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Title: Christian secularity Abstract: One of the characteristic features of our time is the polarization process that is producing a complete divorce between religion and the 'world', understanding by 'world' the sum-total of realities which pertain to man in his life here below and which confront him, whether he is a believer or not. The polarity of these relations gives rise to many practical tensions and theoretical dilemmas which are much debated in our day, and which ate often resolved by an indifferent or even outright antagonistic attitude towards anything that has to do with religion. It is not simply a matter of decline in religious practices and moral standards, serious as these may be, but of a radical change of mentality in regard to the whole institutional status of religion in society.

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Title: Melita Theologica : volume 20 : issue 2 Abstract: 1/ EMINYAN, M. - Christian secularity -- 2/ LUPI, J. - Pontifical insignia : their origin and use -- 3/ SERRACINO-INGLOTT, P. - Free-time -- 4/ MIFSUD, J. - 'Dignitatis humanae personae' and the fathers. -- 5/ Our contributors.

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Title: 'Dignitatis humanae personae' and the fathers Abstract: The late John Counney Murray, S.J., who, as it is said, took a very active part in the compiling of Vatican IT's declaration on religious freedom, and who was the best contemporary authority on the subject , said that: 'In any event, the document is a significant event in the history of the Church. It was, of course, the most controversial document of the whole Council, largely because it raised with sharp emphasis the issue that lay continually below the surface of the conciliar debates - the issue of the development of doctrine. The notion of development, not the notion of religious freedom, was the real striking-point for many of those who opposed the declaration even to the end. The course of the development between the "Syllabus of Errors' (1864) and "Dignitatis Humanae Personae" (1965) still remains to be explained by theologians.

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Title: Free-time Abstract: The Council has exhorted us to 'read the signs of the times'. Among these, the rise of the working-class has an evident primordial place; and the 'theology of work' has been increasingly studied. But the growth in importance of free-time calls for complementary studies, since the worker is not just a worker, but a man whose life has to be considered as a whole. Free-time is of particular relevance to young workers, although it concerns more or less everybody. To workers, in the first place, because it is a phenomenon of modern industrial civilisation. Before the industrial revolution, in an agricultural or craft's context, there was far less possibility of deciding freely how to divide a day or year between working-hours and free time, since this was largely determined by natural factors, such as light and weather. It is only technical progress which has made it possible for free-time to assume the problematic importance it already has today and which will increase with the growth of man's mastery over natural conditions. For this latter reason, it is yet more relevant to the young.

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