Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such views distress Msgr. De Blanc, and he fears that they may be catching. He sees signs that many Catholics may gradually abandon the teachings of their church and accept the customs of the secular society in which they live. His solution: an "open ghetto," in which Catholics should avoid intimate contact as far as possible with non-Catholic culture. Mixed marriages are out of the question. "I don't think a Protestant should seriously date a Catholic, and vice versa. Of course we want to get to know and do business with persons of other faiths...
...pastoral letter, read from church pulpits all over the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis last week, set down stringent new requirements for Catholic attendance at non-Catholic colleges and universities. "We are alarmed and grieved at the number of graduates who are selecting secular and non-Catholic colleges," wrote St. Louis' Archbishop Joseph E. Ritter. "In our solicitude for our young graduates, we remind them and their parents that they must always be far more concerned about nurturing and protecting their Faith than they are about pursuing higher studies...
Added Dom Aelred: "Educators and educated alike should be preoccupied with the truth. The Catholic Church has al ways claimed that she has nothing to fear from the truth. If these two propositions were kept in mind, then the secular v. the Catholic college controversies might largely disappear...
...seminaries receive about 1,000 new students each year-almost more than they can cope with-and many young members of the Communist Party are electing to be married in church and have their children baptized. (The government's answer is to set up more and more plush secular "wedding palaces...
Second Thoughts. While his views on Earth are unchanged. Niebuhr has revised his opinions on two major 20th century intellectual forces: ¶ SECULARISM. Niebuhr regrets some of his earlier polemics against it. now feels that Christianity "must make common ground with the different kinds of secular humanism to protect the dignity of the person against the perils of dehumanization in an increasingly technical age.'' And Christians must be humbly aware that in many cases, out-and-out secularists are morally better than they are. ¶LOGICAL POSITIVISM. Niebuhr now defends the modern philosophical school which concentrates on language...