Word: secularized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...themselves may take a different tack. Theological conservatives are likely to be far more disturbed by the proposal's secularistic definition of the church's mission than by the structural problems. As the drafters put it: "The affirmation of Christ's Lordship over creation, including the secular city, must be related to the real struggles of the people in the social, economic, and political structures of this...
...exodus crisis has traditionally been somewhat easier for nuns than for priests. Even sisters bound by solemn vows of chastity "until death" have been able to get dispensations with relative ease. And for a girl trained as a teacher or nurse, the transition to secular status was relatively painless. Leaving today "is a simple matter," says Midge Turk, college editor of Glamour magazine and an Immaculate Heart sister until 1966. ''A nun writes to the Pope. says please-give-me-a-dispensation-because-I-can-no-longer-function-in-this-life, and she almost automatically gets a prompt notification...
...order. The situation was a prototype of the Immaculate Heart dispute: a progressive faced the opposition of an archbishop (Karl Alter of Cincinnati, now retired) who felt that things were moving too fast. The Glenmarys' mother superior, now Miss Catherine Rumschlag, proposed that the liberal majority of sisters go secular. Today the group functions as a service organization called FOCUS, and does teaching and social work in three regional centers throughout Appalachia...
Pope Paul's opponents on the issue concede the practical difficulties (which might, however, be alleviated if priests were allowed to support themselves in some secular line of work). As for the Scriptural evidence, some modern exegetes argue that Christ's speech about eunuchs refers to marital fidelity rather than celibacy. Both the ancient Eastern Orthodox churches and the Eastern Rite communities in union with Rome have always allowed for married priests (but not monks or bishops). In recent years, moreover, the church has ordained married converts from the Protestant ministry. Theologically, Pope Paul's critics contend...
...future. As head of the order, Anita Caspary intended that the Immaculate Heart experiments in renewal should be guided by the rather vague proposals put forward by the Second Vatican Council. "But slowly," she says, "the whole thing exploded." To facilitate their engagement with the realities of secular life, the nuns abandoned their habits, gave up scheduled prayers, and went beyond their teaching apostolate to take up a wider variety of public services. Cardinal Mclntyre objected to many of these departures from tradition; so did the Vatican, which last year ordered the nuns to abandon most of their ventures...