sexual revolution
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But in recent decades, with the integration and rising power of Catholics in America, along with the sexual revolution, the divisions became more internal.
From Washington Post • Jun. 18, 2021
The show was an indictment of the soul-crushing nature of commercialization set in the Eisenhower years, before the counterculture and the sexual revolution.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 12, 2019
Retired Pope Benedict XVI has published an analysis on the Catholic Church's clergy sex abuse scandal, blaming it on the sexual revolution of the 1960s and church laws that protected priests.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2019
Speaking via phone earlier this month, Comen wondered if the roadblocks we still grapple with in the cancer community today got their start, ironically, at the height of the sexual revolution.
From Salon • Dec. 29, 2018
She came of age long before the sexual revolution, which meant she had a particular experience of—and a particular fury about—what women had been routinely expected to tolerate.
From Slate • Dec. 4, 2018
