Word: belief
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bloomfield episode, everyone should also know who is "American" and who is not. One newspaper in Oklahoma stated, "Time was when Harvard was American." This means, of course, that Newman's position is "un-American." It also means that making a man swear fealty to a particular economic belief in order that he may teach, making him broadcast his private political fancies before his professional competence may be proved, is "American...
...Glorious Mystery." Belief in the "Assumption," as it is called, can be traced back into the earliest records of Christianity, but no reference to it appears in canonical scripture. Accepting the apocryphal account of the event as genuine, Gregory of Tours (538-593) tells that, as the apostles were watching round the dying Mary, Jesus appeared with angels and committed the soul of His mother to the Archangel Michael. Next day, as the body was being carried to the grave, He appeared again and carried it in a cloud to Heaven...
Although the Feast of the Assumption has been celebrated in the Church at least since the 7th Century, and the Assumption is one of the "glorious mysteries" on which Catholics meditate while saying the Rosary, this belief has never been pronounced a dogma. Informed sources now predict that Pius XII will do so next April 2-the 50th anniversary of his ordination...
...Pius IX defined as dogma the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary-the belief that Mary was preserved from all sin from the moment her soul was created and infused into her body. But his infallibility had not at that time been officially recognized as dogma...
...title. It is interesting to note that the popular antipathy to Sacco and Vanzetti decreased roughly in proportion to the increase in distance from New England. In New York and Paris thousands of sympathizers rioted in the streets, but in Boston the fear of radicalism and the belief that Massachusetts justice was being hamstrung by "foreign" propaganda, caused a large majority of the people to favor the death penalty for the defendants...