Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...congratulated on the journalistic courage which you displayed in reporting the resignation of Emmett McLoughlin from the Roman Catholic priesthood. This is certainly a contradiction of the seeming trend being followed by the secular press, in which conversions to Catholicism are faithfully reported, while departures from the Catholic Church are seldom mentioned...
...long will the World Council abide? Will it ever turn the churches into The Church? Can it meet the challenge of a secular century...
...Zionist leaders in Tel Aviv were drafting Israel's Proclamation of Independence, they got into a sharp dispute over whether to mention God in their text. The story, which leaked out last week, revealed much that the world did not know of the struggle between religious Zionists and secular Zionists for dominant influence in the new state. Very clear was the fact that modern Israel bore little relation to the biblical Jewish theocracy...
Catholic Sacrament of confession is an ancient form of psychiatry (or that psychiatry is a secular corruption of confession) is common among Catholics, and shared by some non-Catholics. But the assumption is founded on ignorance: few Catholics know enough about psychiatry and few secularists enough about confession to see the deep-set difference between them. An articulate exception is the Rev. Victor White, a British Dominican, who writes about the difference in the current issue of the Catholic weekly, Commonweal...
...Catholic Church had faced such laws before (in Canada and Mexico) and knew just what to do. Rather than allow schools to close for lack of teachers, said Bishop Vincent J. Ryan of Bismarck last week, nuns would be told to wear 'respectable secular dress. Some of the law's sponsors solicited support [by claiming] that it would keep Catholic sisters from teaching . . . [but] no law can, under the protection of our Constitution, discriminate against any teacher on account of religious membership or belief...