Word: cathedras
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...downed, the Catholic Bishop of Mainz ordered priests in his diocese not to permit Nazi flags to be flown from their churches, a practice now common throughout the Reich. But Rome's most potent blast was hurled by Michael Cardinal Faulhaber, doughty Archbishop of Munich. Speaking ex cathedra from St. Michael's, which was jammed to overflowing with Munich Catholics, His Eminence thundered: "Let us not forget that we were saved not by German blood but by the blood of Christ!" Storm Troopers did not set upon Cardinal Faulhaber. They let him proceed to ridicule the myths...
...untrod by undergraduate editors. The aim of the Critic's board will be to express all shades of opinion, and will shun a literary, highly intellectual flavor. The monthly evidently purposes to be in the thick of the battle, printing every side of the issues discussed, avoiding an ex cathedra tone...
...would be manifestly impertinent to sympathize with your editorial-writer and with the Dean of Barnard College, now that their recent remarks on education have been characterized as "ignorant" and "erroneous." The Dean of the Graduate School of Education, writing ex cathedra, gives us to understand that laymen are hardly qualified to deal with those technical matters. In fact, ever since education became a branch of technology, we have been left in the dark about such problems, perforce content to take the word of experts who have attained facility in experimental technique or glibness in professional jargon. Our own School...
...Pope speaks ex-cathedra, and in consequence infallibly, when and only when he defines formally that a doctrine is of faith. I will give but one example of such an ex-cathedra pronouncement. It may be found in the Bull Ineffabilis Deus of Pius IX. Rather too long to be quoted verbatim and in full, it runs substantially thus: "By the authority of Our Lord Jesus Christ ... we declare, pronounce and define" that the doctrine which holds the Blessed Virgin Mary to have been "preserved . . . immune from all stain of original sin, has been revealed by God, and is therefore...
TIME erred in stating that in Pope Pius XI's encyclical, Quadragesimo Anno, he was speaking ex-cathedra. The encyclical was issued too late to be subjected to TIME'S usual checking procedure...