Word: courtney
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...changed sufficiently so that we get fewer letters accusing us of being too pro-or too anti-Catholic, or for or against Protestants. It seems now to be generally recognized that we can put on the cover Protestant or Catholic theologians (Reinhold Niebuhr or Father John Courtney Murray), or leaders of the church (Eugene Carson Blake or Pope John), without trying to proselytize. We do stories about Jews, about Buddhists, about Moslems, and occasionally about atheists. We try not to be sensational, but do not mind being controversial...
...CONSERVATIVE SOCIETY OF AMER ICA is run from New Orleans by a former Pan American airline pilot named Kent Courtney, 43, who, with his wife Phoebe, started publishing anti-Communist literature in 1954 with only $18 in capital. Courtney, an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Louisiana on the States' Rights ticket in 1960, believes that "socialist and Communist influence now pervades the thinking of our Federal Government and the two major political parties." He claims members in 45 states, distributes about half a million pamphlets a year, is an active, unit-founding member of the John Birch Society...
...means of independent research and reporting, TIME has gone behind the headlines to explore the roots of current religious thought. Typical of its thoroughness have been two cover stories, one on Christian missionaries from St. Paul to 1960 (April 18, 1960), another on U.S. Catholics and the State (John Courtney Murray, Dec. 12, 1960). Both are examples of the splendid method in which TIME has sought to bring the wider perspective of history to contemporary religious action and issues...
...society is changing," and has ordered the fund's Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions to take a two-year look at the problem. With an assist from such men as Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, University of California President Clark Kerr and Jesuit Philosopher John Courtney Murray, Hutchins hopes to turn up "various viewpoints on what the Good Life shall be in America," to reach "dependable conclusions about our national strength and weakness...
...Mosaic reflects a sureness and even a kind of clubby smugness in possessing a public that Current nervously lacks. Current is not aimed at Catholic intellectual opinion, for the very good reason that there is no such thing. Catholicism in America--with the exception of a man like John Courtney Murray, or lone magazines like Commonweal and Dorothy Day's Catholic Worker-- is not a significant intellectual force. Its compromises with the same American Way that Carey McWilliams speaks of have cut the American Church loose from the main European intellectual currents of Catholic thought. Content with being...