Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parishes opened, 18 Franciscans appointed bishop and four archbishop. Some 4,000 Franciscans are working in 132 missions; 2,635 novices have entered the order. The Franciscans' Second Order, a cloistered group of women known as the Poor Clares, numbers 6,000. The Franciscan Third Order Secular is for laymen; the 3,500,000 members wear white cords around their waists under their clothes and pledge themselves to frugality, charity and piety. (Among Third Order members have been such disparate figures as Dante, King Louis IX of France, Christopher Columbus...
Three years ago, just at the height of an election campaign, a handsome young Moslem hodja named Fevzi Boyar arrived in the western Turkish town of Odemis. Like most of Turkey's Moslem divines, Hodja Boyar took a dim view of the secular government established by the late, great Kemal Ataturk,* rejoiced that Premier Adnan Menderes and his Democratic Party had at long last restored religious instruction in Turkey's schools and even raised priestly salaries...
...priestly duty has always made it imperative for us to understand what is uppermost in the secular mind," a senior priest explained. "And baseball is uppermost-one of those difficult things one cannot understand without playing...
...innocence into dark places) seems to be the moral pointed by British Novelist Elspeth Huxley,* latest explorer to go soul-searching in the jungle. Dr. Ewart Clausen, a famed Norwegian scientist, has renounced the world for his bush clinic at Luala, in French Equatorial Africa, and has become "a secular saint in the humanist calendar." From the far corners of the earth pilgrims come to sit at his feet; he proffers a bag of sticky bull's-eyes, advice, and the magic of his presence...
...tend to think alike, feel alike, and believe alike. He notes that most of them are gloriously contented, self-centered, and tolerant of diversity, that they value the traditional moral virtues, that they feel a need for religion, but that religion does not carry over to guide their important secular decisions, that they are dutifully responsive towards government, and that they set great stock by college in general and their own college in particular. "For the most part," he concludes, "a campus 'norm' of values prevails in the 1950's, coast to coast, at state university or denominational college...