Word: cathedras
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...corresponding to Boy Scouts) found himself in a tight fix. His hero-worshipping young readers worshipped Vladimir Mayakovsky who had now greatly sinned. It was as though Chief Scout Lord Baden-Powell should sin. But the official poet laureate, Demian Bedny, saved the situation, announced as it were ex cathedra that the poet had shot himself while suffering from "temporary insanity," had died in honor, a proper hero for boys under 14. No mention was made in Youth Pravda of the young actress, though, other Moscow papers said that the Red Kipling "killed himself for love." A further motive mentioned...
...should be added that, as far as we can fell, the recent encyclical has not been issued "ex cathedra" and hence is not to be regarded as "infallible," which means that there is nothing to prevent the revision of its chief positions in the future. Moreover, just as in the years following 1864 leading Romanists assured the world that the Syllabus taken at its face value was misleading and that the pope did not really mean what the seems to say, so it may be that some further interpretation of the recent letter will appear which will give...
...lover or to a wealthy villain, discovers (in a crystal) the horrible effect of conducting herself for the sake of the career or the loveless wifehood, and thereupon marries the lover. The effect of the lover is not picturized because (according to the faith expounded ardently and ex cathedra by the subtitles) happiness is inevitable when the soul is pure...
...Scutari the Archbishop of Albania, Monsignor Mjeda, declared last week, ex cathedra: "The recent Italo-Albanian treaty of Tirana (TIME, Dec. 13) is an outrage, and reduces Albania's independence to nullity...
Equally suggestive is the recommendation of the committee of the Council in the matter of instruction in philosophy. It is proposed that the philosophy course shall quite directly envisage the "current conflict between religion and science" not, apparently, in a matter which assumes to settle the question ex-cathedra, but in a way to present the vital elements of the subject. The report says: "The course should present the philosophy of Plato, that of Aristotle, of the Stoics, of Kant, of one of the Moderns, say Bergson, and possibly one or two others." Though the committee does...