Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...United States flag has flown over Puerto Rico since 1898, when a weakened Spain lost the last traces of her empire. Before that time Puerto Rico had gained partial autonomy form Spain; the island had its own constitution, civil government, and treasury. The United States at first replaced the civil government with a military one and removed a third of the treasury; since that time she has stifled several attempted independence movements...
...representative of the Mindick Family Real Estate Interests in Boston's South End, and the representatives of the South End Tenants Council asked the Masachusetts Rabbinical Court of Justice, the Bet Din (House of Judgment) to adjudicate their disagreements, thinking this would be faster than civil litigation. The Ret Din agreed. The Jewish Advocate reported in its August 8, 1968 issue the August 5 signing of the final settlement: "It is the first time in U. S. history that a Rabbinical Court, normally concerned with interpretation of Jewish law, divorce cases, disputes between synagogues, religious functionaries, family counseling, has undertaken...
Another recent, unprecedented example of civil mediation by an official ecclesiastical body occurred earlier this year in the work done by the U. S. Catholic Bishops' Ad Hoc Committee on the Farm Labor Dispute between California grape growers and workers. The committee of five bishops brought some growers and union representatives together for the first time and effected the first break in the long deadlock through several contractual agreements...
Nevertheless, political activism to political office to jurisdiction over civil disputes to-large-scale corporate consolidation...
Ecclesiastical powers are reacting to the churches' secularizing trends of recent history not by withdrawing from secular concerns but by expanding those concerns while infusing into them the traditional theology supposedly eschewed or modified through secularization. Secularized spirituality becomes materialized theology. Reclaiming the civil order while going back to that old-time religion...