Word: biblicum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Biblicum were skirting heresy. The attack was picked up by the arch-conservative American Ecclesiastical Review, edited by Monsignor Joseph Fenton of Catholic University, which began publishing articles that charged certain U.S. scholars with endangering the faith...
Well-placed Enemies. Father Ernest Vogt, rector of the Biblicum, dismissed the attacks as "systematically deformed calumnies"; yet it soon became clear that his enemies were well placed. In 1961 the Holy Office issued a monitum (warning) against excesses in Catholic Scriptural interpretation. Last June the Holy Office ordered two of the Biblicum's New Testament scholars, Jesuit Fathers Maximilian Zerwick and Stanislaus Lyonnet, suspended from their teaching assignments. At a victory celebration in a Rome pensione that night, one Curia official gleefully said: "This time we shall break their monopoly." Every bishop arriving in Rome for the Vatican...
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