Word: secularize
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...observations that there is an untapped market out there of Christian consumers and non-Christian spiritually attuned persons,” Churness writes in an e-mail. This market is only growing and becoming more important.“The public spirit in America has never been completely secular,” Stevens said. No longer, it seems, will its public culture be secular, either...
...Christian Music group issued an additional disc of “music inspired by” the film. That album proudly featured pious acts like Jars of Clay and Steven Curtis Chapman—virtual unknowns outside of the contemporary Christian music scene.But when members of the secular press raise the subject of religion, the interviewees steer clear.Asked by a pesky reporter about the risk of alienating non-Christians, Johnson allows himself to be distracted by the entrance of Adamson’s toddling child.“The movie means so much to so many people...
...abortion pill RU486, and has called on the state to use pro-life counselors to speak with women considering an abortion. "Cardinal Ruini has immense political capacity," says one well-placed Catholic observer. "He knows you can't just talk about the sacraments. You need to use secular language. And you also need to know when to say nothing." The last of these skills isn't much in evidence these days. Ruini's latest speech capped a week of almost constant headlines generated by earlier calls to restrict abortion, and warnings against intermarriage between Catholics and Muslims. On Friday, after...
...possible because the relationship between Church and state has been in flux for well over a decade. In postwar Italy, the Christian Democrats held or shared power in every government until 1992. But despite its leaders' intimate ties to the Vatican hierarchy, the party continued to stress the secular nature of politics. Its collapse after a bribery scandal in the early 1990s created a diaspora of former Christian Democrats into rival parties, and fierce competition among erstwhile colleagues. Each sought to demonstrate greater fidelity to the Church and better connections to the Holy See. "There was a whole political class...
...that mean for the U.S.? Ambassador Khalilzad says, "There is a reaching out to noncriminal Baathists." Evidence of shifts within the insurgency in some ways presents the U.S. with its best opportunity since the occupation began to counter parts of the Sunni resistance. Adopting the long-standing attitudes of secular Baathists, some Sunni leaders tell TIME they have lost patience with al-Zarqawi and would consider cutting a political deal with the U.S. to isolate the jihadis. "If the Americans evidenced good intent and a timetable for withdrawal we feel is genuine, we will stand up against al-Zarqawi," says...