Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...alive. Defiantly the man shatters the god's sacred altar, forcing the god to destroy him and, in so doing, to destroy himself. The opera had so little drama in it, such paucity of stage movement, that New York Herald Tribune Critic Virgil Thomson labeled it "a secular cantata." The music seesawed in a narrow range between lyrical sweetness and sonorous majesty, soaring but once to fervent heights. Yet the opera could not be dismissed as a flop: it was fashioned with expertness, flavored with individuality, imbued with an inner spark...
...often happens that the secular magazine puts a sports reporter on religious meetings and we get about what might be expected. I have watched TIME's treatment of religious news in general, and I feel that it is exceptionally well done...
...poll of isolationist sentiment among practicing Catholics has yet been made. That it would run as high as Catholic clergymen's response to their poll is unlikely. Lay Catholics include a strong group of Roosevelt supporters; they also read the secular press, which last week was 69% interventionist. Remembered last week was the discrepancy between the Catholic press and Catholics in the Spanish Civil War. After two years of nearly total pro-Franco sentiment in the Catholic press, a Gallup poll showed that one-third of U.S. Catholics were neutral, 43% were pro-Loyalist, less than 25% pro-Franco...
...such an association; Germans and officials are forbidden to join them; 3) these associations may not have central headquarters or keep in touch with any group abroad (i.e., the Vatican) ; 4) all religious education and all convents and monasteries are to be suppressed; 5) every priest must have a secular job, so that he can perform spiritual duties only in his spare time...
...printed about Catholicism. Through the years the number of letters has fallen from 100 a week to about two a month. Says Editor Richard Reid of the New York Catholic News, who for 21 years led this campaign of putting pressure on the press : "There is not a single secular newspaper in Georgia today which may be regarded as hostile to Catholics...