Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Catholic schools come in. It is perhaps an overstatement, but probably close to the truth, that the primary purpose of Catholic schools is to cultivate a clerical manpower pool. The church is faced with the painful choice of maintaining a school system that is becoming critically inferior to secular schools, or facing up to the question of clerical celibacy...
...growing involvement of the churches in the secular world is the basic cause of this shift of theological sights to what is alternatively called the Holy Ghost, the Paraclete and the Comforter. Thoughtful churchmen, from Dietrich Bonhoeffer to clergymen involved in the current struggle for racial justice, profess to be aware of an outpouring of God's redeeming spirit outside the confines of the institutionalized churches. In this view, many groups and individuals not associated with the churches, some of them even openly atheistic, are nevertheless struggling for the coming of the kingdom of God on earth. Dutch Protestant...
...graduates of parochial schools better Roman Catholics than those who receive a purely secular education? Yes-but not by much, is the unenthusiastic conclusion of a new survey of U.S. parochial schools called The Education of Catholic Americans (Aldine; $8.95). Financed by a $250,000 grant from the Carnegie Corporation, the four-year study was conducted by the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center and edited by two of its sociologists: the Rev. Andrew M. Greeley, a Catholic priest, and Peter H. Rossi, a self-styled "devout agnostic...
...purely quantitative measurement of piety, parochial-school graduates rank statistically higher than those with a secular education. For example, 86% of U.S. Catholics who went to church-run schools attend Mass regularly, compared with 64% of Catholics schooled secularly. While 66% of parochial-school Catholics are inclined to accept the church's ban on contraception, only 46% of Catholics who went to secular schools...
This is the third international conference on so big a scale for discussing Christian positions on issues that are normally considered secular. The first was held in Stockholm in 1925, the second at Oxford, England...