Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Council? The reactions to unfulfilled promises, says Callahan, are already plentifully visible: "The unwillingness of many recent Catholic college graduates to join parish or church organizations; the flight from Catholic higher education of many young Catholic scholars; the transference of the zeal of many apostolic Catholics from Church to secular organizations; the desire of innumerable Catholics to detach themselves from any cultural attachment to the Church, to lose themselves in a sheltering, pluralistic society." Callahan thinks that the frustration of lay hopes could lead to anticlericalism, but sees a more immediate danger in the dissipation of the contemporary layman...
...going to be divided (or will have to make the choice) between faith and nonfaith in the earth's collective spiritual progress. I feel resolutely determined to devote myself by all possible means to the defense of the idea of the reality of a progress against every secular or religious pessimism...
...Supreme Court has just deconsecrated the nation," declared California's Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike, 49, adding that the court's decision against a New York State law requiring a daily prayer in public schools was tantamount to setting up a secular state religion-of "time and history, but not eternity." Moreover, it perverted the spirit and intent of the Constitution's First Amendment, and nothing short of another Amendment would right the wrong...
Novelists who persist, in a secular age, in chronicling man's war and peace with God are quite likely to be artists, or at least men whose obsessions speak with the force of art; the hacks are more likely to follow the fashion, which is to whimper at Meaninglessness. The late Nikos Kazantzakis (The Last Temptation of Christ; St. Francis) was such a God-obsessed artist, and so, in a slighter and less intense way, is Isaac Singer, 57, a Pole (now a U.S. citizen) who lives in Manhattan and writes in Yiddish. His subjects are usually lowly Polish...
...area in which the Radcliffe girl lives is "a kind of secular Vatican," Arlen says, "keeping its own counsel amid the sprawl and bafflements of the town." Here the sleeker, better-looking 'Cliffie drinks coffee in haunts such as "Leavitt & Pierce's [sic], as dark...