Word: secularize
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Secular Attempt." Last week the General Council of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. carried one of the few notes of sane balance on the religion issue. In one of its rare pronouncements the council voiced "outrage and concern at the exploitation of the religious issue in the campaign, which has caused the American people chiefly to hear extremists. The General Council resents equally...
...secular attempt to make churches appear irrelevant to American life...
...only purpose of the minuscule state of the Vatican is to remove the head of the Catholic Church from all undue political and secular influence...
Father Weigel begins with the premise of two orders, sacral and secular, governed by divine and human law. Each is autonomous in its own sphere. Divine law concerns man's relationship to God, human law his relationship to his fellow beings. The secular order is inferior to but not subject to the sacral. Man lives in both orders simultaneously, and when they conflict, it is commonly agreed that the individual abides by the dictates of his conscience whether he be Protestant, Jew or Catholic. With this basis stated. Father Weigel turns to some implied questions by "the thinking Protestant...
Protestants and Catholics, threatened by the common dangers of Marxist enmity and secular indifference, are in many places drawing closer and closer together in the modern world. At last week's pilgrimage to Roland's cottage, the bankers and farmers, miners, office workers and their wives, who are carrying on the faith of the embattled camisards, renewed their sense of what is now a faraway tradition, listening to a sermon out of doors from a collapsible pulpit, and studying such Huguenot relics as a clandestine pastor's flat hat that can fold into the shape...