Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seemed as she puttered around the convent farm, ignoring the outside world, where her Singing Nun album (originally recorded as a souvenir for girls who came on retreats) competed with the platters of Bobby Darin and Paul Anka. But at some point she decided that her vocation may be secular after all. The convent announced that she has left to live outside Brussels, where, now 38, she will resume her former name of Janine Deckers and pursue a musical career...
...conceding her basic point. Not only do such exemptions raise everyone else's taxes, agreed the Maryland court, but they also give religious organizations the equivalent of indirect government grants. Even so, the court insisted, such "grants" do not violate the establishment clause because their prime purpose is secular rather than sectarian. While religious organizations get a tax break, the general public gets an even bigger break through such church activities as aid to the poor and aged, day nurseries, care of the sick, and efforts to eliminate racial inequalities. Said the Maryland decision: "The performance of these functions...
...founded in West Springfield under Episcopal auspices, its volunteers include Congregationalists, Methodists, Lutherans, Roman Catholics and even one Jew. In Canton, Ohio, a Roman Catholic priest is chairman of the local branch, and in Louisville, Ky., Fish is jointly sponsored by an Episcopal and a Presbyterian church. Purely secular organizations have been happy to contribute too: in Louisville, a local taxi company offers free transportation to Fish's emergency cases...
...theologian, who teaches at the Academia Alfonsiana (a branch of the Lateran). Otherwise, the training is not much better-and in some ways worse -than what they would receive back home. While U.S. seminaries have all but abandoned Latin for lectures and brought their curriculums closer to those of secular liberal-arts colleges, the courses at Roman universities are still heavy on dogmatic theology and canon law, and the emphasis is on rote learning rather than creative thinking...
...Halakah more meaningful for Jews. "The Jew," says Rabbi Jack J. Cohen of Israel, "was not made for the law but the law for the Jew." Israel's Deputy Chief Justice Moshe Silberg believes that the time has come for a new Halakah code that would be "a secular legal creation based on principles of Jewish law with a clear dissociation from all the archaic layers that were heaped on Jewish law. The task will be to select the wheat from the chaff, to cut away the dried branches from the tree, which is still full of life...