Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Legion is the only organization of consequence in the U.S. that makes an effective judgment of what is morally in or out of bounds. Legion officials note that many Protestants follow its ratings, which are carried by some secular newspapers, and that Hollywood producers will grudgingly excise scenes or dialogue in films for the sake of a better rating. Next step in the Legion's metamorphosis is a change in its name to the National Catholic Office for Motion Pictures, which will suggest less the naysayer than the subtle critic that puts an intelligent finger on what...
...found themselves losing the Renaissance reverence for Greco-Roman antiquity. Following the Italian artist Caravaggio, they stopped looking backward and returned, as artists have done repeatedly throughout history, to the direct observation of the visible world. What they saw was a growing middle-class life in an ever more secular society, and they depicted it with theatrical relish...
Hoyt, who was born in Clinton, Iowa, 43 years ago, has spent 16 years working on Catholic and secular papers. Bishop John Cody, who is now Chicago's Archbishop, hired Hoyt to edit the Kansas City-St. Joseph diocesan weekly in 1957, and running that paper (he still does) gave Hoyt the concept of the National Reporter...
...Reporter's stories often lack concision, or show a progressive bias; its treatment of secular events-the Viet Nam war, for example-sometimes displays more naivete than knowledge. Nonetheless, many Catholic editors agree that the Reporter has inspired other church journals to greater boldness and initiative, and its own readers are responsive. In its first year, circulation rose from 11,200 to more than 50,800, and is still climbing...
...creation." The theory behind the center is that the modern city represents a contemporary kind of new creation in which God is acting here and now-and that organized Christianity is ill-prepared to perceive his presence. To give ministers a firsthand knowledge of the inner city's secular forces, the National Council of Churches in 1962 proposed setting up an experimental school. Last fall the center began operations in the parish house of the First Congregational Church, supported by gifts from eleven Protestant churches and grants from several foundations, including the Rockefeller Brothers' Sealantic Fund...