Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...latest book, from exile in Britain, Rauschning told how these words had inspired him: "End of the Revolution, Conservative Revolution, perhaps Revolution of Reconstruction-call it what you will! . . . Every revolution sets out to burst oppressive limitations. But the current of destruction introduced by the great secular movement of human emancipation is going far beyond the natural rhythm of destruction and rebuilding. Here it is no longer a question of relative destruction and losses, but of absolute and irrevocable sacrifices of the very nature of man, of the human qualities formed by the untold thousands of years...
Three reasons were suggested by Father Garesché: the changed economic position of women; the fact that since 1929 many girls could get jobs more easily than their brothers and often had to help support their families; growth of more secular social work, which offered the satisfaction of service without imposing so many restrictions. A fourth reason was suggested by Sister Christina, Immaculate Heart of Mary: The declining size of the average Catholic family. Her supporting data showed that girls from large families are much more apt to embrace a religious life in a nunnery...
Archbishop Beckman denounced the "dictatorship pseudo-officially canonized by a brother cleric"-a reference to Bishop Hurley's suggestion that President Roosevelt alone should decide upon U.S. entry into the war. He assailed the practice of "the secular and even the Catholic press to place official interpretations on the pronouncements of clerics newly returned from abroad" (i.e., Bishop Hurley, who until last fall was stationed at the 'Vatican). He bemoaned the fact that "sadly enough the flagpole on the White House lawn has never lacked for clerical adornment...
...since 1924 has Tibet seen a Panchen Lama in the flesh. In that year the late Dalai Lama, secular ruler of the land, seized the spiritual power as well, drove the Panchen Lama into exile where he died in 1938. When this usurper died seven years ago, he was succeeded by a Mongolian shepherd's son. The new Dalai Lama is now being educated - as the new Panchen Lama will be - amid the spinning prayer wheels and chanting monks of a Tibetan monastery. The two lucky youths can look forward to a soft life if they are lucky enough...
...member of the Socialist Party. He stands as far left economically as he now is far right theologically, but nonetheless presents a balanced if pointed view of society: "The anti-aristocratic emphasis of the Bible has been interpreted ... by certain types of sectarian Christianity and by modern secular radicalism in too simple politico-moral terms...