Word: secularized
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Even though the historical circumstances that gave rise to the church's anticontraceptive stand were gradually changing, official Catholic teaching was solidifying into an orthodoxy, supported by a juridical theology that emphasized precedent and natural law. In 1930, birth control had become an accepted fact of secular life and was even endorsed by the Anglican Lambeth Conference of bishops. Yet that same year, Pope Pius XI denounced all forms of birth control in the strongest terms as the "ruin of morals...
...Giotto, of St. Francis, St. Dominic and St. Thomas: an epoch of religious renascence that brought forth two major religious orders and the last great golden flower of Scholastic philosophy. But it was also the age of Marco Polo, Charles of Valois and Roger Bacon: an epoch of magnificent secular energy that propelled the rise of the middle classes and the independent city states, divided Italy between the party of the Pope (Guelph) and the party of the Emperor (Ghibelline) and embroiled Italians in a century-long civil war that concluded with the collapse of the empire and the Babylonian...
...part, higher standards for prison chaplains have been inspired by growing secular awareness that prisons are primarily intended to rehabilitate rather than merely punish; more than half of the states now require that chaplains undergo from six to 18 months of specialized pastoral training. For example, the Rev. Henry Taxis, chaplain to the Hennepin County Home for Boys in Minnesota, studied for nine months at a state hospital in Iowa, three months at Federal Detention Headquarters in New York, and six months at the Illinois State Training School for Boys. The chaplains learn fast that the techniques suitable...
...Nicene Creed, the Apostles' Creed, the Scots Confession of 1560, the Heidelberg Catechism of 1563, excerpts from 1566's Second Helvetic Confession, the Westminster Confession and Shorter Catechism, and the 1934 Barmen Declaration, a rejection of secular claims to power over the church, composed by Germany's anti-Nazi Confessing Church...
Furthermore, I am in favor of the civil rights movement. But I feel that the rush of clergy to join it in the 'sixties can be, and in many cases is, of purely secular origin. For a Massachusetts Baptist to be pro-integration, as for an Alabama Baptist to be prosegregation, may be nothing more than a response to what the society around him expects of him. Sociologist Peter L. Berger develops this theme at length in The Noise of Solemn Assemblies, Doubleday, 1961. The whole raison d'etre of Protestant Christianity lies in obedience to an authoritative divine revelation...