Word: secularization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past 18 months, an estimated 400 priests have left the Roman Catholic Church in the U.S. For most of them, the transition to secular life is a traumatic experience. Unless a cleric enjoys private means, he is usually broke; unless he has close relatives, he has no place to stay...
Punch or Judy. Yet when an ex-priest lands a good job, he is apt to discover that the secular afterlife is no paradise. One former cleric in Los Angeles, now employed as a social worker, finds that his $700-a-month salary, which he at first considered lavish, barely sustains him. About two-thirds get married-taking on the added burdens of providing for a family. And though Catholics no longer automatically conclude that a priest who has left the church did so because of "Punch or Judy" trouble-drink or women-many are still suspicious. Parents are especially...
...most difficult to curtail. But while the university is uniquely promising, it is also uniquely promising, it is also uniquely threatened by the pressures of ideology to which we have already referred. The university is in constant tension between its ideal critical capacity, and the powers of secular service that delimit its hope...
Though some churchgoers are perturbed by the secular surroundings of many drive-in services, most of the ministers who have tried preaching to a congregation of cars generally like the idea. They do, however, concede that there are certain inevitable dangers. Half-jokingly, the Rev. John Muller of Bethel Reformed Church, a South Miami drive-in, worries that he will one day mount the pulpit and absentmindedly intone: "Will the autos of the congregation please rise...
...secretive and vulnerable; few better studies have been written of his condition. He wrestles with sacred and profane loves, one represented by Imogen, a local beauty and culture snob who is headed for a cathedral marriage, and the other by Evie, the town crier's pretty daughter, a "secular" sexpot with eyes like black plums. For Oliver, a chapel-going apothecary's son, marriage is unthinkable with either, even when he gets Evie pregnant (or so she lets him think). It sounds like an un-American tragedy; yet Golding's story is no glum Dreiserian dirge. Eros...