Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...declared. "But all such movements of retreat inward from a too-difficult outer world bring with them an attendant peril--a willingness to divorce religion from the fabric of culture and the course of history, leaving the ordering of civilization as a whole in the charge of candidly secular forces...
...Roman Catholics are still well below their quota. Some bishops are short of secular clergy and so are not assigning enough priests for Army work. To ease the shortage, monks are being used. But Catholics have 200 applications on hand, expect to make up their deficit by Christmas. > There is a desperate shortage of Negro chaplains. The Army needs 70 as soon as it can get them, can use many more...
...understand their history and feelings clearly [Mexicans] would add three more freedoms: First, the freedom to buy land at a reasonable price; second, the freedom to borrow money at a reasonable rate of interest; and third, the freedom to establish schools which teach the realities of life" (i.e. secular schools...
Hindside Foremost. Later young Ilka was transferred to a secular school where her popularity depended on whether or not her mother, Edna Woolman Chase, editor of Vogue, was "crusading against fashions for the young." As soon as she could, she bought herself a gold lace negligee with pink marabou feathers "of which Mother remarked, with the candor which has always distinguished her, that it was a tart's idea of heaven." Then Mother gave her a choice of more school or a trip to Europe...
...Despite their zeal for world political, social and economic unity, the churchmen were less drastic when it came to themselves. They were frank enough to admit that their own lack of unity was no shining example to the secular world, but did no more than call for "a new era of interdenominational cooperation in which the claims of cooperative effort should be placed, so far as possible, before denominational prestige...