Word: secularity
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Next Year ... Israel's strongly secular government, many of whose officials neglect to keep the Sabbath, went all out for the "Feast of Liberation." In accordance with a Jewish law that all regular cooking utensils must be put away during Passover week, the Israeli army formally sold all its pots & pans to a Gentile, with the tacit agreement that it would buy them back at. week's end. In Jerusalem's New City, the authorities erected a triumphal arch. From atop Mount Zion, Jewish pilgrims peered down into the Arab-held Old City; the Arabs...
...During their two-year course the priest-students study economics, law (especially labor legislation), Communism, cooperatives, farm problems, history, geography, English, and the social doctrines of the Catholic Church. Each day's work is concluded with study of the Gospel-an antidote to the stiff daily dose of secular thinking...
...conscience and religion are in fact denying it ... Officers and members of churches have been arrested and imprisoned on an ever-increasing scale . . . We see ... a deliberate attempt to undermine the strength of churches by forcing them either to withdraw completely from public life or to become tools of secular policy . . . We reaffirm . . . that every person has the right to express his religious beliefs...
...congratulated on the journalistic courage which you displayed in reporting the resignation of Emmett McLoughlin from the Roman Catholic priesthood. This is certainly a contradiction of the seeming trend being followed by the secular press, in which conversions to Catholicism are faithfully reported, while departures from the Catholic Church are seldom mentioned...
...long will the World Council abide? Will it ever turn the churches into The Church? Can it meet the challenge of a secular century...