Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition to the Sunday church services," the trustees' statement continues, "the College conducts a number of assemblies. Generally they consist of: The Gathering of the College, a secular student assembly held on Tuesday mornings, conducted by the President of the College; College lectures, on Wednesday evening, with addresses by visiting speakers; (and) College chapel services, religious in character, on Thursday mornings, arranged by the Dean of the College Chapel and the Fellowship of Faiths...
...Ismaili person must decide for himself on questions of Communism and Arabism" declared His Highness the Aga Kahn to a panel of newsmen on the CBS program "Face The Nation" at 5:30 p.m. yesterday. "I have final authority in religious matters," explained the Leverett House senior, "but in secular matters, I lead, and do not have absolute authority...
...been the last to fall in line when their party congress voted 2,786 to 1,176 in favor of out. The Roman Catholic Church issued a proclamation advising the faithful that they could vote for the new constitution even though it declared the Fifth Republic to be secular. Only a few voices were still raised against De Gaulle. Though his own Radical Socialists had refused to back him, Pierre Mendes-France stubbornly insisted that to vote oui was to vote for dictatorship and the end of parliamentary government. In L'Express. Writer-Philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, onetime Communist...
...greatest depository of religious and secular manuscripts and manuscript art is the Vatican Library in Rome; its archives of some 566,000 books and documents, dating from as far back as 2,000 B.C., form an irreplaceable record. But if the library were destroyed, the substance and art of its contents would not be lost. Eight years ago the Jesuit fathers of Missouri's Roman Catholic St. Louis University got permission to microfilm some 30,000 key Vatican Library manuscripts. Backed financially by the Knights of Columbus, they have now recorded a staggering 11 million pages from such works...
Bishop Robert Dwyer's comment that cathedrals must go [Sept. 1] reveals that he, too, has yielded to the secular pressure of modern life. The great cathedrals of Europe were built by men of faith and devotion. The one comment that might be made about the church of today is that it has ceased to build cathedrals; faith and devotion are lacking. Men no longer believe; so they don't build. But let's build more cathedrals...