Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Secular to Sublime. During a three-hour Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the Administration's $3.4 billion foreign-aid bill, Fulbright asked Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara: "Isn't it a fact that when countries become very strong, they tend to become arrogant and to use that power in ways which have often resulted in war?" McNamara, whose responses were as precise as a punch card (see following story), answered: "Some have and some have not." "Could you give a very good example of some who have not?" persisted Fulbright. Replied McNamara: "I hope we are an exception...
Turning hastily from the secular to the sublime, Fulbright declared: "Every country has believed that God was on their side when they waged a war." Smiling faintly, the Defense Secretary observed: "I don't think we have brought God into our current military operations...
...church, is desperately anxious to avoid or at least diminish any public demonstration of Roman Catholic power in Poland. Last week, as the church began the first of its millennium celebrations, the Communists were busy creating every imaginable block and trying to convert the millennium into a purely secular "Polish state" occasion...
Technically, however, Matthew is not so stark. Just as the Bible makes poetry out of repititions which we might find intolerable in a secular epic, so this film establishes, and uses powerfully, three devices that might elsewhere seem annoying mannerisms...
...effect, seminaries are becoming more and more like Catholic colleges, which, in turn, are becoming more and more like secular universities-institutions in which an adherence to church doctrine is no barrier to free intellectual inquiry. Last week this new ideal of the church was summed up by the Very Rev. Pedro Arrupe, Father General of the Society of Jesus, who spoke at a convocation honoring the 125th anniversary of the Jesuits' Fordham University, during a 17-day visit to the U.S. "The university must be free to analyze not only ungrounded attacks upon the faith, but formulations, defenses...