Word: relying
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Openly or Secretly. In its decision, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously held the Alabama law to be unconstitutional, on the ground that it violated separation of church and state by permitting a government to interfere in the internal affairs of a reli gious denomination. The First Amendment's church-state clause, argued Judge Richard T. Rives, means that neither a state nor the Federal Government "can, openly or secretly, participate in the affairs of any religious organization." The decision, which also reaffirmed denominational title to the property of three other breakaway Methodist churches in Alabama, automatically knocked...
Breadth to Scholars. In Italy, reli gious publishers have their own unofficial catalogue of bishops, distinguishing the easy marks from tough critics. Ital ian imprimatur seekers have found that bishops of smaller dioceses tend to be much faster in approving books. For that reason, the Sons of Mary Immaculate, who operate a huge publishing house, and a bookstore only a few hun dred yards from the Vatican, get most of their imprimaturs from Bishop Luigi Morstabilini of Brescia, in northern Italy. A theologian himself, Morstabilini has been discovered by other publishers as well, issues an imprimatur every two or three...
Prestige of Science. Faith in God survived scientific attack only when the churches came to realize that the reli gious language of the Bible is what Theologian Krister Stendahl calls "poetry-plus, rather than science-minus." Nowadays not even fundamentalists are upset by the latest cosmological theories of astronomers. Quasars, everyone agrees, neither prove nor disprove divine creation; by pushing back the boundaries of knowledge 8 billion light years without finding a definite answer, they do, in a way, admit its possibility. Nonetheless, science still presents a challenge to faith?in a new and perhaps more dangerous...