Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nathan Pusey's first speech as president of Harvard in 1953 was a call to revitalize the Harvard Divinity School, an institution that seemed to be dying in the face of secular criticism. Last week Pusey returned to the school for a convocation speech on its 150th anniversary at a time when the quality of its students and faculty has never been higher. Yet, Pusey noted sadly, "the world of unbelief is all about us," and doubts about the school's role seem to be rising with "increased poignancy, in new and awful forms...
Immediately, many alumni objected. A church, they said, was inappropriate as a war memorial. Those men who died at war were making a secular sacrifice, they asserted. Only some of them were religious, and not all Christian...
...Michael's College in Toronto: "The bishops came back from the council raising the hopes of the young, and then they ignored what they had said in Rome." Still another reason, suggests Philosopher Michael Novak of Stanford, is that the council "demythologized" the church. Reported by secular mass media as just another news event, "it was brought down to human size and seen in the context of real life." Moreover, the evidence of elderly bishops openly challenging hallowed traditions inspired lay Catholics, young and old, to re-examine their faith on their own. In brief, the spirit...
...Catholicism today may be undergoing the kind of transformation that Judaism suffered through in the 19th century. As dogmatic and cohesive a community then as Catholicism was before the council, Judaism offered its adherents a choice between Orthodoxy or apostasy. Now the Jew has a range of choice from secular indifference to Reform permissiveness to the strict Halakic observance of the Hasidim. Jews-and Protestants too-are aware that pluralism offers risks as well as rewards: indifferentism, sectarian quarrels, doctrinal anarchy. Yet just as Catholicism accepted the precedent of other faiths in adopting a vernacular liturgy and a belief...
Students in Roman Catholic parochial schools are academically ahead of those in public schools-even though their classes are overcrowded, understaffed and lacking many of the teaching amenities that secular education provides. The authors avoid generalizations, but that conclusion is evident in the most exhaustive study to date of the nation's vast Catholic parochial-school system, published last week by the University of Notre Dame. Called Catholic Schools in Action, the 328-page survey, which drew responses from 92% of the nation's Catholic elementary schools and 84% of its high schools, took four years to prepare...