to examine the teachings of the church in their search for social justice. Said the Pope, in a thinly veiled attack on Marxist-oriented "liberation theologians": "It is not necessary to hold alien ideologies in order...
...Vatican's code of canon law, priests can hold government jobs if they have received permission from their local bishop. Two priests have prominent positions in the Nicaraguan Cabinet, Foreign Minister Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann of the U.S. Maryknoll Society, and Culture Minister Ernesto Cardenal, a secular priest and noted poet. Four others hold high government posts. But in 1981 Nicaragua's bishops withdrew their approval. A truce was arranged: the priests would remain in office, but they would have to wear civilian clothes when carrying out official duties and not perform religious functions. However, the revised...
...kiss one another goodbye." Southern conservatives will be watching closely as leaders decide how presbytery lines will be redrawn, what the new confession of faith contains, how many conservatives get important jobs in the staff reshuffle ahead, and how much cash goes to evangelism and how much to controversial secular causes. Another question is where to put the consolidated church headquarters. The U.P.C.U.S.A. is in New York City and the P.C.U.S. in Atlanta...
...Disneyland, and on the same tourist-mecca level as the Hollywood Wax Museum and Knott's Berry Farm, lies "Religionland." Or so detractors of Television Evangelist Robert Schuller, 56, have dubbed his $18 million headquarters. 'For the past two years, the "Crystal Cathedral" has been offering such secular, profit-making fare as weight-reduction classes and counseling programs, plus concerts by Lawrence Welk and Victor Borge. State tax authorities would now like to pass their collection plate. "They even had a Ticketron there," says a local tax investigator. "The first time I saw it, I thought...
...Christian schools [Jan. 10], while admirable, is due more to their strict discipline than to their religious orientation. Rather than allow children to be brainwashed by the creationist teachings of fundamentalists, we should attack permissiveness in our public schools and restore that system to what it should be: secular but quality education...