The conclave of the world's Catholic bishops and
cardinals called to order in 1962 by a cherubic old pontiff, John XXIII, turned the Church on its head at a time when the Beatles, Martin Luther King, and the Weather Underground were shaking civil and social foundations to their core.
So much is this true that the total separation of faith and religion from life and culture became a
cardinal principle of a new outlook, now
called The Philosophy of Science, the doctrine of which is that nothing is valid in society, in community law, or in educational principle, unless it belongs
to the experimental
order and can be proven by the senses.