Word: seculars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to most Christian thinkers, this religious renaissance signifies the bankruptcy of secular rationalism. But whether the revival indicates that a Christian Renaissance is imminent or shows only that a drowning man will grab anything which comes to hand, is imponderable...
...What has been carelessly referred to at Harvard as a 'religious revival' is obviously no such thing," Pusey stated. He said it was only one manifestation of a broad movement which stems from discontent with what has come to seem "exclusive, arid, and uncompromising, secular approach to life...
What men are trying to do, Pusey asserted, is "not again to set up something which will be restrictive, but rather to refuse to be restricted by a secular orthodoxy...." He admitted that he hoped the new " intellectual interest in the role of faith would not stop at this point ...., but lead to a questing about the object of faith in an effort to give meaning and content to the word...
Concerning your May 13 report on the third plenary assembly of the French Catholic Church: as a Catholic, I see no inconvenience in allowing French priests to earn their living in secular jobs which are not incompatible with their religious activities. St. Paul, the Master's best priest and preacher, was a tentmaker, and his priesthood was a vocation and not a paying job. It is high time some of our church dignitaries realized that in the 20th century we can't live by medieval standards...
Priestly Handymen. France today has only 56,700 priests v. 71,300 in 1901, when separation of church and state became law. This deficit is especially serious in the parishes; more and more young priests are entering orders rather than the secular priesthood, and there were 16,000 priestless parishes in 1950 v. 4,772 in 1903. One reason is the appalling poverty of the average country cure. Dependent upon handouts for food and fuel, he often spends the winters in near-starvation, and it is becoming increasingly common for parish priests to solicit odd jobs in the neighborhood-house...