Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This concept of the Church, according to Dr. Mackay, leads to clericalism, which he defines as "the pursuit of power, especially of political power, by a religious hierarchy, carried on by secular methods and for the purposes of social domination. Clericalism constitutes the greatest spiritual menace in the Western world of today...
...integrate French and German coal mines and steel mills. More, he said, was at stake than an economic rationalization. His plan would dispel the war-breeding rivalry over the Ruhr's heavy industries, would lay a base for Continental cooperation ("The rallying of European nations requires that the secular opposition of France and Germany be eliminated"). Though the plan bore Schuman's name, it had been worked out mainly by astute Jean Monnet, France's commissioner for economic planning...
Equipped with a rousing new hymn called Follow the Fold, the Salvationists lend a homely charm to proceedings that are otherwise notably secular. Frank Loesser's score, though not unusually accomplished, is wonderfully appropriate: it has the blare of the story, the directness of the dances, the brassiness of the locale. One or two love songs would scarcely be missed; one or two of the ditties, such as Adelaide's Lament, have lively tunes. Michael Kidd's dances are clean and sharp, whether burlesquing honky-tonk routines or pantomiming the drama of dice games...
Realizing this deep-seated difference between Catholic and non-sectarian institutions, the average member of the latter has the impression that religion is "thrown at" the students of a non-secular school, day and night, to the point of inciting narrow-mindedness. This is definitely not true of the school on the side of Mount St. James in Worcester...
...Secular schools are inclined to say that religion is largely a matter of feeling--not scientific or intellectual. But religious factors have had much to do with the growth of western civilization, and a non-emphasis on religious teaching would, we feel, lead to a truncated, defective liberal education...