Word: secularism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ruins, one has become a museum, the others are partially restored and used for religious services. The Jesuits had evangelized Lower California from the time they appeared in the New World, but by 1767 -six years before the Order was suppressed by the Pope because of secular outcries against it-the black-cassocked fathers and their work in California became unpopular and they were ousted. Their work was taken over by brown-cassocked Franciscans under the leadership of 54-year-old Fray Junipero, who had been born in Majorca, missionized in Mexico, learned the tongue of the Fame Indians...
More than two hundred photographs by Miss Esther Born, illustrating contemporary Mexican architecture, will be on exhibit in Hunt Hall Daily until June 27 from 9 o'clock to 5. These views made for the Architectural Record, include examples of nearly every important type of secular building, from the simplest workers' house and private dwellings to large office buildings, hospitals, markets, warehouses, schools, factories, airports, and monuments...
Four years ago Archbishop Mooney was recalled from Tokyo, apparently for reasons of secular diplomacy. The diocese of Rochester fell vacant and the Pope as signed Archbishop Mooney to fill it. Of larger import, however, was the fact that his fellow bishops soon made him a member of the administrative board, presently board chairman, of the National Catholic Welfare Conference. That body launches and maintains such "Catholic Action" projects as the Legion of Decency and is the sounding-board of the U. S. hierarchy, lately stipulating to lay Catholics that it and it alone may speak the policies...
Next order of business was to upbraid the secular press, which Catholic journals have long assured their readers is biased in favor of the Government side, for its handling of the Spanish civil war. President Fitzpatrick drew more cheers when he said: "We Catholic editors have been studying for years the conditions in Spain," and offered the services of the Association's members to set secular editors straight...
Though they had sung nothing but ecclesiastical music for more than four centuries, their programs took a more secular turn. In Ripon the boys prefaced their church songs with the Star Spangled Banner, sung with the same scrupulous care they would put into a mass. They clowned superbly in a special number based on Strauss's Blue Danube, neatly and beautifully acted a closing scene from Hansel & Gretel...