Word: belief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much when three Secret Service guards stood in her way, went up for a sanity hearing. "The idea of a citizen going to see the President," argued her lawyer, "is not indicative of insanity. Mr. Truman is known as the common man's President, and the prevailing belief is that some citizens get in to see him." The jury agreed...
...play, wrote Shaw in the New York Times, "reflected a belief, which now seems impossibly naive, that by appealing to reason and sentiment war might be forever halted. [But] the rulers of Russia have demonstrated that the gentle hopes of 1950 are as naive as they were in 1935. Invading, killing, destroying, they proclaim with monstrous cynicism that they are the supporters of world-wide peace. Their adherents in this country wave peace pledges and petitions while Communist guns are killing American soldiers. It is to balk these double-tongued gentlemen, with whatever small means are at my disposal, that...
...must at once state publicly," read a statement signed by the archbishops of Canterbury and York, "that the Church of England does not and cannot hold this doctrine to be a necessary part of the Catholic faith, belief in which may be required by members of the church
...Church of England renders honor and reverence to the Mother of Our Lord Jesus Christ. But there is not the smallest evidence in the Scriptures or in the teaching of the early church of belief in the doctrine of her bodily assumption . . . We profoundly regret that the Roman Catholic Church has chosen by this act to increase dogmatic differences in Christendom and has thereby gravely injured the growth of understanding between Christians...
...Assumption has been under intensive consideration by the Roman Catholic hierarchy since 1946, when Pius XII sent a circular letter to his bishops asking their advice. (The reply was overwhelmingly in favor of a papal pronouncement -TIME, Nov. 22, 1948.) And though there is no reference to the belief in the canonical Scriptures, the Assumption has been celebrated as a regular feast day since as early as the 7th Century. The new dogma would make only one difference. For Roman Catholics to doubt the truth of the doctrine today would be merely sinful, or, as the church puts it, "temerarious...