Word: secularization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...having kept their doctrines up to date, it cannot be denied that they use all available modern devices for enticing unwary sinners to their souls' salvation. On Sundays, the atheist must have a radio of high selectivity to keep hymns and homilies from intruding on the more secular programs which he, in his darkness, prefers to hear. Church fronts are everywhere decorated with lame aphorisms which a well-meaning pastor has composed after the pattern of happier advertising slogans. Long before the Babbitts had dreamed of luncheon clubs, church suppers, preceded and followed by prayer, were a universal institution...
Your explanation (issue of Aug. 17, Page 22) of how a Bishop can have the care of souls was quite surprising, coming from a secular journal as it did. Again am I convinced that you know your business...
...Secular Duties Absorb Energies...
Again, the religious house became a huge business organization. Its financial affairs were involved . . . The secular affairs absorbed the time and energies of the abbott and of the brethren at the expense of the spiritual concerns for which the foundation had been endowed...
Whether or not Herriot succeeds in subordinating the Catholic Church to the French State, he will at least have placed the issue squarely before the people. They must choose between the supremacy of an international Church in education or a purely national and secular control of popular instruction...