Word: worshiped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...longer has quite the glamor it once had-or seemed to have. As Samuel Babbitt, a former Peace Corps staffer and now assistant dean of the Yale Graduate School, points out, the Corps no longer holds for potential volunteers the "tremendous emotional response keyed off by the hero worship of President Kennedy...
...radical. The religion bill, pushed by Foreign Minister Fernando Maria Castiella to wipe away the image of religious intolerance that has hurt Spain since the Inquisition, would permit the nation's tiny non-Catholic minority (5,000 Jews and 30,000 Protestants) to build their own houses of worship-which, in practice, they are already doing. The press bill, drawn up by Franco's hard-sell Information Minister Manuel Fraga Iribarne, would supposedly allow publishers to choose their own editors, end prepublication censorship. But it would still hold editors criminally responsible for anything the regime decided was offensive...
...would lead "not just to mal-apportioned legislatures, but to segregated schools, a revival of the Federal Sedition Act, and unfettered state control over speech, religion, press and assembly as well." He contends, in a bold generalization, that such deference is nothing more than an "Occidental variant of ancestor worship" and an "incomprehensible denigration of man's capacity for self-government." Self-government means that we, not our ancestors, must rule ourselves...
...Quaker Douglas V. Steere of Haverford, Protestants are highly suspicious of any claims "that would declare, or even imply, that the priest, or the saints, or the Virgin, or the institutional church stand as an indispensable intermediary." Thus Protestantism puts a stronger emphasis upon individual responsibility in prayer and worship than does Catholicism...
...evidence that the spiritual differences between the two traditions are lessening. Many Protestant churches are in the midst of a liturgical revival that is restoring sacrament to a place of equality with the preached word. The decrees of the Vatican Council have already removed some Protestant objections to Catholic worship and encourage greater study and use of Scripture by laymen and priests alike. Last week, three English clergymen-an Anglican, a Roman Catholic and a Methodist-jointly recommended still another change in worship that could help bring divided Christianity closer together. They proposed that their churches draw up a common...