Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...February of His Eminence Al Sheikh Mustafa Abdel Razek, the rectorship has been vacant and the university split by feuds. At the same time Al Azhar's position of Islamic leadership is threatened by a swirling current of social change, and by the emergent authority of two modern, secular universities (Fuad el Awal and Farouk el Awal...
...same way Protestants are inclined to be unyielding on problems of the public school because they suspect the hierarchy, at least, of being inimical to the whole idea of a public school system, which Protestants, as well as our secular democrats, regard as one of the foundation stones of our democracy. Protestants are furthermore not at all certain that the Catholic hierarchy really accepts the fundamental separation of church and state, to which American democracy is committed...
...fear may seem in one sense justified. But in another sense it is an effort to cover up, by political action, the weakness of Protestantism in the field of religion itself. The anarchy of Protestantism, its lack of spiritual discipline, its ridiculous tensions between . . . versions of Protestantism ... its half-secular sentimentalities, all these weaknesses are more responsible for its sense of insecurity than anything that Catholicism may do politically...
Baptist Minister John Franklyn Norris, of Detroit and Fort Worth, who once attracted wide attention, even in secular circles, by shooting to death an unarmed political enemy (he pleaded self-defense, won an acquittal), turned up at the Vatican. Norris read Pius XII a statement deploring Baptist protests against the friendly exchange of letters between the White House and the Vatican, later reported to the press a jolly conversation. He told the Pope, said he, that U.S. Baptists were really afraid the Pope might make a Roman Catholic out of Baptist Harry S. Truman. The Pope, said Norris, threw...
...film would be worth seeing if only for these portraits and the psychological story which they tell; but it is also fascinating as a specimen of modern, secular hagiography. In that respect it can wholly satisfy only those who are unquestioningly convinced of Roosevelt's greatness. The claim that the picture is completely nonpolitical is absurd. It is not only intensely political, but biased and sentimental; e.g., there is no recognition of such failures in international diplomacy as the Yalta conference. The comments of the plain people who remember and tell the Roosevelt story are mawkish examples of common...